Is there a figure from book, film or the theater that you identify with?

[terrya]

That is, a fictional character from literature, film or the theater that's like you?

Terry

[wryter2000]

1. Elwood P. Dowd

At least, I try to be like Elwood.

[Vittorio]

2. It's quite obvious for me...

Spike, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm a hopeless romantic like he is, I'm good-looking, and I am a badass. The only thing different is that he's a vampire and I'm a human.

[southerngirlwriter]

3. From books:

Dominic Birdsey from I Know This Much Is True and Owen Meany from A Prayer for Owen Meany.

[northzax]

4. Jesus

everyone's always trying to bring me down.

[Vittorio]

6. That's not even funny.

And besides...Jesus is a non-fiction character...that's what I believe, anyways.

[northzax]

10. and I believe in unicorns

doesn't mean there's any evidence of it, outside of literature, which is what the Bible is, to me, brilliant literature.

[RandomKoolzip]

12. Hey! Why did chicks love Jesus?

'cuz he was hung like THIS. (holds out hands in crucifix gesture)

Come on, lighten up.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Rick Moranis in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, or Stu of Rugrats or...

Professor Utonium from the Powerpuff Girls.

I use to identify wifey and two girls with the PP. Temperaments match almost to the tee. Hair colors too.

[mr_hat]

7. That one guy in, you know, that movie with the car chase?

[Khephra]

8. Eraserhead

Or Uncle Fester.

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Don Gately from "Infinite Jest."

Big guy, screwed up a lot in life, now wants to make life better for others.

[quispquake]

11. Catcher in the Rye

Just kiddin' folks!!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Gerald Tarrant

or Leto Atreides II

[av8rdave]

14. Captain Over from "Airplane"

j/k (I hope)

av8rdave

[grannylib]

15. Ethel Thayer in 'On Golden Pond.' Not nearly that old, but living with a

husband I love dearly but who cannot see the good in much of anything some days, and who is preoccupied with death and a major pessimist and pretty grouchy sometimes...
And I just love Katharine Hepburn...

[CBHagman]

16. I think the world needs more Ethel Thayers.

They're the ones that keep us all going.

As for myself, I can identify with Gavin Lamb, the protagonist of Elizabeth Jane Howard's "Getting It Right," who has this "Ladder of Fear" system concerning social anxiety. Unlike Gavin, however, I don't live with my parents, and I'm not a hairdresser. :-)

[Forkboy]

17. My friend says I'm the love child

of Fletch and BlackAdder,with a dash of Frank Drebin thrown in.

It's a very accurate statement :)

[Westegg]

18. Honestly? Nick, the narrator of "The Great Gatsby"...

....That's my life, and I have never admitted it before now---not even to myself. But yeah, that's me.

And it feels good to finally say it.

[Aristus]

19. Toby Ziegler from "The West Wing".

We're a lot alike.

[Nikia]

20. I usually do in some way

That's what makes literature and film great, identifying and empathyzing with a character.
I have identified with Levin in Anna Kareina, the prostitute (forgot her name) in Crime and Punishment, Hermione in Harry Potter, Dorthy in the Wizard of Oz, Susan Kasyn (real but fictional portrayal in the movie) in Girl Interupted, Sydney from Tale of Two Cities, Babe from Babe, Ace from Doctor Who, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, among the many books and films which I have experienced.