It’s Election Day in America, and millions of citizens are heading to the polls to cast their votes. Several are supporting incumbent President Barack Obama. Several are voting for the challenger, Mitt Romney. And some look at the ballot and wish we had more options.
Here’s where Fandango comes in. Hypothetically speaking, if you could step into the voting chamber and cast your vote for ANY film character to lead our great nation, whom would you choose? Would it be a proven leader? And up-and-coming innovator? A superhero? Or how about a dastardly villain capable of terrorizing our sworn enemies?
With Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln on the horizon, I could understand many wanting to cast a vote for Daniel Day-Lewis’ interpretation of our 16th president. I’d actually love to cast my vote for another of DDL’s creations: Bill “The Butcher” Cutting from Martin Scorsese’s brilliantly brutal Gangs of New York. Who better to clean up America’s streets and scare the budget back to balance than a terrifying monster like Cutting? I’d tune into every single State of the Union address … just to see what madness Bill would cook up, next.
“I’m forty-seven. Forty-seven years old,” Cutting says. “You know how come I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. A spectacle of fearsome acts. A man steals from me, I cut off his hands. If he offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises up against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike. Raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That’s what preserves the order of things. Fear.”
That dude gets my vote.
Fellow Fandango Movie Blogger Derrick Deane would cast his vote for a dual ticket of Tony Stark and John McClane. Now that’s a butt-kicking ticket!
“Stark can literally buy us out of this deficit,” Deane writes. “And he supports clean energy!”
Exactly.
So tell us, who would you vote for, and why? Then go out and vote for real, because results in our comments section unfortunately don’t count.
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