Character name: Count Vlad Dracula
Appears in:
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Date(s):
1992
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| | Character back story: | Inspiration for character:
Bram Stoker's Count. | Age/Occupation:
500 year old/Transylvanian Count. | Personality type:
Deep
Enigmatic
Tragic | Signature look:
Resolute. | Resides:
Transylvania | Character connections:
By far the most commercially successful film adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel.
Connects Harrison Ford & Gary Oldman to Francis Ford Capolla.
Harrison was in Apocalypse Now, while Oldman & Ford star together in Air Force One. | Fun facts/trivia:
During preproduction of the movie, director Francis Ford Coppola came up with the idea that when in the presence of a being such as a vampire, the laws of physics don't work correctly. This is why shadows often seem to act independently of the figure casting them, why rats can run along a ceiling upside-down and why liquid drips up instead of down. |
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| Character Quotes & Catchphrases |
- ''The blood is the life... and it shall be mine.''
- ''I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am Dracula.''
- ''Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds... true love?''
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Character name: Norman Stansfield
Appears in:
Leon: The Professional
Date(s):
1994
Award(s):
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| | Character back story: | Inspiration for character:
Corrupt Cops. | Age/Occupation:
D.E.A. officer | Personality type:
Deranged and psychotic.
A dark sense of humour. | Signature look:
Popping his pills and looking up. | Resides:
NYC | Character connections:
Luc Besson also would do Fifth Element with Gary Oldman to come. | Fun facts/trivia:
During the filming involving all of the police cars on the street, a man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he encountered the movie set by accident, he saw all of the "police" and gave himself up to a bunch of uniformed extras. |
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| Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - ''Death is... whimsical... today.''
- ''I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects. Do you like Beethoven?''
- Stansfield: Bring me everyone.
Benny: What do you mean "everyone"?
Stansfield: EVERYONE!
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Character name:
James Gordon
Appears in:
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Date(s):
2005
2008
Award(s):
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DC Comics of Batman. | Age/Occupation:
Cop. | Personality type:
Good
Fair and believes in Justice. | Signature look:
Intelligent and witty. | Resides:
Gotham City. | Character connections:
Links the Batman and Harry Potter Franchise together with his precense in both. | Fun facts/trivia:
On Thanksgiving weekend, 2007, fake four-page tabloid-size "Gotham Times" newspapers were distributed at various public events. Headlined "City at War - Batman Saves Entire Family", every article teased events in the film, and everything in the handout was geared toward the film, including the weather ("Gloomy and overcast...") and advertisements for Gotham National Bank, the Gotham Girl Guides and recruitment for the Gotham Police Department. |
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| Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - ''Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.''
- Bruce Wayne: [after The Joker threatens to blow up a hospital via TV] Do you think I should go to the hospital?
James Gordon: You don't watch a whole lot of news, do you, Mr. Wayne?
- ''Everyone knows you're Gotham's White Knight.''
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