ROUND TEN -- Greatest Movie Character Ever, Semifinals

[Chichiri]

Here we go, final semifinals round . . .


CLARK W. GRISWOLD
Chevy Chase, "Vacation" and sequels

I gotta be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose! Praise Marty Moose! Holy Shit!"


DR. CHRISTIAN SZELL
Laurence Olivier, "Marathon Man"

"Is it safe?"


RHETT BUTLER
Clark Gable, "Gone With The Wind"

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."


CARRIE WHITE
Sissy Spacek, "Carrie"

"Eve was weak. Eve was weak."


DITH PRAN
Dr. Haing S Ngor, "The Killing Fields"

"Nothing to forgive Sydney. Nothing."


FORREST GUMP
Tom Hanks, "Forrest Gump"

"And that's all I have to say about that."


SILENT BOB
Kevin Smith, "Clerks" and sequels

". . . ."


NURSE MILDRED RACHED
Louise Fletcher, "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"

"You know Billy, what worries me is how your mother is going to take this."


ATTICUS FINCH
Gregory Peck, "To Kill A Mockingbird"

"In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson."


SCARLETT O'HARA
Vivien Leigh, "Gone With The Wind"

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"

[Chichiri]

1. Links to the first nine rounds

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4025373&mesg_id=4025373

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4030060&mesg_id=4030060

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4036116&mesg_id=4037370

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4045294&mesg_id=4045310

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4049407&mesg_id=4049407

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4053543&mesg_id=4053543

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4053575&mesg_id=4053575

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4056377&mesg_id=4056377

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4060439&mesg_id=4060439

[CanuckAmok]

6. "I think you're all fucked in the head....

...We're ten hours from the fucking fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun. We're all gonna have so much fucking fun we'll need plastic surgeory to remove our godamn smiles. You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of you're assholes! I gotta be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy Shit!"

[JohnnyBoots]

2. Went with Bob b/c of too much of a litterary cross over.

[LynneSin]

3. My only challenge is that Dith Pran was NOT a movie character

The Killing Fields was based on real incidents in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge between Pran and writer Sydney Schanberg (was he with the Post or the Times, I forget). These were actual real live people and not fictional characters like the rest.

But I still voted for Pran, I love that movie so much!!

[Chichiri]

4. Well, George Bush was voted "Best Movie Villian" in a magazine poll

So I figured it was okay for Dith Pran to be a movie hero. ;)

[bigwillq]

5. Atticus (nt)

[Chichiri]

7. bump-ness

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8. bumper sticker

[Seabiscuit]

9. The movie quote that has rattled around in my brain more than any other:

"Eat it till ya choke, you sick, twisted fuck!"

...Paul Sheldon to Annie Wilkes in "Misery".