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The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time

premiere.com — well, actually, more than we believe in that joker who’s still on her cell. For this list, we’ve shunned biopics, which begin with a filmmaker’s mission to do justice to reality. Here we’re giving priority to people who never were—but who are always with us movie lovers.

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  • diulei, on 11/18/2008, -2/+65No _____ ? Buried.
  • t3hmyth, on 11/18/2008, -1/+42All on one page:
    http://www.premiere.com/features/1539/the-100-grea ...
  • nill0, on 11/18/2008, -5/+44vader 84? yikes.

    this lists are always a bunch of bs anyways, but seriously. vader at 84?
  • marcus1060, on 11/18/2008, -2/+3610. Gollum? Really? This isn't a joke?
  • t3hmyth, on 11/18/2008, -2/+35Dugg for The Dude.
  • athinnes, on 10/01/2009, -1/+28Dr. Evil above Darth Vader? No. Hell no.
  • Nemoso, on 11/18/2008, -3/+29No Tyler Durden, no digg.
  • frogman54, on 11/18/2008, -2/+27Pluto Nash was robbed!
  • Crash42, on 11/18/2008, -0/+20I think the question should be : 'When is Doc Brown ?'
  • btschul, on 11/18/2008, -6/+26The list:
    1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather
    2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind
    4. Norman Bates of Psycho
    5. James Bond of Dr. No
    6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
    7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark
    8. Ellen Ripley of Alien
    9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings
    11. Margo Channing of All About Eve
    12. Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane
    13. Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird
    14. Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    15. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs
    16. Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood
    17. Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz
    18. Carl Spackler of Caddyshack
    19. Rick Blaine of Casablanca
    20. Virgil Tibbs of In the Heat of the Night
    21. Susan Vance of Bringing up Baby
    22. Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver
    23. Eathan Edwards of The Searchers
    24. The Little Tramp of Mabel's Strange Predicament
    25. Gordon Gekko of Wall Street
    26. E.T. of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    27. Marge Gunderson of Fargo
    28. Captain Quint of Jaws
    29. Daphne/Jerry of Some Like it Hot
    30. King Kong of King Kong
    31. Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard
    32. Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany's
    33. Ratso Rizzo of Midnight Cowboy
    34. Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde
    35. Dr. Evil of Austin Powers
    36. Alex Forrest of Fatal Attraction
    37. Jake Gittes of Chinatown
    38. Willy Wonka of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
    39. Michael Dorsey/Dorthy Michaels of Tootsie
    40. The Terminator of The Terminator
    41. Jane Craig of Broadcast News
    42. "Dirty" Harry Callahan of Dirty Harry
    43. Forrest Gump of Forrest Gump
    44. Jules Winnfield of Pulp Fiction
    45. Mary Poppins of Mary Poppins
    46. John McClane of Die Hard
    47. Mrs. Robinson of The Graduate
    48. John "Bluto" Blutarsky of Animal House
    49. Chance the Gardener of Being There
    50. Blondie of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    51. Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street
    52. Howard Beale of Network
    53. Ninotchka of Ninotchka
    54. Frank Booth of Blue Velvet
    55. The Dude of The Big Lebowski
    56. Alan Swann of My Favorite Year
    57. Tom Powers of The Public Enemy
    58. Phyliss Dietrichson of Double Indemnity
    59. Lt. Kilgore of Apocalypse Now
    60. George Bailey of It's a Wonderful Life
    61. J.J. Hunsecker of Sweet Smell of Success
    62. John Shaft of Shaft
    63. Carrie White of Carrie
    64. Rocky Balboa of Rocky
    65. Edward Scissorhands of Edward Scissorhands
    66. Navin Johnson of The Jerk
    67. Inspector Clouseau of The Pink Panther
    68. Alex DeLarge of A Clockwork Orange
    69. Terry Malloy of On the Waterfront
    70. Judy Benjamin of Private Benjamin
    71. Rev. Harry Powell of The Night of the Hunter
    72. Lloyd Dobler of Say Anything
    73. Norma Rae of Norma Rae
    74. Tony Montana of Scarface
    75. Dr. Strangelove of Dr. Strangelove
    76. Tony Manero of Saturday Night Fever
    77. Annie Wilkes of Misery
    78. "Mad" Max Rockatansky of Mad Max
    79. Hans Beckert of M
    80. Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon
    81. Aurora Greenway of Terms of Endearment
    82. Jack Torrance of The Shining
    83. William Cutting of Gangs of New York
    84. Darth Vader of Star Wars
    85. Stanley Kowalski of A Streetcar Named Desire
    86. Melanie Daniels of The Birds
    87. Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    88. Raymond Babbitt of Rain Man
    89. Sandy Olsson of Grease
    90. John Malkovich of Being John Malkovich
    91. Mrs. Iselin of The Manchurian Candidate
    92. Dil of The Crying Game
    93. Harry Lime of The Third Man
    94. Rose Sayer of The African Queen
    95. Oda Mae Brown of Ghost
    96. Tommy DeVito of GoodFellas
    97. Ace Ventura of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    98. Antoine Doinel of The 400 Blows
    99. Kevin McCallister of Home Alone
    100. Roger "Verbal" Kint of The Usual Suspects

