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The 100 Greatest Movie Characters

In June 2015 Empire Magazine published a list of the 100 Greatest movie characters as voted for by their readers. Interesting to see Walker from John Boorman’s hugely underrated Point Blank making such a list while Norman Bates of Psycho fame is only placed 97th.

  • 100. Edna Mode – The Incredibles (2004)
  • 99. Randle McMurphy – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  • 98. Optimus Prime – The Transformers series (2007-)
  • 97. Norman Bates – The Psycho films (1960-1990), Psycho remake (1998)
  • 96. The Minions – Despicable Me movies (2010-2013), the Minions movie (2015)
  • 95. Maximus – Gladiator (2000)
  • 94. Legolas –  The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (2001-2014)
  • 93. Wednesday Addams – The Addams Family films (1991-1993)
  • 92. Inspector Clouseau – The Pink Panther films (1963-2009)
  • 91. Inigo Montoya – The Princess Bride (1987)
  • 90. Hal – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • 89. Groot – Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014)
  • 88. Gromit – Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)
  • 87. Ethan Hunt – The Mission: Impossible series (1996–)
  • 86. Red – The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • 85. Walker – Point Blank (1967)
  • 84. Corporal Hicks – Aliens (1986)
  • 83. Bane – Batman & Robin (1997), The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  • 82. Woody – The Toy Story series (1995–)
  • 81. Withnail – Withnail & I (1987)
  • 80. V – V For Vendetta (2005)
  • 79. Roy Batty – Blade Runner (1982)
  • 78. Martin Blank – Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
  • 77. Samwise Gamgee – The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2001-2003)
  • 76. Private William Hudson – Aliens (1986)
  • 75. Lisbeth Salander – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy (2009), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo remake (2011)
  • 74. Frank Drebin – The Naked Gun series (1988-1994)
  • 73. Donnie Darko – Donnie Darko (2001)
  • 72. Captain Kirk – The Star Trek series (1966–)
  • 71. Star-Lord – Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014)
  • 70. Tony Montana – Scarface (1983)
  • 69. Marge Gunderson – Fargo (1996)
  • 68. Neo – The Matrix trilogy (1999-2003)
  • 67. Harry Potter – The Harry Potter series (2001-2011)
  • 66. Gollum / Sméagol – The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
  • 65. Hans Landa – Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  • 64. George Bailey – It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
  • 63. Wolverine – The X-Men series (2000–)
  • 62. E.T. – E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  • 61. Bilbo Baggins – The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (2001-2014)
  • 60. Dr. King Schultz – Django Unchained (2012)
  • 59. Ace Ventura – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), When Nature Calls (1995)
  • 58. Sarah Connor – The Terminator series (1984–)
  • 57. Katniss Everdeen – The Hunger Games series (2012-2015)
  • 56. Jack Burton – Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
  • 55. Axel Foley – The Beverly Hills Cop trilogy (1984-1994)
  • 54. Amélie Poulain – Amélie (2001)
  • 53. Vito Corleone – The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  • 52. Shaun Riley – Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
  • 51. Obi-Wan Kenobi – The Star Wars series (1977-2005)



