Aug 25

100 Iconic Movie Characters – Can You Name Them All?

Posted:    Wednesday, August 25, 2010 in Feeling Creative, illustration, mashups, People, pop culture, star wars
   August 25, 2010 01:25 PM 
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In brief, Dutch artist Joep Gerrits designed this poster depicting his subjective list of the 100 most iconic movie characters. The icons are clever and minimalist, almost South Parkian, and come from 68 different films.

It’s been raining here in Brooklyn for the past three days, so trying to name each of the characters seems like an appropriate activity at the moment. I’ve started off by identifying 32 of them and now I would like you, dear readers, to help me fill in the rest. Gerrits lists the films he used on his Deviant Art page, so I suppose you could just IMDB it … but that wouldn’t be as fun, now would it?

Gerrits also gave the same treatment to Star Wars characters, an image which I’ve also included after the jump. Get to it!

[Spotted at Neatorama]

Row 1: one, two, three, four, Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver), six, seven, eight, King Leonidas (300), Hannibal Lector

Row 2: Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Lion, five, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, nine, ten

Row 3: one, two, three, The Godfather, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Row 4: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, Vincent Vega, Jules Winnfield, ten

Row 5: Batman, Tony Montana, three, four, five, six, seven, Frankenstein, Indiana Jones, Edward Scissorhands

Row 6: one, William Wallace (Braveheart), Raoul Duke (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Row 7: Scream, two, Derek Vinyard (American History X), Neo, Morpheus, six, seven, eight, Shaft, ten

Row 8: Superman, two, The Bride (Kill Bill), four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Row 9: one, Charlie Chaplain, The Dude, Walter Sobchak (The Big Lewbowski), five, six, seven, eight, nine, Freddy Krueger

Row 10: Rocky, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Anybody care to go to town on this one, too? (Click to expand)

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  • Grant

    top row starts with a clockwork orange and #8 is Dave from 2001
    I think the beatles are on row 3
    row 4 has James bond, the marx bros. Gort, (six) Doc Brown and the Pulp fiction crew
    row 5 shows Planet of the apes and resevoir dogs
    row 6 has clint eastwood in a fistful of dollars, braveheart, fear and loathing in las vegasfight club and ends with charlton heston as moses, and frodo (lotr)
    in row 7 trinity follows morpheus, and the row ends with saturday night fever
    after the bride in row 8 is lawrence of arabia, #7 is nosferatu then mcmurphy, nurse rached and the chief from one flew over the cucoos nest
    row 9 starts with frankenfurter from rocky horror, after lebowski are andy and red from shawshank redemption, breakfast at tiffany’s, dr strangelove, robocop, freddy
    row 10 rocky, alien?, sound of music, #5 isblack knight from holy grail, 7 is poirot thenwoody allen and the last is sinatra

  • Jason

    Wow. Thanks Grant! We tip our hats to you and now consider you an honorary member of the Jailbreak Collective!

  • Ryan

    Row 1: Alex Delarge – Clockwork orang, #2 Dennis hopper in Easy Rider, Henry Fonda in Easy Rider, Travis from Taxi Driver, Jody Foster-taxi driver, Marilyn Monroe – Some like it hot, Dave-2001, Maximus-Gladiator, Hannibal-Silence of the Lambs

    Row 2: Dorthy, Tinman, Scarecrow, Lion, Amelie, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Princess Lea, Kevin Spacey-american beauty, Mena Suvari from American Beauty

    Row 3: first 3 are from the Exorcist, The Godfather, Michael Corleon or Charles foster kane, Next 4 are the beatles, Lola – Run Lola Run

    Row 4: James Bond, next 3 are the Marx Brothers, #5, Sadistic cop from Cool hand Luke, #7, Vic Vega, Jules Winfield, Mia Wallace – Pulp fiction

    Row 5: Batman, tony Montana, Charleton Heston from planet of the apes, the girl ape form planet of the aps, Next 3 are Reservoir dogs (White, Blonde, Pink?), Frankenstein, Indiana Jones, Edward scissor hands

    Row 6: Fistful of dollars, William Wallace, Raoul Duke, Tyler Durden, Ed Norton from Fight Club, Drill Sergeant from Full metal jacket, #7, Leon from the Professional, Gandolph, Frodo

    Row 7: Scream guy, #2, Derick Vineyard from American history x, Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, #7, #8, #9, Saturday Night Fever

    Row 8: Superman, #2, the bride, Laurence of Arabia, C3PO, Nosferatu, McMurphy, Nurse Rachet, Chief, #10

    Row 9: Frankenfooter-Rocky Horror Picture show, Charlie Chapman, the dude, walter sobchak, Andy Dufraine, Red, Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at tiffany’s, Dr. Strangelove, Robocop, Freddy Krueger

    Row 10: Rocky, Ripley-Alien?, Sound of music, James dean from rebel w/o a cause, Black knight, Bill the butcher?, #7, Woody Allen, #9, Frank sinatra

  • http://thejailbreak.com Quincy

    Epic! You know your stuff, man. Thanks for the comment and taking the time. We appreciate it!

