I'm not talking about the classics ones, you know, those who made history...
Just the ones that impress you the first time you saw it. No matter how small the part or if the movie is not the best.
This are some of my choices ( I can complete about full pages if I want):
Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) - The Usual Suspects
Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) - L.A.Confidential
Leon (Jean Reno) - The Professional
Stansfield (Gary oldman) - The Professional
Jim Graham (Christian Bale) - Empire of the Sun
Natalie (Carri-Anne Moss) - Memento
Trick (Hugo Weaving) - The Adventures of Priscilla...
Annabeth Markum (Laura Linney) - Mystic River
Forrest Gump (Tom hanks) - Forrest Gump
Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) - Big
Wall-E
Dory - Finding Nemo
The Joker (Heath Ledger) - TDK
William James (Jeremy Renner) - The Hurt Locker
"Red" Redring (Morgan Freeman) - The Shawshank Redemption
Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) - Up in the Air
The Terminator (Arnold Shwarzenneger) - Terminator 2
Alan Grant (Sam Neil) - Jurassic Park
Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando AND Robert DeNiro) - The Godfather/The Godfather Part 2
Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) - Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) - Forrest Gump
Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino) - Dog Day Afternoon
Davis (Henry Fonda) - 12 Angry Men
Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) - Pulp Fiction
Paul Biegler (James Stewart) - Anatomy of a Murder
Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) - To Sir, With Love
T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) - Lawrence of Arabia
Kambei Shimada (Takashi Shimura) - Seven Samurai
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) - Various Films
Jim Stark (James Dean) - Rebel Without a Cause
The Joker (Heath Ledger) - The Dark Knight
Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) - My Left Foot
The Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke) - Rumble Fish
Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine) - The Man Who Would Be King
Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) - Training Day
Robert DeNiro in any 70's Martin Scorsese film
marlon brando -streetcar, godfather, apocalypse
gary oldman -drexl from True Romance, Sid Vicious, Serious Black
Heath Ledger - Tony from Parnassus, Joker, Skip from Dogtown
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka
Christopher Walken in almost anything he does
natalie wrote:That's great bu you are mistaking Characters with performances, I think.
The performance is what makes the character.
Of corse, but I'm talking about separate the character to the movie, you know. (I don't know how to explain that).
When you just remember the character beyond the context. Am I clear? I don't know
natalie wrote:That's great bu you are mistaking Characters with performances, I think.
The performance is what makes the character.
Of corse, but I'm talking about separate the character to the movie, you know. (I don't know how to explain that).
When you just remember the character beyond the context. Am I clear? I don't know
I think I get what you're saying. A character impresses you to the level that it exceeds the context of the film. But I think the performance is what allows that mostly.
its not possible to separate them.....the same way when u read a book...the way tom sawyer is to you is tom sawyer+ your imagination....for natalie its tom sawyer+her imagination....these are 2 different characters....in a movie we get the role+ the actor....they present the character as the role+themselves so the character cannot be separated from the actor.
Sands - Once Upon A Time In Mexico (Johnny Depp) Donnie Darko - Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) The Joker - The Dark Knight (Heath Ledger) Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood (Daniel Day-Lewis) Frank Abignale Jnr.- Catch Me If You Can (Leonardo DiCaprio) Tommy DeVito - Goodfellas (Joe Pesci)
