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Pen Dragon
08-06-2005, 05:25 AM
No one comes close to Mitchum in Out of the Past
refriedwhiskey
08-06-2005, 06:00 AM
Bogart in Casablanca does.
dodo1
08-06-2005, 06:00 AM
What about Chili Palmer?
habronic
08-06-2005, 06:31 AM
gabriel byrne in miller's crossing.
dpaterso
08-06-2005, 06:31 AM
There's cool and then there's stone faced, two completely different things. I remember Bob Mitchum expressed surprise in an interview when asked about the lasting influence of this iconic noir film, saying "We called 'em 'B' movies."

I thought Bogey's turns at Spade and Marlowe were cooler than Rick but each to their own.

Carradine's Bill in the hotly debated Kill Bill is worth a mention in the contemporary stakes. A character doesn't have to appear in a B/W oldie to be cool.

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)
BottomlessCup
08-06-2005, 07:12 AM
Cool Hand Luke.

I don't care if he did cry for his dead mama.
Jake Schuster
08-06-2005, 08:10 AM
Steve McQueen in pretty much everything he did.
Robert Mitchum.
Bogart, of course.
Deus Ex Machine
08-06-2005, 08:35 AM
Richard Roundtree as Shaft was cooler than cool.

McQueen in Bullitt was cool.

James Dean in Rebel without a cause was cool.

Marlon Brando in The Wild One was cool
whistlelock
08-06-2005, 08:36 AM
Yhep, McQueen in just about everything he did.
vig
08-06-2005, 09:01 AM
nicolas cage - wild at heart

bradd pitt - cool world

micheal corrleone - god father 2

clint eastwood - good bad ugly etc...

bruce willis - pulp fiction

magnum pi - quigly down under

mickey rourke - pope of greenich village
Pen Dragon
08-06-2005, 09:03 AM
Brad Pitt in Cool World????

That better be some kind of attempt at satire
vig
08-06-2005, 09:10 AM
i can only wish i can be as cool as brad pitt in cool world.

satire would be more like "i found out that pen dragon is produced but he drank his way out of the deal', they asked him if he would want monthy payments or one lump sum paid in a thirty pack. he chose the thrity pack.

vig
jkk808
08-06-2005, 09:21 AM
Vanilla Ice, in Cool as Ice.

Only answer possible.
Pen Dragon
08-06-2005, 09:39 AM
40 pack. i'm not stupid, vig
BeefMissile
08-06-2005, 09:58 AM
He's a BAMF!

BM
prescribe22
08-06-2005, 11:17 AM
uhhh... Sean Connery as James Bond (Roger Moore - in LIVE AND LET DIE)
refriedwhiskey
08-06-2005, 12:44 PM
Eastwood as Josey Wales.

Can't be topped.
English Dave
08-06-2005, 01:15 PM
James Coburn - Our man Flint or The Last of Sheila.
Architeuthis Dux
08-06-2005, 08:41 PM
Lee Marvin.


Point Blank.
AnconRanger
08-06-2005, 09:01 PM
charles bronson in hard times.

john wayne in true grit.
Bad Liver
08-06-2005, 10:18 PM
Since all the classic greats have been named, I'll throw in Clooney in Out of Sight for a more recent cool turn.
Deus Ex Machine
08-06-2005, 10:26 PM
I'd rather use Out of Sight for Clooney as a cool hero.
Bad Liver
08-06-2005, 10:31 PM
You may be on to something there.
Pen Dragon
08-06-2005, 10:43 PM
Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz is my number 2 choice
billythrilly7
08-06-2005, 11:55 PM
Danny Zuko, Grease.

Nuff said.


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Authorized
08-07-2005, 01:16 AM
Forthcoming Cool Chick Protag Flicks:

Keira Knightley - Domino
Charlize Theron - Aeon Flux
Fortean
08-07-2005, 02:59 AM
Ehrich Weiss, as Howard Hillary, in THE MAN FROM BEYOND (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013367/combined)
Pen Dragon
08-07-2005, 04:34 AM
houdini was never cool
jessejames
08-07-2005, 06:11 AM
Samuel L. Jackson in almost every role he's played.
Biohazard
08-07-2005, 09:03 AM
James Coburn - Our man Flint or The Last of Sheila.

He was also good in The Magnificent Seven.

