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Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: El Duderino on March 27, 2004, 08:41:30 PM

i couldnt find this, so i started it...

have you ever been watching a movie and thought...wow...this character is just like me, maybe even looks like me....for me, it's:

Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
or
Gilbert Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: MacGuffin on March 27, 2004, 08:44:50 PM

Quote from: MacGuffin, in this thread: http://xixax.com/viewtopic.php?p=11950#11950 There has to be a time when you were watching a movie and you felt a character was an exact portrayal of you on screen (or at least someone you identified with). Who was it?: Seymour (Steve Buscemi) in "Ghost World."

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Ernie on March 27, 2004, 09:15:26 PM

I've been told I act like Ed Wood.

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Finn on March 27, 2004, 09:53:19 PM

I'm a lot like...

Jim Kurring in Magnolia
Quoyle in The Shipping News
Sydney in Hard Eight
Eugene in Pay it Forward
David Aames in Vanilla Sky

(multiple personalities, I guess)

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Kal on March 27, 2004, 11:10:26 PM

Joel Barrish definetly... thats the one I have fresh in my head... but also Dirk Diggler... Edward Norton in Fight Club... Ryan Phillipe in Cruel Intentions... and sometimes I wish something like Keanu, Thomas Anderson, aka NEO in the Matrix :)

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: El Duderino on March 27, 2004, 11:33:27 PM

Quote from: ebeamanI've been told I act like Ed Wood.

do you dress like a woman, too?

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Bethie on March 28, 2004, 12:00:18 AM

Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich.
Thora Birch in Ghost World.
Kate Hudson in Almost Famous.

I've been told by several different people that I remind them of those characters. I get the Penny Lane one the most though. yay

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: cine on March 28, 2004, 12:03:23 AM

Quote from: El Duderino
Quote from: ebeamanI've been told I act like Ed Wood.
do you dress like a woman, too?

No, his brother does.

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Pas on March 28, 2004, 12:38:51 AM

Quote from: andykJoel Barrish definetly... thats the one I have fresh in my head... but also Dirk Diggler... Edward Norton in Fight Club... Ryan Phillipe in Cruel Intentions...

Yes, all similar characters indeed.

I liked freakerdude better.

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Alethia on March 28, 2004, 12:39:58 AM

i get richard dreyfuss alot ... no particular character, just the dreyfuss persona....the jumpy, fast-talking deal....not short or chubby tho

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: mogwai on March 28, 2004, 02:26:45 AM

barry egan.

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Post by: ElPandaRoyal on March 28, 2004, 05:02:13 AM

Sometimes, the Travis Bickle feeling gets into me... :? After beeing robbed two times with a gun, I'm growing more and more sick with some of the scum around. Luckily, I also have this Barry Egan side which kind of balances and keeps me from being a real jerk sometimes.

Also, I'm a lot like High Fidelity's Rob Gordon, with the exception that girls find John Cusack attractive. Watching this movie is like watching myself sometimes.

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: rustinglass on March 28, 2004, 05:04:43 AM

Quote from: ewardi get richard dreyfuss alot ... no particular character, just the dreyfuss persona....the jumpy, fast-talking deal....not short or chubby tho

I get the same thing with james stewart

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Pas on March 28, 2004, 06:32:30 AM

I am he who said : Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Chest Rockwell on March 28, 2004, 06:54:54 AM

Sometimes Barry Egan/Joel Barish, or Matthew from Dreamers, or Charlotte from Lost in Translation, sometimes even Bob Harris, or The Dude. I have a vast array of moods. But the question is: Are the characters like us, or do we subconsciously act (or think we act) like our favorite characters?

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on March 28, 2004, 09:25:05 AM

Quote from: Chest RockwellBut the question is: Are the characters like us, or do we subconsciously act (or think we act) like our favorite characters?

I think it's both. sometimes we can subconsciously act as characters, but what happens most is the characters beeing quite like us and that's what makes us like a certain movie so much... we see bits of ourselves in them.

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Just Withnail on March 28, 2004, 09:29:31 AM

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Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on March 28, 2004, 09:40:05 AM

Oh... it's... like... well... That's a cool movie and all...

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Post by: Sigur Rós on March 28, 2004, 12:56:37 PM

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdias.aueb.gr%2F%7Ep3960073%2Fimages%2Ffearandloathing.jpg&hash=62fe7e0f77eac1be6ac16147c781547cb1c44c6e)

Yep, that's me!

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: El Duderino on March 28, 2004, 06:46:26 PM

Quote from: The Real SigurYep, that's me!

are you a crazy drug addicted journalist who's attorney is a big fat Samoan druggie who likes 'white rabbit?'

BTW, that movie's on IFC tonight.

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Pubrick on March 29, 2004, 07:25:15 AM

Luis Guzman as Luis Guzman.

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: El Duderino on March 29, 2004, 05:44:57 PM

i'd like to add Seymour in Ghost World to my list.

and also the guy on the left:
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Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: LostEraser on April 06, 2004, 03:23:57 AM

Jeffrey Beumont - Blue Velvet
Truman Burbank - The Truman Show
Joel Barish - Eternal Sunshone Of The Spotless Mind
Barry Egan - Punch-Drunk Love
Clarence Woorley - True Romance
Ed Wood - Ed Wood

That's all I can think of for now

Title: What movie character is you?
Post by: Stefen on April 06, 2004, 03:29:53 AM

<~~~~ I am Mark Borchadt from American Movie.

In reality I am fry from futurama.

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