Zincubus
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 Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 11:00 am Post subject: Autistics in movies ! |
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I thought of a few yesterday but now when I actually get round to starting the topic I can only remember Rainman !!
Damn!
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KalahariMeerkat
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, there's a kid in Murcury Rising, a movie called Molly about an Autistic woman with the same name who is given a brain surgery to make her NT, Miracle Run, Bless the Child, Steven King's Rose Red, and lots others. But the bad thing is they're all about low functing Autistics (okay Cody or what's her face from Bless the Child could have Asperger's but that's just one.) Why not show an a FUN fantasy or adventure movie about an Asperger's person once and a while? |
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poopylungstuffing
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Would LV from Little Voice count? |
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Zincubus
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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I have found a few more ...
Mozart and the Whale - http://www.co-brass.com/articles_one_good_as_movie_can_make_an_difference.htm
Snow Cake - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Cake-Alan-Rickman/dp/rentals/B000IMVERI
Also found this list but not heard of most of them ......
backstreet dreams (1990)
being there (1979)
boy who could fly, the (1986)
circle of children, a (1977) (tv film)
david's mother (1994) (tv film)
down in the delta (1998)
family pictures (1993) (tv film)
forrest gump (1994)
george (1996)
house of cards (1993)
innocent, the (1994) (tv film)
mercury rising (1998)
molly (1999)
nell (1994)
pit, the (1981)
rain man (1988)
real rainman a portrait of an autistic savant (1995)
relative fear (1994)
run wild run free (1969)
silence (1974)
silent fall (1994)
son-rise, a miracle of love (1979) (tv film)
spoonface steinberg (1998)
summer (1988)
touch of truth (1994) (tv film)
touched by love (1980)
under the piano (1995) (tv film)
what's eating gilbert grape (1993)
when the bough breaks (1993)
wild child, the (1969)
wizard, the (1989)
Zigzag (2001)
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Forrest Gump was autistic?!?!? I thought he was just stupid. |
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Xenon
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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Is it just me, or are most Hollywood depictions of people with an autistic spectrum condition portraying the more extreme cases? It's like seeing (in the movies) only deaf people and nobody who's just a little hard of hearing.
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Todd489
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Most movie autistics are all given extreme cases of all the stereotypical autistic traits. They fail to realize that in reality it's a very diverse disorder. |
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DeaconBlues
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Just as, in movies, intelligent people are always super-genius polymaths, never just someone who's above-average in their chosen field. Or someone with a high libido is portrayed as a sexually-driven animal, rather than just a normal person who likes to get laid every night. Or if you're the adventurous sort, you must be an Evel Knievel wannabe, unable to turn down any dare at all, rather than just someone who might like to ride the Stratosphere (that roller coaster atop a tall tower in Vegas).
The deaf people in movies, of course, are that way because how much fun is it to watch a movie where one of the characters is constantly cupping his ear and saying, "What?"
In movies, everyone's traits are exaggerated to a ridiculous degree. It makes it easier to tell your entire story in two hours to a roomful of popcorn-munching strangers. TV shows can have subtler characterizations (Abby on NCIS, for instance, or Dr. Brennan on Bones), because they have more time to tell their story arcs. (A given story must finish in 30-60 minutes, including commercials, of course - but the characterization can be spread across many such stories.)
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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I was watching a Jimi Hendrix documentary the other day, and it got me thinking he had some traits.
Man, could he play guitar too  |
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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Has anyone seen the horror film Cube? There is an autistic character that the other characters consider to be worthless, but turns out to be vital to their survival, and
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is the only character to survive at the end of the movie. Talk about empowerment  |
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Anyone remember Aaron Pratt from CSI. I found this portrayal of HFA realistic
if somewhat forced. |
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: |
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Tiffany from Hellraiser 2 fits the diagnosis of Hollywood autism quite well.
SPOILER: Except that Hollywood autists usually save the day in some way with their superpowers and, in any case, don't summon any Cenobites at all. |
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larsenjw92286
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, Rainman played by Dustin Hoffman did have autism!
An average person would have just wondered where the phrase "10 minutes to Wapner" came from if they didn't know that.
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I feel like Rainman when House is about to come on. |
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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From what I know of the plot of Little Voice, she certainly did have traits.
And I figure most any time you have an eccentric smart person in a film, they have at least one foot in the AS profile.
One that springs to mind is Willie from Real Genius. Oh, and Jordan of course. I mean, the thing was full of smart people, there had to be at least one. Phyllo, from UHF.
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