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Character name:
Simon Templar
Appears in: The Saint
Date(s): April 1997
Award(s): 1 win & 2 nominations
| | Character back story:Simon Templar has no real family, no real home and Simon Templar isn't even his real name. Yet Simon Templar, also known as the Saint for his use of creating false indentities using the names of Catholic saints, is one of the world's most successful thieves. Slick, debonair and master of disguise, Simon manages to outwit the police again and again. On his next job Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a cold fusion energy formula from scientist Emma Russel, however the mission backfires as he falls for the pretty, intelligent scientist. Simon and his new love must now manage to outwit the Russian Mafia and work out the energy formula before the worst happens and the US is affected forever. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: Uses the names of the Catholic saints. | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
* The saint pin that Elisabeth Shue's character gives to Val Kilmer's character is a recreation of the original TV series' logo.
* The poetry written by Simon Templar's long-haired artist character, Thomas Moore, was actually written by Val Kilmer himself.
* The nickname "Boris The Spider" used by Ivan Tretiak to communicate with the Saint is a reference to a 1966 song by The Who, written by bassist John Entwistle.
* This film uses the classic 'Saint' theme tune that, though often thought of as starting with the 1960's television show, actually began in the 1930's and 1940's RKO Saint films and appeared in the radio show with _Vincent Price (I)_. This theme tune, having appeared in numerous post 1960's television adaptations of the Saint, serves as one of the most frequently and longest lasting theme tunes of a media franchise. | | | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - [Simon prepares to pick the lock on the door of a Russian government building, only to find it unlocked]
Simon: I love this country.
- Simon Templar: I am Marin Depores. I am from Spain but I am named for a Peruvian Saint, who could cure the sick, or the injured, by the laying of hands.
- Simon Templar: My name is Buro Houtenfaust. I was named for a Saint who was a very wealthy man. He had the wine, the women, the songs, the whole bit, and then inexplicably, took a vow of poverty and became a hermit. Ran off to live in the forest, in the nude.
- Simon Templar: My name is Thomas Moore. I was named after a Saint who died for his faith.
- Dr. Emma Russell: After all, you are my personal saint.
Simon Templar: You have to be a very good, and usually very dead person to become a saint. And more importantly, you need to work three miracles. Now, get to work.
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Character name: Ice
Appears in: Top Gun
Date(s): May 1986
Award(s):Won Oscar. Another 8 wins & 5 nominations | | Character back story: Pilot in Top Gun Naval Flying School. Ice always showed irritation for his fellow pilot Maverick, who knew he was one of the best pilots and brag about it whenever he could. Ice, who was one of the best himself, found that quite irritating, but they found common tongue at the end. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: | | Signature look: He used to flipping a pen over his knuckles. | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
* Val Kilmer did not want to be in this film, but was forced to by contractual obligations.
* A script for "Top Gun 2" was completed shortly after the release of the film, but it broke down in pre-production because 1) the military's technology had become updated and they didn't want camera crew anywhere near their new aircraft and 2) Cruise did not want a sequel and finally agreed to star in one for a very high amount that was deemed "unaffordable." The script followed the further adventures of Maverick as an instructor at the Top Gun academy, the twist being a cocky female reminiscent of himself joining the team.
* When the guys, as students, were first being spoken to by Charlie in the hanger, Maverick explains that he gave "the bird" to a MiG. She asks how he saw the MiG up close, and he says he was flying inverted. Right then, Ice coughs "bullshit" and the guys laughed. The "bullshit" line was ad libbed by Val Kilmer. | | | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | -
Iceman: You two really are cowboys. Maverick: What's your problem, Kazanski? Iceman: You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous. Maverick: That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous. -
I ceman: The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room. -
Iceman: You can be my wingman any time. Maverick: Bullshit! You can be mine. -
Goose: It's the bottom of the 9th, the score is tied. It's time for the big one.
Iceman: You up for this one, Maverick?
Maverick: Just a walk in the park, Kazansky.
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Character name: Madmartigan
Appears in: Willow
Date(s): May 1988
Award(s): Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 9 nominations | | Character back story: Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: A boasting mercenary swordsman, look only for himself, don't serve no one, but show kindness of his hearth when he accept to help Willow and the baby. | | Signature look: Long dark hair, boasting warrior looking type. | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
- In between takes, Val Kilmer was getting out of the giant cage he was being filmed in, when the chain snapped and the cage came down on his foot. A limp can be seen during the scene where Madmortigan leaves Willow upon arrival in front of the island with Fin Raziel.
- The six-month-old twins playing Elora Danan were too young to have a full head of hair. They wear a wig, which was applied using syrup, as normal wig adhesive would be too harsh for the babies' skin.
- In preparation for the movie, Warwick Davis had to learn a modified accent, how to take care of a baby, how to ride a horse, how to sword fight, and how to perform magic.
- Val Kilmer improvised a lot of dialogue.
| | | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Willow: What are you doing?
Madmartigan: I found some blackroot. She loves it.
Willow: Blackroot? I'm the father of two children, and you never, ever give a baby blackroot.
Madmartigan: Well my mother raised us on it. It's good for you! It put's hair on your chest, right Sticks?
Willow: Her name is not Sticks! She's Elora Dannen, the future empress of Tir Asleen and the last thing she's gonna want is a hairy chest!
- Sorsha: What are you looking at?
Madmartigan: Your leg. I'd like to break it. - Madmartigan: What the hell happened up there?
Willow: You started spouting poetry. "I love you Sorsha! I worship you Sorsha!" You almost got us killed!
Madmartigan: "I love you Sorsha?" I don't love her, she kicked me in the face! I hate her... Don't I?
- Madmartigan: What are you going to look like if this works?
Fin Raziel: Don't interrupt.
Madmartigan: Sorry.
Fin Raziel: I'm a young beautiful woman.
Madmartigan: Concentrate, Willow! - Llug: Wanna breed?
Madmartigan: [disguised as Hilda] Tempting... but no. | |
Character name: Jim Morrison
Appears in: The Doors
Date(s): March 1991
Award(s): 2 nominations
| | Character back story:Oliver Stone's homage to 60's rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. The movies features a tour- de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: The most charismatic frontman in rock music history. | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
- Prior to the audition, Val Kilmer memorized the lyrics to all songs written by Jim Morrison. He also sent director Oliver Stone a video of him performing a few Doors songs, which Stone claimed hurt Kilmer's image as Morrison.
- Prior to production, Val Kilmer lived and breathed Morrison for nearly a year, dressing in his clothes and hanging around at his old haunts on Sunset Strip. Jim Morrison biographer Jerry Hopkins says that he saw him one day when meeting Oliver Stone for lunch, using a payphone in the restaurant, and was so convinced by the believable image he cut that the first thought that entered his head was, "I'd forgotten how tall Jim was."
- The surviving members of "The Doors" claim that Val Kilmer did such a good job playing Jim Morrison and singing as Jim Morrison that they could not distinguish his voice from the real Morrison's, although they criticized Stone's portrayal of Morrison, and noted that numerous events depicted in the movie were pure fiction.
| | | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Jim Morrison: You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!
- Jim Morrison: Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
- Jim Morrison: Where's your will to be weird?
- Jim Morrison: I was stoned. It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time.
- Jim Morrison: I believe in a long prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown... Although I live in the subconscious, our pale reason hides the infinite from us.
- Jim Morrison: Actually I don't remember being born, It must have happened during one of my black outs.
- Jim Morrison: Love, death, travel, revolt, chaos.
- Jim Morrison: I'm a fake hero.
- Jim Morrison: I am the Lizard King. I can do anything.
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