INTP main character in a movie?

[Czech Yes or No]

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[DetachedRetina]

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I like spoiler-ception. (http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?p=290659&posted=1#post290659)

[thelithiumcat]

I watched a film called Midnight in Paris (I think) recently and I thought that the main character (played by Owen Wilson) could very likely be INTP. Maybe I'm wrong but he seemed like he might be.

[Beholder]

Donnie Darko was also definitely an INTP

[Pistoli]

What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Johnny Depp's character.

[Wolf18]

The problem is, we're so rare that movie-makers don't want to make movies with INTP-like main characters, because we're so hard to relate to. I think we'll have to be content with relating to secondary characters. But characters like Loki from the new Thor movie (maybe), Sherlock Homes (NOT the main character in my view) and M (from James Bond, could be an SP though) always seem to be the supporting characters. I don't think that's going to change.

Good call on What's Eating Gilbert Grape though, Pistoli. I haven't seen Donnie Darko or Midnight in Paris.

SW

[Bazaar]

It is honestly difficult to type most movie characters as most of the time they are what the Director/Writer has imagined themselves. These characters might posses some contradictions, but then again, a lot of people do. Sometimes I might come across a movie that I can honestly say the character fits a certain type quite easily, but very rarely do I ever stumble upon that.

[Felan]

I think the main character in "What Dreams May Come" played by Robin Williams is a very nicely acted INTP.

[snafupants]

The movie Inception had an XNTP élan to it. :angel01:

Maybe Herbert West is an INTP bad guy?

[Radiant Shadow]

The protagonists within Pi and A Beautiful Mind, while portraying severe mental disorder {schizophrenia}, mimic the ruthless truth-seeking, social ostracization, and logical elegance that I associate with the INTP tribe.

[Czech Yes or No]

Sherlock Homes (NOT the main character in my view)
SW

Loki is likely INTJ, Holmes is ENTP.

[snafupants]

The protagonists within Pi and A Beautiful Mind, while portraying severe mental disorder {schizophrenia}, mimic the ruthless truth-seeking, social ostracization, and logical elegance that I associate with the INTP tribe.

Er, John Nash is INTJ, right?

[Radiant Shadow]

Er, John Nash is INTJ, right?

Perhaps, I'm hardly an expert. If that's the consensus of the wise, then I'll cede the point. That Dr. Nash used pure mathematics to revolutionize economic theory {if I remember right} may speak to a functional preference instead of one devoted to purity {Te/Ti}, so he could be an INTJ as easily as an INTP, I suppose; yet, Einstein, considered the quintessential INTP, did something mechanistically similar in physics, didn't he? It's been said that mathematics is the science of patterns, something Ne would naturally excell at in tandem with Ti for logical consistency and precision.

*shrug* Verifying personality is a tricky thing and, in my experience, current diagnostic tools are inadequate {i.e, the validity of MBTI} and/or divided over definitions. That's not to say the entire thing's relative, merely that it's still in development.

[Wolf18]

Loki is likely INTJ, Holmes is ENTP.

In my own defense, I think that if Loki was an INTJ he would've won out over his brother in the end. His own plan wasn't put well enough together. However, I'd be willing to compromise with you there.
Holmes is an example of one of those characters who changes based on who is portraying him. I have seen him called INTP, INTJ, ESTP, ESTJ and ISTP(!?). INTP is my own opinion based on the stories, the TV show, and Robert Downey Jr's portrayal of him (those are the only movies I've seen). Of course, he's always an addict, which is very INTP.

As an addition to our list of INTP main characters in movies and my argument that they do not occur because most people can't relate to them, Spock is a secondary character and an IN(S?)TP.

I haven't seen many movies, so my list just about runs out there.

[Tony3d]

I don't know about movies, but the anime, Code Geass is completly written around an INTP character being put in all sorts of INTP situations and the main antagonist is completly based on ESFJ (INTPs shadow) and how that conflicts with INTP mindset.

[Starswirl]

I watched a film called Midnight in Paris (I think) recently and I thought that the main character (played by Owen Wilson) could very likely be INTP. Maybe I'm wrong but he seemed like he might be.

He's clearly an INxP, most likely a T, but possibly F (as signaled by his dreaminess and emotional connections with the city and its past).

[Nick]

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Amazing movie.

Full movie here for those that want to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3A7L24S9oU

[bartoli]

Not really an INTP, but i found lots of similarities with me in Adam (http://www.imdb.fr/title/tt1185836/)

[Publius]

Croupier (1998)
Clive Owen plays a brilliant INTP. He's a struggling writer who gets a job in a casino. He's a pro Croupier with a girlfriend he 'sort of loves' and his internal monologue is constant and analytical, as he watched the idiots gamble their money away. It's one of my favourite films of all time and you can watch it on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5qk4ybjWTc

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Cvo4jwbe8wE/SrwJhwW6PXI/AAAAAAAAC6E/lAd83-iIoaQ/s400/clive_owen_croupier.jpg

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Are you sure that he is an INTP?

[Beholder]

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He is an INTJ, the way he snaps and starts yelling, loosing his temper, the way he talks - Te galore.
Although his actual emotional detachment seems 'INTP like', he's not actually detached, as evidenced by his crazy emotional outbursts resulting from built up emotional stress (as opposed to the typical INTP outbursts we are all familiar with from our childhoods, which are responses to immediate stimuli)

[jantling]

Slight deviation. (Not from a movie.)

This guy (maybe):

"He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in thier brains and spill out into the world to the consternation of passers-by. He talked to himself and the expression on his face changed constantly. Within the space of a single moment he looked surprized, insulted, resolute and angry-- emotions which were presumably the consequence of the energetic conversation he was holding with the ideal people inside his head."

Susanna Clarke, Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell


Disclaimer: I may have posted this somewhere before, back in the relative dark ages. Can't remember. :o

-jantling

[Beholder]

sounds more like an ENTP

[Chad]

The absent minded professor is the stereotype INTP.