Right lads, almost through series 2 of The Wire and watching the second last episode it hit me that 'Stringer Bell' must be one of the coolest duds in tv/cinema history so got me thinking about those characters, not the actual actors, but the cinematic characters or TV characters who you watch and think "yep, all day long" and dof a cap to. I'll throw one of mine into the mix to get us started.....
Carlito Brigante - you need something to carry off a leather trenchcoat but Carlito is THE MAN. "You think you're bigtime? You're gonna fucking die, BIGTIME" cinematic legend for me that is. The clinker is the party at Sean Penns beach house when everyone is in shorts etc... and he's still clobbered up "He's got a big future, if he can live past next week....".
"The nightmares invading the sleep of Bayern fans involve four horsemen of the Champions League Apocalypse riding towards them. As the faces come into focus, they will recognise Frank Lampard, Cole, Petr Cech and Drogba. All were immense..."
Patrick Bateman; narcissistic, insane, theoretically murderous but also cool as fuck. Throughout the book and film his clothes, lifestyle and birds all look the business.
[quote="Horse & Hound"]Glenn just you wait til you meet brother mouzone, series 3 i think, coolest cat in the whole programme.
other than him ill go for Mr Blonde from Reservoir dogs.
"are you gonna bark all day.....little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?"
honerable mention to 'dirty' Harry Callaghan too.
'Brother' just arrived an episode ago Agree - another cool hand luke
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"The nightmares invading the sleep of Bayern fans involve four horsemen of the Champions League Apocalypse riding towards them. As the faces come into focus, they will recognise Frank Lampard, Cole, Petr Cech and Drogba. All were immense..."
George Clooney does it for me............................whhhhhhhooooooooooooooaaaaaaaa! Not in the sexual content, phew! Everytime i see him he's always dressed smart, be it a whistle and flute or just casual in shirt and chino's you've got to admit he looks quite dandy.
Can i just mention in despatches one Marion Morrison, aka John Wayne. Anyone who can ride through the desert on horse back, slaughter a hole tribe of Injun's, almost single handedly, not have a speck of dust, dirt, blood about his peron and not a hair out of place..................... how cool is that!
That guy is amazing and super unlucky. Stuff always happen to him, and the company he works for have the worst employee screening process since there always is a mole in there.
On the other hand, the guy have one of those amazing "always full of bullets" guns and his cellphone have like 250 hours of active battery time
Cool dude :P
They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time.
I'll throw another one who has to be up there. Danny Ocean. Now, I'll go against the grain and go for the Clooney version. Anyone who walks out of jail, unshaven in a tux is close on my hero Loved Oceans 11 the remake as I enjoyed the casting and general feel good vibe and Clooney centre stage. "the House always wins unless when you get that perfect hand and bet big, you take the house....."
Tried to recreate the Bellagio Fountains scene last year when in vegas....
"The nightmares invading the sleep of Bayern fans involve four horsemen of the Champions League Apocalypse riding towards them. As the faces come into focus, they will recognise Frank Lampard, Cole, Petr Cech and Drogba. All were immense..."
So many cool characters in The Wire later in series 5 you'll meet yoing Michael and Chris is also cool as a cucumber and Marlo is cold as ice. However my Cool Hand Luke would be Daniel Craig in Layer Cake , the man is unflapable and gets to shag Sienna Miller.
[quote="sauzee88"][quote="get the beer in"]On the subject of Daniel Craig aka James Bond, how about throwing Sean Connery into the mix.
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did he shay shorry?
"The nightmares invading the sleep of Bayern fans involve four horsemen of the Champions League Apocalypse riding towards them. As the faces come into focus, they will recognise Frank Lampard, Cole, Petr Cech and Drogba. All were immense..."
Steve McQueen and Dean Martin. Not for movies, both were cool as f**k in general. I read Deano would turn up in the studio with a whisky bottle do one take and no more and be gone, off to play golf or meet up with THEE LADS.
Come on my friends, lets make for the hills. They say there's gold but I'm looking for thrills.
As Willard says about him - "Well, he wasn't a bad officer, I guess. He loved his boys, and he felt safe with 'em. He was just one of those guys with that weird light around him. He just knew he wasn't gonna get so much as a scratch here. "
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so got me thinking about those characters, not the actual actors, but the cinematic characters or TV characters who you watch and think "yep, all day long" 
cinematic legend for me that is. The clinker is the party at Sean Penns beach house when everyone is in shorts etc... and he's still clobbered up 
"He's got a big future, if he can live past next week....".
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