Who are your favorite female characters/heroes from movies?

[WilliamPitt]

I'm going to make a wacky suggestion to start this thing off.





Ripley and Vasquez from 'Aliens.'

You?

[hippywife]

1. Kate Hepburn in almost

everything she was in but particularly in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" and "On Golden Pond."

[terrya]

16. But my favorite would be Eleanor of Aquataine.

My very favorite Hepburn performance. Kate was nothing short of magnificent in "The Lion in Winter"

[hippywife]

17. You're right!

I totally forgot that one! Good choice!

[bif]

29. Shirley Valentine

[bertha katzenengel]

37. you, u4ic, and me...

pretty good taste in movies :hi:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

42. that movie had the most stimulating dialogue i have ever heard!

loved it>>>>The Lion In Winter

[mike_c]

2. Vasquez is a better man than you are, LOL....

Oh yeah! I second your selections, and I'll add Thelma and Louise-- Geena Davis makes my knees weak....




and of course Sarah Connor:

[bridgit]

3. i liked it even if no one else did, but i'm partial to Aeon Flux...

and some others too

[graywarrior]

4. Definetly.

[bridgit]

5. oooh, good one...

:thumbsup:

[auntAgonist]

6. I liked Sally Field in Norma Rae

Not really a 'hero' in the sense that maybe your were meaning. :)

aA

[bertha katzenengel]

28. you and I think alike, Kesha

see my post below

A woman doesn't have to kill, or be buff, or save the world to be a heroine.

:loveya:

[u4ic]

7. The grandmother from The Grapes of Wrath

and Shirley Valentine are the first two that spring to mind...

[YDogg]

8. Alyson Hannigan in American Pie

;-)

[warrior1]

9. Molly Brown

[Drum]

10. In the Woman-of-Action genre,

for starters, Carrie Ann Moss in the Matrix films



EDIT to add:

Jodie Foster as Agent Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

[NewJeffCT]

23. Good choice on both

Moss was very good in that first Matrix movie, and Foster was terrific in her role.

[dropkickpa]

11. Natalie Portman as Mathilda in "Leon aka The Professional"

She totally rocked in this movie

[Bassic]

46. Yeah, she kicked ass in that role. nt

[hsher]

12. Ditto on both ladies!

Lt. Ellen Ripley and Private Vasquez!!!!!!!!

[enigmatic]

13. Betty Blue

Beatrice Dalle was perfect as Betty:

[spillthebeans]

14. I like the feeling of those 80's movies

Molly Ringwald



Ally Sheedy

[spillthebeans]

15. Or the mostly unknown Erica Gavin

[Left Is Write]

18. Evelyn Couch from Fried Green Tomatoes...

[jus_the_facts]

19. Joan Crawford and Bette Davis ~ Whatever Happened To Baby Jane...

...classic favorites! :hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Franka Potente as Lola and in the Bourne Identity:

as well as Jean Seberg in Breathless:

[VespertineIconoclast]

30. Run Lola Run is one of my favorite foreign films.

Great choice! :thumbsup:

[johnnie]

21. Raquel Welch in One Million years BC

Best ever!

[NewJeffCT]

22. Marilyn Chambers in "Behind the Green Door"

just kidding.

[spillthebeans]

24. You are probably the Misty Mundae type

The Lord of the G-Strings: The Femaleship of the String


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0612691/


lol

[Lautremont]

25. It's gotta be...

[bertha katzenengel]

26. Pauline Collins, "Shirley Valentine"

This photo is from the play, but it was made into a movie a couple of years after she starred in the play.

Why my heroine? Shirley Valentine was mired, and broke out.

[u4ic]

35. Great minds think alike...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5872558&mesg_id=5872609 :hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

38. I missed that! And see above -- bif said the same.

:hi:

That movie, BTW, is partially responsible for bringing Mrs. V. and me together. She emailed me one day long ago after viewing my profile on another message board. Under "favorite movie" I'd written in her favorite movie . . . :)

[VespertineIconoclast]

27. Your picks are definitely in my top choices...

Here are few of mine:

Michelle Yeoh as Yui Hsui Lien in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon



Zhang Zi Yi as Jen in the same movie



Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell

http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/user_profile/images/956.jpg

[Swede]

31. Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby.

She had the heart of a champion.

[Jade Fox]

56. "Maggie always did like taking them out in the first round."

[redwitch]

32. And the little girl!

"They mostly come out at night. Mostly."

I love the Alien series, all the women are fiercely brave.

[hfojvt]

33. I'm looking for Sarah Connor

and Stephanie from Short Circuit.

[NewJeffCT]

34. Zhang Ziyi & Michelle Yeoh from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"

two good characters who kicked ass.

[mykpart]

36. Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) in Working Girl

Bette Davis standing up to her mother in Now Voyager.
Jean Simmons in Spartacus (The original one with Kirk Douglas)
Norma Rae
Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist

[tinfoil tiaras]

39. damn. i cant read.

Okay...female?

This is pathedic, i know, but I seriously can't think of any. Exept for those women on the Lifetime movies....:rofl:

[spillthebeans]

40. is hero always associated with men?

[tinfoil tiaras]

41. i just couldnt think of any off the top of my head

and my enviroment doesn't expose me to alot of strong women.

[spillthebeans]

66. Maybe the concept doesn't work with the stereotype

or there are no real outstanding roles in the hero genre?

