when's the last time you saw something of yourself in a fictional character?

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or, if we haven't done it yet, just "fictional characters you have identified with in the past".

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 20 March 2005 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Father Dougal
Brilliant (from the Fast Show)

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 20 March 2005 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The Richard Littlejohn-lookalike from Peep Show.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 20 March 2005 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Alice... In Wonderland.

― Kate Pettifer (Argh.), Sunday, 20 March 2005 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Karol Karol in Trois Couleurs: Blanc.

― Let's keep the afterbirth and throw Ian Riese-Moraine away! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 March 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Charlotte York, eek

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 20 March 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

George Costanza. Always. And I seem to remember identifying with Ben Katz from Dr Katz, but I've haven't seen that show for ages and I can't remember exactly why.

― Richard C (avoid80), Sunday, 20 March 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Lars Ulrich in Some Kind Of Monster

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(not fictional, but what the hey)

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Mars Ulrich is a work of fiction, though!

― Let's keep the afterbirth and throw Ian Riese-Moraine away! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

lars' dad

― sexy waitress connie stevens (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 March 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHA!

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Sunday, 20 March 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Katerina Ivanovna in Crime & Punishment, got very emotional about it when people were talking about why she was a bad person who deserves no pity in class

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 20 March 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always identified more with Kirk, he's cool. In the DVD extra's he has go to traffic school, and he plays a song for the class.

Anyway, fictional characters, hmmm, I'll have to think some more.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 20 March 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Worryingly, parts of Charlotte Simmons, which I really wasn't expecting.

― Anna (Anna), Sunday, 20 March 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim in the Office when dealing with one of my Gareth-like colleagues.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 20 March 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally identified with the guy who wrote "How to be idle" - not fictional, mind. Hmmm, I only seem to read Hamsun, Murakami, Kawabata & Mishima. I did kinda identify with Tooticky in Moominland in Midwinter, and GBV in their Watch Me Jumpstart DVD. Hmmm, it's hard to split fictional characters from people in bands.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 20 March 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim from The Office, Seth Cohen when he's not mackin' it, any dignified put-upon black character ever and George from Dead Like Me (the only female one).

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

colin hunt (fast show).
i swear to god i've had to try really hard over the years to not turn into him of an evening after a few drinks. he scares me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/wallpaper/images/colin_640.jpg

― piscesboy, Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been told I am Marla in Fight Club. I don't know how to respond to that

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

In the past? Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The movie Dazed & Confused mirrors events & people in my own life ca.1976 with an accuracy that's unnerving even ten years later. I've never experienced anything like this watching a film before or since.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club.

Slightly seconded here. My brother and his girlfriend were watching it last night and I'm all--

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 21 March 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"He could think of himself as lazy, he could think of himself as an unsrupulous seducer of women, he could tell himself that only because of the absence of need he had never robbed the blind or the helpless, and it did not disturb his equanimity. That was how he was made, and he could even smile at it. But it was far otherwise with cowardice. He was ashamed of that."

CS Forester, The Ship

― f--gg (gcannon), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

chris rock in cb4 as mc gusto. not when he was all g'ed out, but when he started realizing everything around him was ridiculous and wrong as mc gusto. yeah.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The movie Dazed & Confused mirrors events & people in my own life ca.1976 with an accuracy that's unnerving even ten years later.

Dude, I don't know how to tell you this...

Anyway, the last semi-fictional chacter to remind me of myself was Charlie Kaufman during his opening monologue in Adaptation.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

AErly this morning I was watching I'm Alan Partridge and I realized we do the same type of hand gestures when we're explaining a pathetic joke. Then I went to get gas and said "SHIT! Someone else got pump number 2." It took a few seconds for that one to hit me.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I read this book last week called "I Capture The Castle" last week which was about these two teenage girls growing up in this enourmous, rambling, decaying castle in the country, lapsing into poverty because their genius/lunatic father was too much of a genius/lunatic to work. But the protagonist, Cassandra, was using her imagination and her journals to escape and turn the poverty into something romantic and lovely rather than awful. So replace "avant guarde novelist" with "software systems designer" and that was my childhood right there. I nearly cried, I identified with her and her situation so much.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that book, Kate.

The two characters I've identifed with most I think are Frankie Addams in 'The Member of the Wedding' and Anne Elliot in 'Persuasion'. But that combo probably makes me sound like more of a fuck-up than I actually am.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Jane Austen is great for seeing yourself in characters! Her characters are just so perceptively drawn! I'm much more of a Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, pining and making myself sick over rubbish men and picturesque views. Replace her obsession with "Scott" with "dronerock" and yup, I'm there.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

er, that one guy in 'late august, early september'

― N_RQ, Monday, 21 March 2005 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Morley in the Scarf.

HE IS A MURDEROUS PSYCHO.

I am quite worried about myself, right now.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally Sheedy in Breakfast Club = rowr.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahhaa, I didn't look like her! I dressed like her, had an unhealthy obsession with vodka and being mysterious, and ended up a totally reformed character with none of that angsty bollocks left.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'm a cross between John-Boy Walton, the Joel Gray character in Cabaret, and Nathan Barley.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

'Donnie', from The Big Lebowski. also I look like him slightly.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I admit that I also identified with one P. Bateman a little (more evil book version).

― BARMS, Monday, 21 March 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Keith in 6 Feet Under.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Doug from King of Queens

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I love I Capture the Castle, Kate. I re-read it quite frequently as an inspirational tool for dealing with poverty.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 21 March 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was a young teenager I used to fancy myself as Sydney Carton from A Tale of Two Cities.

― Bidfurd, Monday, 21 March 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

...who, thinking about it, must be the Indie-est character in English Literature.

― Bidufrd, Monday, 21 March 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone told me last week that I was a female George Costanza. That's pretty sad.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

My son kinda IS Dash from The Incredibles.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I think I identified with both of the characters in that movie. And yes, there's a little bit of George in all of us.

On a related note, Larry David. I love the episode in season 2 when he trips Shaq, becomes a pariah, and is *thrilled* about it. Finally, people are leaving him alone!

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Miles in Sideways. :-(

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

weird - about 5 minutes after reading Kate's answer, the movie version of "capture the castle" came on the tv.

my answer is sideways's miles too, but i think i'm just too easily convinced in this dept when it comes to movie losers. though the 'right time, right place, now make a move' date hesitancy was pure me.

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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