Aspie Movies?

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Hey,
I was just wondering if anyone has seen the movie Ghost World.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 1?v=glance
It stars Steve Buscemi, Thora Birch, and Scarlett Johansson.
This film struck me as very aspie, and I noticed on amazon a couple of the movies suggested with "Ghost World" also had some Aspie qualities.

Lost in Translation
Donnie Darko
Crumb
American Splendor

Does anyone know of other movies that might be related to our experiences?

Lost in Translation is by far my favorite movie. However, none of its characters really have any aspie traits. Robert Crumb, the illustrator of American Splendor and creator of the underground comics movement, is considered by many to have some form of autism. One movie that I can think of is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It is extremely good and features an excellent performance by Jim Carrey as a lonely man who has all memories of his girlfriend erased from his mind.

Maybe it's just me, but Austin Powers seems to have a few Aspie traits. He either seems to avoid Eye-contact, or he eyeballs people, he's fixated on Sex and he talks about it an awful lot. He likes to stand close to people, in particular, Women. He doesn't think before he says things. He has this shrug of the shoulders a lot of the time, instead of keeping them square, and he has a drawn out whiney monotone High English Accent. All the things that I think makes him cute.

"Edward Scissorhands"- My favorite movie of all time

Rebel, I'm not sure if Austin Powers is aspie, but I love doctor evil. I'm laughing just thinking about him. By the way I double posted the other day and discovered there is an "x" button on the right hand side of your post. It will delete it if you like.

I definately relate to Edward Scissorhands. I forgot all about that one.
I might just have to watch that again soon!

Another one I've been meaning to watch is Amelie.
I saw it mentioned somewhere else I think.

It's not really about Aspies, but The Mighty definitely shows the emotions we all feel from time to time.

There's another movie, the title of which escapes me, with the kid who plays Louis Stevens on the Family Channel's Even Stevens. I think his name's Shia or something?? He plays a kid obsessed with military battle recreations. He falls in love with a friend's sister and makes out with her a day or two before her wedding. He shows up at the wedding, but I don't think he goes in... He just stands outside crying.

It's been a while since I saw that one, but I seem to remember thinking "wow! that totally applies to me!"

The Battle of Shaker Heights is the name of the movie you were describing.

Ghost World was amazingly like my life. The only thing I was good at was art, but when I went to art school, it was so bogus and pretentious. I had no idea what to do with my life, couldn't see opportunities and lacked judgement. I loved that movie, gotta see it again soon!

I highly recommend it. It's so good I own it on DVD (which is saying a lot, since I own very few DVDs). It also definitely has Aspie qualities, especially Amelie and her love interest. All of the characters have interesting eccentricities, though. The feel of the movie is also so whimsical and wonderful.



I'm sorry to hear that art school didn't work out for you, Postperson. I'm currently in art school, and I love it here. Things can get tough sometimes, and yes, I do run into pretentious artists (mainly in the fine arts department, though, and I'm in illustration), but overall, it's been a wonderful experience. Out of curiousity, where did you go to school? If you don't want to say, that's all right.

I taped a movie that aired on ABC back in september 1996 called "Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School Bus CX-17". The movie was based an event that happened in Miami back in novemeber 1995 when a deranged man hijacked a school bus full of special needs children, and forced the bus driver to take them all over the city. The whole thing ended when a sniper shot the guy dead at a restraunt the hijacker worked at.

The movie stayed pretty true to what happened, but this was a "movie of the week" dealy and was not done over very well. The movie had a many elements so over dramaticized that they were laughable. But all the kids that were portrayed on the bus that was hijacked were autistic.

'I'm sorry to hear that art school didn't work out for you, Postperson. I'm currently in art school, and I love it here. Things can get tough sometimes, and yes, I do run into pretentious artists (mainly in the fine arts department, though, and I'm in illustration), but overall, it's been a wonderful experience. Out of curiousity, where did you go to school? If you don't want to say, that's all right.'

Well it was all 'fine art' where I went, so pretention was everywhere...it was a different era, in the mid 70's, in Australia. The scene in Ghost World where the teacher demands that people tranlate their art ideas into words and is offended or disapproving of those who don't reminded me strongly of my experience. I find it daft that you go to art school to express yourself visually and these 'teachers' demand you express yourself verbally. I can recall saying to one that if I'd wanted or needed to express myself verbally I would be doing a different course and asking for examples of successful artists (historically) who had been highly verbal about their works - naturally this got me nowhere.

I'd expected to find unusual people or other wierdos there but all I found was mostly middle class kids from private schools, so I felt like a wierdo even at art school, eventually I dropped out. Well fine art is a bit of a stupid career choice anyway, most people move into some other field because really there is no 'career' in fine art.

PP

Just out of curiosity. Did any of you see U.S. of Leland. It's about this guy who kills an autistic child and goes through therapy to try and understand why he did it. I haven't seen it yet, but I've been meaning to.

I saw Amelie the other night, and I would also highly recommend it.
It is one of the best I have seen in a while. A wonderfully original story and quite funny. Lots of great characters too!

I caught a movie back in june that was on the dish called "the boy who could fly" The movie falls into the "fantasy" genre, and it's about an autistic teenager who becomes good friends with the new girl in town who just happens to move in next door.

It turns out that the central character in the movie has the actual ability to fly like superman. Talk about savant skills!

Also this movie stars a very young Fred Savage and pre 90210 Jason Priestley.

I Like Edward Edward Scissorhands Too

As Good As It Gets is also very aspie