ROUND EIGHT -- Greatest Movie Character Ever, Semifinals

[Chichiri]

This is probably the best round, at least so far . . .




DIL
Jaye Davidson, "The Crying Game"

"I'm loud, darling, but never cheap."


JACK TORRANCE
Jack Nicholson, "The Shining"

"Heeeeeere's Johnny!"


CHARLES FOSTER KANE
Orson Welles, "Citizen Kane"

"Rosebud!"


JOHN SHAFT
Richard Roundtree, "Shaft"

"Don't let your mouth get your ass in trouble."


HOWARD BEALE
Peter Finch, "Network"

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"


"DIRTY" HARRY CALLAHAN
Clint Eastwood, "Dirty Harry" and sequels

"You've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"


HOLLY GOLIGHTLY
Audrey Hepburn, "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

"We're alike, me and Cat. A couple of poor nameless slobs."


TRAVIS BICKLE
Robert De Niro, "Taxi Driver"

"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?"


SPINAL TAP
Michael McKean/Christopher Guest/Harry Shearer, "This Is Spinal Tap"

"Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation."


VITO CORLEONE
Marlon Brando/Robert De Niro, "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II"

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

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1. Links to the first seven rounds

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2. bumpity bump

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3. bump again, baby

[trackfan]

4. John Shaft

[CanuckAmok]

5. Poor, poor, martyred Howard Beale:

"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 work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
Howard Beale: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"


Brilliant.

[chknltl]

6. Frankly My dear I just don't give a damn....

or was it; "Frankly Scarlett, I just don't give a damn".... I voted Beale! :)

[NaturalHigh]

7. It is "Frankly, my dear."

Rhett Butler would have gotten my vote, but for the choices listed here, I voted for Vito Corleone.

"You can act like a man!"