Top 5 movie tough guys and gals.

chloec42

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I'm not on about actors and actresses doing a 'tough person role' here, I'm talking about the actual toughest 'Characters' in the movie world.
The kind of Character that feels so real, you wouldn't pick a fight with in a bar in real life.

Here's mine:

#5: 'Tom Mullen' played by Mel Gibson in the movie Ransom.
Overcoming and bravely standing in, an incredibly compromising situation and beating the odds, to save the life of his kidnapped son, then takes on the kidnapper single handed.

#4: 'Ellen' played by Sharon Stone in The Quick And The Dead.
An uncompromising, but not emotionless woman, who overcomes her inner fear of failure, to get justice for her father's murder against a town full of cowards and dangerous gunslingers.

#3: 'Billy' played by Sonny Landham in Predator.
A Marine, a successful Marine, who is "Afraid of no man". Then faces the Predator while armed with only a machete.
Need I say more?

#2: 'John McClane' played by Bruce Willis in the Die Hard saga.
A tough cop with a past, able to adjust to any given situation and does whatever possible to stay alive and bring the bad guys to justice, all at the same time.

My number #1 is: 'Dillon' played by Charles S Dutton in the movie Alien3.
A murderer who reluctantly takes on the role of group leader in an unusually dangerous situation.
He even says "I'll f*ck you" and shouts "Is this as hard as you bite, Motherf*cker?!" as the Alien is tearing him apart!
Now that's tough!


So...

... what are your top five?
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1/ Jimmy Cagney in his day.

2/ Al Pacino's character in Scarface.

3/ Jack Nicholson in general is intimidating.

4/ Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs

5/ Gene Hackman in 'Unforgiven'.
 
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If you're going to go with a Gibson character, you've got to go with Porter from Payback. It's basically the Walker character (Lee Marvin) from Point Blank.
 
For those of you who forget who Cagney was, he was the #1 gangster in movies, and pardon my hijack here. What a great guy he was. July 17, 1899 - March 30, 1986.

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If you're going to go with a Gibson character, you've got to go with Porter from Payback. It's basically the Walker character (Lee Marvin) from Point Blank.


Seventy Grand?! My SUITS are worth more than that!

One of my absolute FAVORITE movies....
 
5. Brion James as Leon in "Blade Runner"
4. Uma Thurman as The Bride in "Kill Bill"
3. Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in "Escape From New York"
2. Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in "Dirty Harry"
1. Bruce Willis as John McClane in "Die Hard"


Honorable Mentions…
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in "The Bourne Supremacy"
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in "Aliens"
Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle in "The French Connection"
Robert Duvall as Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now"
 
good one about chuck norris!

Al Pacino as Scarface is insane.

this is what came to mind:

Leonardo Dicaprio as Danny Archer in Blood Diamond (tough guy)
Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (he'll drink your milkshake)
Clint Eastwood as 'the mysterious outsider' in High Plains Drifter (he'll rape you in a barn)
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining (he'll hack you up)
Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men (you live or die based on a coin toss)
 
Lee Marvin (Liberty Valance) - and what a great death scene!

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or the whole film in 3 minutes (cuz John Wayne is also cool)...

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1: Max Caddy played by Robert Mitchum and Robert De Niro in "Cape Fear".

2: Major John Reisman played by Lee Marvin in "The Dirty Dozen".

3: Anton Chigurh played by Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men".

4: William Munny (Drunk) played by Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven".

5: Marv played by Mickey Rourke in "Sin City".
 
1. Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men.
2. Samuel L. Jackson as Jules in Pulp Fiction.
3. Robert DeNiro as Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.
2. Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in the series of films.
5. Vinnie Jones as Bullet Tooth Tony in Snatch, simply for the awesomeness of his monologue.
 
The kind of Character that feels so real, you wouldn't pick a fight with in a bar in real life.

-Marlon Brando (Last Tango in Paris)
-Mickey Rourke (Wrestler)
-Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner)

Why? They are emotionally unpredictable, compassionate and tough; therefore scary. You'll never know if it is a punch or a caress coming when they slightly raise their hand. Thats the power of non-acting btw...
 
Ash - "This is my boomstick!" cannot be topped for movie BA.

Honorable mentions...
Darth Maul
John McClain
Mickey from Snatch (Brad Pitt's character)
Tommy DeVito from Goodfellas
 
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