Hey whaddya think?
 

i saw on gamefaqs that they had a best character contest recently, and it got huge amounts of votes, i dont think we can pull of those votes, but i do think that if we had some kind of best character in a movie tournament it would be great... so post here some of the characters that should be put in the tourney.

Benjamin Braddock of The Graduate

Jimmy, of Pulp Fiction


I'll come up with more, tommorow.
Good thread, merc.

Lead characters, supporting characters, male and female, different eras, fictional characters only, created specifically for the screen: how do you propose to break this up?

I'll randomly throw some out anyway, and you can wrestle with the headache of what to do with 'em...

Norman Bates (Psycho)
Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs, etc.)
Verbal Kint (The Usual Suspects)
John Doe (SE7EN)
Ratso Rizzo (Midnight Cowboy)
William Munny (Unforgiven)
The Man with No Name (Leone's Dollars trilogy)
Tuco (The Good, the Bad & the Ugly)
Noah Cross (Chinatown)
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane)
Marshal Will Kane (High Noon)
Michael Corleone (Godfather trilogy)
Lucas Jackson (Cool Hand Luke)
Fast Eddie Felson (The Hustler & The Color of Money)
Ethan Edwards (The Searchers)
Cable Hogue (The Ballad of Cable Hogue)
Alexis Zorba (Zorba the Greek)
Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
Elwood P. Dowd (Harvey)
Roberta Muldoon (The World According to Garp)
Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Randle Patrick McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Bobby Dupea (Five Easy Pieces)
Karl Childers (Sling Blade)
Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
Jake LaMotta (Raging Bull)
Rupert Pupkin (The King of Comedy)
Margo Channing (All About Eve)
John Merrick (The Elephant Man)
Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels (Tootsie)
Chance the gardner/Chauncey Gardner (Being There)
Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Pink Panther films)
Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey (Biloxi Blues)
Jeff Spicoli (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Minnie Castevet (Rosemary's Baby)
Shelley 'the Machine' Levine (Glengarry Glen Ross)
Jerry Lundergaard (Fargo)
Marge Gunderson (Fargo)
Barton Fink (Barton Fink)
Mathilda (Leon: The Profesional)
Max Fischer (Rushmore)
Winston The Wolf (Pulp Fiction)
Henry 'Indiana' Jones Jr. (Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.)
Leonard Shelby (Memento)
Raymone 'Mouse' Alexander (Devil in a Blue Dress)
Don Logan (Sexy Beast)
Antonio Salieri (Amadeus)
Walker (Point Blank)
Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
Evelyn Draper (Play Misty for Me)
Waldo Lydecker (Laura)
Captain Louis Renault (Casablanca)
Ray 'Bones' Barboni (Get Shorty)
Butch Haynes (A Perfect World)
Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows, etc.)
Arthur Bach (Arthur)
Vizzini the Wiley Sicilian (The Princess Bride)
Harry Burns (When Harry Met Sally...)
Sally Albright (When Harry Met Sally...)
Withnail (Withnail & I)


And I can give you at least three-hundred more ifn' you want 'em.

yeah i think it would be main characters. Both female and male, so if the villian is a main character, he or she can count. Nice list there Holden, i might take out a few, and put in oneslike:

Tyler Durden - Fight Club
Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction
Vincent Vega - Pulp Fiction
I mean you gotta have those. ill write it all down and have like a 32 person first round. so make sure we got 32 of the best characters of all time.

I think best character nominations should be household names that most generations have heard of. Like:

Indiana Jones.
Luke Skywalker.
Spock.
Dirty Harry.
Dorothy.

yeah i dont think 32 is enough 48 is good enough.

This was a great idea that needs a bump...

Dorothy
The Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion
Glinda
The Wicked Witch
Scarlett O'Hara
Robin Hood - (w/ Errol Flynn)
Maid Marian - (w/ Olivia de Havilland)
Margo Channing
Tracy Lord
Sherlock Holmes
Charlie Chan
Nick and Nora Charles
Indiana Jones
Darth Vader
Luke Skywalker
Snow White
Dopey, Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy
Beauty
The Beast
Shrek
Donkey


Edit: Eeep! I forgot....

James Bond
Harry Potter

My choices, best of my knowledge, bare with me...as i am not too good with names
Darth Vadar
Dracula-Bela Lagosie ( i apologize if i misspell anything)
The Flying monkeys in the wizard of oz
Gunnery Sgt. Hartman -Full Metal jacket
William Tavington( the british guy who kills mel gibsons sons, daughter in law, burns down his sister in laws house)-the patriot
Gandalf,Frodo,Legolas Greenleaf..-Lord of the rings 1, 2 and soon 3
Forrest Gump-need say more
Hannibal Lecter-Red Dragon, Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs
Woody-Toy Story
Boo-Monstors Inc-cuteness
Freddy-Nightmare on Elm Street(all of them)
Scream killer, any of them-Scream 1,2,3
Jack Torrance-The Shinning
ET-E.T. Extraterrestrial
Michael Carleone, Don Carleone-The Godfather
John Milton-Devils Advocate
Jim Levinstein-American Pie(all of them)-I feel so bad for him

I hope this makes sense, i might have embellished a little to much, and i know i let some out, hey if it helps..GREAT

Right. I'm going to start this thing.