  • cle2105, on 11/18/2008, -3/+21101: Lester Burnham from American Beauty. The scene where he is smoking a J and singing American Woman at the top of his lungs is classic
  • TwoKill, on 11/18/2008, -2/+19I really wanted to see Leon from "The Professional" he would have been pretty high up in my list.
  • mugrido, on 11/18/2008, -0/+17With an umbrella?
  • MCA2142, on 11/18/2008, -3/+18Where is Patrick Bateman?
  • Jsmuli2, on 11/18/2008, -4/+19Beacuse Star Trek sucks.
  • ilikepandas, on 11/18/2008, -0/+15Where's Doc Brown?
  • nbcaffeine, on 11/18/2008, -0/+13He's still doing the same bits, just not funny anymore
  • kbull, on 11/18/2008, -2/+15The fact that Ace Ventura is even on that list nullifies the entire thing.
  • econoar, on 11/18/2008, -0/+12You could say that for nearly any list (movies, video games, etc). That's kind of the point, to try and narrow it down.
  • Cabose, on 11/18/2008, -1/+12I love "Played by Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, dir. Steven Spielberg) and two later films" No one recognizes Crystal Skull as an Indy movie
  • btschul, on 11/18/2008, -0/+10or El Duderino, if, you know, you're not into the whole brevity thing.
  • jimdig33, on 11/18/2008, -1/+10Paul Newman shutout? Fast Eddie Felson and/or Cool Hand Luke?
  • NathanielJ, on 11/18/2008, -0/+9...and if YOU haven't heard of them, then they must surely suck!
  • MonTheBuds, on 11/18/2008, -0/+9I'm sorry Austin179, i don't speak spanish.
  • Tonicks, on 11/18/2008, -1/+9Darth Vader at 84. Come on.
  • Procure, on 11/18/2008, -0/+8...I have to return some videotapes.
  • Benjamintc, on 11/18/2008, -0/+8Some questionable choices (Ace Ventura, Forest Gump, Ohara) placements (Dude only 55?) omissions (no Anton Chigurh, no Monty Python, no Lawrence of Arabia,)

    But glad to see love for Bill the Butcher.
  • inactive, on 11/18/2008, -1/+9Pete Venkman - ghostbusters :/
  • Jsmuli2, on 11/18/2008, -0/+8woah, you just blew my mind
  • t3hmyth, on 11/18/2008, -1/+9"Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, 'Whoops! Where'd my job go?' I QUIT. Someone pass me the asparagus."
  • WiretapStudios, on 11/18/2008, -0/+8or Duder...or Dudireno...
  • lennybird, on 11/18/2008, -0/+7His Dudeness
  • BradGroux, on 11/18/2008, -0/+701. Walter Sobchak of The Big Lebowski
    http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i29/danbopurple/ ...

    "It's a league game Smokey."
  • Kohaxx, on 11/18/2008, -4/+11Dugg for Dr. Evil. I miss funny Michael Myers.
  • trixyfox, on 11/18/2008, -1/+8I find their lack of faith disturbing
  • DrunkenSavior, on 11/18/2008, -0/+7I'm Ron Burgundy?
  • inactive, on 11/18/2008, -1/+8That's amazing. I'm not even mad
  • Kohaxx, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6It was the creativity to come up with the bits in the first place that made him funny, not the bits themselves. The bits got old but Wayne's World and original Austin Powers Mike Myers was great.

    No comedian can go on tour doing the same show forever.
  • HiddenCanuck, on 11/18/2008, -1/+7Lemmie translate: I'm ignorant! Therefore this list sucks!
  • t3hmyth, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6Such as?
  • t3hmyth, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6*****, man, he's the *****' Dude, dude.
  • revmhatt, on 11/18/2008, -2/+8They drank Daniel Plainview's milkshake.
  • Bitties, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6Everyone who saw Crystal Skull was nuked, and everyone knows the only way to survive a bombing of the magnitude is by hiding in a fridge.
  • bruins72, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5I just can't accept a list that ranks Private Judy Benjamin higher than Verbal Kint.
  • Scrappy1850, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5all right, have it your way, dude. take 'er easy!
  • ilovebacon, on 11/18/2008, -1/+6Forrest Gump kicked ass and deserved to be in the top 10. Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption) was missing. Other than that, no complaints.
  • badasschick, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5You must be a youngin' or never picked up a book in your life.
  • silverzone, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5Why is Alex Delarge so low on the list?
  • ToYKillAS, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5 Charles Foster Kane is the man
  • Vimmy, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5Tyler Durden represents id-driven, repressed male angst in the age of third-wave feminism, with touches of nihilism thrown in. He is meant to represent what every man secretly wants to be, but society does not allow, and possibly for good reason. He leads men to question their true nature and what the true definition of masculinity is.

    Ace Ventura talks to dolphins in a funny voice.
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