Iconic Roles - Or I Think Of This Film When I Think Of .......

[The Dice Man]

Kneau- Neo
Steve Martin - The Jerk

Bill Murray- Groundhog,

Steve Gutenberg- Police Academy

Daniel Day Lewis- There Will Be Blood

Leonardo- Very difficult, could be the beach, could be almost any of his films

Al Pacino - The Godfather

Brad Pitt - Fight Club, but again like Leo, could choose any of many.

Tom Cruise - Top Gun

Tom Hanks - Forest Gump/Castaway

Robert Deniro - Taxi Driver / Goodfellas

Ray Liota - Field of Dreams/ Goodfellas

Harrison Ford - Indy

Russel Crowe- Gladiator

Bill Murray - Groundhog

John Travolta - Grease

Bruce Willis - Die Hard

Kevin Costner - Wolves

Johnny Depp - Nightmare on Elm Street 1

Liam Neeson - Schindler’s Lifts

River Phoenix - Stand By Me

Roy Scheider - Jaws

Arnold Schwarzenegger- Terminator

 

[RCAB]

Kneau- Neo
Steve Martin - The Jerk

Bill Murray- Groundhog,

Steve Gutenberg- Police Academy

Daniel Day Lewis- There Will Be Blood

Leonardo- Very difficult, could be the beach, could be almost any of his films

Al Pacino - The Godfather

Brad Pitt - Fight Club, but again like Leo, could choose any of many.

Tom Cruise - Top Gun

Tom Hanks - Forest Gump/Castaway

Robert Deniro - Taxi Driver / Goodfellas

Ray Liota - Field of Dreams/ Goodfellas

Harrison Ford - Indy

Russel Crowe- Gladiator

Bill Murray - Groundhog

John Travolta - Grease

Bruce Willis - Die Hard

Kevin Costner - Wolves

Johnny Depp - Nightmare on Elm Street 1

Liam Neeson - Schindler’s Lifts

River Phoenix - Stand By Me

Roy Scheider - Jaws

Arnold Schwarzenegger- Terminator

All very good or great movies except...

Gladiator.

Great score but overall it's one of the most overrated movies of all time, if not the most.

As for Schindler's Lifts haven't seen that one... Is it a sequel? Oskar saves 1,100 Jews, but in Schindler’s Lifts, he only gets 4 per ride, maximum capacity.

 

[emuboy]

The late Rip Torn had a very successful career across many genres for many decades.

Yet whenever I hear his name, I always see him as Gord and Freddy's authoritarian, bigoted father Jim Brody in the 2001 shock comedy 'Freddy Got Fingered', losing his sanity as his wife leaves him and files for divorce and the antics of his loser elder son Gord (Tom Green

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) drive him nuts to the point where he is going around chasing people, destroying things and bellowing incoherently, before he has a most unfortunate encounter with an elephant...

 

[Plugger35]

Johnny Depp would surely be Pirates of the Caribbean, I doubt most people would even know he was in Nightmare on Elm Street.

This is my favourite Johnny Depp role though, where he plays himself being an arrogant arseh*le.

 

[RCAB]

Johnny Depp would surely be Pirates of the Caribbean, I doubt most people would even know he was in Nightmare on Elm Street.

This is my favourite Johnny Depp role though, where he plays himself being an arrogant arseh*le.

For me it's always Edward Scissor Hands didn't even get a nomination that year from the academy (they get it wrong so often), otherwise Donnie Brasco and Ed Wood are close seconds. He's has many good roles like Blow, Fear and Loathing, Chocolat, Sleepy Hollow, Finding Neverland and The Tourist

Spoiler: Spolier

joking about Tourist

but maybe he's most iconic performance came in a TV series depending on who you ask.

 

[Plugger35]

For me it's always Edward Scissor Hands didn't even get a nomination that year from the academy (they get it wrong so often), otherwise Donnie Brasco and Ed Wood are close seconds. He's has many good roles like Blow, Fear and Loathing, Chocolat, Sleepy Hollow, Finding Neverland and The Tourist

Spoiler: Spolier

joking about Tourist

but maybe he's most iconic performance came in a TV series depending on who you ask.

He has had such a wide variety of roles that it's hard to pin him down to one role but he has played Jack Sparrow in 5 POTC films.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Before Paul Atreides. Underrated gem.

 

[speedy]

Russell Crowe: SID 6.7

 

[speedy]

All very good or great movies except...

Gladiator.

Great score but overall it's one of the most overrated movies of all time, if not the most.

