OT - Charles Bronson or Clint Eastwood

[machiner]

Who's (character, of course) the most badass?

[Rancoras]

Clint Eastwood, hands down. <flamebait> Bronson is a wimp.</flamebait>

[Zundfolge]

WWDHD?

(What would Dirty Harry Do?)

[jdodson]

neither, napoleon dynamite.

[machiner]

Bronson would leave Eastwood crying like a baby in an alley...bruised and broken...

...without even lifting a finger.

If it came to it, Bronson's will alone would break Eastwood - the Mama's Boy.

[TravisNewman]

How about some others? I voted Eastwood just because I've never liked Bronson's characters. But how about Chuck Norris? I'm not talking Walker Texas Ranger, though that show is fun to watch because of how campy and ... well, crappy it is... I'm talking back in the day when he was co-starring in Bruce Lee movies. MAN he's a badass. He's won a LOT of world championships in martial arts. I'd say he, in his prime, could take either of the two in the poll, in their primes. Though this isn't really a martial arts related question so I dunno if he applies.

So my official response, I guess, is neither... Napoleon Dynamite.

[machiner]

Yeah - CHuck was truly tough - and indeed, he was a world champion - but we're talking about the movie character here - Chuck is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to fuzzy - Bronson would pick his teeth with Norris.

[Dylanby]

From The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:


Tuco: [trying to read a note] "See you soon, id..." "id..." "ids..."
Man With No Name: [taking the note] "Idiots". It's for you.

I still find that line hilarious, after all this time.

[jwb]

Clint Eastwood. All the way.

Dirty Harry:
Harry Callahan: I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?

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[Harry Callahan has to explain why he shot a man.]
Harry Callahan: Well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy.
The Mayor: Intent? How did you establish that?
Harry Callahan: When a man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross!

And Hang 'Em High? He was a bad ass in that too. Good movie.

Oh yeah- Gunny Highway in "Heartbreak Ridge". Now that is bad ass personified.

"Why don't you lay there and bleed a while before you taste some real pain."

[RonPrice]

Since both men in movies portray characters, the question is "who portays the worst character(s)?" I'd give each a 9 out of 10 for "badness," ease in which the can kill; capacity to take law into their own hands, et cetera.-Ron Price, Tasmania:KS
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Here is a little prose-poem on Eastwood::)
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FAIR MANSIONS--BUT NOT YET

In 1973 Clint Eastwood starred in a film called Magnum Force. The film presents a picture of urban life consistent with the Baha'i view that society is in "the dark heart of an age of transition." When the film was released in 1973 I had just finished five years of teaching primary and secondary school. I was more than a little conscious of the moral vacuum and the social and behavioural disorders within the society I had grown up in and now lived as a young adult-a rapidly westernizing, rapidly globalizing, rapidly populating one. Magnum Force graphically underlined some of the disorder in urban life through a narrative with Clint Eastwood as a cop in Los Angeles. -Ron Price with thanks to WIN TV, 9:30-11:55 pm, 14 February 2002, "Magnum Force(1973)."

Clint, there was an alternative

to all that violence and confusion,

all that corruption and absurdity.

It was just then spreading around

the world, embryonic, first steps,

just stuck its head above the ground

and the apex of this new System

was about to have a new building

that would serve as its Seat, the Seat

of the Universal House of Justice.


But this wasn't much use to you

back then, the cop that you were.

Clint, we had begun to raise fair mansions

of God's Own Kingdom wherein all the chaos

and ruin would cease. And I was moving,

or so I thought, to a safer place and plain

free of these disorders. Sadly I found,

as you found, Clint, another form of

disorder in my own house, under my

own roof. For there was no escape

for all of us in this dark heart, except

to sink deeper into the firm earth and

learn some of the perennial wisdom

of the ages...would we learn in time

Clint? Would we learn in time???????

[fuscia]

meh.

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