Posted on 03/24/2011 9:09:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Out of more than half a million films made by Hollywood the character portrayed by Tom Hanks ranked top in the biggest ever poll of moviegoers.
The 1994 film was a box office hit and critically acclaimed with Hanks’ performance earning him the Oscar for Best Actor.
Audiences adored Gump as they followed his life from a child to adulthood as he took part in many of the pivotal events of the 1960s and 1970s.
The film, which took more than £500m at the box office, was based on the 1986 novel written by American author Winston Groom.
The film was also known for many of Gump’s phrases, such as “My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
While Gump was the runaway winner, British secret agent James Bond was named as the second greatest film character.
007 has endured for almost 50 years after being created by author Ian Fleming.
Daniel Craig is the latest film Bond following in the footsteps of Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan.
Scarlett O’Hara was rated as the third most memorable character.
The performance by British star Vivien Leigh as the feisty southern belle in the epic “Gone with the Wind” made her the only female character in the top five.
Anthony Hopkins performance as Hannibal Lecter helped the cannibalistic serial killer rate fourth in the poll.
Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, was named as the fifth most popular character.
More than 500,000 people took part in the survey carried out by ABC TV and People magazine.
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“Hitler was a painter...he could paint a whole apartment, one day. Two coats.” We could do this all day.
LOL! I guess we could. :)
‘Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant movie The Philadelphia Story.’
So what is Jimmy Stewart — chopped liver?
‘I saw a part or two of Gone with the Wind but how boring was that movie. The sets are so fake.’
If you think they looked fake, look at D. W. Griffith’s ‘Intolerance’.
Robert Duvall is a favorite way over Tommy Lee [gore’s room mate at Harvard] Jones.
Now at 12:20 AM the story is on "Red Eye". I have to see if the thread is on FR. But, of course, it is. With 205 replies.
And right there on the 2nd reply is Rhett Butler.
belated yitbos
Uh huh.
Also, if you don't understand that there only so many basic plots, then you don't understand story telling. O Brother, Where Art Thou is a re-telling of the Homer's epic, The Odyssey, for example.
Yes, I'm aware of that. It was also inspired by Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" and borrows from "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang," the legend of Robert Johnson and a bunch of other sources. You were the one complaining that everyone's too cowardly to tell an original story.
Of that $100 million, $10 million may end up in the hands of bars, call girls, necessary transportation (new cars) and other.
See, here is where you really show that you're just another blowhard who doesn't know squat about the business and how it really works. Let me ask you a simple question. Have you ever worked in the business? Have you ever been on a working set? Have you ever been in a production meeting? A development meeting? Does some expense money end up going to hookers and blow? Probably. Is it ten percent of a film's overall budget? Hardly. I know you have a hard time believing this, but the people who actually put up the money to make movies are very careful and they hire very good accountants, line producers and so on to keep track of their investment. And coke dealers and whores don't usually give receipts that you can use to get reimbursed.
Of course, none of your sour grapes rant addresses the actual point of my post: that with so much money at stake investors are more attracted to known quantities that show a greater track record of success than unknown quantities. And even if we accept that ten percent of a film's budget is all spent on hooker and blow and that money can be elminated, it still leaves a lot of money at risk.
Yeah, I’ve been in the business. Got out of it because of cynical guys like you. I’m reminded now of why.
But you only took a screenwriting class because you wanted to understand storytelling structure.
Got out of it because of cynical guys like you.
Right. According to you, everyone in Hollywood is a drug-addled whoremonger who has never had an original idea, but I'm the cynical one. Looks like I was right in my earlier assumption after all. You couldn't cut it.
No, it wasn’t only a screenwriting class. As I said, the industry is full of guys like you. More’s the pity that you are very like every bs artist in it.
Working professionals who have built decades-long careers in a competitive, tough business that chews up and spits out talentless wannabees on a daily basis.
And the winner is...(drumroll):
I mean, just because the guy was retarded, did that mean his hair also had to be retarded?
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