So you were not entertained?

 

[phantom13]

Johnny Depp would surely be Pirates of the Caribbean, I doubt most people would even know he was in Nightmare on Elm Street.

This is my favourite Johnny Depp role though, where he plays himself being an arrogant arseh*le.

Yeh 100%, especially the first movie was a cultural phenomenon, how many Jack Sparrows at Halloween parties thereafter.

 

[Gralin]

Yeh 100%, especially the first movie was a cultural phenomenon, how many Jack Sparrows at Halloween parties thereafter.

Before Jack Sparrow it would have been Edward Scissorhands I reckon

 

[phantom13]

Before Jack Sparrow it would have been Edward Scissorhands I reckon

Yeh id tend to agree. His Hunter S was probably more cult fave.

 

[Gralin]

Yeh id tend to agree. His Hunter S was probably more cult fave.

Yes for some that would have been the role for sure

 

[Satan]

Jane Fonda Barbarella

 

[UltraEgo]

Keanu Reeves - Neo
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne
David Duchovny - Fox Mulder
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator
Harrison Ford - Han Solo/Indiana Jones
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas
Bill Murray - Peter Venkman
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Bryan Cranston - Walter White
Robert Downey Jnr - Tony Stark
Denzel Washington - Alonzo Harris

 

[GreyCrow]

Keanu Reeves - Neo
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne Patrick Bateman
David Duchovny - Fox Mulder
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator
Harrison Ford - Han Solo/Indiana Jones
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas
Bill Murray - Peter Venkman
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Bryan Cranston - Walter White
Robert Downey Jnr - Tony Stark
Denzel Washington - Alonzo Harris

FTFY

While Bale is good as Batman its his American Psycho role that resonates for me

 

[GreyCrow]

Jane Fonda was an interesting one

Does she have an iconic role or is she someone who has had a varied career to not be stuck on one?

Barbarella and Klute along with Ordinary People show her range but I still think of

 

[UltraEgo]

FTFY

While Bale is good as Batman its his American Psycho role that resonates for me

to each their own. Also to add:

Samuel L Jackson - John Shaft
Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills (Taken)
Lawrence Fishburne - Morpheus
Hugh Jackman - Wolverine
Wesley Snipes - Blade
Adam Sandler - Billy Madison/Happy Gilmore
Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Negan

 

[Roobs321]

Jane Fonda was an interesting one

Does she have an iconic role or is she someone who has had a varied career to not be stuck on one?

Barbarella and Klute along with Ordinary People show her range but I still think of

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I think Barbarella is accurate in Jane’s case (bit of a cult film in the US but was a big success in the UK). She demonstrated her chops in a lot of worthy films (often with co-leads sharing the spotlight), but I think Barbarella might be the most iconic part she had outside of being ‘Jane Fonda’ (e.g. her workout vids, political activism, being a Fonda, etc.). Some of the films she was in are arguably more famous nowadays for their titles (e.g. Cat Ballou, Klute, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? The China Syndrome). Barbarella is a bit that too but it’s identifiable in popculture as that Jane Fonda sex symbol camp classic. She wasn’t in Ordinary People (think you might’ve meant On Golden Pond or Coming Home maybe?).

 

[Gasometer]

Omar and Dr Zhivago

 

[Gasometer]

I say no more

 

[PhatBoy]

I know his name is obviously mud but his brilliance as an actor means Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint/Keyser Soze will always be intertwined. I watched it for about the 500th time the other night.

It also brings me to probably my favourite film of all time which gives 3 of my favourite actors their - to me anyway - most iconic role.

James Cromwell as Captain Smith. He is menacing - just the way he says ‘boyo’ when he’s addressing Crowe or Pearce, and his ‘I wouldn’t want to be Edmund Exley right now for all the whiskey in Ireland’ line is brilliant.

Guy Pearce is a good man simply because he goes for Geelong and a lot of people love him from Memento. He will always be Ed Exley to me. Clean cut, by the book. When he teams up with Bud White and his good cop bad cop stuff starts - ‘Exley call him off!!! ‘I don’t know how’ is when he really hits his straps. Plus his interrogation of the young negroes is mesmerising.

Crowe is obviously famous for a heap of roles but he’s Bud White to me. Brooding, tough, menacing, but a good guy fundamentally. I love the line about him that Cromwell says: ‘He’s a man who can answer yes to those questions I’ve asked you from time to time’ to Pearce.

Titanic predictably won Best Picture that year. But LA Confidential was a far better film