CBC Arts news today includes a brief mention of a rating on Greatest Movie Characters, taken from the online zine Premiere. Gollem makes the top ten, but, interestingly perhaps, neither Gandalf nor Frodo make the top one hundred. However, how credible is a rating that lists Jame Bond ahead of Atticus Finch or Randle McMurphy? And what's Carl Spackler of
Caddyshack doing ahead of "Bluto" Blutarsky of
Animal House?
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The most recent character to break the top 10 was the "slithering, tragicomical" Gollum, as voiced by British actor Andy Serkis, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Here's the link:
Greatest Movie Characters
The top twenty are as follows:
1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather
2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind
4. Norman Bates of Psycho
5. James Bond of Dr. No
6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Ellen Ripley of Alien
9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings
11. Margo Channing of All About Eve
12. Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane
13. Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird
14. Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs
16. Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood
17. Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz
18. Carl Spackler of Caddyshack
19. Rick Blaine of Casablanca
20. Virgil Tibbs of In the Heat of the Night