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30.11.08 # 11:38 # News # 17 CommentsNot content with just finding the top 500 films of all time, Empire has published its list of the 100 greatest film characters ever put on the screen.
We won’t bore you with the full list, it’s linked at the bottom, so here’s the top 20:
20. Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
19. Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
18. Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
17. Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
16. Neo (The Matrix trilogy)
15. Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
14. The Terminator (The Terminator series)
13. Gollum (The Lord of the Rings)
12. John McClane (Die Hard series)
11. James Bond (Some Twenty-Odd Films)
10. Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
9. Ellen Ripley (Alien Quadrology)
8. Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Carribean Trilogy)
7. The Dude (The Big Lebowski)
6. Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones trilogy)
5. Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon)
4. Han Solo (Star Wars trilogy)
3. The Joker (The Dark Knight)
2. Darth Vader (Star Wars trilogy)
1. Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
I have to say, there’s a fair few surprises in there. While the likes of Han Solo, Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter and Ripley were bound to appear on the list, it’s genuinely surprising that the Joker and Tyler Durden came so high.
What do you think? Who would be in your top ten?
Source: Empire
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The Dude is a greater screen character than James Bond? Tyler Durdan is the greatest screen character of all time?
Total junk the whole thing.
The Joker coming so high is the biggest blasphemy here - if they’d made this list a year ago, he wouldn’t even be on it.
I’m not too upset about the Joker being in the top 20. But a greater screen character than Indiana Jones? Hans Gruber a greater character than Citizen Kane? Somebody take the dart board away from them.
I myself am a bit surprised that Foxy Brown is nowhere to be found.
Where is Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack?
Sheer madness.
not many list i agree wit but this 1 is spot on!!
Where’s the robot from Short Circuit? Steve Gutenburg in the first four police academy movies?
In all seriousness, Johnny Depp as Hunter S Thompson/Raoul Duke in Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas would top my list.
Dolemite
Is it just me, or is the whole world crazy? Doctor Emmett Brown for Back to the Future.
oh, and Dolemite.
As usual.. these so called best-ever-lists are opinions of some 13 -14 year olds. Those who have been watching movies last five years. Children are the future - or present without any future.
Do these people know that we’re doing movies since more than a century? It’s almost as pathetic as the “sexiest man alive” or other crap like that.
Tyler Durden? In the top 100? Fight Club was a moderately entertaining, forgettable film. Younger people consider this a “classic”. They need to go back to their xbox or playstation. Proof that the younger generation is clueless as to what makes a good movie. They consider Saw scary. While again moderately entertaining, it is a forgettable film that doesn’t hold a candle to real horror films like the Exorcist. I shouldn’t be annoyed at this list, but for some reason I am. I weep for the next generation.
I’m gonna have to disagree with you there lawman, I’m of the opinion that Fight Club is a bona fide modern classic of disaffected milennial masculinity. Tyler Durden as a character is no classic, but the film is a bit special. The modernity of its aesthetic doesn’t make it less worthy, any more than the now rather hackneyed noir stylistics of, say, Double Indemnity, do. Similarly the rather graceful, dignified classical aesthetic of something like High Noon doesn’t inherently raise the film above a modern reimagining of the Western with high-res colour imagery and steadicam, like A History Of Violence.