Ever watch a movie and think to yourself, "Man, that’s a nice life this character’s living. I wouldn’t mind a piece of that"? It used to manifest itself in real-estate envy — I always wanted Connor MacLeod’s sprawling SoHo loft (complete with mini-weapons museum) from 1984′s Highlander. But I was watching Pierce Brosnan’s The Thomas Crown Affair over the weekend and found myself saying, "Hey, that Thomas Crown’s got it made. Super-rich, with disposable catamarans and Caribbean pleasure compounds and private jets and Manhattan mansions — complete with a manservant — plus he gets to frolic with Rene Russo. And, to top it off, THE DUDE IS A MASTER THIEF. How cool is that?"
What character has a life that you’d like to slip into, even for just a little while?
Daniel Craig – Casino Royale
Being the ultimate superspy and banging Eva Green? I’ll take it.
doug heffernan
Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark. That would be two amazing lives to have. I mean you would get to be a millionaire and a superhero. How much better can you get?
In case you don’t know Bruce Wayne is Batman and Tony Stark is Iron man. Just to clear up any confusion.
I’d like to live in one of the houses from any film Nancy Meyers had directed — either the spanish LA house or English cottage from The Holiday, or the Hamptons house in Somethings Gotta Give (love that house!! ) And when I realized she had directed The Parent Trap with Lindsey Lohan, I realized it made perfect sense because I loved both houses in the movie — the one in Napa and the English town house! I would love to live for awhile in any of these places.
Carrie Bradshaw
Thomas Crowne was the first name I thought of. The guy catamarans, is a glider pilot and knows how to dance.
Random, but I’d love to be Rose from “The Holiday.” Working as a journalist, living in a little English cottage, dating an adorkable composer – not bad, really. I’d have picked a Elektra or something, but it’s not the kind of life that stays fun in your fifties, you know? Charming ivy-covered cottages stay charming.
Amelie Poulin. She gets to have all kinds of fun doing good deeds, and has interesting friends and an adorable boyfriend.
I always wanted to live in the house from Practical Magic. I love that house!! With the greenhouse and the high spiral stairs.
I don’t have a specific character, so much as a type of character. I want to be a villain, but not just any villain- I want to be a criminal mastermind, the kind who impresses everyone watching the show/movie because they’re brilliant AND badass. I think I like villains because I’m such a nice, law-abiding citizen in real life.
I just want to be any character who gets to be in a lot of swordfights. I really love swordfights.
I’d like to be Captain Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly/Serenity (even though he’s a guy). Seriously, spaceships, theft/smuggling, facing (or running from) danger? Awesome.
Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice 2005. I’d go live at that version of Pemberly with Mr. Darcy any day.
I have always loved that pad from Highlander, too.
Random, but Julia Stiles’s character in The Prince and Me. Become a brilliant doctor only to have a handsome prince waiting for me after I return from fighting diseases in third world countries. Awesome. Or, Anne Hathaway’s character in The Princess Diaries…I guess I have a thing for royalty.