Supergirl


Wonder-Woman

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074074/

Bionic Woman

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073965/

Buffy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103893/


Red Sonja
It looks like they are remaking the movie in 08 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800175/

Maybe some of them are just bad movies or series and therefore gone out of the mind
( I had to think a bit to come up with some of the stereotype roles)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. Ruth Gordon as Maude

in Harold and Maude.

[pokerfan]

44. Not that wacky

Wacky because it's science fiction? Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez) had a great line early on in that film:

Hudson (played by Bill Paxton): Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No, have you?


Just a few off the top of my head:

Meryl Streep in The River Wild

Sally Field in Norma Rae

Diana Rigg in the Avengers

[billyskank]

45. One of the best lines from Aliens

Hudson: "Hey Velazquez, do you ever get mistaken for a guy?"

Velazquez (doing pull-ups): "No. Do you?"

[peekaloo]

47. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) from 'Fargo'.

Enid (Thora Birch) in 'Ghostworld'.
Geena Davis in 'The Long Kiss Goodnight'.

[Fox Mulder]

48. Angelina Jolie from Tomb Raider:

:wow:

[Orsino]

49. Jennifer Ehle's Eliza Bennet...

...if a five-hour miniseries counts.

[EFerrari]

50. Those two were actually my favorites for years. Those would

be the years immediately following my first divorce. lol

Now I like the three sisters in "Crimes of the Heart" because you think they're going to be sappy and they're hilarious.

Like when Sissy Spacek tries to hang herself from the chandelier only it doesn't hold, so she cusses and just drags it around the house while she tries to figure out a different solution. Her sister tells her, "You're NOT crazy."

"I'm not?"

"No." (Picks up chandelier and slams it on the table.)"We've just gotta stop having these DAYS."

[Bossy Monkey]

51. Mary McDonnell as Elma Radnor in "Matewan" n/t

[Blue in Bama]

52. John Bender

Judd Nelsons character in Breakfast Club

[Blue in Bama]

53. AW shit...you said FEMALE characters...my bad

I guess Zellwegger in Cold Mountain

[BlueIris]

61. Laurel Boyd, Dorothy's "disapproving sister" from Jerry Maguire.

"You fuck this up, I'll kill you."

[sakabatou]

54. San

Lina Inverse from the "Slayers" series

[Kali]

55. Ripley from the Alein movies!

Then I open your post and you beat me to it.

[jane_pippin]

57. Jemma Claflin, heroine of The Children's Hospital...

It's a fantastic book that just came out in September, and I've been harping on people to read it for 3 months now. It's so good. If you need outside validation from someone who isn't me, it's also one of Oprah's picks in her magazine this month, and for the hipsters out there, it got a great review in Paste magazine too, among other places.

I also like:

Jerri Blank
All the female characters Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have come up with, because they're so goddamn dead-on
Lilli Taylor in most of her roles
Marjane Satrapi (she's an Iranian graphic novelist who writes mostly memoirs and stories about her family.)

[leftofthedial]

58. Kathleen Turner in Body Heat

I like bad girls

[havocmom]

59. Auntie Mame

Boy, am I old or what?

[Mrs. Venation]

60. Cicely Tyson

in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. She was unforgettable in that role, in an unforgettable movie (even if it was made for TV).

[Ptah]

62. Katharine Hepburn – as Amanda Bonner

Adam's Rib





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041090/

[Phillycat]

63. Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight.

Angelina Jolie in the Tomb Raiders.

EDITED TO ADD: Angela Bassett in that future movie.

[Scout]

64. in addition to many already posted

i'll add:

Velvet Brown and her mother in National Velvet

Paikea Apirana in Whale Rider

The girls in Rabbit Proof Fence

Jean Louise Finch/Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird

Queen Elizabeth I in many different movies about her

just a few.... given time, i'd think of many more!

[Drum]

65. Oh, and her:

Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison


I do consider them movies/films, as they are mercifully shown w/o commercial interruption....

[YankeyMCC]

67. Eowyn

Miranda Otto did an excellent job.

[Orrex]

69. Great minds!

We posted just about simultaneously. Are you sure you're reading over my shoulder?

[YankeyMCC]

71. Pay no attention to that plant with the moving flower

That's not a remote camera. ;)

[Orrex]

72. I hope not, because

My boss doesn't let me leave my cube to use the bathroom, so...

[Orrex]

68. Eowyn in RotK

I didn't really like her in TTT, but I found her portrayal of overwhelming fear and grim determination in facing the Witch-King was compelling and among the most emotionally "real" moments of the trilogy.

And the anonymous woman given up for "prima noctae" in Braveheart conveyed more strength and courage with a single hand motion than did almost all of the other characters in the film combined, including "Damn Them Jews" Gibson himself.

[Orrex]

70. Also, I thought that Sharon Stone was great in "Intersection"

It was largely a yawnfest otherwise, but she had a certain strength of character that I found compelling.

On confronting husband Richard Gere re: his infidelity:
"Don't get angry with me because you're f**king another woman. It lacks conviction."

And of course Jodie Foster in just about anything shines with charisma!

[fizzgig]

73. milla jovovich in the 5th element

and maggie smith in the harry potter movies

[Drum]

74. Milla J was also excellent in The Messenger:

as Joan of Arc

[fizzgig]

75. i'll have to check that out

thanks :hi: