My Favorite Characters

My Favorite Characters ( From Movies and Books)

Howard Roark - The Fountainhead (B)
Joker - The Dark Knight / Ellsworth Toohey - The Fountainhead (B)
John Galt - Atlas Shrugged (B)
Gordon Gekko  - Wall Street
Jack Sparrow - Pirates of The Caribbean
Tyler Durden - Fightclub
Tony stark  Ironman
Zobrist - inferno (B)
Neo - Matrix
Carlo Ventresca - Angels and Demons (B)

My Favorite Books

1) The Fountainhead and Atlas shrugged
    I would prefer Atlas shrugged to fountainhead in most parts,like i would prefer inception to dark knight , But again fountain head has a strong anagonist character Ellsworth Toohey which is not there in Atlas shrugged.Just like the Joker character in the dark knight.

2) "Phylosophy who needs it" and "The return of the primitive" ( and all the other non fiction books by aynrand)

3) Blogs of Mediacrooks

4) Outliers, Blink and The Tipping Point

5) Who moved my cheese

6) The Dilbert Principle (and the other books in the series)

7) The Alchemist

8) Angels and Demons and Inferno

9) Jonathan Livingstone seagull

10)  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and the other books in the series)

My Favorite Hollywood movies

I want to give a list of various favorites of mine in next few blogs..


Favorite Hollywood movies

1) The dark knight

2) Inception

     I like visuals and background score of inception more, but Joker character will take dark knight to a different league. And according to me it undoubtedly its the best movie character created

3) Fight club

4) 12 Angry Men

    Best movie to understand how different point of views and biases(hidden) will affect our judgements. Its the starting point for me in which i learned much , much more in this regard from Nassim Nicholas Taleb,Malcolm Gladwell books.

5) Pulp Fiction

6) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and  On Stranger Tides

7) The Pursuit of Happyness

8) Wall street

    Gordon Gekko characterization is so great that we will not notice any flaws in the plot.After watching the movie you will remember any thing apart from Gekko.

9) Iron Man

     Introduction and first few scenes of Mandarin in Ironman-3 or so great , If they had not killed the character and made him a comic it would have been one of the favorite movie and the character but now Ironman-1 is much better on whole.And Tony stark is great.

10) The trueman show

    I watched the movie after reading a research paper on the new scientist article .This movie  reinforces the concept scarily and plesently.

            These are the other movies which i like but not been able to acomadate in top 10 The matrix, Groundhog day, Avatar,Intersteller,Batman Begins,Following, Se7en,Angels and Demons,A Beautiful Mind,Frost/Nixon,The Shawshank Redemption,Terminal,Jurasic park, Phoneboth,Cast away, Moneyball.