Post by Pina on Apr 17, 2004 22:36:20 GMT
Corleone dons greatest movie character title
NEW YORK - In Hollywood, it seems, crime pays: Mafia boss Vito Corleone has been named the greatest movie character of all time.
Marlon Brando's character from The Godfather topped Premiere magazine's list of the most memorable characters in cinema.
"The most complex mobster ever portrayed on screen," the Corleone character from Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film "seems to carry with him a latent sense of tragedy," the judging panel of 16 film experts wrote.
Fred C. Dobbs, played by Humphrey Bogart in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, came in second, followed by Vivian Leigh's spoiled southern belle Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind. Killer Norman Bates from Psycho and secret agent James Bond, played by Sean Connery in Dr. No, rounded out the top five.
The most recent character to break the top 10 was the "slithering, tragicomical" Gollum, as voiced by British actor Andy Serkis, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The list of 100 characters also includes Diane Keaton as Annie Hall, Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve, Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Charles Foster Kane, played by Orson Welles, in Citizen Kane.
www.cbc.ca/arts/stories/quickhits20040416
NEW YORK - In Hollywood, it seems, crime pays: Mafia boss Vito Corleone has been named the greatest movie character of all time.
Marlon Brando's character from The Godfather topped Premiere magazine's list of the most memorable characters in cinema.
"The most complex mobster ever portrayed on screen," the Corleone character from Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film "seems to carry with him a latent sense of tragedy," the judging panel of 16 film experts wrote.
Fred C. Dobbs, played by Humphrey Bogart in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, came in second, followed by Vivian Leigh's spoiled southern belle Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind. Killer Norman Bates from Psycho and secret agent James Bond, played by Sean Connery in Dr. No, rounded out the top five.
The most recent character to break the top 10 was the "slithering, tragicomical" Gollum, as voiced by British actor Andy Serkis, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The list of 100 characters also includes Diane Keaton as Annie Hall, Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve, Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Charles Foster Kane, played by Orson Welles, in Citizen Kane.
www.cbc.ca/arts/stories/quickhits20040416