Crazy Women! Film and TV characters
 

Who are the craziest (nuttiest) female characters in film or TV?

I can come up with a few off the top of my head but I'm sure there are a lot more. Btw, I use the term "crazy" very loosely - kooky/emotionally unhinged/loopy ...even conniving and hostile will work. Or any combination of the above. Whatever YOU think qualifies as crazy is good enough for me! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]


Keep in mind that I'm not talking about the actresses themselves (Dom's thread addressed that) I'm looking for favorite kooky characters only.




Here's my first nomination:
Vivien Leigh performing as the batshit crazy Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire



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Well, if we recall my submission into the hottest female thread:

http://images.contactmusic.com/image...s/audition.jpg

And obv.....

http://www.talkingnfl.com/wp-content.../04/wilkes.jpg

just not sexy at allllll.

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Kate Winslet as Ophelia in Hamlet

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7750/crazy02rr8.jpg

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5429/crazy07ns5.jpg

LDO

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elliot from scrubs...

talia shire in godfather 3...talk about a change of character over the trilogy...

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http://www.talkingnfl.com/wp-content.../04/wilkes.jpg

just not sexy at allllll.

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Who is this DaveT?

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kathy bates in misery...

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elliot from scrubs...



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Lol! Nice.


I just had to find a pic [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]


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kathy bates in misery...

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Ah good one! I never saw the movie but I read about it. Made me cringe.

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Ok do you guys remember this girl? How would you like to be married to her?

[img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]



http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/986...others2xl9.jpg


http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/853...pontiacbd4.jpg

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http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5429/crazy07ns5.jpg

LDO

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haha! I don't even know what to say about this pic Kimbell. Is this movie any good? It looks like a picture taken from Willy Wonka &amp; the Chocolate Factory. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Alex Forrest(Glenn Close) in Fatal Attraction

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Marietta Fortune(Diane Ladd) in Wild At Heart

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Hamlet

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is this movie any good?

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O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.

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Sheila from Rescue Me is a psycho.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/6...thornelgz0.jpg

River from Firefly, obviously. Not her fault though.

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/3150/river23np2.jpg

And if you're going for conniving and hostile, Atia from HBO's Rome.

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2603/atiamw0.jpg

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Have to nominate Juliette lewis in Natural Born Killers(many other possible roles though)

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/i..._killers_l.jpg

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This is a colorful actress who played alot of very strange characters.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...karenblack.jpg

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kathy bates in misery...

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She was going to be my nomination but you beat me to it, but here are a few more pictures...

Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/7027/miseryau0.jpg

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8...153345ahi7.jpg

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/9...eryfilmro8.jpg

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Barbara Stanwyck from Double Indemnity

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Mrs. Utah, you usurped me for sure. Ouch.

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Faith from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my personal favorite.

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Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my personal favorite.

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River from Firefly, obviously. Not her fault though.

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/3150/river23np2.jpg



Crazier, imo :


http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...liant/CH_4.jpg

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Lucille Ball had to be one of if not the first. I Love Lucy character obviously.

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Also, either of these two :

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f..._carrie_00.jpg

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Bruce Willis's girlfriend in Pulp Fiction is what I would class as a true nut-job.

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Bruce Willis's girlfriend in Pulp Fiction is what I would class as a true nut-job.

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Actually, I think Esmeralda the cab driver was a bigger nut-job than the girlfriend. Bruce Willis definitely had some weird women to deal with in that movie.

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Kill bill had some far out women.
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http://www.popcorn.dk/imagez/k/k058_2.jpg

And how about Aileen &amp; Selby
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Or maybe Carrie
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Jessica Walter as the nutjob Eveyln Draper who ends up super stalking Disc Jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) in Play Misty for Me.
http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/Scott/...byscissors.jpg
http://ricksflickspicks.animationblo.../PlayMisty.jpg

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I never saw that movie Fish. Can't believe anyone would want to terrorize Clint Eastwood! (The picture with her and the scissors is scary!)



Here's another, Angelina Jolie as Lisa Rowe in Girl Interrupted:


http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4...3angielhs7.jpg

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Bruce Willis's girlfriend in Pulp Fiction is what I would class as a true nut-job.

