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4 days ago · Step into a world where the best movie characters await to rekindle your love for cinema. This list is a testament to those who've made a celebrated mark, carefully curated by a devoted collective of movie buffs eager to pinpoint the best characters of all time.
Mar 23, 2012 · Max Cherry. The Character: Quentin Tarantino doesn’t usually have much time for solidly dependable nice guys, but bail bondsman Max Cherry is all that and then some. Exuding a slightly ...
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Feb 11, 2022 · Sunayan Bhattacharjee. Updated February 11, 2022. Imagine going to a movie and sitting through the entire length just looking at plain visuals bereft of any characterization!
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- Dwan
- Newt
- Stacker Pentecost
- John Matrix
- Pressure Maxwell
- Dr. Christmas Jones
- Archer Maggot
- Rick Von Sloneker
Okay this isn’t a movie character, but an actual writer, director and producer who was highly active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. I figured I was allowed one real person, and this name is so cool it sounds like the world’s best screenwriter made it up. Hunt Stromberg. It just has such authority.
Rooker’s performance as the slimy sheriff-turned-slimy ball of skin in this underrated comedy horror is greatly enhanced by the blandly hilarious name given to him by writer/director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy).
This is one of those character names where I’ve never been quite sure that there wasn’t a missprint at some point, and everyone just went with it. Is ‘Dwan’ a name? Has anyone ever met a ‘Dwan’? Missprint or not, I like this name, because it is just so darn silly.
James Cameron’s best film earns that status largely thanks to its raft of memorable characters— an all-too rare element in genre films. One of Cameron’s subtlest, yet most effective gestures was in picking such a weird name for the kid character. It really threw me at first. But by the end of the film, I was ready to punch anyone who insisted on ca...
It seemed like screenwriter Travis Beacham was trying to make some sort of point with the cray-cray character names he came up with for Pacific Rim (others include ‘Herc Hansen’, ‘Newton Geiszler’ and ‘Hannibal Chau’), but I’m still not sure what it was. Whatever the reason, he gifted the world the sublime ridiculosity of ‘Stacker Pentecost’, and f...
There’s a long, proud history of action movie heroes named John (‘John Rambo’, ‘John McClane’, ‘John Truckasaurus’), and since First Blood was based on a novel, I’ve chosen to celebrate the name Arnie sports in this Rambo ripoff that is better than Rambo. The youthful Wachowskis were clearly paying attention.
Amongst all the great movie gangster names, even just those sported by characters played by Robinson (‘Rico’ from Little Caesar is another favourite of mine), the one that always tickled my fancy the most was Pressure Maxwell. He’s the big cheese in this cute comedy which was later unofficially remade by Woody Allen as Small Time Crooks(2000).
We could easily fill several lists with shamelessly suggestive female character names from the James Bond franchise, but somehow they all seem coy next to ‘Christmas Jones’, a gloriously ridiculous name that exists solely to serve a painfully inevitable film-ending sex-pun.
The Dirty Dozenfeatures a shit-tonne of cool names (‘Max Armbruster’, ‘Victor Franko’, ‘Vernon Pinkley’), but none more searing than that of Archer Maggot, a vile character played by Telly Savalas. According to Wikipedia, Jack Palance turned the role down because of Maggot’s racism. Which was surprising to read, as I’d always presumed they’d tailor...
Writer/director Whit Stillman restrained his considerable gift for words in naming the characters in his Trilogy of Manners (which also includes Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco), giving them believably generic handles for the most part. But he allowed himself a doozy for Metropolitan’s awesomely snooty villain. Von Sloneker (Slonn-eh-kerr) is ...
Mar 1, 2024 · Vote up your favorite characters, main or supporting, from any Pixar movie. Latest additions: Ken. Most divisive: Anton Ego. Over 16.5K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The 100+ Best Pixar Characters Of All Time, Ranked.
Aug 10, 2020 · Empire lists the 100 greatest film characters as voted by the readers. From Die Hard to Harry Potter, we bring you the people you love.
Mar 15, 2024 · 45 reranks. Voting Rules. Vote up your favorite child characters (under 18) from movies (only humans, no animals). Celebrate young talent with the best kid characters in film history. This compelling list features the most unforgettable child figures that swiftly stole the show, ranked according to the fondness they hold in fans' hearts worldwide.
