On my favorite "people" in cinema

I often talk about my favorite "people" in film; this is Christopher Plummer as Capt. von Trapp, Jennifer Lawrence as Joy, Ryan Gosling as Luke and Dean from the Cianfrance movies... They are not actors that I prize, nor characters, but a combination of the two that's greater than the sum of the parts. These are situations in my experience that transcend categories of "film" as art and entertainment, where a character/actor combination takes on a human identity of its own -- where I look at this performance/fiction as I look at the souled human beings around me. I call them my favorite "people" in cinema. The believability of the film execution has to be so tremendous that I naturally see Capt. von Trapp without seeing Christopher Plummer nowadays, for instance in Beginners; that I see Joy without seeing Jennifer Lawrence's public persona; see Gosling on the screen under a brilliant director (which is one of the most consistent and perfect things in film) without seeing Gosling cheapened under a bad director (Ganster Squad, Crazy, Stupid Love). I become entirely immersed in this portrayal/person, and of course this has something to do with my subjective state going in. I must in my own self have some pre-contained keenness toward a kind of person, some idle affection toward a kind of person, that draws me and blinds me toward a particular person I see onscreen.

These "favorite people" are not my "greatest performances", nor "greatest filmic characters", nor "greatest characters as moral people". These are the people I watch onscreen and have the greatest love for, connection to. It reflects well who I am bound to have the greatest affection for in real life. If I met a Joy I would be stricken; if I met a Luke Glanton I would give up my life to follow this man. It is presumed I have never met people like this, but that they could reasonably exist. They are indeed written, crafted; but there are many people in the world, and I have met so few, and it is no stretch of reason to posit that my sample size is disadvantaged.

I did not generate this idea of "people" through some crafty inspiration or cleverness -- it was unavoidable for me. This is one of those instances in life where either my subjective experience is structured uniquely or I have a uniquely refined ability to identify the structures. It was unavoidable that I was drawn to these people in film -- perhaps that kind of outgoing love is unique to me, or perhaps my ability to identify the precise nature of the favor outgoing is what is unique. I'm not sure, but in either case this idea isn't the product of intellectual cleverness for me -- it's an automatic experience that I have identified with an idea, because it took an idea to identify this unique experience.

To clarify: this is largely subjective. I am not citing character/actor combinations that I believe transcend film as artificial reality-- that would be an overused archetype, and I would be ashamed to say it. These are transcendent experiences of mine, of people in film, where the stilted world falls down as it---