Post: #76

Bruce Lee - Physical ideal
Jeffrey Donovan (Michael Westen from Burn Notice) - Special Forces, spy, modern day MacGuyver
Daniel Craig - Rugged and Imperfect James Bond

Post: #77

Brad Pitt's character in The Counselor.

Post: #78

King Leonidas from 300 and Yuri Boyka from the Undisputed movies

Post: #79

Christian Bale in American Psycho. For me, his finest performance. Incredible actor.

Post: #80

Also, Leo and Jonah Hill's characters in the recent Wolf of Wall Street.

Found the Jordan Belfort handled himself alpha as fuck. Plus the film was just damn hilarious.

Post: #81

Robert Mitchum.

Post: #82

       

Dan Akroyd in Trading Places.

Ideal or actual?

I seem to make a lot of the right moves, get slaughtered for no particular good reason, but come out on top in the end...!

Post: #83

(01-04-2012 03:51 AM)Mage Wrote:  It is quite telling that Sean Connery was the first James Bond from still rather patriarchal era.

Now if you would ask me who the biggest mangina of all the male actors is I would vote Daniel Craig, the latest and worst James Bond out there. I have yet to see a movie where he wouldn't pedestalise and white-knight and even his Bond doesn't sleep with many women and has a heavy one-itis. This is not actual James Bond anymore, just a dumb fighting brute.

It's a cliché by now, but yeah, Connery's Bond for me too.
Aloof, always holding frame, quietly dealing with social situations, didn't let women's antics get to him (for the most part).

Oddly, I think Craig is closest to the Bond in Fleming's novels (once Craig's Bond got over his initial oneitis, that is) -- way more aloof than the films, and quite cold-blooded and unemotional.

Post: #84

No one mentioned Ryan Gosling?

For me it is

1. Ryan Gosling

2. Gabriel Macht (Harvey Specter, Suits)

3. Joseph Gordon Levitt

Post: #85

I'm not sure I get the infatuation with Hank Moody. I'm a huge fan of Californication but to idolize Moody is to misunderstand him. His charm obscures his fundamental flaw: he hates himself. He's self-destructive and a waste of talent who has dragged his family and friends through his personal hell.

Post: #86

Steve McQueen
Sean Connery
Jim Brown
Idris Elba

Post: #87

Peter Riegert as Donald Schoenstein in Animal House

Post: #88

I forgot to add, I'd probably take Michael Fassbender's wardrobe in Shame.

Post: #89

Clooney as Danny Ocean, McQueen as Thomas Crown, Lazenby and Craig as Bond.

Post: #90

1. Sean Connery as everything he has ever played. He embodies the old strong man archetype, that every man should look forward to. Aging like a wine, staying cool and classy despite years.
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian. A very physical example, which gives me great motivation to lift and display powerful body language. Also teaches that speaking less is saying more. 3rd law of power.
3. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones/Han Solo - a no nonsense man with a very practical red pill attitude, not afraid to get dirty. Alpha in real life.
4.Jack Nicholson as Jack Napier/Joker (sans makeup) and some other roles - I am always amazed how this ugly little man generates presence and charisma overshadowing everyone else in the room. Everyone with height/looks issues should learn from him instead of making troll threads in RVF.
5.Danny Trejo as Machete - "Machete doesn't text!" The coolest phrase in cinema ever.

Post: #91

There have been some predictable (and great) examples in this thread, like Connery playing Bond or Ford playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo. My favorite modern example is shared with a few that have already posted, Downey Jr's Tony Stark. Exemplifies frame control, amused mastery, cocky and funny, outcome independence, pretty much textbook 16 commandments of poon and "how to interact with females" no matter what your relationship is with them. The scene where Tony is confronted by the reporter in the 1st movie and the scene where Black Widow is introduced in the 2nd movie shows you all of the above:

Post: #92

I like Jake Gyllenhaal as a 'style mentor'. Most of his roles are bad guys doing good...

Post: #93

Roger Sterling from Mad Men...bangs very hot women including 20 year old 2nd wife, dresses impeccably, is loaded, and doesnt take life too seriously. I'd take that over Don Draper's moping around feeling sorry for himself all the time...

Post: #94

(01-02-2012 01:07 PM)Amsterdao! Wrote:  David Duchovny as Hank Moody. No doubt!

My pick too. Minus the persistent pining for his ex-wife. And more gym time and less drinking.

Post: #95

Ford as Han Solo.

Post: #96

Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. An embodiment of red-pill thinking for more than just pussy.

I highly recommend House of Cards for anyone that hasn't seen it.

Post: #97

Russell Crowe in Gladiator
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne
Jude Law as Alfie

Post: #98

matthew mconahay in dazed & confused

*drunk excuse the spelling don't want to google it

Post: #99

Sam Jackson Nick Fury
Jamie Foxx Django
Idris Elba Luthor

Post: #100

This one is kind of random, but I was watching Ghostbusters last night and couldn't help but be impressed with Bill Murray's game.

I think his game is pretty underrated overall. He's completely nonreactive, doesn't take things seriously, and toys with women. Even when he does care, his tone and body language makes it seems like he's still just being sarcastic.