List from American Film Institute's "AFI 100 Years..." series, in June 2003.

These are cool lists, because I agree with them pretty well, and I like a majority of these movies or want to see them anyway. (Though there are some that I hadn't heard of, but am now intrigued.)

Movies with Great Heroes:

  • Atticus Finch (_To Kill a Mockingbird_, Gregory Peck)
  • Indiana Jones (_Raiders of the Lost Ark_, Harrison Ford)
  • James Bond (_Dr. No_, Sean Connery)
  • Will Kane (_High Noon_, Gary Cooper)
  • Rick Blaine (_Casablanca_, Humphrey Bogart)
  • Clarice Starling (_The Silence of the Lambs_, Jodie Foster)
  • Rocky Balboa (_Rocky_, Sylvester Stallone)
  • Ellen Ripley (_Aliens_, Sigourney Weaver)
  • George Bailey (_It's a Wonderful Life_, James Stewart)
  • T. E. Lawrence (_Lawrence of Arabia_, Peter O'Toole)
  • Jefferson Smith (_Mr. Smith Goes to Washington_, James Stewart)
  • Tom Joad (_The Grapes of Wrath_, Henry Fonda)
  • Oskar Schindler (_Schindler's List_, Liam Neeson)
  • Han Solo (_Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope_, Harrison Ford)
  • Norma Rae Webster (_Norma Rae_, Sally Field)
  • Shane (_Shane_, Alan Ladd)
  • Harry Callahan (_Dirty Harry_, Clint Eastwood)
  • Robin Hood (_The Adventures of Robin Hood_, Errol Flynn)
  • Virgil Tibbs (_In the Heat of the Night_, Sidney Poitier)
  • Butch & Sundance (_Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_, Paul Newman & Robert Redford)
  • Mahatma Gandhi (_Gandhi_, Ben Kingsley)
  • Spartacus (_Spartacus_, Kirk Douglas)
  • Terry Malloy (_On the Waterfront_, Marlon Brando)
  • Thelma Dickinson & Louise Sawyer (_Thelma & Louise_, Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon)
  • Lou Gehrig (_The Pride of the Yankees_, Gary Cooper)
  • Superman (_Superman_, Christopher Reeve)
  • Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein (_All the President's Men_, Robert Redford & Dustin Hoffman)
  • Juror #8 (_12 Angry Men_, Henry Fonda)
  • General George Patton (_Patton_, George C. Scott)
  • Luke Jackson (_Cool Hand Luke_, Paul Newman)
  • Erin Brockovich (_Erin Brockovich_, Julia Roberts)
  • Philip Marlowe (_The Big Sleep_, Humphrey Bogart)
  • Marge Gunderson (_Fargo_, Frances McDormand)
  • Tarzan (_Tarzan the Ape Man_, Johnny Weissmuller)
  • Alvin York (_Sergeant York_, Gary Cooper)
  • Rooster Cogburn (_True Grit_, John Wayne)
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi (_Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope_, Alec Guinness)
  • The Tramp (_City Lights_, Charlie Chaplin)
  • Lassie (_Lassie Come Home_, Pal)
  • Frank Serpico (_Serpico_, Al Pacino)
  • Arthur Chipping (_Goodbye, Mr. Chips_, Peter O'Toole)
  • Father Edward J. Flanagan (_Boys Town_, Spencer Tracy)
  • Moses (_The Ten Commandments_, Charlton Heston)
  • Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (_The French Connection_, Gene Hackman)
  • Zorro (_The Mark of Zorro_, Tyrone Power)
  • Batman (_Batman_, Michael Keaton)
  • Karen Silkwood (_Silkwood_, Meryl Streep)
  • The Terminator (_Terminator 2: Judgment Day_, Arnold Schwarzenegger)
  • Andrew Beckett (_Philadelphia_, Tom Hanks)
  • Maximus Decimus Meridius (_Gladiator_, Russell Crowe)

