I've been thinking about what you said for a few minutes now, Sam, and I have to say that I agree with you %110.
Randall Patrick McMurphy (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
Darth Vader (Star Wars)
I've been thinking about what you said for a few minutes now, Sam, and I have to say that I agree with you %110.
I agree too, especially on the Jack N. not being a really great actor (and As Good As It Gets being his indisputable top) part, but I still can't dismiss McMurphy (the movie McMurphy, I didn't much care for the book) as - well, as less worthy of being the BMCoAT than any Star Wars character...
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Sam,
I agree that McMurphy was Jack being Jack. I also agree that he's overrated as an actor. BUT...
With McMurphy Jack being Jack fit the bill and fit it perfectly. Jack's personality fit McMurphy like a glove. It was a perfect marriage of actor and character. I don't think anyone else...even a "better" actor could have played McMurphy as well as "Jack being Jack" did. And, as you can see, to me he isn't a forgettable character.
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So there.
I will retort with this one idea. Great characters don't need much development to be great characters. Over several films they do or the character becomes stagnant, but in a single film the development can be minimal and still leave a great character.
You are correct about Vader's lack of character development in the first Star Wars film, but there was little character development of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.
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Conceded. Lector was not that well developed. I think it was Hopkins that made him great. And, if you're just looking at Vader's function as a villain in A New Hope, he was as developed as he needed to be to fulfill his purpose. He was always a cool bad guy...especially to an 8 year old kid sitting in a dark theater. This I would never dispute.