Greatest Movie Characters of All Time

[Chimera]

Dammit I was going to say Drill Instructor Hartman.

Mary Samsonite

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In no particular order, here are some of my nominations... Also, including some that were based on real people just because.

 

Dr Schultz - Django Unchained

 

Hans Landa - Inglourious Basterds

 

Christopher McCandless - Into The Wild

 

Fogel aka McLovin - Superbad

 

Gollum - Lord of the Rings

 

Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood

 

The Sunday Twins - There Will Be Blood

 

Ed Bloom - Big Fish

 

Hushpuppy - Beasts of the Southern Wild

 

Dory - Finding Nemo

 

Lil Ze aka Lil Dice - City of God

 

Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean

 

Jigsaw - Saw

 

Scrat - Ice Age

 

Frank - Donnie Darko

 

Maximus Decimus Meridius - Gladiator

 

Andy Dufresne - Shawshank Redemption

 

William Wallace - Braveheart

 

Aldus Snow - Get Him To The Greek

 

Ip Man - Ip Man

 

The Joker - The Dark Knight

 

Idi Amin - Last King of Scotland

 

Napoleon Dynamite - Napoleon Dynamite

 

Petrie - The Land Before Time

 

Arthur - Arthur (1981)

 

Raymond Babbitt - Rain Man

 

Keyser Soze - The Usual Suspects

 

Mud - Mud

 

Ron Woodroof - Dallas Buyers Club

 

 

[Captroop]

Ugh, pretty much exactly how I feared this thread would turn out. It's reached the point of, "This is also a character from a movie."

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

Gary Oldman in Leon, The Professional was insane

Another fave of mine in the movie was Jean Reno who was equally good as the Hitman protecting the 12 year old neighbor Natalie Portman.

[Montsta]

Damn brother you really, really like guardians of the galaxy.

[PandaPancake]

Damn brother you really, really like guardians of the galaxy.

I've not even been posting all the clips. I'm just as excited to see the new Sin City but I just love the cinematography

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[OneBadCat]

First: Props to Boba Fett post

 

Tyler Durden

 

 

Batman ( Yes they're comics big deal) The Batman that started it all

 

 

Apollo Creed

 

 

 

Patrick Bateman (Yeah based on a book, still a character in a film)

 

 

 

 

The original Tony Comonte

 

 

The Terminator

 

 

 

 

My James Bond

 

[cgarsmoker]

Gunny was hired as a consultant for that movie and performed better than the actor when Kubrick asked what a Drill Instructor would say. Word on the street is that entire scene in the barracks was done in one take.

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I've heard that as well. The boot camp part of that movie wasn't originally supposed to play that much of a major role but the material with Ermy was so good, it ended up being half the film.

[Chimera]

Didn't he ad lib the entire thing?

[PandaPancake]

Didn't he ad lib the entire thing?

They asked Gunny what a Drill Instructor would say and that's what came out. And before you guys think that's what Marine boot camp is it's not. There's actually 3-4 Hartman's running around

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[Anybodyhome]

They asked Gunny what a Drill Instructor would say and that's what came out. And before you guys think that's what Marine boot camp is it's not. There's actually 3-4 Hartman's running around

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Yeah... not so much anymore. I have a nephew who is a Marine Recruiter and he says they've become a kinder, gentler Marine Corps in boot camp. A lot of the stuff in the movie would be considered way over the line now and the 21st century drill instructor has to be more of a leader and teacher than anything.  

 

[PandaPancake]

Yeah... not so much anymore. I have a nephew who is a Marine Recruiter and he says they've become a kinder, gentler Marine Corps in boot camp. A lot of the stuff in the movie would be considered way over the line now and the 21st century drill instructor has to be more of a leader and teacher than anything.  

 

Um, what? I've always felt that by those men (women included but even our DI's avoided the women DI's) always being perfect gave us something to strive towards. Little did I know they would sometimes change their uniform 3-5 times a day to maintain that perfect look. Or that they really did care if we made good Marines but would never let on we were even worthy to be on the same island as them. I later found out all of ours were going through divorces but we never could tell. I only found out in the fleet.

 

I went to Parris Island in the summer of 2000. Two of my DIs punched me, they had reason to, one hurled me down the squad bay because I was an idiot, and I know it sounds like a battered spouse but I never blamed them for using those means because it worked. They didn't do it because they were sadists it was like a surgeon making one tiny cut to fix things. Because once I stopped screwing up they stopped putting their hands on me.

 

That really breaks my heart because that's one of the best times of my life was on the island. And I really should have soaked up every bit of it because I didn't know what I had then.

[MCCNASTY]

Ike Clanton. Tombstone.

Hans Gruber. Die hard.

John "Bluto" Blutarsky. Animal House. (John Belushi)

Lt. Bill Kilgore. Apocalypse Now. (Robert Duval)

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[dos poptarts]

Ike Clanton. Tombstone.

Hans Gruber. Die hard.

John "Bluto" Blutarsky. Animal House. (John Belushi)

Lt. Bill Kilgore. Apocalypse Now. (Robert Duval)

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Ike was my favorite after Doc and Wyatt.