movies with asperger characters

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While I wouldn't say that the character actually had Asperger's, I always have identified with Kurt Russell's character in "Soldier". I especially remember the scene with all the soldiers sitting in a row on their bunks, while waiting for their next mission.

(really a book character, but I'll put it here anyways) Gatsby from "The Great Gatsby" He has no friends, hates parties, has a hard time understanding emotional things, is obsessed with Daisy, and is really unaware of the consequences when they hit that woman with their car. He has odd mannerisms and is awkward in social situations.

The Royal Tenenbaums... the entire family (including the adopted sister) appear to have a bit...

The Matrix... everybody is a computer hacker...

I think the brother in Rainman also showed some autistic traits and that would be in line with current research suggesting that different levels of autism can exist within a family.

Raymond's brother often repeated himself and showed obsessive traits but not to the extent that Raymond had. I also think the father could have been a bit AS because of his obsession with rosebushes and cars and his difficulties in relating emotionally.

Once the Ender's Game move is made (which at the pace its going will be able 2020 (aka the year I get elected )) I am sure Card will make some of the characters somewhat autistic or aspieish. Its hard to tell from the books but I imagine it would be hard to have a school full of the best potential military leaders without having a few aspies and autistics.

*bangs head on computer keyboard* I cannot believe I forgot about Gatsby! That was probably the reason I thought he was so interesting... To continue with the tradition of book characters being accepted I'll nominate Victor Frankenstein's monster from Shelley's classic.

Yeah!! Go Frankenstein and Gatsby! BTW, I love your quote from Princess Diaries....I was lauging soooo hard every time Mia was talking about AS in that book

Pssstt....Gatsby didn't hit anyone with his car. He let Daisy borrow his car, and she was the one who ran over the woman.

I know, but he was almost totally unbothered by the fact that someone was killed and he had no idea of the consequences....that shows more than a little social cluelessness

I get the feeling that Gatsby considered that the woman who got run over got put out of her misery since she seemed a very unhappy person.

He might also have felt genuine emotion but been unable to express it easily, a common trait amongst AS people.

I'd like to nominate Baron Harkonnen's advisor in the Dino DiLaurentis production of Dune.

Orson Scott Card has a son who has Severe Cerebral Palsy. If I remember right, I was reading a dialogue by OSC where he said that his son was also Autistic.--LFA, I believe.

What does the kid in Jerry Maguire have because he defiently seems quite aspieish (Jerry himself has the obsessions but is way too good at talking.)

You should go to Hatrack (his website) and see if thats true. I would but I am way to f'en shy.

Ok not a movie person, but a tv show person.
the main character from law and order CI (vincent...something)
seems very aspie-like to me.

and gil grissom (C.S.I) to sometimes

I love that movie, one of my favorites. Yes, he could definitely have those traits. Women scared him, so did parties. But 20 or so supersoldiers armed to the teeth and he had nothing, no problem. Thus a sense of misplaced fears. In the social circles, he hardly says a word, and he refers to everyone in a militaristic fashion as sir or ma'am.

I know who you mean in the Cube, the quiet guy who gets away from the nutty cop.

One I have always heard had the main character with an ASD, but has not been mentioned yet. The Boy Who Could Fly - made about 1991 or so.

I could make a case for the main character in Meet John Doe, with Cary Grant from like 1941. He speaks very meekly and is hardly audiable.

Possibly the assistant in Brotherhood of the Wolf, played by Marc Decasonos. Rarely talked, if at all, and had an obsession with fighting apparently.

Cuba Gooding, Jr's first role that I know of, in Paul Hogan's Lightening Jack. Great movie, I still think it is probably Gooding's best, it is rare to see someone do physical comedy only so well on film today.

A historical person with ASD qualities not yet mentioned - Archimedes. When the Romans came to him and told him to get up, as he was being captured, he responed by saying, just a minute I am almost finished. He was so engrossed in his project he did not even realized the danger he was in before the Romans got annoyed with his seeming defiance and ended his life.

I could say the same of the famous chinaman, Zhuge Liang, he had to do everything himself and never, ever listened to other people's advice. Before he came to reknown, he was literaly a hermit. He would come up with a military plan and expect everyone to carry it out flawlessly. If there was a change in plans, instead of adjusting his tactics on the field, he would withdraw his armies, rebuild and draw up new plans to be carried out precisely. WHen one of his officers messed up royally, he was executed. When another officer question whether his plans would work and said something else would work better, Zhuge Liang thought the officer had designs to rebel and made arrangements for when he thought that would happen.

I could probably think of many more, but I don't wanna take up the whole thread with endless pages.