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The Ultima Vs: heroes & villains
So, inspired by today's IMDB Poll, I went looking for the AFI's top 100 Screen Heroes. You need to register for the site, but having done so I discovered that the Heroes are also presented along with the Villains.
And it's done so in a handy side-by-side list that matches them all up! How could I resist? So I've cut&pasted the list and present it here in a 'Vs.' format. Some intriguing battles there, I can tell you. #3 for instance: Bond would probably not only defeat Vader by listening to Vader's evil plans for 5 minutes whilst secretly freeing himself from whatever cuffs/binding he was in, before using the gadget Q gave him at the beginning of the film to snap Vader's lightsaber in two and strip him of his Force powers, he'd find time afterwards to seduce Princess Leia and get in a couple of double entendres in the meantime between Martinis. All without rumpling his suit.
If I feel that a character has transcended a film (or if the film is named after the character and is sufficiently obvious...), I've not included the film's title. So mutter at me if you don't know which film such-and-such a character was in.
1. Atticus Finch (from To Kill A Mockingbird) vs. Dr. Hannibal Lecter
2. Indiana Jones vs. Norman Bates
3. James Bond vs. Darth Vader
4. Rick Blaine (Casablanca) vs. The Wicked Witch of the West
5. Will Kane (High Noon) vs. Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
6. Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs) vs. Mr. Potter (It's A Wonderful Life)
7. Rocky Balboa vs. Alex Forrest (Fatal Attraction)
8. Ellen Ripley (Aliens etc.) vs. Phyllis Dietrichson (Double Indemnity)
9. George Bailey (It's A Wonderful Life) vs. Regan MacNeil (The Exorcist)
10. T. E. Lawrence vs. The Queen (Snow White)
11. Jefferson Smith (Mr Smith Goes To Washington) vs. Michael Corleone
12. Tom Joad (The Grapes of Wrath) vs. Alex De Large (A Clockwork Orange)
13. Oskar Schindler vs. HAL 9000
14. Han Solo vs. The Alien
15. Norma Rae Webster (Norma Rae) vs. Amon Goeth (Schindler's List)
16. Shane vs. Noah Cross (Chinatown)
17. Harry Callahan (aka Dirty Harry) vs. Annie Wilkes (Misery)
18. Robin Hood vs. Jaws
19. Virgil Tibbs (In The Heat of the Night) vs. Captain Bligh
20. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid vs. Man (Bambi)
21. Mahatma Gandhi vs. Mrs. John Iselin (The Manchurian Candidate)
22. Spartacus vs. Terminator (T1, when he was the Bad Guy)
23. Terry Malloy (On The Waterfront) vs. Eve Harrington (All About Eve)
24. Thelma Dickerson & Louise Sawyer vs Gordon Gekko
25. Lou Gehrig (Pride of the Yankees) vs. Jack Torrance (The Shining)
26. Superman vs. Cody Jarrett (White Heat)
27. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein (All The President's Men) vs. Martians (War Of The Worlds)
28. Juror #8 (12 Angry Men) vs. Max Cady (Cape Fear)
29. General George Patton vs. Reverend Harry Powell (Night Of The Hunter)
30. Luke Jackson (Cool Hand Luke) vs. Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
31. Erin Brockovich vs. Mrs. Danvers (Rebecca)
32. Philip Marlowe (The Big Sleep) vs. Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker
33. Marge Gunderson (Fargo) vs. Count Dracula
34. Tarzan vs. Dr. Szell (Marathon Man)
35. Alvin York (Seargent York) vs. J.J. Hunsecker (Sweet Smell of Success)
36. Rooster Cogburn (True Grit) vs. Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)
37. Obi-Wan Kenobi vs. Harry Lime (The Third Man)
38. The Tramp (City Lights) vs. Caesar Enrico Bandello (Little Caesar)
39. Lassie vs. Cruella De Vil
40. Frank Serpico (Serpico) vs. Freddy Krueger
41. Arthur Chipping (Goodbye, Mr Chips) vs. Joan Crawford (Mommie Dearest)
42 Father Edward (Boys Town) vs. Tom Powers (The Public Enemy)
43 Moses vs. Regina Giddens (The Little Foxes)
44 Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (The French Connection) vs. Baby Jane Hudson (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane)
45 Zorro vs. The Joker
46 Batman vs. Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
47 Karen Silkwood (Silkwood) vs. Tony Camonte (Scarface)
48 Terminator (T2, when he was the Good Guy) vs. Verbal Kint (The Usual Suspects - oops spoiler!)
49 Andrew Beckett (Philadelphia) vs. Auric Goldfinger
50 General Maximus Decimus Meridus (Gladiator) vs. Alonzo Harris (Training Day)
And it's done so in a handy side-by-side list that matches them all up! How could I resist? So I've cut&pasted the list and present it here in a 'Vs.' format. Some intriguing battles there, I can tell you. #3 for instance: Bond would probably not only defeat Vader by listening to Vader's evil plans for 5 minutes whilst secretly freeing himself from whatever cuffs/binding he was in, before using the gadget Q gave him at the beginning of the film to snap Vader's lightsaber in two and strip him of his Force powers, he'd find time afterwards to seduce Princess Leia and get in a couple of double entendres in the meantime between Martinis. All without rumpling his suit.
