portraying personality disorders
The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 World War II drama which portrays the paranoia of a fictitious naval officer Phillip Queeg, played by Humphrey Bogart.
The Caine Mutiny received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and for Best Actor, for Bogart's portrayal as the paranoid Captain Queeg.
You can watch a scene from the movie here:
"The Caine Mutiny", 1954 Columbia Pictures
The English Patient is a 1996 Miramax movie which portrays the life of a wounded World War II pilot who demonstrates schizoid traits and his relationship with his caretaker nurse.
The movie is set in World War II Europe. It depicts László de Almásy, played by Ralph Fiennes, a seriously burned airplane pilot, whose mysterious past is gradually revealed to his attending nurse, played by Juliette Binoche.
The English Patient won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
You can watch the movie trailer here :
"The English Patient" 1996 Miramax Films
The Remains of the Day is a 1993 Columbia Pictures Release, starring Anthony Hopkins & Emma Thompson which portrays the life of a head butler in an English Manor who manifests some of the traits of schizoid personality disorder.
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The movie is set in 1950's England. It depicts the character of Mr. Stevens, played by Anthony Hopkins, a head butler in a stately English mansion and his relationship to one of his head housekeepers, Miss Kenton, played by Emma Thompson, who is frustrated by her attempts to show her affection for Mr. Stevens which he appears unwilling or unable to reciprocate.
The Remains of the Day was nominated for 8 Academy Awards.
You can watch the movie trailer here :
"The Remains Of The Day" 1993 Columbia Pictures Trailer
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 thriller starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster which features a psychopathic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter, who advises a young FBI agent as she tries to stop another serial killer.
Anthony Hopkins plays the part of Hannibal Lecter - a high functioning psychiatrist who suffers from Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD), who has been imprisoned for murder and cannibalism. In the movie, he develops a relationship with a young FBI agent, played by Jodie Foster, who is trying to track down another serial killer.
Although the plot is far-fetched, the movie makes an honest attempt to explore the psyche of a character who suffers from antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), representing him as a complex combination of character traits - rather than as just as a "pure evil" character. However, as with all popular stories, the character development is constrained by the need to be entertaining and so the emphasis of the writing and the production is put on the dramatic and shocking character traits.
The movie won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
You can watch the movie trailer here:
"The Silence Of The Lambs", 1991, Orion Pictures
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre tells the story of 3 American prospectors searching for gold in Mexico. One of the prospectors, Fred Dobbs, played by Humphrey Bogart, exhibits paranoid traits.
The movie is set in Mexico in the 1920's. Three American Prospectors risk their lives in their search for gold. Driven by paranoia and greed, one of them, Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) turns against his partners.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre won 3 Academy Awards for Best Directing, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor and won a nomination for Best Picture.
You can watch the movie trailer here:
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" 1948 Warner Bros. Pictures
The Wizard of Oz is a 1944 movie starring Judy Garland which is sometimes used as a metaphor to describe the disconnect between the dissociated reality of the personality-disordered individual (Oz) and the real world experienced by the Non-PD (Kansas). The metaphor is based on the iconic phrase: "Toto - I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more".
In the classic 1939 MGM Musical, "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy (Judy Garland) a young girl from Kansas, is thrust by a tornado into the freakish world of Oz, populated by munchkins, wizards, witches, and flying monkeys. The movie chronicles her adventures as she searches for a way to get back to her home in Kansas.
In an iconic scene, Dorothy emerges from the house carrying her dog Toto from the house which has just been transported by a violent tornado - or "twister" into the land of Oz. As she observes the strange new colors and textures of the new world, she utters the phrase: "Toto - I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore".
The phrase: "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" has developed into a popular cultural icon for any situation in which reality seems to take a back seat to a new order of freakish rules, people and events.
The phrase has also been adopted by a number of Chosen Non-PD's who identify with the feeling as they discover the strange dynamics of dissociation or a new dysfunctional relationship and begin to wonder about the wisdom of getting involved with a person who has a personality disorder. In this analogy, "Kansas" becomes synonymous with normal old situation they came from and "Oz" becomes synonymous with the crazy new world they are experiencing.
You can view a clip of the famous scene here:
"The Wizard of Oz" MGM 1939
Another iconic scene from The Wizard of Oz is when the Wicked Witch sends a troupe of Flying Monkeys in pursuit of Dorothy. The term Flying Monkeys has evolved to represent any proxy recruited by an abusive person to assist them in controlling their victim.
You can see a clip of iconic flying monkeys scene here:
"The Wizard of Oz" MGM 1939
Zelig is a 1983 movie written and directed by Woody Allen who portrays a man who avoids revealing his own self by adapting his personality to mirror anyone whom he is interacting with.
You can watch a scene from the movie here:
"Zelig" 1983, Warner Bros.
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