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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Micheal Myers comes off as aspie to me, esp in the first movie when they showed him as a kid in the mental hospital.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DanRaccoon wrote:
Mary and Max

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978762/

Max is an aspie, and I just absolutely love his character. Have a few quid to spare, buy it in HMV, excellent film.

It's a great film, I've found it incredibly moving.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Main character in "Pi" shows some Aspie traits, though it seems more to lean towards a physical brain disorder in the end.

Also, the main character in "Paper Heart," perhaps?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Definitely Lisbeth Salander from "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo".
Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom from Harry Potter.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Luna is considered legitimately crazy. I fancy her, though.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bun wrote:
Luna is considered legitimately crazy. I fancy her, though.


"Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am..."

I don't know that I would call Luna crazy, per se. Eccentric, yes, but she has a good head on her shoulders and got into Ravenclaw, which is the house for the really smart kids, and grows up to be the magical equivalent of an environmentalist.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kaspar in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, by Werner Herzog.
He´s definately more of a LFA, but I connected to his way of reasoning.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

TheFerretHadToGo wrote:
Kaspar in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, by Werner Herzog.
He´s definately more of a LFA, but I connected to his way of reasoning.


In real life, people who knew Kaspar Hauser were convinced he was nothing but a liar and a con man who had concocted his whole story about a strange man raising him in seclusion, then seeking to murder him. Most modern day psychologists also have come to the same conclusion. And his fatal wounds may have been self-inflicted - by which he might have accidentally stabbed himself too deep while trying to create physical evidence to back up his story.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kraichgauer wrote:
TheFerretHadToGo wrote:
Kaspar in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, by Werner Herzog.
He´s definately more of a LFA, but I connected to his way of reasoning.


In real life, people who knew Kaspar Hauser were convinced he was nothing but a liar and a con man who had concocted his whole story about a strange man raising him in seclusion, then seeking to murder him. Most modern day psychologists also have come to the same conclusion. And his fatal wounds may have been self-inflicted - by which he might have accidentally stabbed himself too deep while trying to create physical evidence to back up his story.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

You´re absoulutely right. Herzog took lots of liberties in his portrayal of Kaspar. One might say it´s a bad habit of Herzog´s to change facts in order to make a story more interesting. Those of his documentaries I´ve seen were full of obvious falsehoods, to the extent that I started wondering if the whole thing wasn´t just made up (especially Grizzly Man).
But what I was getting at was that in Herzog´s portrayal of Kaspar Hauser I think he comes of as autistic. Do you agree?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

TheFerretHadToGo wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
TheFerretHadToGo wrote:
Kaspar in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, by Werner Herzog.
He´s definately more of a LFA, but I connected to his way of reasoning.


In real life, people who knew Kaspar Hauser were convinced he was nothing but a liar and a con man who had concocted his whole story about a strange man raising him in seclusion, then seeking to murder him. Most modern day psychologists also have come to the same conclusion. And his fatal wounds may have been self-inflicted - by which he might have accidentally stabbed himself too deep while trying to create physical evidence to back up his story.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

You´re absoulutely right. Herzog took lots of liberties in his portrayal of Kaspar. One might say it´s a bad habit of Herzog´s to change facts in order to make a story more interesting. Those of his documentaries I´ve seen were full of obvious falsehoods, to the extent that I started wondering if the whole thing wasn´t just made up (especially Grizzly Man).
But what I was getting at was that in Herzog´s portrayal of Kaspar Hauser I think he comes of as autistic. Do you agree?


I've actually never seen the movie, but I know a little about Hauser; and I know that many people have perceived him to be.
I also admit, I like Herzog quite a bit, too (even if he does play with the truth from time to time). I remember one time while giving an outdoor interview in England, someone shot him below the belt. He wanted the interview to go on, explaining that it had just been a small small caliber bullet. I gotta figure, either this guy is also an Aspie, or he's the most German guy in the world (which I can say, as my family is very German)!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i can't believe nobody mentioned george mcfly in B2TF#1.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

auntblabby wrote:
i can't believe nobody mentioned george mcfly in B2TF#1.


I must admit, I forgot about him, too.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i can't believe nobody mentioned george mcfly in B2TF#1.


I must admit, I forgot about him, too.


when i first saw that movie when it came out in '85, i saw george mcfly up on the screen and immediately thought, "THAT'S ME!" i was in the army at the time, and at my duty station i was ribbed about that character, with other GIs asking me "when did you find the time to act in that movie?" or calling me george mcfly. this ribbing was even worse than when "kiss of the spider woman" came out.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

auntblabby wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i can't believe nobody mentioned george mcfly in B2TF#1.


I must admit, I forgot about him, too.


when i first saw that movie when it came out in '85, i saw george mcfly up on the screen and immediately thought, "THAT'S ME!" i was in the army at the time, and at my duty station i was ribbed about that character, with other GIs asking me "when did you find the time to act in that movie?" or calling me george mcfly. this ribbing was even worse than when "kiss of the spider woman" came out.


I'm afraid I've never seen Kiss Of The Spider Woman. That has an Aspie-ish character in it?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kraichgauer wrote:
I'm afraid I've never seen Kiss Of The Spider Woman. That has an Aspie-ish character in it?

yes, AFAIC, one who was high-functioning and in active denial of his inner dweeb. it also had a gay character who "turns" the aspie character.
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