Nope, and this guy doesn’t, either.
I voted for him - because that’s the only one of those movies I’ve ever seen. 
Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character in Hudsucker). I can’t explain it, exactly, except that I love the way she stays on script as she’s pitching her phony ingenue story to Norville. (“Seek and ye shall find, that’s what I always believed, and so…” "Water?’ "Oh yes, thank you… seek and ye shall find, that’s what…)
I also loved the way her contrived “meet cute” gets narrated by the two cab drivers in the diner.
Sadly, she wasn’t an option in the poll.
Theodore Donald ‘Donny’ Kerabatsos.
Phone’s ringin’, dude.
This.
But what was up with the chance to vote for John Wayne? :eek: Granted, he did a fine job as Rooster, just not the Coens’ Rooster.
I also went for Tom Reagan, and was shocked to see how low he was in the rankings.
I guess there must be friendlier places to drink than an IMDB poll.
Is he also from Raising Arizona? Don’t remember him.
I personally think that Intolerable Cruelty was highly underrated, and the best Coen Bros. character was just about any of them … 
Miles Massey: So you propose, that in spite of demonstrable infidelity on your part, your unoffending wife should be tossed out on her ear?
Rex: Is it possible?
Miles Massey: It’s a challenge.
Miles Massey: Were there any other specifications?
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy: [in outrageous French accent] She spe-cif-i-cated a silly man.
Freddy Bender: Objection, Your Honor!
Judge Marva Munson: I’m going to allow it.
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy: She spe-cif-i-cated a man who, though clever at making money, would be easily duped and controlled.
Freddy Bender: Objection, Your Honor!
Miles Massey: Shut up, Freddy. She’s allowing it.
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy: She spe-cif-i-cated a man with a wandering pee-pee. How you say? A philanderer whose affairs would be transparent to the world.
Freddy Bender: Objection, Your Honor!
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy: Finally, a man whom she could herself brazenly cuckold until such time as she might choose to, uh - We would say, “faire un coup de marteau sur des fesses.” You would say, “make hammer on his fanny.”
Freddy Bender: Your Honor, objection! I-Irrelevant!
Judge Marva Munson: I’m going to allow it!
Miles Massey: Tell us, Baron - Did you introduce her to such a man?
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy: Sir, I am the concierge!
Miles Massey: And to whom did you introduce that calculating woman?
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy: I introduced her…
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy: [points to Rex Rexroth] to that silly man.
Freddy Bender: Your Honor, objection!
Miles Massey: Let the record show that the Baron has identified Rex Rexroth as the silly man!
Freddy Bender: Objection, Your Honor: strangling the witness.
Judge Marva Munson: I’m going to allow it.
Gus Petch: You want tact, call a tactician. You want an ass nailed, you call Gus Petch. [repeated line] I’m gonna nail your ass!
Miles Massey: “Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard, they make no battery…” Mrs. Rexroth, do you know those lines?
Freddy Bender: Objection, your honor.
Judge Marva Munson: Grounds?
Freddy Bender: Uh… poetry recitation.
Marylin Rexroth: I’ve invested five good years in my marriage to Rex and I’ve nailed his ass fair and square. Now I’m going to have it stuffed, mounted, and have my lady friends come over and throw darts at it.
Marylin Rexroth: What are you after Miles?
Miles Massey: Well, I’m a lot like you. Just looking for an ass to mount.
Marylin Rexroth: [Whisper] Well, don’t look at mine.
Rex: My wife has me between a rock and a hard place.
Miles Massey: That’s her job. You should respect that.
Marge Gunderson, just a quiet voice of strength and sanity and appreciation for two cent stamps.
Yes. He’s in Hi’s group therapy session during the opening.
I voted for Jerry Lundegaard from Fargo because he’s a different type of bad guy. Evil people in movies and TV are usually portrayed as powerful and intelligent. Jerry was weak, ineffectual and unwilling to cut his losses (one of his main personality traits was that, no matter what happened, he kept trying to move forward). His weakness is one of the things that distinguishes Fargo from other crime stories.
Intolerable Cruelty also gave us the National Organization of Matrimonial Attorneys Nationwide. Its apt motto: “Let NOMAN put asunder…”
Ah, thanks.
Marge Gunderson - on behalf of all the indomitable, unflappable, dogged, undeterred, and rock solid Minnesota Norwegians I knew growing up.
I really liked the head CIA guy in Burn After Reading…so uncaring.
Mattie Ross (both versions) is very possibly my favorite character of all time, but since she’s not an original Coen creation, I sort of feel that she’s cheating. I voted for her anyway.
I have to go with El Duderino, but I’d like to also give a nod to Marty, his interpretive-dancing landlord.
Marge Gunderson, now and forever.
I’m disappointed there’s not more love for Ed Tom Bell, the sheriff in No Country for Old Men. I respect Tommy Lee Jones as an actor anyway, and this role offered up a real, three-dimensional character inextricably linked to a real place. He’s the believable centerpiece in that universe, about which the stranger characters can orbit.
I’d love to log in and vote, but some paranoid idiot at IMDB has decided that my account there is so fricken important that I have to enter my ID, my password AND a catcha all at the same time and all correctly! And if I get any part of it incorrect, I have to enter it all again each time I try!
BANKS are not this paranoid!
Yes, he’s very good in that part. My favorite lines of his:
Deputy Wendell: [Viewing the desert crime scene] It’s a mess, ain’t it, Sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell: If it ain’t, it’ll do till the mess gets here.
Wendell: We goin’ in?
Ed Tom Bell: Gun out and up.
Wendell: [Wendell draws his pistol] What about yours?
Ed Tom Bell: I’m hidin’ behind you.