Live Poll: Poker-Faced Movie Characters

BUSTER KEATON

Are we voting on the actor's ability to pull it off or the character?

Fyc: Dr. Hannibal Lecter Angel Eyes The Joker Col. Hans Landa Norman Bates Jack Torrance

Thanks, Kyle. You know, I had many of these suggestions in mind, Alex De Large was also a possible option, but I don't know... the focal point was the ability of the characters to stay emotionless all through the film, to keep a straight stone-face any time, with a few outbursts in extreme life-and-death situations. The fact that many of these characters smile a lot indicates more 'colorful' personalities, Lecter, Landa and Torrance (maybe the Joker, too) can be good company if you're having a nice chit-chat with them. What do you think? Or maybe I just don't want this poll to be a retread of this one: http://www.imdb.com/poll/LyOh1tAyhPU/results

Tommy Lee Jones in anything would do it. My family used to count how many times he'd smile in a film. The average was twice, and the most was about six in Man of the House (which sucks).

I personally don't think the T-1000 should be on here. He's a robot, not a human. If he is programmed to not smile, then he won't. Also I feel like Lecter *should* be included. Remember the line about when he was hooked up to the heart monitor and when he killed a nurse his pulse never went above 72? The guy has really no emotions, except for love of pain in others. The TV show just emphasized that behavior (or lack thereof). FYC: Chief Bromden - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Joe Cabot - Reservoir Dogs Sameen Shaw - Person of Interest Castiel - Supernatural (first two or three years he was on the show) Vincent - Collateral Daria - Daria Neil McCauley - Heat Jason Bourne Ghost Dog - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Leon - The Professional Hit-Girl - Kick-Ass Wednesday Addams - The Addams Family Margo Tenenbaum - The Royal Tenenbaums Madeleine - Spectre Spock

Another great poll, ElMo! From the options so far, I'd vote Anton Chigur. As I've told you so many times before, you come up with so many creative polls, wow.

Rudolf Abel

Thanks for all the suggestions, I think I'll have some homework to do on this one so I can separate between 'emotionless' pôker-faces and cold-stare poker-faces, not quite the same. But I guess the final list will have more than 20 options.

Are you going to edit the opening like you said?

Bump.

I've already told you how much I like this one but I just noticed this: Check? Check. Now, discuss here and that's great, too. 'Adds a really funny touch. 'Good intro, too, but I tripped a bit over "for the most part of it." This is just a suggestion: It takes some impressive acting abilities to stay emotionless during the whole film or for most of it. Which of these movie characters would you most hate to confront in a Poker game? It's a good intro either way. I was thinking I'd hate to play poker with Anton Chigurh the most but now I'm thinking Michael Corleone.

Live Poll: http://www.imdb.com/poll/y77RAnXH8do/

Worthy adversaries, all. However, I would argue the candidates from comedies be excluded, since their poker face is meant for laughs. I include the teenager Larry in "The Big Lebowski" among them.

Worthy adversaries, all. However, I would argue the candidates from comedies be excluded, since their poker face is meant for laughs. I include the teenager Larry in "The Big Lebowski" among them. The woman from Rebecca is classic, but the underlying lesbian creepiness of her character almost makes it campy.