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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An amazing movie. I liked it so much I watched it AGAIN right after with the ‘commentary’ on. She was a brilliant Hollywood Military Movie Historian - and had some very neato things to say about that movie, its subject matter and history, and the impact the movie itself had on history and in the history of films.
We have a winner.
I hated Gump....tripe for me.
Best movie character of all time, close call for me:
Gekko, Corleone and Cody Jarrett (James Cagney in White Heat), come to mind. Also Cooper in High Noon. Finch’s role in Network but there were more than one in that one. Rhett Butler in GWTW, Bogart’s role in Casablanca...so many beyond Gump. Damn, I’d even put superman beyond that one.
HAL in 2001.
Favorite character on TV.......Phoebe on Friends, All Seinfeld characters, Gibbs and Abby on NCIS, Jack Bauer on 24 and many more but those stick out as top of the heap.
Ned Beatty stole that movie with one scene
lol!
I always thought Al Pacino was a great POS in Scarface. Re: My tagline for favorite movie.
If you want characters based on real-life people, Oskar Schindler.
“there are no republicans or democrates, there are no nations” There are only international corporations...I am getting through to you Mr. Beale?
One of best solioques of all times.
"I kill a Communist for fun, but for a Green Card, I'm gonna carve him up real nice."
HS was a remake of the earlier Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant movie The Philadelphia Story..
I didn’t know that Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant did the movie Philadelphia before Tom Hanks did it. Who did Cary Grant love in the movie????
And still very relevant today.
I’d say Gus in the Lonesome Dove played by Robert Duvall is the greatest in the most recent time frame.
Just about anything Paul Newman did is tops with me! I thought Hud was astounding.
Indian Chief: "I've noticed whenever you take a disliking to someone they ain't around very long either."
And of course, Reg Dunlop in Slapshot, “They brought their f’ing TOYS with ‘em!”
I believe his last “role” was as the voice in “Cars”, he was the perfect voice for that role.
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