I'd like to nominate Charles Bronson in Once Upon A Time In The West.
refriedwhiskey
08-07-2005, 10:23 AM
houdini was never cool
I'll kill you for that.
Pen Dragon
08-07-2005, 02:07 PM
i'll escape
refriedwhiskey
08-07-2005, 03:40 PM
I just saw some evidence to support a very high ranking for Clint Eastwood in Two Mules for Sister Sarah.

Early in the movie, a bad guy is holding Shirley MacLaine at gunpoint, trying to get Clint to come out from his hiding place on a hill above them.

Clint calmly takes a stick of dynamite out of his vest. Lights its long fuse with his cigar. And tosses it over his shoulder at the bad guy and Shirley MacLaine. When the bad guy sees it, he lets go of Shirley and runs -- and Clint stands up and shoots him a few times in the back.

Then Clint WALKS down the hill, while Shirley is staring paralyzed at the dynamite's sputtering fuse. And he casually steps on the fuse when there's about an inch left, and cuts it off with a knife. Sticks what little fuse is left on the dynamite between his lips for a second to make sure it's out. Puts the dynamite back in his vest.

Now THAT'S cool as ice. :)
vig
08-07-2005, 03:42 PM
great scene. watched it as well this afternoon.

vig
RBoss
08-07-2005, 05:11 PM
-Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill Vol. 2

-Jason Statham in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
vig
08-07-2005, 05:14 PM
the transporter was cool.

vig
jellyjilly
08-07-2005, 07:40 PM
Dana Andrews as the detective in Laura.

I don't get the fascination with Out of the Past. Some of those "cool" performances, such as Jane Greer's, actually liked downright leaden to me.
iembalm
08-07-2005, 08:14 PM
Marge Gunderson in Fargo.
Jake Schuster
08-07-2005, 08:21 PM
Michael Caine in "Get Carter".
randesq
08-07-2005, 09:05 PM
The entire cast of magnificent seven (Coburn, Marvin, Bronson, Brynner, McQueen, Vaughn, etc.)

Richard Burton in where eagles dare

Jean Reno in Leon

McQueen in Bullit

Redford in three days of the condor, jeremiah johnson

Michael Caine in Zulu Dawn. 'Stand firm, Hold the line!!!!'

William Holden in Wild Bunch

I second whiskey's Eastwood in Josey Wales

All time king of steely Lee Marvin in Big Red One, Death Hunt, Magnificent 7, dirty dozen
miles
08-07-2005, 09:43 PM
Hope this one hasn't already been nabbed -- Holden in Stalag 17.
Biohazard
08-07-2005, 11:41 PM
Marge Gunderson in Fargo.

That's what I always say when I need to remind myself about the lack of credibility the Academy Awards hold.
TheKeenGuy
08-08-2005, 09:36 AM
Ralph Meeker in Kiss Me Deadly.

Richard Widmark in Pickup on South Street.
dclary
08-08-2005, 10:51 AM
Vin Diesel in "The Chronicles of Riddick"
refriedwhiskey
08-08-2005, 11:57 AM
:confused:
cluckyburger
08-08-2005, 01:10 PM
takeshi kitano in pretty much anything he's ever been in
AaronB
08-08-2005, 01:16 PM
Robert Mitchum in "Night of the Hunter."
bwdial
08-08-2005, 02:00 PM
Forthcoming Cool Chick Protag Flicks:

Keira Knightley - Domino
Charlize Theron - Aeon Flux

Looking forward to both of these.

McQueen is definitely hard to top.
Eastwood is as well.

Does Captain Jack Sparrow qualify as a protag?
Indiana Jones was pretty effing cool.

Oh, Randall "Pink" Floyd is as cool as they come. ;)
Adam Isaac
08-08-2005, 02:03 PM
Kurt Russell-ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
NoTalentAssClown
08-08-2005, 05:27 PM
takeshi kitano in pretty much anything he's ever been in

I'll second that.

Tony Leung was glacier in "Infernal Affairs."
Jake Schuster
08-08-2005, 05:34 PM
Leung, unquestionably. (Damn, I wish I'd thought of that--I've got a whole row of his stuff for Wong Kar-Wai downstairs.)

Kitano--of course!

And how about for a woman protag: Maggie Cheung?
whitenavel
08-08-2005, 11:37 PM
Chow Yun-Fat in The Killer
Biohazard
08-08-2005, 11:38 PM
Chow Yun-Fat in The Killer

I need to watch that again sometime soon. Easily one of the best action films I've ever seen.
prescribe22
08-09-2005, 07:44 AM
McQueen & Brosnan in both versions of THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
Rhetorick
08-09-2005, 08:36 AM
My vote is for Shaft.