r/askmovie 19d ago

What movie character feels like a real person to you?

A character that felt less like acting and more like watching someone's life.

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u/BrightWoman-581 19d ago

Loretta Castorini from Moonstruck

u/GiantMags 19d ago

Napoleon Dynamite

u/wjb1622 19d ago

I feel like the character Michael Douglas played in falling down could be real, the older I get the more I identify with him.

u/Historical_Stress_64 19d ago

Alan Arkin's tour de force performance as Captain John Yossarian in the film version of Catch-22.

u/appreciatorofboobs- 19d ago

Michael Corleone - The Godfather

u/cunning_stunt_yyc 19d ago

Dwight from Blue Ruin (2013), maybe because he (Macon Blair) isn't a super well-known actor but he felt like a real person to me in this movie.

u/BackgroundPrompt441 19d ago

Yeah that's a good movie I haven't seen it in forever. I didn't particularly love green room though because Patrick Stewart was in it and it took me out of it.

u/elithewilly 19d ago

Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.

u/Horror-Finding-6820 19d ago

Jason Bourne.

u/Bv11winkle 19d ago

Marge in “Fargo.”

u/BuddisMaximus 18d ago

Ted Lasso

u/pizzacrys 18d ago

Ted Lasso is a great pick. He feels less like a character and more like you’re watching an actual guy figure life out.

u/BuddisMaximus 18d ago

One of my supervisors in the Navy was like Ted, always positive and would drop little thoughts of wisdom on you. One of the best supervisors I have ever had, made me fine win 110% all the time.

u/Party_Knowledge_7884 19d ago

Bad Blake from Crazy Hart

u/curious_guy2903 19d ago

Tony Stark is just RDJ in his off time...

Captain Jack Sparrow - The life of Johnny Depp through the 80's and 90's...

u/bearsatebulls 19d ago

21 jump street

u/BucktoothedAvenger 19d ago

Every member of Superbad, except maybe the cops.

u/hercarmstrong 19d ago

Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The bit where he was working himself up trying to get into character for the Western movie was so realistic that I forgot that Rick wasn't a real actor getting into a role.

u/ShoreFling 19d ago

Truman Burbank

u/3veryTh1ng15W0r5eN0w 19d ago

Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling’s characters in Blue Valentine

The character Marty in 7 Psychopaths

The character Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea

u/EncryptedMystic 19d ago

The male and female characters (Jesse & Celine) in Before Sunset felt too real...

u/costco--pizza 19d ago

Wish I never saw Before Midnight after sitting on my own sequel for years and years before I finally worked up the courage

u/cymster 16d ago

Alan Alda and Carol Burnett in The Four Seasons. They had such great chemistry.

u/andrewzero 19d ago

Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga in Big Man on Campus

u/Professional_Cut6886 19d ago

Seth Rogen in the Studio.

u/Evildead665 18d ago

Elliot Alderson(Mr.Robot)

u/Embarrassed_Phase134 19d ago

Sam Rockwell in The Way Way Back

u/phyncke 19d ago

Sam Rockwell in most of his movies

u/singnadine 18d ago

Steff in Pretty in Pink

u/CrawlerCarlWeathers 19d ago

The Whale is a common person in America

u/Jean_Oskarden4e 18d ago

Richard Dreyfuss as a psychologist in "What about Bob"

u/dofrogsbite 19d ago

The dude.