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Coolest character in film?
I got a notion we've done this once, but can't find anything on searching. Someone put me straight if we have, willya?
Ok, I'm saying the knife-throwing James Coburn character in the Magnificent Seven. Very, very cool. What you think? |
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Lando Calrissian
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Mr. Freeze in Batman!
Sorry. Star me if you must. |
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This is a little bit boring, but there is no one cooler then Dirty Harry aka. Clint Eastwood...
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no one was cooler then Val Kilmer as Doc. Holiday in "Tombstone" - sorry.... RB |
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This is a little bit boring, but there is no one cooler then Dirty Harry aka. Clint Eastwood... [/ QUOTE ] Eastwood and Coburn could probably wrestle over 'lifetime acheivement' for cool in the movies, I guess. But I still think Coburn in Magnificent Seven trumps it. |
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I've got to go with Harvey Keitel as Winston "The Wolf" in Pulp Fiction.
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Where's the Iceman gimmick account when we need him?
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I don't know if this is expanding the bounds too far, but I'm pretty partial to Tyler Durden.
Either that or the Charlie Sheen character in Ferris Beuler's Day Off. He was pretty damn cool. |
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I always felt Neo in the first Matrix was ridiculously cool. I remember walking out of the theater and basically thinking my own cool quotient had tripled just from watching that character in the movie.
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Bruce Lee backfisting two chumps who run up behind him without looking in The Chinese Connection. This move reappears everywhere later, perhaps most famously in The Jerk. It'll keep reappearing in some form or another till the end of time.
Other candidates: Chevy Chase on top of some super hot chick in Caddyshack, drunk off his ass, telling her, "You make me feel like a hundred bucks" and falling off her and crashing to the floor. Sean Connery cold bloodedly executing a hapless villain after subtly goading him to make a stupid move, in Dr. No. "Your six are up." His first shot as "Bond, James Bond" is also one of the coolest quick moments ever on film. Giuletta Masina smiling into the camera at the end of Nights of Cabiria. Jean Paul Belmondo pretty much all through Breathless. Jean Gabin pretty much always. Michel Simon pretty much anywhere in Boudu Saved from Drowning and L'Atalante. Ben Kingsley throughout Gandhi, but especially in the scene where he tells the despairing Muslim child killer how to do something to help make up for the evil he has caused. Clint Eastwood telling a bunch of toughs in I think it was For a Fistful of Dollars, who had laughed at him coming into town riding a donkey, "I want you to apologize to my ass." Paul Newman refusing to stop fighting George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke. Clive Owen in Croupier at the end looking smugly into the camera as the voice-over says, "I have the power to make you lose." Honorable mention to David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London. He got a great vacation in Europe, had hilarious friends, got to be a werewolf and literally bite people's heads off, AND got to bang Jenny Agutter. What more could anyone want out of life? |
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I always felt Neo in the first Matrix was ridiculously cool. I remember walking out of the theater and basically thinking my own cool quotient had tripled just from watching that character in the movie. I'm gon get flamed, ain't I? [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Yugoslav [/ QUOTE ] Naw, no smart-aleck revisionism out of me at least. The original Matrix was incredibly cool and even Keanu Reeves managed to look super cool in this one, which is really saying something. This movie was a factory for producing coolness. |
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deniro in heat was pretty damn cool, even though pride got the best of him in the end.
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McClane
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Christian Bale was pretty cool in Equilibrium.