  • 50. Luke Skywalker – The Star Wars series (1977-2015)
  • 49. Harry Callahan – The Dirty Harry series (1971-1988)
  • 48. Lester Burnham – American Beauty (1999)
  • 47. Rick Deckard – Blade Runner
  • 46. Captain America – Marvel Cinematic Universe (2011–)
  • 45. Tommy DeVito – Goodfellas (1990)
  • 44. Anton Chigurh – No Country For Old Men (2007)
  • 43. Amy Dunne – Gone Girl (2014)
  • 42. Lou Bloom – Nightcrawler (2014)
  • 41. Keyser Söze – The Usual Suspects
  • 40. Ferris Bueller – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
  • 39. Driver – Drive (2011)
  • 38. Yoda – The Star Wars series (1980-2005)
  • 37. Walter Sobchak – The Big Lebowski (1998)
  • 36. Rocky Balboa – The Rocky series (1976-2015)
  • 35. Atticus Finch – To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
  • 34. Captain Mal Reynolds – Serenity (2005)
  • 33. The Man With No Name – A Fistful Of Dollars (1964), For A Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
  • 32. Jules Winnfield – Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • 31. Peter Venkman – Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)
  • 30. Gandalf – The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (2001-2014)
  • 29. Snake Plissken – Escape From New York (1981), Escape From L.A. (1996)
  • 28. The Terminator (T-800) – The Terminator series (1984–)
  • 27. Forrest Gump – Forrest Gump (1994)
  • 26. Patrick Bateman – American Psycho (2000)
  • 25. Ash – The Evil Dead trilogy (1981-1992)
  • 24. Daniel Plainview – There Will Be Blood (2007)
  • 23. The Bride – Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
  • 22. Travis Bickle – Taxi Driver (1976)
  • 21. Hannibal Lecter – The Hannibal Lecter films (1986-2007)
  • 20. Doc Brown – The Back To The Future trilogy (1985-1990), A Million Ways To Die In The West (2014)
  • 19. Loki – The Marvel Cinematic Universe (2011–)
  • 18. Rick Blaine – Casablanca (1942)
  • 17. M. Gustave – The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
  • 16. Ron Burgundy – Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
  • 15. Aragorn – The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2001-2003)
  • 14. Captain Jack Sparrow – The Pirates Of The Caribbean series (2003–)
  • 13. Iron Man – The Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008–)
  • 12. Marty McFly – Back To The Future trilogy (1985-1990)
  • 11. Michael Corleone – The Godfather trilogy (1972-1990)
  • 10. The Dude – The Big Lebowski (1998)
  • 9. Darth Vader – Star Wars: Episodes III-VI (1977-2005)
  • 8. Tyler Durden – Fight Club (1999)
  • 7. John McClane – The Die Hard films (1988-2013), National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
  • 6. The Joker – Batman The Movie (1966), Batman (1989), The Dark Knight (2008), Suicide Squad (2016)
  • 5. Ellen Ripley – The Alien series (1979-1997)
  • 4. Batman – Batman The Movie (1966), Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995), Batman & Robin (1997), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  • 3. Han Solo – The Star Wars series (1977–2015)
  • 2. James Bond – The James Bond series (1962–)
  • 1. Indiana Jones – All four Indiana Jones adventures (1981-2008)

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Blockbuster’s Best Speeches in Cinema History

In 2004, the now defunct rental company, Blockbuster UK polled 6,500 film buffs to produce a list of the greatest films speeches. The top 10 are listed below. There are no surprises here as the 10 film speeches come from well known American films as well as Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting and cult comedy Withnail and I. In the case of A Few Good Men and Wall Street you could argue that the prominent parts of those speeches have become more famous than the films themselves.

1. Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now (1979): You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ’em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory. Someday this war’s gonna end…

2. Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men (1992): You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know – that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.

3. Marlon Brando, On The Waterfront (1954): Remember that night in the Garden? You came down to my dressing room and you said ‘kid, this ain’t your night. We’re going for the price on Wilson’… You was my brother, Charlie. You shoulda looked out for me a little bit so I wouldn’t have to take them dives for the short-end money. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum. Which is what I am. Let’s face it.

4. Samuel L Jackson, Pulp Fiction (1994): The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

5. Michael Douglas, Wall Street (1987): The point is, ladies and gentleman, is that greed – for lack of a better word – is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms – greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge – has marked the upward surge of mankind. And Greed – you mark my words – will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

6. Peter Finch, Network (1976): I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the streets, and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it.

7. Ewan McGregor, Trainspotting (1996): Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends… Choose your future. Choose life.

8. Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry (1971): I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?

9. Richard E Grant, Withnail and I (1987): . What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a God! The beauty of the world, paragon of animals; and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dusk. Man delights not me, no, nor women neither, nor women neither.

10. Mel Gibson, Braveheart (1995): You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight? Aye, fight and you may die, run and you’ll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!



