Clint Eastwood's
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| | | Character back story:None | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:middle 30's, Bounty Hunter, Gun for Hire
| | Personality type: Silent Tough | | Signature look: Cold Stare | | Resides: Nowhere | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia: Though known as The Man with No Name, In A Fist Full of Dollars his name was Joe, in A Few Dollars More his name was Manco, and in The Good The Bad and The Ugly, he was known as Blondie. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - You see, there are two kinds of people in this world, Tuco: those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
- You may run the risks, my friend, but I do the cutting. If we cut down my percentage... cigar? Liable to interfere with my aim.
- (Watching closely as the troops approach) God is not on our side 'cause he hates idiots also.
- You thought I'd trust you? Two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. We're gonna have to earn it.
- (Didn't hear what the bet was.)Your life.
- Tell me, isn't a sheriff supposed to be courageous, loyal, and above all, honest? (Takes badge off sheriff, looks at it, walks outside, sees two men) I think you people need a new sheriff. (Throws badge to the ground)
- I gotta tell ya before you hire me. . . I don't work cheap.
- I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. See, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughing at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it . . .
- That's all very cozy but I don't find you men all that appealin'.
- When a man with a 45 meets a man with a rifle... you said the man with the pistol's a dead man. Let's see if that's true.
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Character name: "Dirty" Harry Callahan
Appears in: Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, The Dead Pool
Date(s): 1971-1988
Award(s): | | Character back story: Police Inspector with the San Francisco Police Department | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation:30's - 50's | | Personality type: Cold Ruthless Humorless | | Signature look: Cold Stare holding a gun | | Resides: San Francisco | | Character connections: SFPD | Fun facts/trivia: The .44 Magnum Bullet at that time was considered the most powerful handgun round in the world, but in Magnum Force, Harry let it be known he used "a light special" round which reduced the recoil of firing the revolver. This means that though the round is the most powerful at the time, but it can be assumed that Harry never used the .44 to its full potential.
Of course, there are now more powerful rounds today. But in essence, they are mainly rifle bullets incorporated into handguns or sized down versions. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
- Go ahead. Make my day.
- (Your report. What have you been doing?Well for the past three quarters of an hour I've been sitting on my ass in your outer office waiting on you.
- Yeah, well when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy. (Intent? How did you establish that?) When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
- Now you know why they call me Dirty Harry. Every dirty job that comes along.
- (Where the hell does it say you've got a right to kick down doors, torture suspects, deny medical attention and legal counsel? Where have you been? Does Escobedo ring a bell? Miranda? I mean, you must have heard of the 4th Amendment? What I'm saying is that man had rights.) Well, I'm all broken up about that man's rights.
- You don't listen. Do ya, asshole?
- (They came through the Academy after me. They stick together like flypaper, you know? Everybody thought they were queer for each other.) Tell you something. If the rest of you could shoot like them, I wouldn't care if the whole damn department was queer.
- Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot.
- ( What makes a man crazy enough to join the cops?) If you find out, you let me know, huh?
- (I never said to use violence!) Well what'd you want me to do? Yell "trick or treat" at them?
- (You've been transferred to Personnel.) To Personnel? That's for assholes! (I was in Personnel for ten years.) Yeah.
- (Hands over badge) Here's a seven-point suppository, Captain. (What did you say?) I said stick it in your ass!
- I'll be down there in five minutes, and you'd better have that file open, you pencil-pushing son-of-a-bitch!
- ( You really are a dirty bastard, ain't ya, Harry?) The dirtiest.
- Listen, punk... to me you ain't nothing but dog shit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dog shit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground, it can dry up and blow away in the wind, or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya.
- We're not just gonna let you walk outta here.(Who's we, sucker?) Smith, Wesson, and me.
- Well this is the .44 Magnum Auto-Mag. It holds a 300-grain cartridge. And if properly used, it can remove the fingerprints.
- Why don't you boys go suck some fish heads, huh?
- Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one.
- You forgot your fortune cookie. It says... you're shit out of luck.
- Don't fuck with me buddy or I'll kick your ass so hard you'll have to unbutton your collar to shit.
- You're out of bullets, and you know what that means? You're shit out of luck.
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Character name:
Frank Morris
Appears in: Escape from Alcatraz
Date(s): 1979
Award(s): | Character back story:Born 1926
| Inspiration for character: Based on a True Stroy
| | Age/Occupation:36 | Personality type: Criminal, IQ of 133, considered having superior intelligence
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| Resides: Missing, declared dead
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| | Fun facts/trivia: Frank Lee Morris is the mastermind of the only escape from Alcatraz prison, along with John and Clarence Anglin. Their supposed escape led to the largest manhunt in the U.S. Parts of the raft and life preservers plus a bag of personal effects were found, though there were no bodies recovered, all men were presumed to have drowned. The FBI closed the case in 1979 stating that there was no credible evidence that the men were still alive. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - ( I'm looking for a new punk.) Good luck.
- Hey guard, this spoon looks like it's been sticking in someone's ass, any chance of me getting a new one?
- (I'm assigning you a permanent job. Carpentry shop. It's a paying job. Fifteen cents an hour.) Well I always knew crime would pay.
- (Geez, what kind of childhood did you have?) Short.
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Character name: William Munny
Appears in: Unforgiven
Date(s): 1992
Award(s): Oscar: Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman)
| Character back story:A known thief and murderer with a vicious disposition
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| Age/Occupation:Middle Aged, retired gunfighter and thief
| Personality type: bad tempered
| | Signature look: | Resides: Kansas
| | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia: This movie was dedicated to Serigo Leone and Don Siegel, former collaborators who directed Eastwood in some of his signature roles, being the Man with No Name and Dirty Harry.
The boots worn by Eastwood were the same boots worn by him in the TV series RAWHIDE in 1959.
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| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - (I don't deserve this ... to die like this. I was building a house!) Deserve's got nothin' to do with it!
- It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have.
- (Yeah, well I guess they had it comin'.) We all have it coming, kid.
- That's right ... I've killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.
- You'd better bury Ned right! You'd better not cut up nor otherwise harm no whores! Or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches.
- (Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch. You just shot an unarmed man!) Well, he shoulda armed himself, if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.
- I was lucky in the order. But I've always been lucky when it comes to killing folks. (Excited, in awe) That's all. Who was next? It was Clyde, right? You must have killed Clyde. No, it could have been deputy Andy, or... or....) (Points rifle toward Beauchamp) All I can tell you is who's gonna be last.
- All right now, I'm comin' out. Any man I see out there, I'm gonna kill 'im. Any sonofabitch takes a shot at me, I'm not only gonna kill him, I'm gonna kill his wife, all his friends. Burn his damn house down. Nobody better shoot.
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