If I feel that a character has transcended a film (or if the film is named after the character and is sufficiently obvious...), I've not included the film's title. So mutter at me if you don't know which film such-and-such a character was in.
1. Atticus Finch (from To Kill A Mockingbird) vs. Dr. Hannibal Lecter
2. Indiana Jones vs. Norman Bates
3. James Bond vs. Darth Vader
4. Rick Blaine (Casablanca) vs. The Wicked Witch of the West
5. Will Kane (High Noon) vs. Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
6. Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs) vs. Mr. Potter (It's A Wonderful Life)
7. Rocky Balboa vs. Alex Forrest (Fatal Attraction)
8. Ellen Ripley (Aliens etc.) vs. Phyllis Dietrichson (Double Indemnity)
9. George Bailey (It's A Wonderful Life) vs. Regan MacNeil (The Exorcist)
10. T. E. Lawrence vs. The Queen (Snow White)
11. Jefferson Smith (Mr Smith Goes To Washington) vs. Michael Corleone
12. Tom Joad (The Grapes of Wrath) vs. Alex De Large (A Clockwork Orange)
13. Oskar Schindler vs. HAL 9000
14. Han Solo vs. The Alien
15. Norma Rae Webster (Norma Rae) vs. Amon Goeth (Schindler's List)
16. Shane vs. Noah Cross (Chinatown)
17. Harry Callahan (aka Dirty Harry) vs. Annie Wilkes (Misery)
18. Robin Hood vs. Jaws
19. Virgil Tibbs (In The Heat of the Night) vs. Captain Bligh
20. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid vs. Man (Bambi)
21. Mahatma Gandhi vs. Mrs. John Iselin (The Manchurian Candidate)
22. Spartacus vs. Terminator (T1, when he was the Bad Guy)
23. Terry Malloy (On The Waterfront) vs. Eve Harrington (All About Eve)
24. Thelma Dickerson & Louise Sawyer vs Gordon Gekko
25. Lou Gehrig (Pride of the Yankees) vs. Jack Torrance (The Shining)
26. Superman vs. Cody Jarrett (White Heat)
27. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein (All The President's Men) vs. Martians (War Of The Worlds)
28. Juror #8 (12 Angry Men) vs. Max Cady (Cape Fear)
29. General George Patton vs. Reverend Harry Powell (Night Of The Hunter)
30. Luke Jackson (Cool Hand Luke) vs. Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
31. Erin Brockovich vs. Mrs. Danvers (Rebecca)
32. Philip Marlowe (The Big Sleep) vs. Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker
33. Marge Gunderson (Fargo) vs. Count Dracula
34. Tarzan vs. Dr. Szell (Marathon Man)
35. Alvin York (Seargent York) vs. J.J. Hunsecker (Sweet Smell of Success)
36. Rooster Cogburn (True Grit) vs. Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)
37. Obi-Wan Kenobi vs. Harry Lime (The Third Man)
38. The Tramp (City Lights) vs. Caesar Enrico Bandello (Little Caesar)
39. Lassie vs. Cruella De Vil
40. Frank Serpico (Serpico) vs. Freddy Krueger
41. Arthur Chipping (Goodbye, Mr Chips) vs. Joan Crawford (Mommie Dearest)
42 Father Edward (Boys Town) vs. Tom Powers (The Public Enemy)
43 Moses vs. Regina Giddens (The Little Foxes)
44 Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (The French Connection) vs. Baby Jane Hudson (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane)
45 Zorro vs. The Joker
46 Batman vs. Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
47 Karen Silkwood (Silkwood) vs. Tony Camonte (Scarface)
48 Terminator (T2, when he was the Good Guy) vs. Verbal Kint (The Usual Suspects - oops spoiler!)
49 Andrew Beckett (Philadelphia) vs. Auric Goldfinger
50 General Maximus Decimus Meridus (Gladiator) vs. Alonzo Harris (Training Day)
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1)Atticus Finch. Just.
4) Wicked Witch of the West
18) Robin Hood
32) Philip Marlowe
37) Neither - they leave and set up business together.
39) Lassie
45) Zorro
and I'm sorry, but that's all I have information for.