![]() Paralympic track and field team since 2005. It also landed him in the capable hands of Joaquim Cruz, the coach of the U.S. Paralympic track team that would be competing in an international meet in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil where he’d truly start to realize the potential of his emerging talent. Those performances earned him a spot on the U.S. ![]() He blitzed the 100m field that day in 11.95 seconds and also went on to win the 200m (25.44) and the 400m (56.79) in the same afternoon. “Being my first track meet, my main goal was not falling down and making that 14-hour drive back home a whole lot longer.” “My main concern was not disappointing my family,” he admits. All he knew is that he wanted to run fast. Not only had he never run in a track meet before, Leeper had never seen one in person. “We saw that the Endeavor Games were coming up so the thought was ‘Go big or go home,’” Leeper recalls. Although he had been using prosthetics since he was 9 months old, he was never the type of kid to ease into anything. Leeper was born without feet, ankles and lower leg bones, and had his legs amputated to the knee shortly after he was born. He had played basketball and baseball as a kid and even played varsity basketball in high school, but it wasn’t until he received a pair of top-of-the-line prosthetic running legs, courtesy of the Challenged Athletes Foundation and the manufacturer, a small Icelandic company called Ossur, that track and field ever crossed Leeper’s radar. Leeper, along with his mom, dad and older brother, had driven 14 hours from their home in Church Hill, Tenn., to Edmund, Okla., to see if he had a future in this new sport. The 19-year-old double below-knee amputee had traveled 950 miles to get to the 2009 Endeavor Games, but he had no idea at the time the 100 meters that lay in front of him offered the opportunity to take him on an even greater journey. Three years ago, under the hot Oklahoma sun, Blake Leeper crouched down in his starting blocks with something to prove. ( ) ( )( )īuy Batman: The Animated Series now on Amazonīuy The Dark Knight Trilogy now on Amazon 3.22-year-old American Paralympian Blake Leeper is on a fast track to sprinting success. after Tim Burton announced the casting of Michael Keaton as Batman. Performers: Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Baleĭefining moment: It really should be from Christian Bale’s Dark Knight, when he is going fist to face with the Joker as Gordon (Gary Oldman) looks on fretting, “Who’s in control?” Good question.įascinating fact: Fans sent 50,000 protest letters to Warner Bros. BatmanĪppearances: Batman The Movie (1966), Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995), Batman & Robin (1997), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Indeed, had they followed her hard-nosed attempt to uphold quarantine rules and prevent the stricken Kane being brought back on board - “If we let it in, the ship could be infected” - the Nostromo crew, if not Kane, would remain a whole lot healthier.įascinating fact: In the process of considering Meryl Streep for the role of Ripley, Ridley Scott was stopped in his tracks by the sight of Weaver in thigh-high boots, bursting into his office, half an hour late for her audition.īuy the Alien Anthology now on Amazon 4. Edna ModeĬreators: Walter Hill, David Giler, Ron Cobb, Dan O’Bannonĭefining moment: With a survival instinct to match her xenomorphic nemesis, Ripley is one of nature’s rationalists. We do receive commission for purchases made through our links. Here’s the definitive, reader-voted tally of the most memorable movie characters – the beautiful, the powerful, the heroic, the despicable, the hilarious and the downright barking, most iconic film characters to ever grace the screen. When Empire asked you to vote for the greatest movie characters of all time, you responded in your thousands – with pure-hearted goodies, uncompromising villains, and everything in between. But while some roles feel merely functional, the best movie characters can transform a film – offering complex moralities, or inspiring personal betterment, standing up against the odds, fighting for what’s right as stalwart heroes, or causing mayhem as antiheroes and villains. I mean, think about it – they’d just be abstract shots of landscapes and locations otherwise. ![]() Movies would be nothing without the characters that inhabit them. ![]()
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