Carl Weathers and Thayer David in Rocky (1976)
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Poll: Creative Character Names
Excellent prose sometimes seems to be a dying art. The film industry, at times, does its part to revive it with great screen plays or scripts based on great novels. Great screen plays and great novels have something in common: they tend to be written by great writers, like Harper Lee, Spike Lee, and Quentin Tarantino. Great writers are imaginative enough that often their creativity is also displayed in details, such as the titles of the films and/or names of the characters, sometimes ignored by other writers. Below are some great character names that are wonderfully original or ironic, yet don't betray the character with unnecessary showiness or unfitting silliness. Instead of asking you for your favorite character, we ask: which name do you think best suits the particular character and helps to brings that person to life?
After voting, feel free to discuss here.
Note: All characters are listed in alphabetical order.
Make Your Choice
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Gregory Peck and Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Atticus Finch -
John Turturro in Barton Fink (1991)
Barton Fink -
Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Beatrix Kiddo -
Robert Duvall in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Boo Radley -
Kerry Washington in Django Unchained (2012)
Broomhilda von Shaft (Note: Several critics and film scholars have posited that Tarantino was signaling the iconic film character John Shaft and suggesting that Tarantino imagined that Broomhilda was an ancestor of the more well known Shaft.) -
Robin Harris in Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Butterbean Jones -
David Graf and Tim Kazurinsky in Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
Cadet Sweetchuck -
Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Clarice Starling -
Robert Ryan in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Col. Everett Dasher Breed -
Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Cosmo Brown -
Carrie Fisher, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, and Al Lampert in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Darth Vader -
Laurence Fishburne in Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Furious Styles -
Harrison Ford in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Han Solo -
Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry in Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Hushpuppy and Wink -
Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Imperator Furiosa -
Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones -
Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Lloyd Christmas -
Mark Hamill in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Luke Skywalker -
Samuel L. Jackson in Do the Right Thing (1989)
Mister Señor Love Daddy -
Steve Buscemi in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Mr. Shhh -
Ruby Dee in Do the Right Thing (1989)
Mother Sister -
Natalie Portman stars as Novalee Nation
Novalee Nation -
Alec Guinness in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Obi-Wan Kenobi -
Edward G. Robinson in Larceny, Inc (1942)
Pressure Maxwell -
Chris Sarandon in The Princess Bride (1987)
Prince Humperdinck -
Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Royal Tenenbaum -
Brooklynn Prince, Valeria Cotto, and Christopher Rivera in The Florida Project (2017)
Scooty and Moonee -
Kurt Russell in Escape from New York (1981)
Snake Plissken -
John Getz in The Fly (1986)
Stathis Borans -
James Earl Jones in Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Thulsa Doom -
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Tralala -
Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)
Verbal Kint -
Julie Dawn Cole in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
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