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Nobody knows for sure whether a movie character is destined for iconic status, not even the king of the cult classic himself, Kurt Russell<\/a>. That said, he did feel confident enough to call one of them the greatest in cinematic history.<\/p>\n A lot of the time, it\u2019s down to the actor. Harrison Ford turned Han Solo into one of Hollywood\u2019s most indelible rogues, but it was hardly the same when Alden Ehrenreich stepped in for the prequel, and does anyone even remember that Jonathan Goff picked up Hugo Weaving\u2019s baton as Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections?<\/p>\n Like many others before (and after) him, Russell worships at the altar of Marlon Brando<\/a>, so it\u2019s not ridiculous to think that the actor he called the greatest of all time also played the character he called the greatest of all time, except that he didn\u2019t. Not even close.<\/p>\n Instead, he looked inwards to reveal that, dating right back to the creation of celluloid, the figure who left the most indelible mark on his filmic psyche was played by the one and only Kurt Russell. It\u2019s not just the role he holds closest to his heart, but John Carpenter\u2019s muse even went so far as to inform Cigar Aficionado<\/a> that the best \u201cthat anybody\u2019s ever done, in any movie, ever, is Snake Plissken.\u201d<\/p>\n Fortunately, he did offer an explanation for why he holds his own performance in such high esteem. \u201cHe\u2019s completely independent: he\u2019s given up on everything on earth except for food, air, and water,\u201d the back-patting began. \u201cIt\u2019s every man\u2019s fantasy to be completely, completely capable of walking anywhere, at any time, fearlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n Snake \u201cdoesn\u2019t care about you, me, or anybody: he does not care,\u201d Russell continued. \u201cHe\u2019s not human that way. He\u2019s not bothered with anything, he\u2019s not tied to anything, he has no agenda.\u201d All salient points, but are they really enough to make the cycloptic antihero the best the moving image has ever produced?<\/p>\n