I used Mr. T, but in a couple I also used Chuck Norris (such as in "example") and it worked out fine.  I save lots of time reusing shared stories, so that's one reason I picked the same persons as others have.  I'm on lesson 36, but I have no problem remembering most of the "Person" frames.  On Lesson 36 you meet the "thread" primitive, and Spiderman works great for that.

Last edited by vosmiura (2007 November 15, 3:12 pm)

I was just thinking about posting something like this as well....

I use a combination of Alfred/Bruce Wayne/Batman. I actually find for most of the kanji it works surprisingly well.

I also found that if a kanji uses the primitive of person and I try to remember it using people in general, I will fail it nearly 100% (for example, I made municipality = people in cave sticking to their own laws).

sutebun: I couldn't come up with a story for municipality at all...I bet your Batman theme worked out well though. The Mr. T one sounds great too: Mr. T glues together the caves forming a municipality. I might just use Mr. T there...maybe as the exception.

Dragg: I had a very similar play on reliant.

This was a pretty fun chapter as far as making stories goes. I hope there's another one like it down the line.

I used Captain Picard.  Worked extremely well for me.

Alan Rickman.  I didn't pick someone I actually knew because I didn't especially want all the wierd associations that might result from that!  The advantage of chosing an actor who plays a such a variety of roles meant that I had a good choice of different personalities to fit different stories, while still mentally linking them to the same person.  I mainly use Snape from Harry Potter, Colonel Brandon from Sense & Sensibility and Metatron from Dogma - I've found there's enough of a range of images there that if I can't fit one character into a story, another is bound to fit easily!

Plus I didn't mind spending a reasonable amount of time thinking about him. 

I use the image of a Marine Sentry. Well, more specifically, I use the picture of an Embassy guard in full dress blues. Works pretty well for the mental pictures of my stories.

Brilliant post Virtua_Leaf. Made me laugh.

ghinzdra wrote:

strangely enough i did the opposite to what most of the people do : instead of a eccentric character which is sometimes difficult to make fit with the background  i choose a chameleon . Tom Hanks. He played so many different parts that he's really easy to use .   In this way since it's always tom hanks I can be sure that it's not a mere person included in the kanji for the sake of it . And in the same time there's always a direct link between one of his parts and the word.
a non thorough list of his parts

-a gay advocate ailing from aids(philadelphia)
- forrest gump
- an astronaut (appolo 13)
- a private former english teacher (saving private ryan)
- a hitman who barely speaks(road to perdition)
- a jailkeeper (green line)
- a fedex saler -hermit (castaway)
- a  cop playing by the book(catch me if you can)
- a foreigner (the terminal)
- a very easy going politician (charlie wilson's war)

It seems to me that even if there are actors more eccentric (daniel day lewis, johnny deep,etc...) Tom Hanks is the actor having played the greatest array of character ever.

Weird. To me, Tom Hanks is just the opposite of that, he always acts the same in all his movies. Would you also call Bill Murray, Will Smith, or Woody Allen chamaleonic? Robin Williams also has a vast array of interesting characters (Popeye, the Genie from Aladdin, the bicentenary man, patch adams, Theodore roosevelt...) and I would never call him a polymath actor.

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ghinzdra wrote:

instead of a eccentric character which is sometimes difficult to make fit with the background  i choose a chameleon . Tom Hanks. He played so many different parts that he's really easy to use .

I agree with what you're saying there. I didn't use Mr T for the same reason. My selection might not sound like the most creative idea, but I decided to use my dear old grandmother That allowed me to have 25 years worth of scenarios to draw from!

Sorry to be a prude but does anyone feel like correcting the grammar in the topic title?

Old thread I know, but I'm reviving it.  I use Fedor Emelianenko as my person.

As so many others, I used Mr T as my main person..... In addition, I also used one of my friends in a few of the stories.
I find the stories for the kanji that contains person as a primitive to be amongst the funniest ones .

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