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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains is a list of the one hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
A fictional samurai loosely based on the real historical figure Date Masamune. Jack Fletcher Young Samurai: An English boy shipwrecked in Japan who eventually becomes a samurai. Gintoki Sakata: Gin Tama: A samurai who works as a freelancer. Haohmaru: Samurai Shodown: A fictional rōnin based on the real historical figure Miyamoto Musashi ...
This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.
John Carpenter is known best for crafting one of the greatest villains of all time with Michael Myers, but he also created a memorable hero in "Big Trouble in Little China.". For this late 1980s ...
The historical drama or period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historical dramas are docudramas , which attempt to accurately portray a historical event or biography to the degree the available historical research will allow.
These are lists of works of fiction that have been made into feature films. The title of the work and the year it was published are both followed by the work’s author and the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest ...
This is a list of Scottish characters from fiction. Authors of romantic fiction have been influential in creating the popular image of Scots as kilted Highlanders, noted for their military prowess, bagpipes , rustic kailyard and doomed Jacobitism .
22. Tess (1979). Cast: Nastassia Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson The movie, which takes place in South Wessex during the 1880s, centers on Tess Durbeyfield, who is sent to live with her rich ...