Toughest Movie Characters of All Times »
Posted By JessicaLaurie 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & EntertainmentFrom Walter Cameron and A.C. Abadie playing the sheriffs in Porters' The Great Train Robbery (1903) to Douglas Quaid in Verhoeven's Total Recall: the history of moving pictures is full of tough fellows and quite many tough dames. But who should be the one to be placed above them all? Who is the toughest movie character of all times?
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chevydog6 months, 3 weeks ago
I suspect that Indy had a playful side that this guy didn't consider tough. Hackman's Popeye Doyle came immediately to mind for me, though the others are also legit. One other that came to mind for me was Jack Nicholson's J.J. Gittes in Chinatown. But I'm not sure he qualifies as tough under this guy's definition.
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DropkickaLib6 months, 3 weeks ago
What was that movie set in Canada during the early 1900s? Bronson played an outlaw being chased by a posse led by Lee Marvin. I liked that movie. Actually, I liked the White Buffalo also. Maybe that Buffalo should be in the running?
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1-2-Oscar6 months, 3 weeks ago
They missed the most obvious--Popeye the Sailor could handle anything, anywhere, anytime, often with one hand tied behind his back. These others are pansies by comparison.
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BUTTERBEAN31416 months, 3 weeks ago
This is such a simple vote. No one can be tougher than Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood. The guy jumps from a 80 foot cliff and sows his own arm up just before attacking a helicopter with a rock and challenging an entire sheriffs dept with 3 bullets in his rifle and a hunting knife on his side. In my opinion Stallone should recieve this honor because he is still making tough guy movies at 60 with his recent hit Rambo(2008). Along with Arnold and Chuck Norris, Stallone was really the only action heroes kids of my generation had and they did a great job in every role they played.
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Will13136 months, 3 weeks ago
William Munny.. Clint Eastwood -- Unforgiven..
Scarface.. Al Pacino...
Michael Corleone -- Al Pacino..
Man With No Name --- Clint Eastwood -- Fist Full Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly..
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joeeddie6 months, 3 weeks ago
This story is sexist. Annie Wilkes has my vote for toughest movie character of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6Gnbo-9rk
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chevydog6 months, 3 weeks ago
joeddie--
He says a toughest woman article is coming up. That'll be interesting. Did anyone ever play Ma Barker in the movies? In real life she wasn't that tough; but J. Edgar Hoover needed something to toot the horn of the FBI about.
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memestryker6 months, 3 weeks ago
There's tough and there is evil psycho! I think Annie Wilkes fits the latter! LOL!
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lpproductions6 months, 3 weeks ago
Scarface Partner, Samuel L. Jackson-Jules(Pulp Fiction), Bruce Willis (Die Hard)Jet Li(Lethal Weapon 4)
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newbie04206 months, 3 weeks ago
Can't think of his characters name in Pulp Fiction, but he was pretty bada$$ in that one too.
The way he went back and saved his enemy, the fact he killed the guy he was boxing and the way that he killed Travoltas' character make him even cooler.
Oh yeah and let's not forget about his watch....
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DropkickaLib6 months, 3 weeks ago
What about Bruce in Last Man Standing? He shot about 200 mobsters with a pair of 45s in that movie.
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DropkickaLib6 months, 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah, why didn't someone think of him sooner? The scary thing is that those characters were based on actual people.
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memestryker6 months, 3 weeks ago
Richard Widmark played a number of very tough characters. I'm surprised some of these got higher billing. My personal favorites are Steven Seagal--especially his Nicco character, and Dolph Lundgren in the Punisher, when he warns little Billy! Men of few words.
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redLineRunner6 months, 3 weeks ago
Is this list for "tough" or for "bad @$$". To me they are different things.
John McClain to me is "tough" - he takes a beating yet emerges victorious.
However, Sam Jackson (in almost every movie) would be "bad @$$" He doesnt necessarily take a beating, because you know not to mess with him.
This list seems to be a combination of the two. Maybe it should be divided into two separate lists. Clint Eastwood has played both types of characters - ones that take beatings and still come out on top, and ones that you know not to mess with.
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memestryker6 months, 3 weeks ago
Yes, the "it's just business" types like Lee Van Cleef, Al Pacino in the Godfather, Joe Pesce, and Charles Bronson actually seem like predators themselves.
Action heroes like Bruce Willis in the Die Hard series, Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones, Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry and most westerns (except Unforgiven, which belongs in the first group) all have a loveable side--even Stallone in Rambo!
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