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Top 25 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time

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Empire Magazine has released their list of the 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. I’m not going to reprint the entire list, but here are the top 25:

1. Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
2. Darth Vader (Star Wars trilogy)
3. The Joker (The Dark Knight)
4. Han Solo (Star Wars trilogy)
5. Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
6. Indiana Jones
7. The Dude (The Big Lebowski)
8. Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Carribean Trilogy)
9. Ellen Ripley (Alien Quadrology)
10. Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
11. James Bond
12. John McClane (Die Hard)
13. Gollum (The Lord of the Rings)
14. The Terminator
15. Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
16. Neo (The Matrix trilogy)
17. Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
18. Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
19. Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
20. Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
21. Michael Corleone (The Godfather)
22. Ellis “Red” Redding (The Shawshank Redemption)
23. Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry)
24. Ash (Evil Dead)
25. Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back)

You can head on over to Empire for the other 75. I like Fight Club but Tyler Durdan over Indiana Jones?
C’mon.
There is a lot to disagree with, so lets have at it. :techman:
 
Charles Foster Kane? No.
Alex DeLarge? No.
Jeffrey Goines? No.
Roy Batty? No.
Gen. Buck Turgidson? No.
Rick Blaine? No.
Harry Caul? No.

I don't like this list. It makes me sad. :(
 
I wonder what the criteria for this list was, especially when Ben Stiller's White Goodman character from Dodgeball ranks higher than Atticus Finch and Norman Bates?
Besides, where's Fletch?
 
Ben Sisko3 said:
Charles Foster Kane? No.
Alex DeLarge? No.
Jeffrey Goines? No.
Roy Batty? No.
Gen. Buck Turgidson? No.
Rick Blaine? No.
Harry Caul? No.

I don't like this list. It makes me sad. :(
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Charles Foster Kane did make the list, but it does show a fairly poor appreciation for pre-1970s film.
 
What's the earliest date for those movies, about 1980 or so? :rommie:

Rick Blaine, Atticus Finch, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O'Hara, Charles Foster Kane, Tracy Lord, Jefferson Smith, Charlie Alnutt, Henry "Old Man" Potter, Clarence the Angel, "Preacher" Harry Powell, Norma Desmond, Josephine, Daphne & Sugar Kowlascyk, Doctor Strangelove and the entire cast of The Wizard of Oz should be on that freakin' list instead of most of those characters, who can be booted down a ways! :klingon:

And I dunno if characters who started out in novels count, but I just saw Dick Powell as Phillip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet. Add him to the list!
 
Tyler from Fight Club is #1?

Horseshit.

Pure, horseshit.

It reeks like Paris Hilton after a night filled with coke and finger-cuffing of trying to appeal to young idiots who only think of movies made in the last 20-30 years or so.

:rolleyes:
 
Temis the Vorta said:
What's the earliest date for those movies, about 1980 or so? :rommie:

Rick Blaine, Atticus Finch, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O'Hara, Charles Foster Kane, Tracy Lord, Jefferson Smith, Charlie Alnutt, Henry "Old Man" Potter, Clarence the Angel, "Preacher" Harry Powell, Norma Desmond, Josephine, Daphne & Sugar Kowlascyk, Doctor Strangelove and the entire cast of The Wizard of Oz should be on that freakin' list instead of most of those characters, who can be booted down a ways! :klingon:
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Scarlett, Kane, and the Wicked Witch of the West) were included (all in the 90s), Finch was 70, and Rick Blaine was 58, but all the others you name were left out.

Wow. I finally made it through the list. This is one of the worst Hollywood lists I've ever seen. I'd no idea the indie/rock crowd had taken over Empire magazine. I often disagree with AFI's choices, but they are at least considered and defensible. Have they really no concept of what came out more than a few years before they were born beyond those shows still regularly played?

And I dunno if characters who started out in novels count, but I just saw Dick Powell as Phillip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet. Add him to the list!
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Dick Powell is one of my favorite actors. If you haven't heard him on his radio series Richard Diamond, Private Detective, you're missing one of the best broadcast series ever produced in America.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
What's the earliest date for those movies, about 1980 or so? :rommie:

Rick Blaine, Atticus Finch, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O'Hara, Charles Foster Kane, Tracy Lord, Jefferson Smith, Charlie Alnutt, Henry "Old Man" Potter, Clarence the Angel, "Preacher" Harry Powell, Norma Desmond, Josephine, Daphne & Sugar Kowlascyk, Doctor Strangelove and the entire cast of The Wizard of Oz should be on that freakin' list instead of most of those characters, who can be booted down a ways! :klingon:
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Harry Powell, Strangelove and Norman Desmond would have been excellent additions. Also? Hans Beckert, Cal Trask, Jim Stark, Chance the Gardner, Harold and Maude, Howard Beale, Noah Cross, James Allen, E.K. Hornbeck, Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, Sophie Zawistowski, Frank Serpico, and so many more...argh...
 
who is Tyler Durden? Is fight Club a martial arts movie?

terrible list to anyone with an appreciation of cinema history.
 
I love Fight Club, but Tyler Durden as the greatest film character ever? Not in a million years. And when did Neo become anything even close to a good character. Neo was easily the weakest of the main characters. Anyone worth their salt would say that Morpheus was the most memorable character.
 
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