who is your favourite character?
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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. -
Aloysius_von_der_Trenck — 10 years ago(January 10, 2016 12:18 AM)
Besides the skipper, "He's crazy Lou, he builds toy airplanes."
Peter Finch as Captain Harris.
Lew Moran,
If you marched a hundred and six miles by the stars and your calculations were just one per cent out, you could pass the Eiffel Tower in daylight and never even see it.
and
Standish
Insurance companies move in mysterious ways. Much like God only far less generous.