Characters

Sometimes, rarely, but sometimes, films manage to cook up some characters who end up being immortal. They become bigger than the movies themselves.

I am going to talk about a few such characters.

And I am going to ignore all the movies based on books or tv series or cartoons etc.

That means, no Batman (no Joker either), no LOTR (so no Aragon or Smeagol or Eowin or Gandalf or Pippin or Merry or Sam), none from the Marvel Universe (so no Wolverine, no Gambit, no Sabretooth) , none from the classics (so no Atticus Finch, no Ichabod Crane etc) none from the Potters (so no Snape, no Malfoy) etc. Deliberately not taking the animations into account. And no one from Star Wars either, coz
a. I can't choose between Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, R2D2, Obi Wan Kanobi, Yoda or Jubba the Hut in the awesome rating
b. None of them stole the show on their own, it was more of a collective effort

So here goes.

The Dude - He Abides

Captain Jack Sparrow - From a Disney theme park to one of the most successful movie franchises of all time. Its all because of one man. You know it, I know it. Disney knows it. The whole world knows it. Savvy?

Inspector Jack Cloussau  - The plan was to make a movie about a jewel robbery. An ensemble cast was assembled. And then a crime was committed. A man came, saw and stole the whole movie away from the assembled guests. The man was Peter Sellers and he did such a superbly awesome job that it spawned several sequels, a cartoon series and atrocities committed by Steve Martin.

Indiana Jones - Fedora, dusty jacket, whip. when even the silhouette becomes as famous as anything, you know the character is something special.Plus you have the added bonus of the coolest action sequence in movie history - From raiders of the Lost Arc, a chap comes out and goes all Bruce Leeesqu with 2 scimitars and Indy just pulls out a gun and shoots him, remember?

The Man with No Name (Clint) - John Wayne notwithstanding, the icon and the 1st image that comes to mind when you hear of American cowboys. Granted that a large part of the charisma came because of the success of Good Bad and Ugly and a large reason for the success of that movie was this guy

and don't even get me started on some of the best lines ever written for a movie

"When you wish to shoot, shoot, don't talk"

"You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."

"Put your drawers on, and take your gun off.

• Don't die, I'll get you water. Stay there. Don't move, I'll get you water. Don't die until later.

• You want to know who you are? Huh? Huh? You don't, I do, everyone does... you're the son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you.

• Who the hell is that? One bastard goes in, another one comes out.

• You never had a rope around your neck. Well, I'm going to tell you something. When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the Devil bite your ass.

• [to a chicken] If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

• I like big fat men like you. When they fall they make more noise and sometimes they never get up!

[Approaching a column of grey-clad cavalry]

Tuco: (shouting) God's with us because he hates the Yanks too!

[Officer pats the grey dust from his blue uniform.]

Blondie: God's not on our side because he hates idiots also.

The Terminator - What's there to say really