Your fantasy film character

[Louise Pembroke]

If you could be any film character who would you be?

I'd fancy myself as Sigournay Weaver in the Alien films or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 [best escape from the bin ever!]

[Andrew MacLean]

I've given this a lot of thought, and found it hard to make a choice. What I did next was to narrow the parameters: my choice had to be the same gender and age-band as me.

Still far too many choices.

In the end, I settled on the character played by Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption (he was 57 when this film was made, and I am 58).

Ask me again tomorrow and I'll have changed my mind!

Andrew

ps This was a real toughie, Lou. thanks for making me think!

[Louise Pembroke]

Great character Andrew!

[private104]

Hello

Could I be the Robert di Niro character from the Deer Hunter?

[Louise Pembroke]

You can be whoever you like, only the above are reserved now!

[private104]

good. Mark me down for the di Niro character in the Deer Hunter; a generally excellent film with several outstanding performances. The other one I was going to suggest was the woman detective played by Sandra Bullock in Murder by Numbers, but that would break Andrews rule about needing to be the same gender. I thought the character managed to transcend gender so that the whole audience could identify with her.

[Louise Pembroke]

Nah you can be any gender you like or species, because if I were not Sigournay or Linda, I'd be Gromit the dog!

[Jeremy_123]

For me its either the Jackal in the original version of The Day of the Jackal or David Webb a.k.a Jason Bourne with his memory back

[Louise Pembroke]

I wouldn't mind being the Borg Queen or a female Data in Star Trek, or M or Rosa Clebb in the Bond films

[rosemary johnson]

Been having to think aout this as I'm not that expert on films....
The way I've been feeling recently, I thought I'd be one of the undead people in the American Werewolf in London, with all the rotting flesh falling away in ugly lumps, and hanging round in Soho porn cinemas because there wasn't anywhere else to go and keep warm.
Then, last night, thinking more positively:
Kate (is her name Kate? - the landladiy's daughter) in Desert Hearts.
Mmmmm!
[And let A Certain Consultant eat his heart out!]
Alternatively, if I'm allowed to change my genes a good bit: High Tower, from Police Academy.
THe black guy who was about 9 feet tall and wasn't stanig for any racism. WHose response to the police chief shouting something racist out of his car window was to pickup the car and turn it updside down, with the police chief and his aides still inside. Wa-hey!
Maybe we should have a whole squadron on KC High Towers, who can take his sort of action to people who say "WHy don't you just wear glasses?"
Rosemary