This idea comes from the sports radio show called Primetime that I listen to pretty much every day. They had some really good ideas for a list like this, but I decided that I would make a list of my own.
Everyone's had that experience when you're watching some movie or TV show and you think to yourself, "Man, I wish I were that guy." It actually happened to me the other day, when I was watching The Bourne Identity. I mean, how sweet would it be to be able to kick anyone's a$$ at a moment's notice?? I would say pretty cool. But the whole not-knowing-what-your-name-is and lots-of-people-trying-to-kill-you thing wouldn't be very cool at all, so I might have to re-think trading places with Jason Bourne.
So anyway, there are tons of movie characters that it would be very cool to trade lives with. But here are my top 5 movie/TV characters, starting with 5.
5. Longfellow Deeds, from Mr. Deeds.
This one is pretty obvious right off the bat. Some random normal dude, played by Adam Sandler, gets word that he's been left a HUGE fortune from his dead distance relative. A relative he didn't even know he had! That makes getting the money even sweeter. He didn't know that it was coming.
So after getting the money, he's an instant celebrity, right? He goes to New York, where there are a bunch of shady businessmen trying to con him out of his money, but they fail. And while he's in NY, he falls for some sleazy-at-first reporter, played by Winona Ryder, and gets a piece of that action. Thing that makes this a positive: Ryder actually looks pretty hot in this flick. So he is filthy stinking rich (out of the blue and didn't have to work for it) and gets to make whoopie with a good version of Winona Ryder...pretty good deal.
4. Jason Bourne, from The Bourne Trilogy
I know I've already kinda mentioned this one, but why not? Devoting more thought to how it would suck to always have people coming after you to kill you....it wouldn't be that bad, because theoretically, Jason Bourne is skilled enough to always kill his enemies first. Or at least that's the impression the movies give us. But still, it's kind of even more badass to know that people are coming to kill you and knowing that when they do come, you will just stomp them out.
And you know Jason Bourne gets the chicks. He's got that badass, chicks-can't-keep-their-hands-off-him thing going for him. When he's done running from secret government agency people that are trying to get rid of him, he can choose any woman on the street to go home with. Nothing wrong with that, folks.
3. Mack Gerhardt, from The Unit
Now at first glance, there is nothing flashy about Mack Gerhardt from The Unit. He's not rich at all, in fact, he's probably struggling to pay his bills. His home life on the show is in shambles at the moment, which is never a good thing. But the coolest thing about Mack is what he does for a living.
Mack is part of a secret team of soldiers that goes around the world and kills whoever they want, whenever they want. Actually, they have missions handed down straight from the President. But they get paid to kick ass, and that's about it. Oh and after he's done kickin ass and takin names, he gets to come home to his wife. Nevermind the fact that Mack and his lady are going through a rough patch.
2. Daniel Ocean, from Oceans 11/12/13
Daniel Ocean is the perfect combo of looks, money and badass-ness. It takes a real cool dude to pull off wearing a tux, like, five nights in a row, and Daniel Ocean pulls it off better than anyone else. There isn't a lot to say that is different about Ocean. There are the typical things that are the major points of this list -- money and women mainly -- that Ocean is good at, but he also is #2 because of what he gets to do for "work."
The dude gets to think up ideas of how to steal insanely high amounts of money from other rich dudes. That's pretty much all that needs to be said, people.
1. Turtle, from Entourage
If I could just trade places with Turtle or be in the same position, life would be total bliss. If you don't watch Entourage, here's the scoop: Four best friends who grew up together, move to Hollywood, one of them becomes a movie star, and his three buddies mooch off of him and they live it up everyday.
The reason I would pick Turtle as opposed to Vince (the movie star) or any of the other guys is this. Out of the four guys, Turtle is the one that does the least amount of work on a daily basis. He is the only one that doesn't have a job or something that resembles a job. Drama is a working actor, although a struggling actor. Vince is the actor, of course. And E is Vince's manager and is trying to become a Hollywood agent.
All Turtle does is get money from Vince, runs around town taking care of business and errands for Vince, and gets ladies because of Vince! Life wouldn't get much better than being Turtle from Entourage.
