What are some other movies where there is a kind of coquette or femme fatale as the female role, like Estella, who breaks the heart of the male lead? I'm kindof hating men right now and would really enjoy seeing some more films like this one, where it is the man that gets hurt.
shareLOL, okay hopefully your man hating days will soon end, but in the meantime, try Vanity Fair...she pretty much claws her way to the top of the social circle without a bit of regard for the men along the way. Another one that's not man-hating exactly, but one of my favorite movies where everyone basically screws everyone else (literally and figuratively) and they all really get what they deserve is Closer. Natalie Portman's character in that one is just brilliant...you'll love the ending. And of course there's always Chicago, where the message is, man did bad things to you? Just off him...and then sing a song about it! ("He had it coming, he had it coming, he only had himself to blame. If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it, I bet you you would have done the same!") :) Have fun!
shareThanks for the tips! Closer is actually one of my favorite movies. I forgot about Vanity Fair--I saw it on a plane once. I think I'll definitely revisit it and check out Chicago, too. Unfortunately, I don't see my days of being jaded ending anytime soon.
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did they ever end? your days of being jaded?she loves you
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lol. out of morbid curiosity, i'm wondering the same thing...
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Maybe the suggestion to watch Chicago was a bad one and now she's in jail lol
shareUm... to an extent, 'Vanity Fair' and 'Gone With the Wind', I guess. That is to say, Becky and Scarlet are both bitches.
Bit of a messed up request, but Estella is one of the most fascinating characters in any of Dickens novels, so...
Waiting for my Mr Colin Firth Darcy
Fresh Horses could be interpreted that way.
shareThe French epic Les Enfants du Paradis features a character named Garance (played by an actress named Arletty) who cruelly manipulates (and can't be bothered by) at least three men who are pining for her.
In the old b/w film, The Blue Angel a simpleton schoolteacher goes to a cabaret to chastise the burlesque dancer all his students are distracted by, and instead he ends up ruining his life over her. She's completely indiferent.
In Casablanca Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is holed up in North Africa running a bar in an effort to escape a bad past and to avoid making a moral decision about the war. Although seemingly together, he's actually a ruined man who's life is further thrown into turmoil when his old love shows up.
A regualr feature of dozens of post-WW2 film noirs is a woman who works a man over. Steve Martin's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a pretty funny spoof of the whole genre:
"Women. They tear your heart out of your chest, slice it in little pieces, cook it, serve it to you on a hot plate and you're supposed to say, 'Thanks, honey, it's delicious." - Steve Martin ('Rigby Reardon')
You have to hear Martin deliver that line. It's hysterical.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman contains a similar theme.
shareTWO LOVERS!
Common link?! What a BITCH!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UImSE-NqE
MISERY :)
That should fix you.