Movies with Great Villains:

  • Hannibal Lecter (_The Silence of the Lambs_, Anthony Hopkins)
  • Norman Bates (_Psycho_, Anthony Perkins)
  • Darth Vader (_Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back_, David Prowse and voiced by James Earl Jones)
  • Wicked Witch of the West (_The Wizard of Oz_, Margaret Hamilton)
  • Nurse Ratched (_One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_, Louise Fletcher)
  • Mr. Potter (_It's a Wonderful Life_, Lionel Barrymore)
  • Alex Forrest (_Fatal Attraction_, Glenn Close)
  • Phyllis Dietrichson (_Double Indemnity_, Barbara Stanwyck)
  • Regan MacNeil (_The Exorcist_, Linda Blair and voiced, when possessed by the demon, by Mercedes McCambridge)
  • The Queen (_Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_, Lucille La Verne)
  • Michael Corleone (_The Godfather Part II_, Al Pacino)
  • Alex DeLarge (_A Clockwork Orange_, Malcolm McDowell)
  • HAL 9000 (_2001: A Space Odyssey_, voiced by Douglas Rain)
  • The Alien (_Alien_, Bolaji Badejo and Tom Woodruff, Jr.)
  • Amon Göth (_Schindler's List_, Ralph Fiennes)
  • Noah Cross (_Chinatown_, John Huston)
  • Annie Wilkes (_Misery_, Kathy Bates)
  • The Shark (_Jaws_)
  • Captain Bligh (_Mutiny on the Bounty_, Charles Laughton)
  • Man (_Bambi_)
  • Mrs. John Iselin (_The Manchurian Candidate_, Angela Lansbury)
  • The Terminator (_The Terminator_, Arnold Schwarzenegger)
  • Eve Harrington (_All About Eve_, Anne Baxter)
  • Gordon Gekko (_Wall Street_, Michael Douglas)
  • Jack Torrance (_The Shining_, Jack Nicholson)
  • Cody Jarrett (_White Heat_, James Cagney)
  • Martians (_The War of the Worlds_)
  • Max Cady (_Cape Fear_, Robert Mitchum)
  • Reverend Harry Powell (_The Night of the Hunter_, Robert Mitchum)
  • Travis Bickle (_Taxi Driver_, Robert De Niro)
  • Mrs. Danvers (_Rebecca_, Judith Anderson)
  • Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow (_Bonnie and Clyde_, Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty)
  • Count Dracula (_Dracula_, Béla Lugosi)
  • Dr. Christian Szell (_Marathon Man_, Laurence Olivier)
  • J.J. Hunsecker (_Sweet Smell of Success_, Burt Lancaster)
  • Frank Booth (_Blue Velvet_, Dennis Hopper)
  • Harry Lime (_The Third Man_, Orson Welles)
  • Caesar Enrico Bandello (_Little Caesar_, Edward G. Robinson)
  • Cruella De Vil (_One Hundred and One Dalmatians_, Betty Lou Gerson)
  • Freddy Krueger (_A Nightmare on Elm Street_, Robert Englund)
  • Joan Crawford (_Mommie Dearest_, Faye Dunaway)
  • Tom Powers (_The Public Enemy_, James Cagney)
  • Regina Giddens (_The Little Foxes_, Bette Davis)
  • Baby Jane Hudson (_What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?_, Bette Davis)
  • The Joker (_Batman_, Jack Nicholson)
  • Hans Gruber (_Die Hard_, Alan Rickman)
  • Tony Camonte (_Scarface_, Paul Muni)
  • Verbal Kint (_The Usual Suspects_, Kevin Spacey)
  • Auric Goldfinger (_Goldfinger_, Gert Fröbe)
  • Alonzo Harris (_Training Day_, Denzel Washington)

I haven't decided how to check these off--those that I have seen or it I should rewatch them all, because they are good movies. I'll figure it out.

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