Aspies For Freedom

As far as main characters go, there's "Amelie", "Punch Drunk Love", "Ghost World", "Everything is Illuminated", "The Rage in Placid Lake", "Mozart and the Whale", "Benny and Joon" - I'd even go so far as to suggest "Antz"...

I just started wondering about the character played by Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.  Seems obvious that Will (played by Matt Damon) himself is an Aspie or a cousin.

How about Jodie Foster's character in Contact?  Given that Carl Sagan is a suspected Aspie, I think it's quite plausible.

And how else could I LOVE these characters so passionately??

Not a movie character but an actor; Johnny Depp.  I saw him on a Tonight Show re-run and thought he was so socially awkward and seemd to lack much of a personality of his own.  Maybe why he can portray other characters so fine.

This is really interesting to me. I've always thought he seemed really different personality-wise but I couldn't put my finger on it. It seems like he taps into something really divine as an actor, maybe using some of those special mental traits that Aspies have. Someone else who has those same qualities in interviews is Prince. I could still be on topic with that, he played "The Kid" in Purple Rain. LOL Anybody else think these two guys could be Aspies?

I think it's a great movie with a nice story because Barry Egan does eventually find love and confidence in the end.  I saw it first with my college roommates.  Although I think they found it much more entertaining and fascinating than I did because I was too busy noticing the sad similarities between me an Egan.  They (NT) just could not understand what he was going through, but I could.

On the topic of "agonizingly bad" intros, I remember when I watched 'A Clockwork Orange', I found the first half hour of the movie very disturbing because it was filled with senseless, random, graphic violence.  I asked myself, "Why am I watching this crap?"  It was difficult to watch, but I'm glad I made it through because ultimately the plot surfaced and the moral was told.

That little kid in Martian Child.

It's a sweet movie.

I thought the character Crispina was possibly aspie in the film The Magdalene Sisters.  A harrowing film based on a true story.  

Me too! Hubby laughed is a** off... I was so sad, I was depressed for a week or two from that movie.   Even the two characters getting together in the end wasn't enough to lighten the load of that movie.

OMG!!! I want to see it SO bad... The first time I saw the preview, I cried! (Well... the Sarah version of crying, which isn't really crying.)  I'll have to go, I wonder if I took my 3YO in with me during naptime she would sleep through it?  Probably a bad idea... babysitter, anyone?  

So you are telling me that Darth Vader is aspie?!?!?!?

Any number of films featuring awkward geeks could count, although few state so explicitly (and isn't it true that many real-world aspies have no diagnosis or even know about it?)

I don't speculate much about real people, but since in a movie, the fiction we see on screen is all there is to a character, we're free to. I'd suggest the main character in Napoleon Dynamite for one.

But of course! That black biosuit is obviously to protect him from extensive sensory issues... *grins*

This is a maybe-has rather than definitely-has, I have my suspicions about Poncho from Funky Squad.  Excuse me while I try to get a link to work...

Ethel's silly theory

Oh pants, it isn't working. Sorry!  Try again: http://etheltheaardvark.blogspot.com/200...oncho.html

Have you ever been out quantity surveying, by any chance? *grins*