2. Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)
The one good thing about characters you dream of being is that you don't actually have to become them, which is handy because I don't think anyone envies Oskar Schindler's task in rescuing captured Jews from Auschwitz, but that's exactly what happened when Liam Neeson played the famous historical character in this 1993 film. Despite being somewhat of a double agent, being a member of the Nazi party, everything else he partakes in is in a bid to save the lives of the Jews that work for him in his factory, and when he decides to start up a new factory in his home town, he sets about making a list of all the Jewish workers he can take with him in a bid to take them further away from Auschwitz. He even bribes the Germans to return the women he wants to take with him when the train carrying them accidentally goes to to infamous concentration camp. In Schindler we see someone we would love to be because of what he does and how heroic his actions are but also one that I feel most of us simply could not be for the same reason, as he displays the gall and nerves of steel that could easily have seen him shot. In this moving tale, we can only imagine, and even that's a hard thing to do, how difficult a task Schindler faced, and make us forever wonder whether we would even be able to do the same.