#63: What movie character exemplies the person you aspire to be and why?
Last week we relived some Crap Movie experiences with films we once thought were All That, but on reflection (or because we were dumb kids when we first saw them) they weren’t. Jess got the winning answer, and this week gets to ask:
What movie character exemplies the person you aspire to be and why?
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Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice (the good version from 1995). Elizabeth handles family drama and dysfunction with wisdom and equanimity; she has abundant time for reading and walks; she takes no guff from Lady Catherine de Berg. AND she gets Pemberley. 💪🏻😁
With so many good examples of righteous, self-sacrificing and honorable characters, it feels like an impossible task to pick the best or most worthy to mention, so I’m left to figuratively “pull one from a hat.”
General Maximus Decimus Meridus (Russell Crowe)
Gladiator
His character is summed up well with this one quote:
MAXIMUS: “What we do in life…echoes in eternity.”
Which is why whether a general or a slave or whether amongst nobility, soldiers or the oppressed, he inspires love and loyalty in all who he comes in contact with.
And his righteousness and sense of justice is infectious, inspiring honor and sacrifice even within the hardened hearts of criminals, turning previously self-serving, fearful or despairing men into brave, selfless and honorable men.
His desire for vengeance and justice is well-balanced with his love, mercy, forgiveness and grace.
I imagine this would be why I love the character so much because he exhibits much of the same characteristics of God...at least as much as a fallible, flawed and inferior human being can.