Directors SUPPORTING Characters - The Movie Character Tournament (1 Viewer)

[Angelo.M]

Inanimate objects as characters? Hmmm, smells like a potential tournament...

I can see it now: The Poseidon versus the Swedish Penis Enlarger! That puzzle-box thing from Hellraiser versus Uma Thurman's reel-to-reel tape player from Pulp Fiction!

OK, sorry...

Blake (tough)
Blue Raja (easily, I laugh just thinking about this guy)
Boba Fett
Boo
Boo Radley (begs the question of what's really being voted upon, the cinematic character or the literary one; enough to give even Luigi Pirandello a headache)

 

[chris_m_white]

Blake
Blue Raja
Boba Fett
Bobby Peru
Boromir

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Blake - yet another difficult decision! These were both my nominees. The black knight scene is perhaps the most memorable in a movie with dozens of memorable scenes. But Blake's speech is so spellbindingly acerbic that I have to give him the advantage.

Blue Raja - another of my nominees!

Boba Fett - too cool for school. When we were kids, everyone wanted to play with the Boba Fett action figure. Not a big American Graffiti fan anyway.

abstain (no Wild at Heart)

Boromir - but I like Boo, too

 

[Kristian]

Boba Fett
Boromir

 

[george kaplan]

Black Knight (very easy)

Boba Fett

Boo

Boromir

 

[Elizabeth S]

Bob Falfa (American Graffiti) Harrison Ford
Bobby Peru (Wild at Heart) Willem Dafoe

 

[JenB]

Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) John Cleese
Blue Raja (Mystery Men) Hank Azaria
Boba Fett (Star Wars series) Jeremy Bulloch/Daniel Logan-Tough one
Boo (Monsters, Inc.) Mary Gibbs
Boromir (Lord of the Rings, The series) Sean Bean

 

[JenB]

Ugh,

I have to go away soon today and will not be back until Sunday night. I am not sure if I will Internet access or not where I am going and will vote if I have access. If possible, I ask that any new brackets started tonight stay open until Sunday night. However, if that is not possible and if I can't vote myself before deadline and anyone of the following of my nominated characters is up: Catwoman, Centauri, Cheshire Cat, Chewbacca, and Claudia, please count one vote for them from me. Pleaase in the future post the list of who is in each competition to make it easier for people who need to be away to vote ahead of time if needed. Thank you for reading.

 

[Travis Olson]

Blake
Blind Seer
Boba Fett - Here's a quote: "As you wish." short and sweet.
abstain
Boromir

 

[Rain]

abstain

Blind Seer

abstain

abstain

abstain

 

[Ric Bagoly]

Here's a good quote for Fett!

-"He's no good to me dead!"

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Here's a bad quote for Fett:

-"Yep."

 

[Vickie_M]

Jen, none of your nominations are in these next brackets (in either tourney), but are in the next. I'll go ahead and post the next brackets tomorrow night, but not post the results until you vote Sunday night.
Ric, Jim, Angelo, I just wanted to have fun with this. If you don't like the few inanimate objects in the tourney, don't vote for them.

Chris_Richard, I edited to add your votes.


Blake(Glengarry Glen Ross)Alec Baldwin wins 9-7
Blue Raja(Mystery Men)Hank Azaria wins 7-6
Boba Fett(Star Wars series)Jeremy Bulloch/Daniel Logan wins 13-6
Bobby Peru(Wild at Heart)Willem Dafoe wins 10-4
Boromir(Lord of the Rings, The series)Sean Bean wins 13-5

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Boss Tweed(Gangs of New York)Jim Broadbent
"The appearance of law must be upheld, especially when it's being broken."

or

Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper(Dr. Strangelove)Sterling Hayden
"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

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C. W. Moss(Bonnie & Clyde)Michael J. Pollard
"I spent a year in reformatory!"

or

C-3PO(Star Wars series)Anthony Daniels
"Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease!"

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Cameron Frye(Ferris Bueller's Day Off)Alan Ruck
"You make me get out of bed, you make me come over here. You make me make a phony phone call to Edward Rooney? The man could squash my nuts into oblivion. And, and, and then, and then, you deliberately hurt my feelings"

or

Captain Koons(Pulp Fiction)Christopher Walken
"The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."

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Captain Renault(Casablanca)Claude Rains
"I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find gambling going on in here!"

or

Captain Rhodes(Day of the Dead)Joseph Pilato
"Choke on em'! Choke on em'!"

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Carl Hanratty(Catch Me If You Can)Tom Hanks
"Sometimes it's easier to live the lie."

or

Carol Anne Freeling(Poltergeist)Heather O'Rourke
"They're here."

 

[Chris_Richard]

Blake (Glengarry Glen Ross)
Blind Seer (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
Bob Falfa (American Graffiti)
Bobby Peru (Wild at Heart)
Boo Radley (To Kill A Mockingbird)

 

[Justin_S]

Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper

CW Moss

Captain Koons

Captain Rhodes by oh so far!

Carol Anne Freeling

 

[Scott Weinberg]

Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper

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C-3PO

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Captain Koons

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Captain Renault

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Carl Hanratty

 

[Steeve Bergeron]

Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
C.W. Moss
Captain Koons
Carol Anne Freeling

 

[Ric Bagoly]

abstain x2

I must say, this was the EASIEST Bracket in quite a while!

C.W. Moss-PIE

Captain Koons-PIE

Captain Renault-PIE

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
C-3PO
Cameron Frye
Captain Renault
Carl Hanratty

All very easy except the last, where neither character thrilled me.

 

[Jim_K]

Abstain - no GONY
C-3PO
Captain Koons
Captain Renault
abstain - no CMIYC