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deniro in heat was pretty damn cool, even though pride got the best of him in the end. [/ QUOTE ] He's probably my favorite for consistently cool, in that movie. Smart, independent, deadly, great at what he does, all the right connetions, great at thinking on his feet, able to bag tremendously hot chicks much younger than he is,someone whose word it's just crazy to disregard, and who shows you why if you do. Definitely flawed. I found it hard to picture a great screen cool dude like Clint Eastwood in any normal situation, and DeNiro's character is also not really at home in the world despite the incredible degree to which he has mastered it. There's something sad, but perversely there's even something a little bit cool about that too. |
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this one's easy. the last scene intended to cut him down notwithstanding, trent in swingers is the coolest character in any movie. ever. |
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Jean Paul Belmondo pretty much all through Breathless. [/ QUOTE ] I love this movie. I did the lip thing for a month after I saw this movie, and he ripped that off from Bogart. It's funny though because he's trying so hard to be cool and he is, but it's all ripped off. Great movie. EDIT: Er...film... |
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Best I can come up with that hasn't been mentioned yet.
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[ QUOTE ] Jean Paul Belmondo pretty much all through Breathless. [/ QUOTE ] I love this movie. I did the lip thing for a month after I saw this movie, and he ripped that off from Bogart. It's funny though because he's trying so hard to be cool and he is, but it's all ripped off. Great movie. EDIT: Er...film... [/ QUOTE ] Yeah he's an open admirer of things American in that movie, including Jean Seberg(who isn't!). He loves American icons like Bogey and patterns himself after him, but openly protests how much he hates French icons like Maurice Chevalier. Can't blame him. We got the better end of the deal there. |
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Christian Bale was pretty cool in Equilibrium. [/ QUOTE ] And he loves puppies! |
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[ QUOTE ] Christian Bale was pretty cool in Equilibrium. [/ QUOTE ] And he loves puppies! [/ QUOTE ] Yup, he even kills for them! Badass with a heart. |
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People need to respect O-Dog from Menace to Society.
"Young, black, and doesn't give a [censored]" |
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[ QUOTE ] Christian Bale was pretty cool in Equilibrium. [/ QUOTE ] And he loves puppies! [/ QUOTE ] Yah, Christian Bale is ubercool. He'd a made a stone-hearted cool-as-[censored] Bond - maybe a little too hardcore for the masses though. |
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Christian Bale was pretty cool in Equilibrium. [/ QUOTE ] And he loves puppies! [/ QUOTE ] Yah, Christian Bale is ubercool. He'd a made a stone-hearted cool-as-[censored] Bond - maybe a little too hardcore for the masses though. [/ QUOTE ] He would make a good Bond. So would Clive Owen. After watching Layer Cake, i have to say they made a decent choice with Daniel Craig though. |
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we've gone this far and no one has mentioned Steve McQueen in The Great Escape or Bogart in Cassablana?
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American Film Institute Top 50 Heroes, Villans
so its only American films and some are nuts.. but its a list |
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Tyler Durden
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I've got to go with Harvey Keitel as Winston "The Wolf" in Pulp Fiction. http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6997/mrwolf3yd.jpg [/ QUOTE ] Solid choice |
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1. The Dude (Big Lebowski) 2. Trent (Swingers) 3. The Wolf (Pulp Fiction) |
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I liked Pryor's nomination. Coolest of the cool
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There's some very solid names mentioned so far, but I can't believe no one has mentioned Chili Palmer from Get Shorty yet. Travolta does an amazing job portraying Chili's cool in this movie (let's not talk about the uber-mediocre sequel).
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Christian Bale was pretty cool in American Psycho. [/ QUOTE ] FYP Haven't seen Equilibrium. |
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Michael Madsens character in Reservoir Dogs, i forgot which mr.(color) he was but he was a badass, he is pretty much a badass in most of his movies even in crappy stuff like free willy and tilt. I would have said val kilmer in tombstone but that has been mentioned, damn he was good. |
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Chow Yun Fat in almost everything he's ever been in.
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deniro in heat was pretty damn cool, even though pride got the best of him in the end. [/ QUOTE ] James Caan was cooler in Thief (another Michael Mann film). "My money in 24 hours, or you will wear your ass for a hat." The Brian Cox Lecter from Manhunter was a pretty damn cool character as well. I think I'm on to something... Michael Mann has some pretty cool characters. ~D |
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