Top Ten Screen Villainesses of All Time
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Top Ten Screen Villainesses of All Time
From FHMOnline:
10. Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) - Friday the 13th
9. Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) - Goldeneye
8. Wicked Witch (Margaret Hamilton) - Wizard of Oz
7. O-Ren (Lucy Liu) - Kill Bill
6. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) - Cuckoo's Nest
5. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) - Misery
4. Alien Queen - Aliens
3. Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone) - Basic Instinct
2. Catwoman (Various)
1. Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) - Fatal Attraction
This is yet another example of a list compiled by people whose film memories go back only a very short time. If you are going to include someone from a James Bond film, the best Bond villainesses were the early ones, Lotte Lenya in From Russia with Love and Luciana Paluzzi in Thunderball. And how anyone could make a list like this and leave Angela Lansbury in Manchurian Candidate off it is a mystery.
10. Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) - Friday the 13th
9. Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) - Goldeneye
8. Wicked Witch (Margaret Hamilton) - Wizard of Oz
7. O-Ren (Lucy Liu) - Kill Bill
6. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) - Cuckoo's Nest
5. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) - Misery
4. Alien Queen - Aliens
3. Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone) - Basic Instinct
2. Catwoman (Various)
1. Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) - Fatal Attraction
This is yet another example of a list compiled by people whose film memories go back only a very short time. If you are going to include someone from a James Bond film, the best Bond villainesses were the early ones, Lotte Lenya in From Russia with Love and Luciana Paluzzi in Thunderball. And how anyone could make a list like this and leave Angela Lansbury in Manchurian Candidate off it is a mystery.
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Is O-Ren even the best villain in Kill Bill? If we consider it one movie, which many do, Elle Driver stands out in my memory more than O-Ren. Not that she wasn't badass. But even Vernita Green was badass, and had a very short sequence.
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I love being ableto type badass and not have to doctor it up to sneak by Otto.
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I'd nominate
Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) Body Heat
Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) Body Heat
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feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Top Ten Screen Villainesses of All Time
silverscreenselect wrote:From FHMOnline:
10. Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) - Friday the 13th
9. Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) - Goldeneye
8. Wicked Witch (Margaret Hamilton) - Wizard of Oz
7. O-Ren (Lucy Liu) - Kill Bill
6. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) - Cuckoo's Nest
5. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) - Misery
4. Alien Queen - Aliens
3. Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone) - Basic Instinct
2. Catwoman (Various)
1. Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) - Fatal Attraction
I wouldn't say Villianess, I would say misunderstood.
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Re: Top Ten Screen Villainesses of All Time
They are all misunderstood. Depraved on account of they're deprived.Elphaba wrote:silverscreenselect wrote:From FHMOnline:
10. Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) - Friday the 13th
9. Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) - Goldeneye
8. Wicked Witch (Margaret Hamilton) - Wizard of Oz
7. O-Ren (Lucy Liu) - Kill Bill
6. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) - Cuckoo's Nest
5. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) - Misery
4. Alien Queen - Aliens
3. Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone) - Basic Instinct
2. Catwoman (Various)
1. Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) - Fatal Attraction
I wouldn't say Villianess, I would say misunderstood.
Hey, Officer Krupke, we're very upset
we never had the love that every child oughta get
We ain't no deliquents;
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Down down inside us there is good.
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Agreed. What a great movie, though. There's something about a movie set in really hot weather that always seems to make it more memorable for me.themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:I'd nominate
Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) Body Heat
One of the many things that I like about Lonely Are the Brave. Talk about a great movie.
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Don't you remember the end of Baby Jane? Brings to mind another candidate, come to think of it: Mommie Dearest.mellytu74 wrote:OK, where's the other list with Angela Lansbury in Manchurian Candidate and Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
OR Jane Greer's Cathy in Out of the Past, the baddest of all film noir bad girls?
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Jeebus -- who votes on these things??
2 glaring omissions:
Mrs. Iselin -- Angela Lansbury -- The Manchurian Candidate (the real one, not the 2004 version.)
ETA: Ooops, I see she was mentioned above! That'll teach me not to skim posts!
and....
Mrs. Danvers! -- Judith Anderson -- Rebecca (every sinister housekeeper since has been based on Mrs. Danvers!)
2 glaring omissions:
Mrs. Iselin -- Angela Lansbury -- The Manchurian Candidate (the real one, not the 2004 version.)
ETA: Ooops, I see she was mentioned above! That'll teach me not to skim posts!
and....
Mrs. Danvers! -- Judith Anderson -- Rebecca (every sinister housekeeper since has been based on Mrs. Danvers!)
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Re: Top Ten Screen Villainesses of All Time
How could they leave off Barbara Stanwyck's Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity?silverscreenselect wrote:
This is yet another example of a list compiled by people whose film memories go back only a very short time. If you are going to include someone from a James Bond film, the best Bond villainesses were the early ones, Lotte Lenya in From Russia with Love and Luciana Paluzzi in Thunderball. And how anyone could make a list like this and leave Angela Lansbury in Manchurian Candidate off it is a mystery.