Believable Villainous Females in Film?

Bette Davis played several villainous females. These were two...

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Davis in In This Our Life

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Davis in The Letter

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Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers

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@MrIVI,

MrIVI wrote:

I will definitely watch The Bride Wore Black! Haven't seen it yet! Thanks for the input.

I recommend this movie every chance I get. It was directed by Francois Truffaut and is probably the best imitation of Hitchcock ever.

I saw the film with an audience full of college students. They quickly started cheering for Jeanne Moreau's character because of her outrageous ingenuity.

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Okay, so it was a TV mini-series, but Sian Phillips as Livia in
I, Claudius was scary good.

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@George,

I agree with you on that, George.

Wandel, I'm a Moreau fan from way back. Now I was to see that movie again.

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@ossobuco,

It is definitely one of my favorite movies, osso. I should have mentioned that the audience also cheered the incredible determination of Moreau's character.

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@wandeljw,

Oops, meant 'want to' see it again.

(I also have liked Moreau because of what I thought of as her baggy eyes.. her eyes being a strong part of her active/acting face.)

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Kathleen Turner in Body Heat was believable and villainous.

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I think what is a lot harder is to find believable villainous females in film who are not crazy. Plenty of guys out there who are evil just because they are evil or because they grew up in a tough neighborhood or because they want money. Evil women are just nuts.

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I loved Rebecca de Mornay in "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle". She was so deliciously evil.

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@MrIVI,

MrIVI wrote:

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sandra bullock in the blind side
jennifer anniston in marley and me

I agree these are excellent characters! I loved Marley and Me! Great movie! But I was actually looking for believable villains. Otherwise I would have posed several Jody Foster films as the solution to this question.

wait, those women weren't villains?

weird

feel good films terrify me

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@djjd62,

I think this was meant in humor...

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@Linkat,

i know my original post was, if mr roman numerals post was humour, i missed it

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@raprap,

Cruella is fun villain, and I really enjoyed the film, but again I'm not sure how believable she was as a human being. (Honestly, she is actually pretty high in that department. Amazing success for being a cartoon.)

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@engineer,

Interesting point..

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@firefly,

I have to confess I found Monster to be pretty corny.
Basic premise:
Make a character who's had a horrible life, make that character become a monster.
It certainly happens, but I don't think they made it all that believable. For the most part I think they just assumed the audience would follow because they assumed everybody believed so firmly in the basic premise. Honestly you got to give me more than that trite psychological banter to get me to believe a character.

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@MrIVI,

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I have to confess I found Monster to be pretty corny.
Basic premise:
Make a character who's had a horrible life, make that character become a monster.
It certainly happens, but I don't think they made it all that believable. For the most part I think they just assumed the audience would follow because they assumed everybody believed so firmly in the basic premise. Honestly you got to give me more than that trite psychological banter to get me to believe a character

That's sort of funny, given that the "character" in Monster wasn't a fictional creation--it's supposedly the true life story of Aileen Wuornos. But, I guess, Wuornos herself was a little hard to believe.

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