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Originally Posted by Sculpt
I've seen a ton of films with Helena. I'm sure I'd love her if I ever met her, but sorry to say I never warmed up to her characters. Relatively speaking, I liked her best in the first part of Fight Club, when they're both going to meetings. And then sorta enjoyed her as Queen of Hearts. I'd probably like her best in Room with a View, but I doubt I'll ever be in a mood to see it. It's interesting how she's basically turned into a professional villain actress.
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I think she makes a damn good villain! Also her quirky gothic sense of style combined with her classy beauty reminds me of actress Angelica Huston.
What can I say? I love a femme fatale-type of female character.
To me evil ladies are so much more likable than evil gents.
Also speaking of Johnny Depp's characters killing innocent people in both Dark Shadows and Sweeney Todd, I guess it didn't bother me as bad in Sweeney Todd because he was clearly a villain protagonist and not a hero or antihero. He also got exactly what he deserved in the end for killing all those people (and so did Ms. Lovett) so it wasn't like one of those types of stories where the psychopath gets away with his or her crimes and rides off into the sunset.
I also liked him as Ichabob Crane in Sleepy Hollow where Burton put a new twist on the character and instead of being a cowardly superstitous man like in the book he was a police constable from New York who wanted to solve crimes using science and logic. He was kind of like a Sherlock Holmes-type of character without the sociopathy or the drug addictions.
Also I loved Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tessel. She's such an underrated actress and one of my favorites. The actress who played her stepmother was really good too.