Greatest Female Characters in Film

Seeing all this controversy about Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road has got me thinking about my favourite female characters of all time. I mean independent women who don't just scream all the time. My favourites would be Sarah Connor from Terminator 2, Princess Leia in A New Hope, Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, Jessie from Toy Story 2, Dory from Finding Nemo, Sidney from Scream, Ellen Ripley from Aliens, The Bride from Kill Bill and Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Jill McBain from Once Upon a Time in the West.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some of them but these are some of my favorites, in no particular order.

Natasha Romanov in the Avengers
Ellen Ripley in Alien(s)
The Bride in Kill Bill
Jackie Brown
Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction
Evey in V for Vendetta
Hit Girl in Kickass
Ava in Ex Machina
Amy Dunne in Gone Girl
Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs
Skeeter in The Help
Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde
Bridget in The Last Seduction
Shoshanna Dreyfus in Inglorious Basterds

Marion Silver - Requiem for a Dream
Galadriel - Lord of the Rings
Clarice Starling - The Silence of the Lambs
Rachael - Blade Runner
Annie Wilkes - Misery
Ellen Ripley - Alien
Catherine Tramell - Basic Instinct
Sidney Prescott - Scream
Sarah Connor - Terminator
Rita - Edge of Tomorrow

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Ripley from Alien
Aibileen in The Help
Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs
Furiousa in Mad Max: Fury Road (A bit early, but hell yeah)
Selina Kyle in Batman Returns
Marge in Fargo
Rita in Edge of Tomorrow

Gena Rowlands - "A Women Under The Influence"
Gulieta Masina - "La Strada"

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I agree with Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton)

On a side note though, there wasn't any real "controversy". The website which generated the non-controversy gets less google hits than individual characters from 1990s video games, just for the record.

The media's not interested in relevance though, just in generating 'outrage' for ratings - it's the same reason that "serial killers" get so much publicity in the media despite their having been only a few 100 in the past 100 years (100 out of 7,000,000,000+ population, just for perspective).

In no particular order:
Belle and Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast
Homura Akemi from PMMM
Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
San and Eboshi from Princess Mononoke
Rose from Titanic
Fantine from Les Miserables
Hana from Wolf Children
Satsuki and Mei from My Totoro
Lucilla from Gladiator

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Most everyone said all the essentials so...

Coffy

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Fear and Loathing in MoFo... The Gunslinger 45's Top 50 Favorite Films

In the 10 Ring: Gunslinger45's reviews

Sarah Connor - T2
Marge Gunderson - Fargo
Ellen Ripley - Alien Series
Regan MacNeil/Satan - The Exorcist
The Wicked Witch Of The West - The Wizard of Oz
The Bride - Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
Scarlett O'Hara - Gone With the Wind
Margo Channing - All About Eve
Julie Marsden - Jezebel
Eve White / Eve Black / Jane - The Three Faces of Eve
Phyllis Dietrichson - Double Indemnity
Blanche DuBois - A Streetcar Named Desire
Mildred Rogers - Of Human Bondage
Sugarpuss - Ball of FIre

I was going to point out how that's a GIF of Foxy Brown, but Foxy Brown is pretty much a Coffy sequel in all but name anyway so...yeah.

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

I love QT ladies - Mia Wallace, The Bride, Jungle Julia and Butterfly , Shoshanna , Alabama (True Romance)

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Here are five of the most fascinating female characters in film for me personally:

Ilsa Lund - Casablanca


Su Li-zhen - In the Mood For Love


Chiyoko Fujiwara - Millennium Actress


Mrs. Robinson - The Graduate


Séverine Serizy - Belle de Jour


There are plenty of others of course.

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Cobpyth's Movie Log ~ 2019

How nobody pointed out this one:

first one comes to mind. Also, put the rest of Miyazaki's female characters. From my top 10 alone we have also San:


Also from my top 10:


Also,


And yet another from top 10, animation has many strong female characters, because Japanese fiction always focused more on female characters.


Let's see, outside of stuff in my top 10 we also have noriko from gunbuster from my top 50:


The major as well:


Lain:


Animation has more great female characters than male.

Just a quick one for now, Edwinna "Ed" Mcdunnough in Raising Arizona:

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