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AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes

In 2005, as part of the AFI 100 Years… series, The American Film Institute unveiled its 100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. Casablanca features a staggering six times on the list. Sunset Boulevard appears twice in the top 25. Buy – Afi’s 100 Years 100 Movie Quotes (DVD)

1 “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Gone with the Wind 1939
2 “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” The Godfather 1972
3 “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.” On the Waterfront 1954
4 “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” The Wizard of Oz 1939
5 “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Casablanca 1942
6 “Go ahead, make my day.” Sudden Impact 1983
7 “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Sunset Boulevard 1950
8 “May the Force be with you.” Star Wars 1977
9 “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” All About Eve 1950
10 “You talkin’ to me?” Taxi Driver 1976
11 “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” Cool Hand Luke 1967
12 “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” Apocalypse Now 1979
13 “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Love Story 1970
14 “The stuff that dreams are made of.” The Maltese Falcon 1941
15 “E.T. phone home.” E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
16 “They call me Mister Tibbs!” In the Heat of the Night 1967
17 “Rosebud.” Citizen Kane 1941
18 “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” White Heat 1949
19 “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Network 1976
20 “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Casablanca 1942
21 “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” The Silence of the Lambs 1991
22 “Bond. James Bond.” Dr. No 1962
23 “There’s no place like home.” The Wizard of Oz 1939
24 “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.” Sunset Boulevard 1950
25 “Show me the money!” Jerry Maguire 1996
26 “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” She Done Him Wrong 1933
27 “I’m walking here! I’m walking here!” Midnight Cowboy 1969
28 “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.'” Casablanca 1942
29 “You can’t handle the truth!” A Few Good Men 1992
30 “I want to be alone.” Grand Hotel 1932
31 “After all, tomorrow is another day!” Gone with the Wind 1939
32 “Round up the usual suspects.” Casablanca 1942
33 “I’ll have what she’s having.” When Harry Met Sally… 1989
34 “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” To Have and Have Not 1944
35 “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Jaws 1975
36 “Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
37 “I’ll be back.” The Terminator 1984
38 “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.” The Pride of the Yankees 1942
39 “If you build it, he will come.” Field of Dreams 1989
40 “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Forrest Gump 1994
41 “We rob banks.” Bonnie and Clyde 1967
42 “Plastics.” The Graduate 1967
43 “We’ll always have Paris.” Casablanca 1942
44 “I see dead people.” The Sixth Sense 1999
45 “Stella! Hey, Stella!” A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
46 “Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.” Now, Voyager 1942
47 “Shane. Shane. Come back!” Shane 1953
48 “Well, nobody’s perfect.” Some Like It Hot 1959
49 “It’s alive! It’s alive!” Frankenstein 1931
50 “Houston, we have a problem.” Apollo 13 1995




51 “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” Dirty Harry 1971
52 “You had me at ‘hello.'” Jerry Maguire 1996
53 “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” Animal Crackers 1930
54 “There’s no crying in baseball!” A League of Their Own 1992
55 “La-dee-da, la-dee-da.” Annie Hall 1977
56 “A boy’s best friend is his mother.” Psycho 1960
57 “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” Wall Street 1987
58 “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” The Godfather Part II 1974
59 “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” Gone with the Wind 1939
60 “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!” Sons of the Desert 1933
61 “Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!” Scarface 1983
62 “What a dump.” Beyond the Forest 1949
63 “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?” The Graduate 1967
64 “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
65 “Elementary, my dear Watson.” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939
66 “Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.” Planet of the Apes 1968
67 “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” Casablanca 1942
68 “Here’s Johnny!” The Shining 1980
69 “They’re here!” Poltergeist 1982
70 “Is it safe?” Marathon Man 1976
71 “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” The Jazz Singer 1927
72 “No wire hangers, ever!” Mommie Dearest 1981
73 “Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?” Little Caesar 1931
74 “Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.” Chinatown 1974
75 “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
76 “Hasta la vista, baby.” Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
77 “Soylent Green is people!” Soylent Green 1973
78 “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
79 Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious.”
Rumack: “I am serious … and don’t call me Shirley.”		 Airplane! 1980
80 “Yo, Adrian!” Rocky 1976
81 “Hello, gorgeous.” Funny Girl 1968
82 “Toga! Toga!” National Lampoon’s Animal House 1978
83 “Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.” Dracula 1931
84 “Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” King Kong 1933
85 “My precious.” The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
86 “Attica! Attica!” Dog Day Afternoon 1975
87 “Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!” 42nd Street 1933
88 “Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t you forget it. You’re going to get back on that horse, and I’m going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we’re gonna go, go, go!” On Golden Pond 1981
89 “Tell ’em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.” Knute Rockne, All American 1940
90 “A martini. Shaken, not stirred.” Goldfinger 1964
91 “Who’s on first?” The Naughty Nineties 1945
92 “Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac…It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!” Caddyshack 1980
93 “Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!” Auntie Mame 1958
94 “I feel the need—the need for speed!” Top Gun 1986
95 “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” Dead Poets Society 1989
96 “Snap out of it!” Moonstruck 1987
97 “My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.” Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
98 “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Dirty Dancing 1987
99 “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!” The Wizard of Oz 1939
100 “I’m the King of the World!”  Titanic 1997

