Best on-screen portrayal of a freeper-type?

[rumguy]

I'd have to go with Kevin Spacey's neighbor in American Beauty. He was an authoritarian douchebag who got off on watching Ronald Reagan movies.

[tridim]

1. Four words...

Squeal like a pig.

[ComerPerro]

2. Liberty Valance

he and his cronies are the perfect FReepers.

[Spirochete]

3. Keanu Reeves

in "The Gift"

[alittlelark]

4. The supporters of the emporer in SW2

They cheered and rallied that which was evil.

[physioex]

5. Archie Bunker.....The lovable kind..

:)

[Lovecrafty]

6. John Lithgow in "Footloose" perhaps? Fundie to the max!

[Nomad559]

7. Martin Sheen

The Dead Zone

[Murdock]

8. Timothy Robbins

in "Bob Roberts"

[rumguy]

9. Or maybe

Tim Robbins in Short Cuts.

[Nostradammit]

10. Chris Cooper!

That's exactly who I thought of when I read the title of your post.


This quote used to be in my sig line:

"This country is going straight to hell." - Colonel Frank Fitz, USMC

[Ruffhowse]

11. Michael Douglas in "Wall Street"-perfect freeper businessman

[Lucky Luciano]

14. No way - Gordon Gecko is no Freeper

Gecko wouldn't give a flying fuck about abortion or Christianity. He would, of course, be Pro-b*sh and a total Libertarian IMO, but not a Freeper - Freepers are fundies by and large.

[noonwitch]

26. Michael Douglas in "Falling Down"

I agree about Gordon Gekko-repub, yes, freeper, no.

The guy in "Falling Down" is a guy who totally loses touch with reality, and reverts to being a rage-driven psycho.

[onebigbadwulf]

12. The pastor in 21 grams.

The one who betrays Del Torro when Del Torro lands himself in jail.

So disgusting.

[JSJ]

13. ned beatty's rapist in "deliverance" n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

15. The "squeal like a pig" quote from post #1 beat you to it! nt

[JSJ]

16. looks like i'll have to leave no post...

...unopened from now on.

[Torgo Johnson]

17. Warden Norton from the Shawshank Redemption

From IMDB:



Andy Dufresne : Dear Warden, You were right. Salvation lies within.

[Bundbuster]

18. John Wayne in

EVERY MOVIE HE EVER DID!

[lpbk2713]

19. Major Winchester in the TV version of M*A*S*H

or that guy that gave this line in "The Hunt for Red October".......

"Listen; I'm a politician which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops."

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

36. The character's name was Geoffrey Pelt, IIRC...

and he was *not* a freeper. Remember, Pelt was the only one in that room who wanted to give Ryan's theory a chance instead of releasing the hounds.

Pelt was one of my favorite characters in that movie, btw.

"Ambassador, you have over a hundred warships in the North Atlantic right now. Your aircraft have dropped enough sonar buoys so that a man could walk from Greenland to Iceland to Scotland without getting his feet wet. Now could we dispense with the bull?"

Now, Tupolov (the Alfa captain) - *he* was a freeper.

[lpbk2713]

39. You are correct overall as regards the character, but...........

I was thinking the line itself typified freeper ideals.

[Cassandra]

20. FRANK BURNS in M*A*S*H*

Weasly, back-biting, cowardly, selfish, sexually furtive, always ready to shift the blame to others, self-righteous.

[phillybri]

21. Store owner in "Falling Down"

That was a sick MF'er...

[peekaloo]

22. Willem DaFoe 'Wild at Heart'

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[Fenris]

23. Gary Oldman in "The Contender"

Made even more scary by the fact that he is a freeper-type in real life.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. Edward Woodward in 'The Wicker Man'

[DS1]

25. On some levels - Tank from American History X

He's just more assertive than most FReeprs.

[Richardo]

27. The Omegas in "Animal House"

Greg Marmalard, Doug Neidermeyer, The Kevin Bacon pledge...all of them.

[LanternWaste]

28. Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts...

Tim Robbins as Bob Roberts...

Well, I guess politicians don't really post on Freeper boards, so I'll have to nominate those two really weird characters in Bob Roberts who acted like groupies for Bob and followed him around, looking for The Answer as though he were Jesus of Nazareth. The glazed looks, the poetically tiny amount of drool on the mouth of one, the defiant posture that screams, "Defy me!" (I consider that the un-official motto of freepers) that they held during one of Bob's concerts/rallies pretty much personifies the Freeper to me.

On the humorous front, in the Mel Brooks movie "Spaceballs", the character played by Rick Moranis is the first thing that pops into my head every time I see or hear * speak. Gotta love what the id does to us, sometimes... :)

[leeman67]

31. One of them was played by Jack Black!

The way he portrayed his character was priceless. Especially when he had "Bob" written on his forehead (ala the Manson "Family").

[BigMcLargehuge]

29. General Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove

"No more than 10 to 20 million killed TOPS!"

[Magrittes Pipe]

30. James Woods as Byron de la Beckwith

In Ghosts of Mississippi.

A) Woods has gotten pretty wingerish lately anyway, and
B) RimJob probably has a framed portrait of Medgar Evers' murderer hanging in his office.

[LynneSin]

32. Jack Black from Bob Roberts

Jack Black was hilarious as this Freeper Groupie. By the end of the movie his face was just obsessed with Roberts to the point of cheering when the guy they thought shot Bob Roberts was murdered. (the guy was cleared of the Roberts shooting).

Trivia: That was Jack Black's first movie role!

[FunBobbyMucha]

33. Alan Rickman does a good Rove in Bob Roberts as well.

And something so right (read: creepy) about Laura Palmer's dad as the other Freeper in Roberts' campaign (can't think of this actor's name but classic freeper look).

[FunBobbyMucha]

34. The Emperor and Vader

So obvious I'm surprised I'm the first to post it.

[kodi]

35. lee j cobb's character in 12 angry men

.

[terrya]

37. Angela Lansbury in "The Manchurian Candidate"

The ultimate fascist.

[The Great Escape]

38. Teague in "Cold Mountain"....

as portrayed by Ray Winstone. I never realized that there was a Confederate Gestapo.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

40. Vulcan in "Baron Munchausen"

[GiovanniC]

41. The Two Guys In "A Time to Kill"

In the opening scene.