Wednesday, March 5, 2008

100 Greatest Movie Characters Of All Time

From Premiere magazine back in 2004. They will need to update it soon. When they do, they can dump 16, 56, 70, 71, 76, 83, 86, 90, 92, and 97, and replace them with HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey), Hoke Colburn (Driving Miss Daisy), Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men), Rhett Butler (Gone With The Wind), Clarice Starling (The Silence Of The Lambs), Carl Childers (Sling Blade), Dr. Frank-N-Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Pee-Wee Herman (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure), Will Kane (High Noon), H.I. McDonough (Raising Arizona), Maria (The Sound Of Music), Dirk Diggler (Boogie Nights), Thelma Dickinson (Thelma & Louise), Luke (Cool Hand Luke).. who else did they leave out?

1. Vito Corleone (
The Godfather)
2. Fred C. Dobbs (
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
3. Scarlett O'Hara (
Gone With the Wind)
4. Norman Bates (Psycho)
5. James Bond (
Dr. No)
6. Annie Hall (
Annie Hall)
7. Indiana Jones (
Raiders of the Lost Ark)
8. Ellen Ripley (
Alien)
9. Jeff Spicoli (
Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
10. Gollum (
Lord of the Rings)
11. Margo Channing (
All About Eve)
12. Charles Foster Kane (
Citizen Kane)
13. Atticus Finch (
To Kill a Mockingbird)
14. Randle McMurphy (
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
15. Hannibal Lecter (
The Silence of the Lambs)
16. Robin Hood (
The Adventures of Robin Hood)
17. Dorothy Gale (
The Wizard of Oz)
18. Carl Spackler (
Caddyshack)
19. Rick Blaine (
Casablanca)
20. Virgil Tibbs (
In the Heat of the Night)
21. Susan Vance (
Bringing Up Baby)
22. Travis Bickle (
Taxi Driver)
23. Eathan Edwards (
The Searchers)
24. The Little Tramp (
Mabel's Strange Predicament)
25. Gordon Gekko (
Wall Street)
26. E.T. (
E.T.- The Extra-Terrestrial)
27. Marge Gunderson (
Fargo)
28. Captain Quint (
Jaws)
29. Daphne/Jerry (
Some Like it Hot)
30. King Kong (
King Kong)
31. Norma Desmond (
Sunset Boulevard)
32. Holly Golightly (
Breakfast at Tiffany's)
33. Ratso Rizzo (
Midnight Cowboy)
34. Bonnie Parker (
Bonnie and Clyde)
35. Dr. Evil (
Austin Powers)
36. Alex Forrest (
Fatal Attraction)
37. Jake Gittes (
Chinatown)
38. Willy Wonka (
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
39. Michael Dorsey/Dorthy Michaels (
Tootsie)
40. The Terminator (
The Terminator)
41. Jane Craig (
Broadcast News)
42. "Dirty" Harry Callahan (
Dirty Harry)
43. Forrest Gump (
Forrest Gump)
44. Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
45. Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins)
46. John McClane (Die Hard)
47. Mrs. Robinson (The Graduate)
48. John "Bluto" Blutarsky (Animal House)
49. Chance the Gardener (Being There)
50. Blondie (The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly)
51. Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
52. Howard Beale (Network)
53. Ninotchka (Ninotchka)
54. Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)
55. The Dude (The Big Lebowski)
56. Alan Swann (My Favorite Year)
57. Tom Powers (The Public Enemy)
58. Phyliss Dietrichson (Double Indemnity)
59. Lt. Kilgore (Apocalypse Now)
60. George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life)
61. J.J. Hunsecker (Sweet Smell of Success)
62. John Shaft (Shaft)
63. Carrie White (Carrie)
64. Rocky Balboa (Rocky)
65. Edward Scissorhands (Edward Scissorhands)
66. Navin Johnson (The Jerk)
67. Inspector Clouseau (The Pink Panther)
68. Alex DeLarge (A Clockwork Orange)
69. Terry Malloy (On the Waterfront)
70. Judy Benjamin (Private Benjamin)
71. Rev. Harry Powell (The Night of the Hunter)
72. Lloyd Dobler (Say Anything)
73. Norma Rae (Norma Rae)
74. Tony Montana (Scarface)
75. Dr. Strangelove (Dr. Strangelove)
76. Tony Manero (Saturday Night Fever)
77. Annie Wilkes (Misery)
78. "Mad" Max Rockatansky (Mad Max)
79. Hans Beckert (M)
80. Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon)
81. Aurora Greenway (Terms of Endearment)
82. Jack Torrance (The Shining)
83. William Cutting (Gangs of New York)
84. Darth Vader (Star Wars)
85. Stanley Kowalski (A Streetcar Named Desire)
86. Melanie Daniels (The Birds)
87. Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
88. Raymond Babbitt (Rain Man)
89. Sandy Olsson (Grease)
90. John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich)
91. Mrs. Iselin (The Manchurian Candidate)
92. Dil (The Crying Game)
93. Harry Lime (The Third Man)
94. Rose Sayer (The African Queen)
95. Oda Mae Brown (Ghost)
96. Tommy DeVito (GoodFellas)
97. Ace Ventura (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
98. Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows)
99. Kevin McCallister (Home Alone)
100. Roger "Verbal" Kint (The Usual Suspects)

21 comments:

  1. How about Gunnery Sgt. Hartman (played by R. Lee Ermey) in "Full Metal Jacket?

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  2. Yes, good choice.

    "WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, NUMBNUTS?!!"

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  3. What about R2D2 from the Star Wars movies?

    Or Rooster Cogburn?

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  4. No Count Dracula?? No Frankenstein's Monster??? Oh well, at least Jane Craig from "Broadcast News" made it.

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  5. yeah, and how about Dalton (Patrick Swayze) from Road House?

    "Pain don't hurt."

    C'mon! That's a no-brainer.

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  6. That's a dart board list if I ever saw one.And yes, Roadhouse is a no-brainer movie.

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  7. Get rid of Bill the Butcher (#83)? Gedoudahere...

    As for additions: Mr. Blonde and/or Mr. White and/or Joe Cabot, Reservoir Dogs.

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  8. Carl Spackler is #1

    End of discussion.

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  9. Also forgotten:

    Jason Bourne (Bourne Identity Trilogy)

    Austin Powers (First movie only...)

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  10. So glad to see Navin Johnson made the list. (#66)

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  11. "He hates these cans!"

    Love that movie.

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  12. Corky St. Clair - Waiting for Guffman. Best movie character ever! (Finally delurking...I love your site!)

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  13. glad navin johnson made it..but what about Ricky Bobby?????

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  14. It looks like they decided to use only one character per movie, a silly rule when you have to choose between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, Don Corleone or Michael Corleone, Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader or Han Solo or Obi-Wan Kenobi or JarJar Binks.

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  15. I kind of think that Horror movie characters should have their own category. They are generally oft returning characters. You know - Freddy Kreuger, Jason Vorhees, Michael Meyers, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc.

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  16. Get rid of #95, replace with Amelie Poulain (Amelie)

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  17. The Geek (aka "Farmer Ted") in "Sixteen Candles."

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