100 Most Memorable Film Characters Of All Time: Nominations 61 thru 80

75) Andrew Becket in PHILADELPHIA (Tom Hanks) In his first real performance showing us what a truly amazing actor he is, Tom Hanks brought a real humanity to Andrew Becket, a gay man dying of AIDS. Jonathan Demme finally forced mainstream Hollywood to tackle some more difficult issues with this film, as we watch a very good and noble man not only having to suffer a horrifying disease, but also suffer from the prejudices and fears of others. Just watch as Andrew gets so wrapped up in the opera he's listening to, as he's brought to tears by the music.

74) Marquis de Sade in QUILLS (Geoffrey Rush) The Marquis de Sade ... was there ever a more flamboyant and controversial character? As embodied by the always great Geoffrey Rush in this film, the Marquis is a man who lives to challenge the establishment, to write books of lurid sexual and violent detail to shake people up, and to endure all the pains and humiliations of what his writings end up doing to him because of the ignorance and hypocrisy of those in power, who felt they were protecting the public from what they thought was vile and deviant. The Marquis of this film goes to any lengths to always find ways to write and get his writings read ... an amazing scene shows the Marquis escaping his cell ever so briefly to show that he has used his own blood to write another story on his own clothes when a pen and paper have been taken from him.

73) Rick Deckard in BLADERUNNER (Harrison Ford) Harrison Ford truly broke out of his Han Solo/Indiana Jones persona in Ridley Scott's dark and fascinating sci-fi film. What's fascinating about Rick Deckard is that he begins as a man who is hunting down androids, who are now loose and running from being spotted in a future society. By the end, we begin to wonder if he may be an android (replicant) himself ... Deckard is definitely in the mold of the anti-hero, a dark and brooding man, personified by Ford in one of his best early performances.

72) Jacob Mitchell in A SIMPLE PLAN (Billy Bob Thornton) Three men find a bag filled with $4 million in cash, and watch their lives spiral into hell when they decide to keep the

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