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Deadshot
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Favorite Character?
Posted: 11 Feb 06 8:02 AM Modified By Deadshot  on 3/27/2006 4:17:02 PM)

Alright Squad, let's get the party started!

For now I'm going with Bass of course.  He's Da Man!  From knife fighting desert rebals to overthrowing governments, ain't nobody better.  If you disagree, take it up w/ Big Barb!  After we get done with the Character Tree, my opinion may move.  There some really great characters in this series!

Dan&David: Is Bass based off someone you know/knew or just what the greatest Gunny should be?  And on that note I have a debate w/ my father-in-law (the Marine) on who the best DI in a movie was.  He says Jack Webb in The D.I.....I say Louis Gossett Jr. in Officer and a Gentleman.  What's your take on this?

Deadshot


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Finucane
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Re: Favorite Character?
Posted: 11 Feb 06 3:10 PM
Deadshot: 

Best DI?  R. Lee Ermey in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," hands down.  He speaks a language I understand.

I knew a Charlie Bass in Vietnam back in 1962, a fine NCO.  He was one of the first guys killed at the Ia Drang debacle in November 1965.  I bought my first handgun from him, a S&W M39 9mm, and smuggled it back to the States when I left VN in '63.  But the Bass in this series as David and I have developed him is really a composite of many fine NCOs we've known, or wished we'd known.

My favorite Starfist character? Um, ah, let me think on that for a while.

Dan
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Re: Favorite Character?
Posted: 12 Feb 06 8:00 AM Modified By Deadshot  on 3/27/2006 4:17:56 PM)

Gunny Sergeant Hartman.  Nice call Dan.  I'll try and find a Jelly Donut.

"Today... is Christmas! There will be a magic show at zero-nine-thirty! Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few marines! God has a hard-on for marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand? "

There are so many more quotes from him that I've memorized but since this a family show I'd better not qoute them.  Although the one I always use is: "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?"  "It's a kinder/gentler Marine Corp now-a-days," as my father-in-law (the Marine) likes to say.

Thanks for the insite on Bass.

Deadshot

 


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Re: Favorite Character?
Posted: 12 Feb 06 4:05 PM

Ooo, favorite character....Dean started out as my favorite character, and he still is one of my favs.  I'd have to say that the number one favorite character slot is now occupied by Hammer Schultz though.  :)  (cuz even though he's the platoon crazy, he uses common sense).

Other favs include (but aren't limited to):  Claypool, Owen the Woo, the Skipper, Top Meyer, and Gunny Thatcher.

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Re: Favorite Character?
Posted: 13 Feb 06 5:01 PM Modified By Finucane  on 2/13/2006 5:02:04 PM)
Well, I like all the characters I've created for this series, even the bad ones, maybe because each is a little reflection of something in myself.  But if you ask me which one would I like to have dinner with, it's gotta be Cynthia Chang-Sturdevant.  She's more my age and we'd have a lot to talk about.  And while I'd be happy to sit down and share a beer with any of the good guys in this series, Zechariah Brattle's the one I wouldn't mind sharing more than a bottle with.  He's sincerely (operative word here) religious but doesn't force his beliefs on other people; he's no coward; and he's smart enough to listen to Gunny Bass.  He's also wise enough to realize what's going on between Bass and Comfort Brattle and frankly would be delighted to have a man like Charlie Bass as his son-in-law.  By the end of the Kingdom sequence the two have become friends.  I did not consciously base him on a real person but made him up to be the kind of person with whom I could be comfortable. I think I may have been influenced a little in this character by the poor town parson in Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, a classic literary type that has remained with me through the years.  Especially when he says:
"For if a priest is foul in whom we trust,
No wonder a layman shows a little rust.
A shame it is, that priests in mind should keep
To let a filthy shepherd tend clean sheep."
But when I was done I realized that sure enough old Zechariah actually reminds me of a guy I know.  Relax, friends, I'm not at all religious and don't believe hardly anything the preachers preach.
Keep your eye on Hammer.  David may have some things in store for him.
Dan
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