Coolest character in film?

[Jaskohouston]

Well he somehow got himself stabbed in the chest, something Dalton would never allowed.

Ripping the dude's throat out with his hands puts him over the top in thie battle of badasses.

[Blarg]

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Good choice of jack in one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

I cant believe no one mentioned....tim robbins in shawshank redemtion


I think cool in a perverted, f***ed up way id harvey kietal in bad lieuteninet

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I didn't see The Piano, but I have never seen Harvey Keitel ever look anything less than incredibly cool.

[Born 2 Loose]

I'm late to the party, so apologies if already mentioned.

Who could possibly be cooler that Vincent Vega on the dance floor?



Unless, of course, it is Danny Zuko



or Tony Manero

[wisehandpoker]

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This list looks like you went through movies with cool characters and then picked the least cool guy in the movie. Could yopu please enlighten us with your definition of "cool"? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I threw the list together by quickly scanning down the top 250 on imdb.com, and I tried to avoid repeating answers already given in the thread. A few thoughts on my choices:

Blondie - I see this as the quintessential Clint, saying everything by saying nothing. Just love his style. I'm also on a major spaghetti western kick right now.

John Doe - No villain has ever chilled me the way he did. Again, the actor was responsible for this more than the dialogue.

Marsellus - He and Jules are the opposite ends of the spectrum. Wallace just struck me as the baddest of the bad mofo's.

Fenster - If you need to ask, you'll never know. An aside, the characters were never supposed to laugh during the lineup scene, but del Toro had everyone on set in stiches and they decided it worked.

Kurtz - Just an incredibly powerful character

Stansfield - I just like Gary Oldman as the villain.

Mathilda - An eleven year old kid who manages to avoid being a part of the family massacre, convinces an emotionally detached hit man to take her in and constantly keeps her head in the game in circumstances that would make me crumble.

Vineyard - The basketball scene is one hell of a demostration of will.

Mr. Pink - ok, he's obviously not conventionally cool, but his desperation is fantastic. I also love the way he explains things.

Hartman - The first half of FMJ is incredible. Without the seargent being completely convincing as the son of a bitch to end sons of bitches, it wouldn't have worked. Earny started the film as technical advisor and had never acted.

Marv - Maybe I see a bit of myself in Marv...a big, awkward guy who in the end chooses his own path and doesn't let anything stop him from walking it (ok, I don't have Marv's conviction).

Ben Braddock - This is a wierd choice, but I like BB because he was written to be a 6'4" blonde and ended up anything but. Hoffman delivers the lines the blonde was going to, but he manages to make them far less slick. Finally, he again manages to escape the bonds of expectation.

So, I guess I'm defining cool as: strong, funny, clever, rebellious, independant, smart, and possessed of personal style. A little bit different than anyone else. For heroes, someone I think it would be interesting to meet or fun to hang out with. For villains; overwhelming power of personality. Sure, there are slick characters throughout film history that look good and work some magic with the ladies, but frankly, I couldn't care less if a guy gets around like Wilt Chamberlain or wears expensive clothes. Cool, at least for me, is more than delivering a line and spending too much money on shoes. Hope some of this made sense.

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[ScottieK]

Nominations I haven't seen yet -

Paul Newman....as Henry Gondorff OR Eddie Felson

George Clooney (or Sinatra) as Daniel Ocean (maybe Pitt as Rusty Ryan instead?)

ScottieK

[cbal84]

Bogart as Philip Marlowe. If Marlowe was in Casablanca, he'd have had Ilsa that first night and the Czech dude would have been cool with it.

[TehPokarKing]

I think only one person has said it but Michael Corleone is pretty much all that needs to be said.

Sean Connery and James Coburn were both sizable badasses as well but neither was the Don.

TPK

[2/325Falcon]

This guy made me want to be a paratrooper.

[ilya]

Jackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats in "The Hustler." Well, he deserves a mention, anyway.

[wisehandpoker]

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George Clooney as Daniel Ocean (maybe Pitt as Rusty Ryan instead?)

ScottieK

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