Movies: Each Actor's Most Iconic Role
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Bolded are my picks, which I feel pretty confident in.
Austin Powers, it definitely has a more widespread presence than Wayne's World, which was slightly more niche.
Billy Madison is the more quintessential Sandler role, but again, Happy Gilmore finds its way into conversations/references/etc. a bit more, so might have to go with Happy.
Jumping off of that, Christopher McDonald is Shooter McGavin always and forever.
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I'll toss a couple more in:
Chris Tucker: James Carter or Ruby Rhod?
Gary Oldman: Stansfield or Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg?
Meryl Streep: ?
Chris Tucker: James Carter or Ruby Rhod?
Gary Oldman: Stansfield or Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg?
Meryl Streep: ?
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Oldman is Commissioner Gordon
Streep is tough. Not her best performance, but probably most known one is Devil Wears Prada
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Figured Oldman would be tough. He's a case where his best work is in less popular movies, and his work in more popular franchises (Batman, Harry Potter), while solid, doesn't leave much of an impression (as it shouldn't).
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McQueen is my favorite all-time actor so that's a great choice! I mean you could go Le Mans, Cincinnati Kid, Towering Inferno, Junior Bonner, The Getaway, Tom Horn, The Reivers, The War Lovers, The Sand Pebbles, or my personal choice-The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Again, tough to separate best from iconic, but I think Ethan Hawke in First Reformed could give any role he's had a run for its money, even though it wasn't the biggest movie.
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I'd go off the board and say Soylent Green for Heston, but I'm a fan of almost all of his stuff so that's pretty obscure for the average fan. I love Travolta in about five movies but I don't like a good portion of his stuff which is odd. But him strutting down the street in Fever in the opening scene that's what I think of when I think iconic.
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Toss-up between Con Air and Face/Off I think. Vampire's Kiss is pretty iconic but I don't think the movie is well-known enough.
I think Adaptation is probably his best movie and performance though.
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Jon Voight: Midnight Cowboy/Runaway Train/Deliverance/Coming Home ?
Brando: Streetcar Named Desire/On The Waterfront/Godfather/Last Tango In Paris ?
Henry Fonda: Grapes Of Wrath/12 Angry Men/Once Upon A Time In The West/...a few others ?
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Brando: Streetcar Named Desire/On The Waterfront/Godfather/Last Tango In Paris ?
Henry Fonda: Grapes Of Wrath/12 Angry Men/Once Upon A Time In The West/...a few others ?
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I'd say the best movie that she was in was The Deer Hunter but not a super, standout role for her personally. I'll say Sofie's Choice but Kramer vs. Kramer and Silkwood are right there.
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Gary Oldman as Dracula has to be a contender, no?
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Nah, not a toss-up. It has to be Lord of the Rings for the sheer universal success of that franchise
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