The Ten: Most Iconic Movie Characters

        There's a new relay race by My Filmviews and Anna from Defiant Success has tagged me and so here I am. These are the rules:

A list of 10 iconic movie characters has been made. That list will be assigned to another blogger who can then change it by removing one character (describing why they think it should not be on the list) and replace it with another one (also with motivation) and hand over the baton to another blogger. Once assigned, that blogger will have to put his/her post up within a week. If this is not the case the blogger who assigned it has to reassign it to another blogger. After you have posted your update leave the link in the comments here and I will make sure it gets added to the overview post.

First, the race so far:

• My Filmviews
• Keith and the Movies
• FlixChatter
• A Fistful of Films
• The Movie Scrutineer
• Cinematic Corner
• And So It Begins...
• The Cinematic Spectacle
• Rambling Film
• Reel Talk
• Defiant Success

The Iconic Characters

Rocky Balboa

James Bond

Ellen Ripley

E.T.

Dorothy Gale

Indiana Jones

Darth Vader

Mary Poppins

Han Solo

Who I'm removing

Michael Myers

The Halloween movies are definitely part of movie history but I feel that some others like Megan MacNeil from The Exorcist and Ghostface from Scream have become more iconic. Also, I couldn't really touch any of the other characters.

Now for my pick, I had to brainstorm quite a bit. I really wanted to choose a female character and was *this* close to picking Holly Golightly when I figured that she is perhaps more of a cultural and fashion icon than a movie one. Next I thought about going with some really sexy character and then it dawned on me:

My choice

Mrs. Robinson

Mrs. Robinson is arguably the sexiest movie character of all time (followed by Stanley Kowalski and Indiana Jones). Her icon status is almost aspirational. Women wish they could be as attractive as her and I'm fairly sure every guy wants her. But of course if you've watched the movie, you see the main reason why Mrs. Robinson is so enticing- we barely know anything about her. We don't even know her first name for crying out loud! Yet there is so many little clues for us to ponder over about what kind of a person she is and what sort of a life she might have led. She is the most interesting character in the movie by a mile and the one we end up remembering the most and not just because of the legs (again, the sexiest legs in movie history followed by Dr. Frank-N-Furter's). Just like Benjamin, she has seduced us, and I think she deserves a spot in this list for that.

        I now pass the baton on to my fellow chick with accent, Mette from Lime Reviews and Strawberry Confessions.