Toughest Movie Characters of All Times »
Posted By JessicaLaurie 1 year, 6 months 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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chevydog1 year, 6 months ago
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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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Mutainia1 year, 6 months ago
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I thought John Wayne was great, well, the characters he played. And, Charles Bronson was fun. But, Bronson should have just stuck with that FIRST "Death Wish" because all the others that followed were so stupid. It seemed that the more he made, the more brain-dead they become.
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BUTTERBEAN31411 year, 6 months ago
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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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joeeddie1 year, 6 months ago
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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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chevydog1 year, 6 months ago
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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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memestryker1 year, 6 months ago
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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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redLineRunner1 year, 6 months ago
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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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memestryker1 year, 6 months ago
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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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