Welcome along to Monday’s Movie Meme. Each week I will post up a new subject involving movies and all you have to do is answer the question, post a comment in my blog or if you have your own blog, link back to my blog. I hope you enjoy it and join in. Leave your choices in the comments box below, thanks.
“Get Away From Her You Bitch” – Who is your favourite female villain?
When I think of some of the great movies I have watched, I find myself trying to name some good female villains. There aren’t actually that many leading ones are there? There have been a few crackers though and I will offer my choices today for you to think about and discuss – first up, one of the best characters in my opinion from the X-Men comic books, Mystique.
A supervillain for most of her career, this character created by David Cockrum and Chris Claremont, Mystique first appeared in a Marvel comic in 1978. She is associated with the X-Men series and has appeared in all of the modern X-Men movies with the exception of the Wolverine movie. I like her capability to change form and confuse opponents in a simple way let alone being able to kick the c**p out of most people she comes up against. Played by Rebecca Romijn in the first three X-Men movies, and more recently by Jennifer Lawrence in X Men – First Class, this character could go on forever and appear in many more films. Something which I wouldn’t be too disappointed with. I am surprised that she has never been given her own movie….yet.
Secondly today I will mention the fanatical Annie Wilkes who was marvellously portrayed by Kathy Bates in the 1990 Stephen King movie Misery. Initially regarded as a Good Samaritan who rescues the James Caan character after a car crash, it soon becomes clear that she is an absolute psycho who will stop at nothing to keep her hero Paul Sheldon in her evil clutches. Anyone for a hobbling party?
So lets have your choices, there are a few to choose from yet, but I think we should have more female villains in movies that are the leading part, like Annie Wilkes, and not just incidental to the main plot. Thanks for reading and I hope some of The Bumbles Blog regulars will take part in this as due to the birth of a child, their movie meme has taken a back seat for the time being. Cheers.
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Great topic…but tough. I’ve got to think about this one. Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes is the best female villain!
There’s the evil roommate who played opposite Bridget Fonda but I don’t remember the name of the movie hmmmm…
Single White Female that would be. =)
Ooh! My favorite villain of all time is from a book/made-for-TV movie: Pennywise the Clown from IT. He personified everything that I hate and fear about clowns!
But, as far as big screen villains go, the one I always hated the most is Frank Nitti in The Untouchables. Remember how he made from of Sean Connery’s dying cries of agony?
MAKE THAT: “Remember how he made fun of Sean Connery’s dying cries of agony?”
It was specifically Female villains I was looking for Gal ;-), but nice choices and thanks for taking part. I hope to do this every week for the time being so I hope to see your comments again guys. Thanks
Love that you’re continuing the Bumbles theme, and what a great topic! Great choices 🙂 Mine are HERE.
HERE‘s mine. 🙂
Mystique is a great choice for a female villian character. While I am not very familiar with alot of the comic books nor did I watch the earlier X-Men movies when Rebecca R. played this character, I did go see “X-Men: First Class” and enjoyed the character’s contributions in the storyline. This latest film also humanized her by giving her these beauty complexes and insecurities that women (and men) deal with in real life, at one time or another, so it was nice that the character had some complexity……powerful in one way (physically) but sorta weak in another (emotionally or mentally).
Do you know…..I still haven’t watched “Misery” to this day! It’s on one of my rental lists so I plan on getting around to it one of these days and I sure do hope it’s good because the only reason that I added it to my queue is because it’s labeled as a classic and so many people rave about this movie, lol.
MIsery is one of the better King efforts to be adapted to the big screen, so many have been let downs. A few stand out though, Carrie (oo theres a good villain, damn!), The Stand and Misery are 3 that really jump out as greats.
Oh, I forgot to add one.
The only one favorite female villian that comes to my mind at the moment is The Bride in “Kill Bill: Vol. 2” played by Uma Thurman. She kicks butt and I love her in it. I still have to check out Vol. 1 someday.