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Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Movie Stars

In 2003 Channel 4 carried out a national survey to find the top 100 film stars in history, voted on by the British public. I suppose the issue with the list is the disparity between being a great movie star and being a great actor. For example some of the greatest actors of the 20th century such as Olivier, Guiness and Gielgud don’t make the list. Big stars of yesteryear such Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas are also absent.

1. Al Pacino
2. Robert De Niro
3. Tom Hanks
4. Kevin Spacey
5. Harrison Ford
6. Jack Nicholson
7. Anthony Hopkins
8. Sean Connery
9. Ewan McGregor
10. Cary Grant
11. Samuel L Jackson
12. James Stewart
13. Audrey Hepburn
14. Steve McQueen
15. Brad Pitt
16. Paul Newman
17. Mel Gibson
18. Clint Eastwood
19. Robin Williams
20. Sigourney Weaver
21. Nicole Kidman
22. Johnny Depp
23. Jodie Foster
24. Dustin Hoffman
25. Susan Sarandon
26. Russell Crowe
27. Morgan Freeman
28. Denzel Washington
29. Julia Roberts
30. Marlon Brando
31. Christopher Lee
32. Tom Cruise
33. Nicolas Cage
34. Christopher Walken
35. Bruce Willis
36. Humphrey Bogart
37. Cate Blanchett
38. Katharine Hepburn
39. Marilyn Monroe
40. Gary Oldman
41. Jackie Vhan
42. Gene Hackman
43. Jack Lemmon
44. Michael Caine
45. Bette Davis
46. John Travolta
47. Jim Carrey
48. John Cusack
49. Bruce Lee
50. Charlie Chaplin
51. Will Smith
52. Sidney Poitier
53. Harvey Keitel
54. Arnold Schwarzenegger
55. Kate Winslet
56. John Wayne
57. Peter Sellers
58. Meryl Streep
59. John Malkovich
60. Jude Law
61. Robert Redford
62. Robert Downey Jr
63. Clark Gable
64. James Dean
65. Cameron Diaz
66. Gene Kelly
67. Eddie Murphy
68. Ingrid Bergman
69. River Phoenix
70. Richard Burton
71. Woody Allen
72. George Clooney
73. Hugh Grant
74. Angelina Jolie
75. Meg Ryan
76. Richard Gere
77. Elizabeth Taylor
78. Oliver Reed
79. Vivien Leigh
80. Dennis Hopper
81. Fred Astaire
82. Judy Garland
83. Ralph Fiennes
84. Doris Day
85. Daniel Day-Lewis
86. Grace Kelly
87. Winona Ryder
88. Juliette Binoche
89. Gwyneth Paltrow
90. Gerard Depardieu
91. Julie Christie
92. Amitabh Bachchan
93. Kevin Costner
94. Leonardo Di Caprio
95. Uma Thurman
96. Wesley Snipes
97. Burt Reynolds
98. Jane Fonda
99. Halle Berry
100. Michael Douglas

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