August 26, 2009
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Top 5 Films With a Female Lead
i think i am going to save wednesdays for a regular column called The Top 5. that shining name is the product of all my creative faculties. biting Nick Hornby and reviving an old and recently dead habit of mine to name Top 5′s in all different categories, i thought i’d do this just so i have something easy and regular to write about at least once a week.
seeing as how i used up all my creative juices in picking the name “The Top 5″, i’d like some ideas from you on what exactly to rank top five in the coming, bound to be exciting, weeks. i need your help, please. send me any Top 5 ideas that might pop into your head as long as they don’t ask me to 1. identify myself in any way, or 2. incriminate myself. oh yes, i will not rank anything that might be politically partisan, but i doubt politics is a ripe field for mining top 5′s anyway.
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Top 5 Films With a Female Lead
this is turning out to be surprisingly hard to do. there simply aren’t many films with women leads and the best films that do have women as lead characters have them in a mixed ensemble or as part of a pair, which fits technically in this category but really betrays the spirit of this list. seriously, look back and try to think of any decent films that had a woman or group of women as the sole protagonists. it’s hard!
Amelie (2001) – i’m not sure a box of frolicking puppies could better capture the cuteness that is this movie.
Elizabeth (1998) – imagine dropping a love sick woman into The Godfather and you have Elizabeth.
The Hours (2002) – it’s been a while since i’ve seen this, but i remember loving its serious and heavy subject matter. why one might even say that this film almost treated the women like many films treat men… and look! it’s an ensemble of several women!
Marie Antoinette (2006) – i know a lot of people have irreconcilable problems with Kirsten Dunst, and i know this film was a tad slower than its upbeat 80s new wave soundtrack and splashy florescent colors might lead one to expect, but i still think this was a great film. underrated to say the least.
Sixteen Candles (1984) – crimes of Long Duck Dong aside…Honorable Mentions:
Clueless
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
La Femme Nikita
Lost in Translation
Secret Sunshine (korean)
Take Care of My Cat (korean)
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Comments (6)
What, no porn?
hey is take care of my cat about this woman (hwang shin hae) who makes her neighbor cut her up and cook her?
i LOVED “take care of my cat.” and to answer sosuffocated’s question, no, it’s NOT about the woman who makes neighbor cut up and cook her. THAT’s 301/302 (sam gong il/sam gong ee). “take care of my cat” is a coming of age story about this group of girls who are friends and recently graduated high school. it’s a sweet story.
@obt5 - haha yea i just remembered that it was 301/302. thanx…
interesting, i think it’d like to see Marie Antoinette. that’s nicole kidman in that poster for the Hours?
@SarahakaHungry -
yes, nicole kidman with a prosthetic nose. she might have won the oscar for her role in it.