meme gacked from jay and ty

[thehefner]

I'm sure there are more and better choices than these, but there you go. EDIT: It occurs to me I should have waited for more people to guess before I responded to the first two. Ah well. If you WERE gonna guess someone else, feel free to post it, since I'd love to see who you would have thought I'd have liked.

-List ten of your favourite movies/books/television shows.
-Have your friends comment and try to guess which character is your favourite. (if I've got more than one, the # is in parentheses
-When guessed, bold the title, post the correct answer, and explain (briefly) why.
-Pass this on like a communicable disease.

1.) WATCHMEN (book)
- Rorschach. He's uber-right-wing, psychotic, cynical, and deeply nihilistic, but his uncomporomising determination to do the right thing (with no superpowers at his disposal) coupled with the creepy bad-assedness of the character makes him one of my all-time favorites.

2.) ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (movie)

3.) THE ICEMAN COMETH (play/movie)

4.) CLOSER (play/movie)
- Larry. He's every dark, evil, hurt, manipulative, toying, vindinctive thought and feeling that I had deep within but would never let myself become. At least, not to the extent that Larry does. I've never been willing to fuck anybody over just because of my own hurt. Still, he's fun as hell to watch.

5.) L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (book/movie)

6.) A MIGHTY WIND (movie)
- Mitch. I'm not even sure what I can say about him. The character just kind of speaks for himself, and if you don't get it, I don't suppose I can blame you.

7.) GANGS OF NEW YORK (movie)
- Bill the Butcher, as if anyone couldn't guess. He was so badass, charming, charismatic, and complex, it was almost easy to forget he was an evil racist bastard. He was the real hero of the movie, and even at the end he had more true honor and strength than Leo did. Now, if the movie had been about Bill vs. Liam Neeson's Priest, that would have been a match and a movie worthy of an Oscar.

8.) CASABLANCA (movie)
-Louis Renault. Claude Rains, what a magnificent bastard you are. Charming, self-serving, corrupt, but with a heart of... well, bronze, at least.

9.) SIN CITY (comics/movie)
- Hartigan. I love Marv, but when it comes down to it, I think Hartigan might be the only true hero of Sin City. The only one not motivated by vengeance or mere survival, an honest cop to the end, sacrificing everything to keep one person safe. It just appeals to the redemption-seeker in me, I guess.

10.) BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (show)
- Harvey Dent. Not just as Two-Face, Harvey's my favorite comics character, fully realized in the show, thanks in large part to Richard Moll (yes, Bull from NIGHT COURT)'s performance(s).

Comments

[jayel4192.livejournal.com]

I don't know all the characters' names, hope actors will do?

4. Larry?
5. Danny DeVito
6. Eugene Levey
7. Daniel Day Lewis
8. I'm guessing you're Renault fan, like me.
9. Marv?
10. It's a long shot, but I'll go with Harvey Dent.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

4.) Yeppers.
5.) Nope, guess again.
6.) Yeah!
7.) Yeah, who'd have guessed?
8.) Actually, yeah, how did you guess? I fucking love Claude Rains.
9.) Nope, he's my second favorite.
10.) As with DDL, who'd have guessed? ;)

Good work, man. Either I'm really transparent, or you do know me very well.

[jayel4192.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure you've talked about all seven of those projects on lj, or at least somewhere when I was around. Plus icons, of course.

I guess Bogart wasn't a bad guess; you've never shyed away from noir films. But Raines seemed to fit better with the rest of the list: more articulate, more clever, etc.

[yancentric.livejournal.com]

1. If it ain't Rorshach, your icon is a cruel tease.
6. Mitch
9. (if jay's wrong) Hartigan?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

1.) It is. As for the icon, I knew only a select handful would even recognize him.
6.) Good man!
9.) Excellently played, you are correct sir.

[ortugatay.livejournal.com]

Hey that icon is from one of the comic books you read to me during the Japanese play times last year, right? Watchmen? Maybe?

[eldridgeprime.livejournal.com]

5. Officer Wendell 'Bud' White AKA Russel Crowe

BTW

[eldridgeprime.livejournal.com]

Dude, we so gotta go and see Sin City together. You wiling to come up to Columbia again?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Nope, but I can see how you'd guess that.

I'm stuck here doing Tartuffe this weekend, as I'm sure you know. Not sure when I'll be next availible.