The Characters Behind the Characters
Submitted by podizz on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 09:14
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- Citizen Kane- Charles Foster Kane-William Randolph Hearst
- Psycho- Norman Bates- Ed Gein (Also inspired Leatherface from Texas Chainshaw Massacre and elements of Jame Gumb from Silence of the Lambs)
- Rocky-Rocky Balboa-Chuck Wepner
- Chinatown- Hollis Mulwray- William Mulholland
- Casino-Sam Rothstein-Frank Rosenthal
- The Big Lebowski-Jeff Lebowski-Jeff Dowd: The Coen brothers met Dowd at the Seattle International Film Festival while promoting their 1984 debut film Blood Simple. Called "The Dude" since he was a boy. Former member of the Seattle Seven, a Vietnam protest group for which he briefly spend time in jail. In a 2005 Boston Globe interview he said Jeff Bridges captured his body language "110 percent) Has become somewhat of a cult hero, doing college tours and appearing at the annual Lebowski Fest.
- On the Waterfront-Terry Malloy-Anthony DiVincenzo, Father Barry- Father John M. Corridan
- The Departed-Frank Costello- Whitey Bulger
- Scarface (1932 version)-Antonio 'Tony' Camonte- Al Capone
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Raoul Duke-Hunter S Thompson, Dr. Gonzo-Oscar Zeta Acosta
- Rain Man-Charlie Babbitt- Kim Peek
- The Sting-Fred and Charley Gondorff-Henry "Shaw" Gondorff and Johnny "Kelly" Hooker
- Dog Day Afternoon- Sonny- John Wojtowicz, Leon Shermer- Ernest Aron
- The Bridge on the River Kwai- Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson- Philip Toosey
- The Exorcist-Regan MacNeil-based on the 1949 exorcism of young boy Ronald Hunkeler, Walter Halloran, Father Damien Karras-Walter Halloran , Fr. William S. Bowdern-Father Lankester Merrin
- The French Connection- Popeye Doylse as Eddie Egan and and Cloudy Russo as Sonny Grosso, Alain Charnier as Jean Jehan, Sal Boca as Patsy Boca, Angie Boca as Barabara Boca, Henri Devereaux as Jacques Angelvin
- Double Indemnity- Phyllis Dietrichson as Ruth Snyder, Walter Neff as Judd Gray
Real life people who were the inspiration for movie characters. Characters must have different name in the movie, so no Henry Hill in Goodfellas or William Wallace in Braveheart.