who is your favourite character?
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Viv-1 — 19 years ago(October 18, 2006 02:35 PM)
This question's a toughie ! My favourite actor,of all time, is James Stewart.
However, I don't think I could say any actor in this film does less than a brilliant job. Having just viewed the re-make starring Dennis Quaid I realise just how great the James Stewart version is. Every character's 3D. The re-make's terrible, made for kids with loads of computer graphics, just a waste of money.
Now if you were to ask me who is my favourite character in the film, then I'd have to say Heinrich Dorfmann as played by Hardy Kruger. He is brilliant in the role. Frank Towns is the regular tortured hero but Heinrich Dorfmann now he's something different. Just compare Hardy Kruger's performance with Giovanni Ribissi's in the re-make. No contest. -
Adam60z — 19 years ago(December 15, 2006 09:53 PM)
Being one of my favorite films I wouldn't pick a single one as my favorite. I can tell you my least favorite: Captain Harris (Peter Finch)how'd you like to be Watson being ordered around by that bastard?
But it's really an ensemble film and the best parts are the interplay between Jimmy Stewart, Richard Attenborough, and Hardy Kruger (nominated for Golden Globe but refused it). The point is that all characters are essential to the success of the plane. The doctor represents humanitarianism. I do think Ernest Borgnine was too over the top though.
Attenborough mastered stuttering speach here. It's a film of it's time when creativity was in the air. Please don't waste your time and money on the remakeor any remakes for that matter.
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tohu — 17 years ago(July 09, 2008 06:51 AM)
One oif the reasons I love this film so much is that it is like an onion. I've seen it several times, since the early 1980s when it was on TV (in the UK). And every time I see it I notice another actor giving a great performance.
I mean I always knew that it was a great set of performances. But that first time I saw it I noticed
in particular
Jimmy Stewart as being fantastic. Then the second time I remember thinking Attenborough was terrific. Then the third time I noticed Ian Bannen. Another time Borgnine was my favourite. I am watching it again now and I am loving Peter Finch
There's not many films you could respond to like this.
"Maybe I should go alone"
- Quint, Jaws.
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scott_uk88 — 17 years ago(March 23, 2009 08:26 PM)
- Dorfmann, because he's an iron-willed machine who makes Maguyver look clueless by comparison.
- Crow, for his rogueish good-nature and undefeatable sense of humour.
- Standish, because he was a plain and limited guy who still managed to get through.
- Moran, for being a great mediator and a constant voice of reason.
- Towns, because he was a strong leader and an amusingly stubborn character.
- Harris, for his tragically misguided, but ultimately poigniant idea how of men should behave in a crisis.
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JurorNr13 — 16 years ago(April 25, 2009 04:20 PM)
I'm confused. The question is "who is your favorite character", yet many of the posters in this thread describe which actor in their opinion gave the finest performance.
While I think it's hard to answer the latter, since the drama clearly lives of the ensemble of the cast and the fact that they worked so well together, I must say that my favorite character is Christian Marquand's Dr. Renaud. If I were stuck in a similar situation with a bunch of people, I wouldn't mind having him around. -
GeorgyGirl422 — 16 years ago(January 10, 2010 08:48 AM)
Hardy Kruger's Dorfmann definitely was my favorite. Besides the fact that I had a crush on the actor, I loved the character's brilliance and his cool dignity when his expertise is ridiculed by Towns as making "toys." I believed in his character and wanted to see him vindicated, and he was. When he and Towns make their peace at the end it was very satisfying.
But I will also give credit to Jimmy Stewart's Towns I didn't exactly like his sarcastically grumpy, stubborn character, but Stewart played him excellently. And also excellent was Attenborough. His character was such a good, calm voice of reason that when he finally despaired, his hysterical little laugh made me want to break into tears.
Really a great movie with a wonderful cast.
