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Okay, I freely admit that this is not a new and novel idea from me. There's probably another thread on it already somewhere in the Badmovies.org archives. In fact, I ripped off the idea from here: http://whatculture.com/film/12-iconic-movie-characters-arent-cool-remember.php (http://whatculture.com/film/12-iconic-movie-characters-arent-cool-remember.php)

However, I still thought this would be a fun topic. Plus, it might mirror a lot of our personalities that we see here.


In the past, I imagined myself as Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction (1993):


Oh yeah, that's me on the dance floor at the club. Or standing at the bar telling you that "you ain't my friend, palooka. Oh I think you heard me just fine, punchy!" Heck, even at a job interview, I'd be giving the hiring manager that thousand yard, heroin-induced cold stare (I don't do heroin, by the way). Or I'd be swaggering on the beach in my dorky-looking t-shirt and trunks, walking cool like The Fonz. But that was, like, 10 years ago.

Nowadays, I'm a new dad, and with that comes great responsibilities. Because I want to be a good role model for my boy. So I find myself trying to be more responsible and doing responsible dad stuff. Like paying my bills on time, or taking a shower every day instead of every other day like before, or not getting drunk off my arse like when I was younger. But still, there are those days when kids don't do what you want them to do, and I end up feeling more like the Kindergarten Cop (1990):


But feeling and acting out aren't the same thing, thank goodness! Still, other days I feel like the entire weight of the world is laying on me, like the poor fellow in my screen avatar.

What are your thoughts?

Nice thread.

I would have liked to have been Sean Kane from An Eye For An Eye

(http://masternorris.com/images/photos/An_Eye_For_An_Eye_1981_0008-MasterNorris_com.jpg)

Peter Coetzee (Hardy Kruger) in The Wild Geese - I would have just dumped his racism.

(http://i42.tinypic.com/117bn08.jpg)

Hercule Poirot in Murder On The Orient Express

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ztKY4uQXRgA/TrGDOrAep7I/AAAAAAAAAdU/bG0SwimfSW0/s1600/finney%2Bpoirot.gif)

And in my more (sadly no more due to celibacy) feminine moments and fantasies, Joan Collins in anything (or rather nothing at all)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MBE2RB-QL._SX300_.jpg)

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

From the time I was in junior high school, I loved to collect Indian Artifacts and fossils.
Not long after RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK came out, I was walking a riverbed with a friend of mine looking for stuff and we had to cross a pretty deep, narrow side creek.  I was walking across on a log when I felt it start to crack, so I jumped up and grabbed a branch and swung over the rest of the way.
He said: "You are just like Indiana Jones!"
I said "Indiana Smith, thank you very much!"
And the name stuck!!

(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/indianajonesraidersofthelostark_zps3ccb2910.jpg) (http://s67.photobucket.com/user/Indianasmith/media/indianajonesraidersofthelostark_zps3ccb2910.jpg.html)

I'm also pretty fond of Captain Picard, but I have more hair than he does!

(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/PicardArrowhead_zps0bf50607.jpg) (http://s67.photobucket.com/user/Indianasmith/media/PicardArrowhead_zps0bf50607.jpg.html)

Gordon Liu aka San te aka The Master Killer

(http://thetofuchitlincircuit.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/cutmastakiller.jpg)

     Atticus Finch in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

(http://www.legalethicsforum.com/.a/6a00d8341cb84553ef01901c0b835b970b-pi)

Helen Mirren's character,Victoria, in "Reds"....beautiful,sexy,tough,loyal and always ready to have your back. Plus a wicked sense of humor. :wink:

(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/36/285x214/207223_1.jpg)

When I was in high school, I would watch "The Breakfast Club" and wish that I was as cool as Judd Nelson's "John Bender" character. He was badass, and nobody messed with him.

Sadly, in real life I had more in common with Anthony Michael Hall's dorky "Brian" character. Sigh. No wonder I hated high school.

Bruce Lee Return of the Dragon - Tang
(http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-LA748_bruce1_G_20101125025222.jpg)

Jean-Claude Van Damme Double Impact - Alex
(http://i3.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens11530251module105887371photo_1276453340actionheroes-jcvd-431.jpg)

Baron Munchausen!

Although, Chiun from Remo Williams is another fun character.

Boba Fett and The Terminator come to mind. 

In real life Id say Im much more like Al Czervik from Caddyshack, Mr. Pink from Resevoir Dogs and Patrick Bateman from American Psycho amongst others.

(http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2008/0808/360_ron_jeremy_0825.jpg)

(Just kidding!)

Jason Stillwell played by Kurt McKinney in No Retreat No Surrender.
Of course there were also the classics like Han Solo and Indiana Jones.
And maybe a little weird one, but I wanted to be like the King of Monsters himself - Godzilla.

I think that's the first time I've seen that Picard meme with a (a) clean and (b) funny message.  :teddyr:

She was also great in The Long Good Friday as Bob Hoskins' girlfriend. Tough and sexy.  :thumbup:

Same here: although this nerd did take the school bully down - result, no more bullying from anyone.  :teddyr:

I can imagine you saying things like "You drive like a monkey in heat" and "You move like a pregnant yak!"  :teddyr:

Probably the Wraith, cuz a twin turbo 4 banger going 197 is insane, bring back about 20 mpg is even insaner for the time.

Sam(Emma Watson) from The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Mister Blonde. 
Or The Accountant from DRIVE ANGRY. 


100% serious.

So many to choose from, but I've always liked Sam Jackson as Agent Flynn in SOAP.

There are actually quite a few, but if I had to pick one, it is the one I based my name on. Kevin (played by Chris Pitt) the boy scout in "Lair of the White Worm." (Reviewed at this website.) No matter how long I have to live, and I don't have very long, my 1st experience sexual experience in the film, will never be topped.

Since the characters we choose from TV and/or films reflect ourselves, and since my last answer was incomplete, let this be my answer to the subject.

After 45 years and some 2 dozen characters, here is my final character, and an example of all my characters.

Character's name "Character's nickname" (Actor playing character) "TV show or film"

Danny "One Who Deserves Better" Latimer (Oskar McNamara) "Broadchurch"

Choosing a nickname for the character is my exercise in intellectuality. I have always had a fondness for the one getting the short end of the stick, and this character certainly deserves a writer who understands the mindset of pre-teen boys. Which this writer does not. On the other hand, for one that does, look at Ellen Hart's latest in the Jane Lawless mystery series "Taken by the Wind," which we will go into more detail later.

I judge my characters in 7 different categories.

Adult or teen. Here: pre-teen actually, and the youngest character that I most wanted to be like.
Adults 37% Teens 59% + 1 pre-teen.
What can I say? I never grew up.

Hero or villain or neither. Here: neither.
Hero 25% Villain 40% Neither 35%
I have always had a preference for the villain in a story.

Nationality. Here: English
When the nationality can be determined, and sometimes it cannot. Actually, most are Americans 56%. English one half of that + 1 Frenchman.

Upper, middle, or lower class. Here: middle.
Middle 67% Upper 11% Lower 19%. Solidly middle class.

Deceased, not deceased but injured, neither. Here: deceased
Deceased 59% Injured 15% Neither 25%. There is no character test of a character like watching to see how one dies, which is why my total is so high for deceased characters.

Criminal or crime victim or both. Here: both
Criminal 19% Victim 30% Both 33% Alot of criminals are also victims of a crime, and it is not only the villains that are criminals, so are alot of the heroes.

Past, present, or future. Here: present.
Past 22% Present 70% Future 7%
Grounded in the present or that period from 1950 to today.