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What character in movies or books could you most relate to? And why?
This question was asked in the Dare to tell the truth thread. I thought it might make for a fun thread topic. I'm sure at different times of our lives we can relate to different characters.
So tell us What character in movies or books could you most relate to? And why? And at what time in your life was this, if you care to share. |
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fun thread!
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most definately Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women- just the way she is... she can be so loving that you wanna cry- then flip and burn your ass before you ever know it was burned.. and all with the most intelligent southern intellect, lol, I love her character!
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03-24-2010, 08:18 PM
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I was Don Draper (Mad Men) in another life.
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03-24-2010, 08:30 PM
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walter matthau in grumpy old men 1&2--ask anyone im a grumpy old butch
and besides he ends up with sofia loren--i'm looking |
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yeah, matthau landed Loren, BUT !!! jack lemmon landed ann-margret
 I'm gonna miss those two.... Anyways, For me... kinda sorta... Tevye, from Fiddler on the Roof, trying hard as hell to hold on to cherished Traditions/values amidst a great big ugly Wave of inevitable Change & Jo, from Little Women... her ambition, determination, frustrations with the limitations women faced in her time. 
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03-24-2010, 10:26 PM
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Alex Delaware
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Alex Delaware in the Jonathan Kellerman detective series. He's a forensic psychologist that consults with the LAPD and has a French Bulldog!!! When I practiced, I did a lot of forensic court testimony in child sexual abuse... and I have a Frenchie! Yup, I first learned about this breed from.. you guessed it... Alex Delaware! Kellerman practiced as a child psychologist and has put forth an accurate Delaware as shrink. I do identify with this character's altruistic and compassionate nature along with his sleuth reasoning. LOL.... He also has been in love with one woman through the years and never wavers in how deeply he cares for her even during stressful times in their relationship. Just a monogamous gent that enjoys creating a history with a love and being faithful and honest. Yet, understands that they are very separate people. He is a sensualist and often has insomnia, both would describe me. The descriptions of how he feels for his wife (Robyn) reminds me of that old phrase Paul Newman was known for concerning his wife (Joann Woodard) of many, many years... Why eat hamburger when you have steak at home. Isshhh.. feel a little silly posting this! Kind of a gooshy kind of character to identify with! He also is a true friend to the cop he works with, Detective Milo Sturgis, a gay man and one that does not fit the stereotype at all. This guy is overweight, sloppy with no sense of style in dress and has acne scars. Not much complexity going on at all!! These books are of my purely for fun reading pleasure! I enjoy the who-done-it psychological meandering. And the French Bulldogs! |
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03-24-2010, 11:53 PM
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WALL-E and Forest Gump... Either one at any given time.. Always saving, looking for or making pretty for the girl... and both have very special dance steps
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjDwp3kAvDg&feature=related"]YouTube- Wall-E and Eve Kiss and Dance in the Space[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFSXA6qaeMA&feature=related"]YouTube- Forrest Gump - Elvis / Rick Roll[/ame] |
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03-25-2010, 09:49 AM
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well, Madam Mim...lol....
oh wait, seriously....Roseann Rosannadanna heh...ok ok (but both are parts of me, lol) how about the baba yaga.... oh damn..I cant get out of this mode...I will be back later but no really...the baba yaga IS who ID with..(and she isnt the wicked old witch of the forest, neither!) but you want a media person...
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03-25-2010, 09:52 AM
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03-25-2010, 09:59 AM
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Tom Builder from the book The Pillars of the Earth.
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Houlden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye for sure!
"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." ~ Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye There have been lots of books that have changed me. Really changed me. One of my favorites was The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain. It changed how I thought about life and religion forever. It wasn't just one character - it was the whole book. Night, by Elie Wiesel was another book that did that for me too. "A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell -- mouths mercy, and invented hell -- mouths Golden Rules and foregiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!" ~ Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger Then of course Lieutenant Jimmy Cross from The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Stephen Dedalus from Ulysses by James Joyce. And Maya Johnson from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. |
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Jonathon Livingstone Seagull... "If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice? " JLS
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There have been many books and/or movies that I have identified with the protagonist. I have identified with both the male and female characters.
Starting with my childhood memories there were two books and movies that touched me deeply. "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" and "Little Women." I identified with Mary Frances Nolan in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and Jo March in Little Women. Both of these characters were strong and creative. I was just a child but what I saw in them was some sort of message telling me that I was okay. There were other "Tom Boys" like me and we could and would thrive regardless of life circumstances and the opinions and ideas of others. (Below I have cut and pasted an analysis of the two characters from a site called "Spark Notes.") Mary Frances Nolan - The protagonist of the novel. Francie is the daughter of second-generation Americans living in Brooklyn, New York in the early twentieth century. She is named after her father's dead brother's fiancée. Francie is poor, but bright, observant, and taken by the wonders of the world. She is a combination of her hard-working, practical mother and her imaginative, dreaming father. She has a great capacity to see beauty amidst material hardship. Growing up without luxury, and sometimes without friends, she loves to read, and creates new worlds through her writing. Jo March The main character of Little Women, Jo is an outspoken tomboy with a passion for writing. Her character is based in large part on Louisa May Alcott herself. Jo refuses Laurie’s offer of marriage, despite the fact that everyone assumes they will end up together. In the end, Jo gives up her writing and marries Professor Bhaer, which can be seen either as a domestic triumph or as a professional loss, since Jo loses her headstrong independence. Because she displays good and bad traits in equal measure, Jo is a very unusual character for nineteenth-century didactic fiction. Jo’s bad traits—her rebelliousness, anger, and outspoken ways—do not make her unappealing; rather, they suggest her humanity. Jo is a likely precursor to a whole slew of lovably flawed heroes and heroines of children’s books, among them Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer.
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Dug from Up. He's a dog. He's pretty happy and up front about that. He's loyal, forgiving and loving.
Mandy by Julie Andrews. Julie Andrews wrote a few really wonderful children's books. Mandy had a secret life in her little discovered cottage. She cleaned it and decorated it and created a safe world of her own. She was an orphan in an orphanage and spent a lot of time alone reading and dreaming. She had to protect her secret life. |
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03-25-2010, 12:51 PM
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I can't say that any one character just totally resonated with me because I was such an avid reader growing up. But I really, really got into the Louis L'Amour characters. They were always these rough and tough loners who were gentlemanly around women and seemed to attract them even when they weren't trying. They were always honorable and fought the good fight, you know? I just always dug that. I guess if there was one that I thought totally fit that mold and exemplified L'Amour's writing, it was a character he brought out for a three-book series. Lance Killkenny.
Killkenny, I could relate to.
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But as I age, I see that is not so good.
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OH! OH! I got it!!!
Betty White in the Proposal. I went to that movie with my daughter. When Betty was out in the woods, doing a smudging and elemental circle, my daughter turns to me and whispers, "thats you in a few years" ROTF...and she is sooooo right!!!
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The Natural with Robert Redford. When I was young I was always told I reminded people of him. I've changed a lot now though. My hair and clothes etc. were ditto. The Natural mirrors what I have been through.
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