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LaBoob
03-28-2008, 06:05 AM
From literature,film, or tv, who is your favorite character?

From literature, mine is Joy-Hulga, from Good Country People, by Flannery O'Connor... She is a completely miserable, cynical person. Her real name is Joy, but that sounded too happy for her, so she changed it to Hulga. She had her leg torn off in a farming accident and wore a stump, and to annoy her mother and to make everyone around her uncomfortable, she clumped around with it as loudly as possible. Hilarious.

From tv, my favorite is Eddie from Ab-Fab... for the fact that she is a completely outrageous, self-centered, over-indulgent fashion victim, who, despite the fact that she has a successful PR business has absolutely zero responsibility and spends her days drinking vodka and wine straight from the bottle while popping pills and smoking joints. The only thing that keeps her successful is her burning desire to be relevant and for people to pay attention to her. Even in her innebriated self-involved confusion, she still has the ability to tell it like it is.

From film, my favorite is Hannibal Lecter... I just admire any man who can make a man swallow his own tongue just by talking to him...and plot out and murder security guards thus escaping a highly guarded facility all while enjoying some classical music and maintaining a normal heartrate. I also fell in love with the idea of him playing the piano beautifully while reading several newspapers...awesome!

nate1000
03-28-2008, 06:22 AM
Great topic.

Literature:
Richard III purely for his unwaveringly evil Machiavellian ways. One of the few static characters in Shakespearian literature.

Film:
Inigo Montoya. "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

TV:
Vick Mackie. See #1 above, but you can sympathize a bit more with Slick Vick.

MadMatt
03-28-2008, 06:25 AM
Oooohhh, this is a good one. I'm going to have to think about it a little though.

Question - how flexible is the "Literature" category? Are we talking strictly books/novels or can it include 'pop lit' like comic books? That will certainly influence my answer (for that section anyway).

LaBoob
03-28-2008, 06:29 AM
Oooohhh, this is a good one. I'm going to have to think about it a little though.

Question - how flexible is the "Literature" category? Are we talking strictly books/novels or can it include 'pop lit' like comic books? That will certainly influence my answer (for that section anyway).

Please, go nuts!

Freakshow
03-28-2008, 07:53 AM
Franklin from Arrested Devlopment just edges out Morbo from Futurama as my favorite TV character. Book is going to take a little more though.

LaBoob
03-28-2008, 08:08 AM
Franklin from Arrested Devlopment just edges out Morbo from Futurama as my favorite TV character. Book is going to take a little more though.

It ain't easy bein' white, it ain't easy bein' brown...this one's for you, Pepperjack!

http://www.fakebands.com/graphics/Franklin_and_Gob_in_the_studio.jpg

Now that you mention that, Tobias is one of my all-time fav's... I can watch those episodes over and over and NEVER get tired of David Cross.

Team_Ramrod
03-28-2008, 08:08 AM
Literature - Only read biographies so I won't answer

TV - Grissom from CSI

Film - Neo from the Matrix

Badinia
03-28-2008, 08:24 AM
TV: Fox Mulder. I am madly in love with him, and he doesn't exist.

Film: Forrest Whittaker's Ghost Dog. He's simultaneously terrifying and sympathetic.

Literature: Molly Stepping-Razors from Neuromancer. I mean, obviously. She's a badass. She will kick your ass. She has a dark past.

Comics: Tank Girl. Pretty much just like Molly, but from Australia. Don't talk to me about the movie. I can't discuss it.

LaBoob
03-28-2008, 08:28 AM
TV: Fox Mulder. I am madly in love with him, and he doesn't exist.

I can understand this, he is definitely SEXY. :wub::devil2:


Literature: Molly Stepping-Razors from Neuromancer. I mean, obviously. She's a badass. She will kick your ass. She has a dark past.


I plan on reading this over the summer... you recommend?

Badinia
03-28-2008, 08:34 AM
TV: Fox Mulder. I am madly in love with him, and he doesn't exist.

Film: Forrest Whittaker's Ghost Dog. He's simultaneously terrifying and sympathetic.

Literature: Molly Stepping-Razors from Neuromancer. I mean, obviously. She's a badass. She will kick your ass. She has a dark past.

Comics: Tank Girl. Pretty much just like Molly, but from Australia. Don't talk to me about the movie. I can't discuss it.

I can understand this, he is definitely SEXY. :wub::devil2:


I plan on reading this over the summer... you recommend?

Absolutely, great Summer reading! But you might wake up with a tattoo you don't remember?

LaBoob
03-28-2008, 08:45 AM
Absolutely, great Summer reading! But you might wake up with a tattoo you don't remember?

Hmmmm...can't wait! :thumbup:

JustJon
03-28-2008, 09:53 AM
Absolutely, great Summer reading! But you might wake up with a tattoo you don't remember?

Now you have me wanting to reread Neuromancer. It's been 10-15 years since I have. Maybe I need to reread Snow Crash as well.

topless_mike
03-28-2008, 10:02 AM
Book: Timothy from the book "The Cay" He just kicks ass, mon.

Film: Lenny from "Of mice and men"

TV: hmmmmmmm. dont know.

realmenhatelife
03-28-2008, 10:36 AM
awesome choice of hulga, my favorite flannery o'connor character is 'the misfit'

lit- wendy from peter pan or queequeg from moby dick

tv- al swearengen from deadwood

I'm not sure about film

FUNKMAN
03-28-2008, 10:37 AM
Sam from Cheers

Furtherman
03-28-2008, 10:40 AM
Lit: The Judge from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.

In fact, he'd kick everyone ass in TV and Film too.