Fictional Characters

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Alio said:
Ferris Beuller - Come on......every teen boy wanted to be him just a little bit ( I still do ! ). Witty, Clever, got the girls, the type of person who could get away with anything.

Or his cartoon version - Bart Simpson for the same reasons really

SAVE FERRIS!
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I never saw that film until recently...

Got a bit freaked out when he starts talking to the camera directly though....

like..."Who me?"
 

neonleon said:
Two great characters;

Homer Simpson - "in your face humanity"

Randy Marsh off Southpark. - particularly the losing edge episode or Something Walmart Comes our Way.
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We could do an entire separate thread for Homer Simpson! "Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel".
 

Lcab's reference to George Smiley jogged my memory. Harry Palmer from the Len Deighton spy novels. brilliantly portrayed by Michael Caine in films like The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Horse Under Water.
Superb Character. Cool, smart and insubortinate.

Ernest Stickley Jr aka 'Stick' as in the book of the same name by Elmore Leonard. A crook with heart and brains.

A guy catches him wandering round his house -''See anything you like?'' - ''No''
 
James Martin said:
Lcab's reference to George Smiley jogged my memory. Harry Palmer from the Len Deighton spy novels. brilliantly portrayed by Michael Caine in films like The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Horse Under Water.
Superb Character. Cool, smart and insubortinate.

Ernest Stickley Jr aka 'Stick' as in the book of the same name by Elmore Leonard. A crook with heart and brains.

A guy catches him wandering round his house -''See anything you like?'' - ''No''
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Deighton IS decent , but I DIG Elmore Leonard .

I SO dig Elmore Leonard , like ,....
 
James Martin said:
Lcab's reference to George Smiley jogged my memory. Harry Palmer from the Len Deighton spy novels. brilliantly portrayed by Michael Caine in films like The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Horse Under Water.
Superb Character. Cool, smart and insubortinate.

Ernest Stickley Jr aka 'Stick' as in the book of the same name by Elmore Leonard. A crook with heart and brains.

A guy catches him wandering round his house -''See anything you like?'' - ''No''
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Any character from the pen of Elmore Leonard is usually a winner.

Stick was awesome.
 

He's probably the only writer, that write books that once started need to be finished. Not at some point, but right there in one sitting.

I can't think of any other author who can do that to me.

I can think of better writers but not more compelling ones.
 
little curly alan ball said:
George Smiley ; Great Britain - The BEST of the OLD Great Britain , PERSONIFIED .

Raises Bowler to the HUGE BRAINED ONE ,..
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My take on that is John Ericson, the hero in The Cruel Sea. Rock steady in a crisis, dedicated and utterly focussed on winning the war - but with a deeply human capacity for love (his relationship with his No 2, Lockheart is one of the great literary male only friendships) and pain. Wonderful and totally British.

Also agree with the earlier post about Sherlock Holmes - I love his no-messin' attitude to those whose faculties are not as honed as his - completely exasperated. Only the problem matters - with the possible exception of Irene Adler. But all men have that one woman who turns our knees to jelly...
 
James Martin said:
Lcab's reference to George Smiley jogged my memory. Harry Palmer from the Len Deighton spy novels. brilliantly portrayed by Michael Caine in films like The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Horse Under Water.
Superb Character. Cool, smart and insubortinate.

Ernest Stickley Jr aka 'Stick' as in the book of the same name by Elmore Leonard. A crook with heart and brains.

A guy catches him wandering round his house -''See anything you like?'' - ''No''
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I'm a huge fan of both Le Carre and Deighton. I remember getting introduced to the Deighton "spy" trilogies and I literally devoured every one of them in short order. Pretty sure I got through 9 books in a couple months. Outstanding stuff.
 
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