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Haha [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Are you talking about this girl?



http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6...lpfictisy6.jpg

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6...fictioncs2.jpg



Butch: Will you hand me a towel, tulip?
Fabienne: Ah, I like that. I like tulip. Tulip is much better than mongoloid.



I love this nomination! Now we are getting away from horror and looking at women who are crazy without being murderous. I'm interested in which female characters you classify as "nutjobs" who weren't in horror films (drama or comedy). I can think of a few nutty characters who were borderline. They weren't flat out "crazy" but they were definitely a little off for sure. I will try to find some pics. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Ok, would you classify this woman as "crazy" or just plain mean?



http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4296/cuckoo10sj0.jpg



(I found a huge picture of her face but I didn't want to frighten any of you so I refrained)

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Mrs. Utah, you usurped me for sure. Ouch.

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Oh, I am sorry. Not my intention. She, Kathy/Annie, is your nomination. I just had to post the pics, especially the hobbling pic. Yikes! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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Jessica Walter as the nutjob Eveyln Draper who ends up super stalking Disc Jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) in Play Misty for Me.
http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/Scott/...byscissors.jpg
http://ricksflickspicks.animationblo.../PlayMisty.jpg

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This was an awesome one! The insidious way she works her way into her life and then manages to maintain a completely crazy place in it while presenting the appearance that she's really pretty normal was scary as hell. Glenn Close had nothing on this girl, not a thing, not even, er, close.

Anyone who hasn't seen this movie is missing something really creepy and fun.

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Ok, would you classify this woman as "crazy" or just plain mean?



http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4296/cuckoo10sj0.jpg



(I found a huge picture of her face but I didn't want to frighten any of you so I refrained)

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Not crazy but terrifying. And evil. But she could compartmentalize, and her friends and family might never know the depths of her depravity. I guess when I think crazy, for contests such as this anyway, I think of someone who manifests it outwardly more and is less in control. If you call Burstyn's character in this role crazy, you have to also do so for Nick Cage's character in Lord of War, because he's morally reprehensible. However capable either character is of doing horrible things, they get along quite nicely in the world.

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Bruce Willis's girlfriend in Pulp Fiction is what I would class as a true nut-job.

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Haha [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Are you talking about this girl?



http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6...lpfictisy6.jpg

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6...fictioncs2.jpg



Butch: Will you hand me a towel, tulip?
Fabienne: Ah, I like that. I like tulip. Tulip is much better than mongoloid.



I love this nomination! Now we are getting away from horror and looking at women who are crazy without being murderous. I'm interested in which female characters you classify as "nutjobs" who weren't in horror films (drama or comedy). I can think of a few nutty characters who were borderline. They weren't flat out "crazy" but they were definitely a little off for sure. I will try to find some pics. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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She didn't seem crazy at all to me. Just childish and not too bright.

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Barbara Stanwyck from Double Indemnity

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Another more evil than crazy. She had her sh*t together big time.

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Let's get old school.

There's these two whack-jobs:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/511KGC5QMYL.jpg


and the Queen of them all, Norma Desmond:
http://dannymiller.typepad.com/blog/...madesmond2.jpg

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oh, and mad nuns can get their own subcategory:

Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils, who masturbated on the leg-bone of the man she accused of witchcraft, after she dug it out of the ashes of the pyre they burnt him to death on.

http://www.filmthreat.com/UploadImag...thedevilsX.jpg

Hell, there was a convent full of mad nuns in that one:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/466/devils5akv6.jpg


Oh, and the nun driven nuts by sexual repression in Black Narcissus:

http://www.bayflicks.net/blacknars.jpg

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Time to go watch [i]The Devils.

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and the Queen of them all, Norma Desmond:
http://dannymiller.typepad.com/blog/...madesmond2.jpg

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HAHAH! This picture made me LOLOL [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer in Fight Club. Check out the URL for the first image, that cracked me up.


http://www.filmwad.com/fw_images/nutbags/fight_club.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/505000..._helena150.jpg