Favorite Film and TV Characters

[Smitty-48]

Ripley ~ Alien and Aliens

Hard not to love Ridley, he is a genius, but his Magnum Opus is Blade Runner.

Aliens however was Cameron, also a genius, but his Magnum Opus is Titanic, love it or hate it, it is none the less a masterpiece.

[Speaker to Animals]

Yeah, I really liked Batty.

[Smitty-48]

Yeah, I really liked Batty.

The rare case where the movie was better than the book, much as Dick is still a genius, it wasn't his best book.

[Speaker to Animals]

But at the same time. television and film characters are usually pretty dull compared to novels. It's hard for me to really think of favorites. There are characters I liked, that were funny or whatever, but nothing really inspiring. Lots of inspiring performances, but that's more the actor's credit than the writing of the character.

[Speaker to Animals]

Yeah, I really liked Batty.

The rare case where the movie was better than the book, much as Dick is still a genius, it wasn't his best book.

My main problem with the difference between the novel and the film is that the film makes the androids out to be victims, and the novel had a real purpose in making them into completely uncaring machines. Dick was writing really about actual humans he noticed that seemed to operate like they are running a program. In a way, he was the originator of the NPC meme, but in his case, he wasn't just talking about annoying behavior but psychopathic and destructive behavior. Like the bureaucrat taking human life because that's how the system is, it's not his fault. We see this all the time in the VA system, for instance. "I'm sorry, sir, it's the policy.." as the man is slowly dying from ball cancer or something like that.

That original theme of the novel was totally lost. Instead the film became this narrative about inclusion and racism in a way.

[Smitty-48]

Special category; Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz.

Not the character, the girl.

I was in love with her as a little boy, and I married her when I met her.

[heydaralon]

For third favorite female movie character, it's Cora Munro

Michael Mann is my second favorite director after Kurbick, by a cunt hair.

I'll give Stanley the nod for art over entertainment.

I suspect Mann himself might agree that Kubrick was the greatest.

Heat and Mohicans put the guy near the top. Even his later less memorable stuff like Miami Vice and Public Enemies were pretty good films. The man knows how to film a good gunfight. Never been in one myself, but I've heard that the sounds are on point, and the actors holding the props actually bear some resemblance to real life. They don't fire off 500 rounds without reloading.

[Smitty-48]

Eat shit and die, you subhuman cockroach, Miami Vice is a masterpiece.

[Fife]

You all wish you were pulling this kind of leg at the Regal Beagle.

[Smitty-48]

That wasn't my speed in the Seventies, maan, it was Stevie Nicks, Linda Carter, and Carrie Fisher, maaan.