Top 10 Characters You Didn’t Know Were Inspired By Real People
Top 10 Characters You Didn’t Know Were Inspired By Real People
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These iconic movie characters seem to be larger than life on the big screen, but did you know that the filmmakers and actors took serious inspiration from true to life people for these roles? WatchMojo presents the Top 10 Movie Characters Who Were Based on Real People! But which character will take the top spot on our list? Norman Bates from ‘Psycho’, Jeffrey ‘The Dude’ Lebowski from ‘The Big Lebowski’, or Apollo Creed from ‘Rocky’?
#10. Indiana Jones from the “Indiana Jones” franchise (1981)
#9. Ursula from “The Little Mermaid” (1989)
#8. Johnny Fontane from “The Godfather” (1972)
#7. Lt. Vincent Hanna & Neil McCauley from “Heat” (1995)
#6. Travis Bickle from “Taxi Driver” (1976)
#5. Francis ‘Frank’ Costello from “The Departed” (2006)
#4. ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan from the “Dirty Harry” franchise (1971-88)
#3, #2, #1 ?
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Wow.
That Johnny Fontane inspiration is actually widely known. Or at least I do not know a single person that has ever seen The Godfather movie and did not know that Frank Sinatra was an inspiration.
if you look closely, C-3P0's legs are both gold 8:08
The fridge thing was supposedly borrowed from early drafts of Back to the Future, where the time machine was intended to be a modified fridge. They also thought of powering up the time machine with a nuclear explosion in a nuclear bomb testing site. I’m glad they changed their minds. I can’t see how a time-traveling nuclear-powered fridge would be more iconic than a DeLorean time machine powered by lightning. lol.
The Departed was a remake of Infernal Affairs. How can it based on someone?
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I thought Biff looked like Donald Trump even before I saw this video
Forest Gump?
Trump is the strongest man installer the world
looks at thumbnail
As yes, Trump. My favorite fictional character
I didn't even realize that Indiana Jones and like half these people were inspired by real people.
LOL Biff as Trump. I did not know that while watching Back to the future.
WatchMojo, why do you keep rehashing old videos?
Mom from Futurama must’ve been inspired by Hillary Clinton.
not first
How was Biff only an honorable mention? Disliked.
Truth is definitely stranger than fiction
I knew about #1, but not that alternate Biff was inspired by Trump. :O
There's differences between Trump and Biff. Biff grew up poor, and although Biff's big break was winning a million dollars, and Trump's big break was a small loan of a million dollars, Trump forgets to mention that loan was for his expense account, his father actually co-signed for a 70 million loan putting up his own money at the exact same time ( > 250 million in today's dollars). And although they are similarly lucky (the 1970's manhattan was probably the best time in world history to buy large amounts of real estate) Biff actually runs successful casinos and industries where Trump's went bankrupt many times, and eventually became mostly a publicity and branding company (he doesn't actually own most of those "Trump Towers" it's actually marketing) with a business credit of 15/100, stock that crashed to zero, and as an actual developer he went from Manhattan skyscrapers to someone who could barely finance golf courses, despite still holding a few buildings that collectively came to be worth about 3 billion as of today because that's how much NY real estate is worth these days he could barely get loans for projects because no actual businessman that knew him trusted him anymore.
Whoah! Trump was Inspired by Biff?, D: )
Donald Trump is in Home Alone 2. He is the random guy that tells Kevin where the lobby is
Some of these were really cool – the guy Indiana Jones is based on is fascinating, and I love that Divine inspired a Disney villain.
LOL at all the losers whining in the comments section. If you hate this channel, why do you watch all their videos?
Why won't this guy make a Origins: Stan Lee Video?!
U forgot about Julia from Under the dome!
I think everyone knows Apollo Creed was inspired by Muhammad Ali.
I love Donald Trump! Stop hating you haters!
i know the person who's based off from a movie called "Scar Face", it's Al Capone.
Sherlock Holmes is based on a real person as well
Voldemort is also like Trump
Tamatoa – David Bowie
Biff would still be a better president than that orange baboon….
Hey WhatchMojo! Could you make a list of tv shows set in the 40s? 50s? 60? And so on? Just watched Stranger Things, which is set in the 80s and was looking for other shows set in the 80s. I thought this would be a great idea for a top 10!
Rob Gronkouski vs Travis kelce
Why was Norman Bates number 1? I think almost every has heard that by now.
I think the thumbnail for this video confirms Biff was based off the grenade with baby hands himself.
damn guys click bait? really?
But the Biff one was so obvious!
I just dislike wathcmojo videos as a habit now
I make YouTube notify me when they upload so I can click, dislike n then leave
i didn't know divine is a real person
How about Count Dracula, based on Vlad Tepes the Impaler.
Does this mean President Trump is the result of someone mishandling the Delorean time machine?
Isnt the departed a "remake" of infernal affairs?
didn't you guys do this list already?
who. is biff. and. what. dose. he. have. to. do. with. trump