Taming of the Who?
August 19, 2007 10:11 PM
Help me find some good movies in which the protagonist is an angry bitch-on-wheels, who eventually sweetens up by film's end.
Hey there-- I'm looking for recommendations of films (preferably dramas or romantic comedies) where the main character's key flaw is her anger. Something in the vein of Beatrice in "Much Ado about Nothing" or Kate in "Taming of the Shrew" (or, by proxy, "10 Things I Hate about You.") Only interested in angry women leads, here.
Bonus points for romantic films where the lead male is somehow responsible for her working through her anger/bad temper issues.
Hey there-- I'm looking for recommendations of films (preferably dramas or romantic comedies) where the main character's key flaw is her anger. Something in the vein of Beatrice in "Much Ado about Nothing" or Kate in "Taming of the Shrew" (or, by proxy, "10 Things I Hate about You.") Only interested in angry women leads, here.
Bonus points for romantic films where the lead male is somehow responsible for her working through her anger/bad temper issues.
Frankie and Johnny comes to mind. I'll keep thinking of others.
posted by dancinglamb at 10:24 PM on August 19, 2007
posted by dancinglamb at 10:24 PM on August 19, 2007
"Kill Bill". Hard to get much angrier than the Blood-Spattered Bride. Except for "romantic", it fits. :)
posted by aeschenkarnos at 10:57 PM on August 19, 2007
posted by aeschenkarnos at 10:57 PM on August 19, 2007
Overboard, with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Underrated comedy.
posted by user92371 at 11:09 PM on August 19, 2007
posted by user92371 at 11:09 PM on August 19, 2007
Rose McGowan plays a scowling teenage outrageous bitch in Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation, but the movie is gonzo cinema: It's violent like a cartoon (severed heads talk, is what I'm saying) but also like a movie, where some of the visceral quality is unavoidably not cartoonish. Just a warning, in case you hate that kind of thing.
posted by cgc373 at 11:51 PM on August 19, 2007
posted by cgc373 at 11:51 PM on August 19, 2007
La Femme Nikita
Heathers
Mr & Mrs. Smith
Elizabeth
Thelma and Louise (TWO bitches on wheels!)
Far and Away
Moonstruck
Mermaids
posted by iamkimiam at 12:59 AM on August 20, 2007
Heathers
Mr & Mrs. Smith
Elizabeth
Thelma and Louise (TWO bitches on wheels!)
Far and Away
Moonstruck
Mermaids
posted by iamkimiam at 12:59 AM on August 20, 2007
Maid Marian, as played by Audrey Hepburn in Robin and Marian and by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, goes through pretty much the arc you describe. Mastrantonio also portrays this arc in The Abyss, as does Bonnie Bedelia in the first Die Hard, though these movies aren't led by the women or by that plot.
Still thinking.
posted by cgc373 at 1:13 AM on August 20, 2007
Still thinking.
posted by cgc373 at 1:13 AM on August 20, 2007
rhizome: reese witherspoon is anything but mellowed out at the end of "freeway"...
posted by Silky Slim at 2:00 AM on August 20, 2007
posted by Silky Slim at 2:00 AM on August 20, 2007
The greatest bitch transformation is in the original 1974 Italian Swept Away. Stay far away from the Madonna fiasco.
posted by tula at 2:03 AM on August 20, 2007
posted by tula at 2:03 AM on August 20, 2007
The Long Kiss Goodnight, though I think it might be the mirror image of what you're looking for. Sort of. She starts off sweet, becomes a 'bitch-on-wheels' as you put it, and then kind of mellows again.
posted by Effigy2000 at 3:48 AM on August 20, 2007
posted by Effigy2000 at 3:48 AM on August 20, 2007
In theaters now: No Reservations.
posted by FlamingBore at 5:18 AM on August 20, 2007
posted by FlamingBore at 5:18 AM on August 20, 2007
Holly Hunter in Broadcast News.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 6:50 AM on August 20, 2007
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 6:50 AM on August 20, 2007
There's a Taming of the Shrew BBC remake from 2005 set in modern England with incomprarable casting and dialogue... Shirley Henderson as Katharine and Rufus Sewell as Petruchio. It's marvelous, marvelous, marvelous even if you have no interest in Shakespeare *at all*.
posted by Arch1 at 7:32 AM on August 20, 2007
posted by Arch1 at 7:32 AM on August 20, 2007
High Society is a musical version of The Philadelphia Story mentioned above. It is much less nuanced, but much more Satchmoed.
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical version of Taming of the Shrew, sort of.
His Girl Friday is not a musical, but Rosalind Russell's character does have some uptightness issues. More vaguely justified than pure bitchiness, but it's a good movie.
posted by fidelity at 8:43 AM on August 20, 2007
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical version of Taming of the Shrew, sort of.
His Girl Friday is not a musical, but Rosalind Russell's character does have some uptightness issues. More vaguely justified than pure bitchiness, but it's a good movie.
posted by fidelity at 8:43 AM on August 20, 2007
I used to have quite the crush on Moira Kelly after seeing The Cutting Edge, which is pretty much the Taming of the Shrew on ice. Her character's name is even Kate.
posted by kimota at 9:32 AM on August 20, 2007
posted by kimota at 9:32 AM on August 20, 2007
This previous question will have much of this exact thing, with some TV and such mixed in with the movies.
And might I highlight in particular: The Cutting Edge.
posted by lampoil at 9:36 AM on August 20, 2007
And might I highlight in particular: The Cutting Edge.
posted by lampoil at 9:36 AM on August 20, 2007
No Reservations is a remake of Bella (released as Mostly in the States) Martha. I haven't seen the new version, but how one could find Aaron Eckhart credible as warm and sensual is beyond me--he was also miscast in Possession.
posted by brujita at 9:05 PM on August 20, 2007
posted by brujita at 9:05 PM on August 20, 2007
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posted by cgc373 at 10:23 PM on August 19, 2007