  • B-Roc

    @ Ryan.

    Very close.

    in row 4 between the marx bros. & vic vega is robert duvall as Bill Kilgore from apocalypse now.

    in row 8 between laurence of arabia and nosferatu is the robot from metropolis,not C-3PO

    in row 10 next to the black night is leatherface,next to him is clark gabel,and at the end is gene kelly.

  • Ryan

    Who is #7 in the 7th row – the red haired woman with the knife

  • Marcelo

    Row 1: 1 Alex Delarge -A Clockwork Orange/ 2 George Hanson, 3 Billy, 4 Wyatt- Easy Rider/ 5 Travis Bickle, 6 Iris-Taxi driver/ 7 Monroe -Seven Year Itch/ 8 Dave-2001: A Space Odyssey/ 9 Maximus- Gladiator/ 10 Hannibal-Silence of the Lambs

    Row 2: 1 Dorothy, 2 Tinman, 3 Scarecrow,4 Lion- The Wizard of Oz/ 5 Amélie Poulain-Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain/ 6 Darth Vader, 7 Luke Skywalker, 8 Princess Lea- Star wars/ 9 Lester Burnham, 10 Angela Hayes- American Beauty

    Row 3: 1,2,3-The Exorcist/ 4 Don Vito Corleone-The Godfather/ 5 Charles Foster Kane-Citizen Kane/ 6,7,8,9 the Beatles- A Hard Day’s Night/ 10 Lola- Lola Rennt

    Row 4: 1 James Bond-Dr No/ 2,3,4 Marx brothers- Duck Soup/ 5 Gort -The Day the Earth Stood Still/ 6 Bill Kilgore-Apocalypse Now/ 7 Mozart – Amadeus/ 8,9,10 Pulp Fiction

    Row 5: 1Batman/ 2 Tony Montana-Scarface/ 3,4 Planet of the Apes/ 5,6,7 Reservoir Dogs / 8 Frankenstein/ 9 Indiana Jones- Raiders of the Lost Ark/ 10 Edward Scissorhands

    Row 6: 1 Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo/ 2 W illiam Wallace-Braveheart/ 3 Raoul Duke- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/ 4 Tyler Durden, 5Ed Norton РFight Club/ 6 Drill Sergeant -full metal jacket/ 7,8 L̩on/ 9 Gandolph, 10 Frodo- Lord of the rings

    Row 7: 1Scream, 2 Forrest Gump/ 3 Derick Vineyard-American History X/ 4 Neo, 5 Morpheus, 6 Trinity-Matrix/ 7 Rosemary- Rosemary’s Baby/ 8 Leonard Shelby-Memento/ 9 Shaft/ 10 Tony Manero- Saturday Night Fever

    Row 8: 1 Superman/2 ,3 Kill Bill/ 4 Lawrence of Arabia/ 5 Metropolis / 6 Nosferatu- Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens/ 7 McMurphy, 8 Nurse Rachet, 9 Chief- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest/ 10 Spartacus

    Row 9: 1 Frankenfooter-Rocky Horror Picture Show/ 2 Charlie Chaplin- City Lights/ 3,4-The Big Lebowski/ 5 Andy Dufresne, 6 Red-The Shawshank Redemption/ 7 Holly Golightly- Breakfast at Tiffany’s/ 8 Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)/ 9 Robocop/ 10 Freddy Krueger- A Nightmare on Elm Street

    Row 10: Jake LaMotta-Raging Bull/ 2Tenent ripley- Alien/ 3 Maria von Trapp- The Sound of Music/ 4 Jim Stark – Rebel without a Cause/ 5 Sir lancelot- Monty Python and the Holy Grail/6 Leatherface-The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/7 Rhett Butler- Gone with the Wind/ 8 Alvy Singer, 9 Annie Hall- Annie Hall/ 10 Don Lockwood-Singin’ in the Rain

  • http://www.ClubberLang.com Clubber Lang

    The reason that got the part in the films was because they were big anyway,if they did steroids the film and actors would of been boycotted.

  • http://www.ClubberLang.com Clubber Lang

    No but Rocky should’ve given him a rematch aftrer he took the title back!