Atheist characters in big and small screen roles?

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Post by maiforpeace » Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:57 pm

Yes. Off the top of my head there's Edward, played by Jack Nicholson in "The Bucket List" 2007.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:20 pm

maiforpeace wrote:Yes. Off the top of my head there's Edward, played by Jack Nicholson in "The Bucket List" 2007.

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Post by drl2 » Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:26 pm

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:28 pm

He was such an ASS in "Platoon" that I can never see him without gritting my teeth. Same way with Neidermeyer in "Animal House". (He was the father in the Twisted Sister video of "We're not going to take it.")
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Post by .Morticia. » Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:48 pm

The character Jim Lefferts in Elmer Gantry

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053793/fullcredits

loosely based on H.L. Mencken the character quotes Ingersoll

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

http://www.atheists.org/Robert_G._Ingersoll_

Klinger in MASH was a self declared atheist, Pierce may also have been. Certainly the main writer of the movie and the series was a well known and black listed atheist.
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Post by maiforpeace » Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:04 am

Mark Bellison, played by Ricky Gervais in The Invention of Lying.

Robert Neville played by Will Smith in I Am Legend.

Ray played by Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters.

Dean Keaton played by Gabriel Byrne in The Usual Suspects.

So I'm watching Escape from L.A., and when the cop character is prepping Kurt Russell as to what to expect when he gets to L.A., and what type of criminals are incarcerated there, he mentions atheists as one of the types. :hehe:
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Post by Berthold » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:12 pm

.Morticia. wrote:Klinger in MASH was a self declared atheist, Pierce may also have been. Certainly the main writer of the movie and the series was a well known and black listed atheist.
That's funny: The series, which I've read quite extensively in books of the general title "MASH in..." was heavily Republican - biased. Well, that was before Reagan and Bush jr. (perhaps Bush sr. as well).

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Post by .Morticia. » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:20 pm

Berthold wrote:
.Morticia. wrote:Klinger in MASH was a self declared atheist, Pierce may also have been. Certainly the main writer of the movie and the series was a well known and black listed atheist.
That's funny: The series, which I've read quite extensively in books of the general title "MASH in..." was heavily Republican - biased. Well, that was before Reagan and Bush jr. (perhaps Bush sr. as well).

That's funny

the film was pitched and written by a known commie, as was much of the series


but yes, pierce was a small town republican
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:43 pm

I think Mr./Mrs. Garrison on South Park was converted to atheism by Richard Dawkins, right before Dawkins banged her/him.

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:46 pm

Sarah Silverman (on the Sarah Silverman Program).

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Post by Berthold » Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:09 pm

.Morticia. wrote:
Berthold wrote:
.Morticia. wrote:Klinger in MASH was a self declared atheist, Pierce may also have been. Certainly the main writer of the movie and the series was a well known and black listed atheist.
That's funny: The series, which I've read quite extensively in books of the general title "MASH in..." was heavily Republican - biased. Well, that was before Reagan and Bush jr. (perhaps Bush sr. as well).

That's funny

the film was pitched and written by a known commie, as was much of the series


but yes, pierce was a small town republican
And Chevaux (the cajun who found oil in his backyard and eventually became an oil tycoon) was a member of the Knights of Columbus, and Boris Alexandrovich Korsky-Rimsakoff a member of the John Birch Society. Democratic politicians and sympathisers are usually travestied in ways that verge on the sue-able.

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