Top 5 female heroines from movies.
My favourite movie heroines are women I have looked up to and felt a connection with as I watched their stories on screen.
Enid, from Ghostworld.
Thora Birch plays the ultimate misfit whom I could completely relate to as a young woman. The movie is dark comedy at its finest.
https://youtu.be/juzGS-GN79M?si=tCp_XmXTPvwibRe8
Any Jane Eyre.
I love Charlotte Bronte’s novel about a good woman who suffers hardship through life. Eventually, she finds happiness with her love, the flawed though ultimately decent man, Mr Rochester.
The trailer of one of the most recent adaptations of the novel.
https://youtu.be/8IFsdfk3mlk?si=Rey0WQOUAjY_rLqs
Margaret, from North and South.
Coming from the gentle south, Margaret experiences a culture shock when she moves to the north of England and sees the mills run by John Thornton. They’re not friends at first but they come to understand each other and fall in love. Margaret is an honest and open woman, whose capacity to change and change her opinion makes her one of my favourite heroines.
https://youtu.be/5PnZS370dKo?si=WOemrJo25viU3edm
Lucia’s mum from Room With A View.
Whilst Helena Bonham Carter plays a young woman learning her independence and first loves, it’s her mother whose female stoicism I have to admire.
I couldn’t find many scenes with just Lucy and mum but here is a scene featuring the mum who is breaking the news that they may be getting some new neighbours, one of whom Lucy shared a kiss with. (The mum has a parasol over her head).
https://youtu.be/mly1nV35PZA?si=XonoQiskIw1FNSZ9
Amelie or Meg Ryan.
The spirit of Amelie (the quirky French character in the movie of the same name) and Meg Ryan in the 90s is pretty much the same. Both represented an independent and curious girl/woman. As a single woman, I imagined myself to be like Meg, rather androgynous (in her case, photogenically so) and funny with it.
Only seen Amelie - and that gets my vote!
Loved this!!!