Dec 04
Why He’s On The List: The role that persuaded Franco Zefferelli that Gibson would make a great Hamlet, on paper Martin Riggs seems like your run-of-the-mill cop on the edge. Gibson did play Riggs as a wild-eyed nutcase but, armed with Shane Black’s wonderful dialogue, also conveyed the desperation of a man who wants to live, but has forgotten how.
There are 99 more of these, and it was fun to read through them.
I wonder how high the Watchmen characters will place in polls like this after next year.
oh yea, they also did a “greatest movie ever” list.
only AMERICAN films and film characters though. so BUMP!
As much as I love this list, it sure feels awfully “guy-centric”.
i.e. lots of heroes, action stars, sci-fi characters, ultra bad-asses and such.
Still lots of fun, though!
umm no john wayne? Why is James bond lower then the joker? Why is tyler number one? Not to mention all the classic characters? Charlie Chaplin? Marx brothers? Three stooges? That is the worst list ever. Whoever made it should watch some movies beyond 1960 and have women in them.
Interesting list. I wouldn’t agree with a lot of the earlier ones, but the top ten looks decent IMO. Although I personally would alter it a bit.
That was way fun.
WOOT Tyler Durden
I enjoyed this list and agree with a lot of what was on there. to the above poster, John Wayne was on the list, and isn’t specifically a character as well as neither are charlie chaplin, or the marx brothers, they are actors as opposed to characters.
Like all lists, this one can be debated to no end. I disagreed with a bunch of them in regards to placement. How are Michael Corleone, Dirty Harry, Scarlet O’Hara, and Rocky not in the top 10? Katherine Hepburn’s Catherine from “The Lion in Winter”? Norman Bates, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Steamboat Mickey, The Little Tramp (Chaplin’s Iconic character), Robin Hood (Errol Flyn’s), Josey Wales, George Bailey, Moses, Ben Hur, Spartacus, Cleopatra, Yul Brenner’s King, Rooster Cogburn, and so many others.
Tyler Durden is a cool character, but Edward Norton simply is that movie.
Eh, just some food for thought. Discussions on this stuff are so interesting, and names keep popping into my head.
Peace