Favorite Character from a Stanley Kubrick movie

[LynneSin]

There are so many great ones to choose from. As much as I'd want to pick any of the characters from Dr. Strangelove, I always have to go back to my personal favorite: R. Lee Ermey's Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. They said if you watch him carefully in the movie, Ermey doesn't blink one

[Felix Mala]

1. "Why don't you take a stress pill, Dave, and we can talk about it."

[Rick Myers]

2. Too many to count, my droogs...

But Strangelove, Buck Turgison and Major Kong are faves...

[Orsino]

3. Yeah. Hartman or General Ripper

Gotta give it up for the Ripper: "I do not avoid the company of women...but I do deny them my essence."

Gotta love it--unless you're some kinda deviated prevert.

[nine23]

6. Yup. Ripper still cracks me up after all these years.

Esp. given the era the film was made. Kubrick was waayyyy tooo goood...

[skypilot]

4. This might or might not count but...

...I have to say Teddy the robot bear in "AI".

[XemaSab]

5. I like Strangelove himself

"Mein Fuhrer!"

And Jack Torrence has a special place in my heart.

[johnnie]

7. Does Alex count?

[edbermac]

11. Of course!

[barb162]

8. the Slim Pickens character in Strangelove (yahoooooo)

especially when he takes off his helmet and puts on the cowboy hat

[youthere]

9. I love "Lawrence of Arabia" from Full Metal Jacket....

and Gunny Hartman.

[DonP]

10. Another for Gny Sgt Hartman

"What is your major malfunction numb nuts!"

I heard Ermey in an interview explain that he was originally hired by Kubrick as an advisor for an actor with that part and talked Kubrick into letting him actually do the part.

Good launch for Ermey's career.

[Nosmo King]

12. George C. Scott in Strangelove!

"He'll see everything! He'll see the Big Board!" and, "...a big plane like a '52. Jet exhaust fryin' chickens in the barnyard!"

[The Donkey]

13. I think it's a tie for me between Alex and . . .