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goryhorroor · 2 years

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blueiight · 7 months

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It was as though I was a disease. I have a brother that's ten years older than I am and a sister that's eight years.. older than I am. So that I was obviously an accident. And it was, "Ganja, I came down with Ganja," you know? … Maybe because she hurt me so badly. All that time up till then, I really worked for her to say, "I love you. You're a wonderful girl, Ganja."

She could never, ever say that. The only thing she could ever bring herself to say was that I was beautiful. And I loathed my beauty for that, because she found it appealing. But that was a very decisive day in my life, because that day I decided that I would provide for Ganja always.

Do whatever had to be done. Take whatever steps had to be taken. But always take care of Ganja.

— MARLENE CLARK playing GANJA MEDA in GANJA & HESS, written by BILL GUNN

#yn.#ganja & hess #ganja meda #marlene clark #bill gunn #☀️

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talesfromthecrypts · 7 months

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@mikelogan asked favorite vampires

Lestat de Lioncourt - The Vampire Chronicles

Carmilla

Gabrielle de Lioncourt - The Vampire Chronicles

Severen - Near Dark

The Girl - A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Miriam Blaylock - The Hunger

Astarion Ancunín - Baldur's Gate

William "Spike" Pratt - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Tae-ju - Thirst

David - The Lost Boys

Dracula

Ganja Meda - Ganja & Hess

Eric Northman - True Blood

Drusilla - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Eva - Fascination

#horroredit #vampires #usergiles #userriot #25kgifparty #mygifs #if you think this is bad you should see the list of 35 i started with #tom hardy voice: fang bang #morally correct to eat people or whatever

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blackfemmecharacterdependency · 2 years

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BFCD Black Vampire Characters Masterlist

Black Vampires Tag | Vampire Aesthetics | Vampire Art | Vampire Cosplay

Akasha Queen of the Damned | Amy Bellafonte The Passage | Aya Al-Rashid The Originals

Belle Fright Night: Part II Belle never has any gender specified in the movie, from my recollection. The actor seemingly identified as a man, while the wiki lists the character as transvestite, so, I’m going to take that to mean that Belle is a trans woman and feature her here, since she was such an icon for me as a kid. If new information arises, I’ll make corrections. At the very least, Belle is femme presenting, and still qualifies for visibility on BFCD.

Cym The Forsaken

Ganja Meda Ganja & Hess | Grace Creepshow Series: Sibling Rivalry

Kate Wynona Earp | Katrina Vamp |

Ladybird Dracula, NBC

Merrick The Vampire Chronicles: Merrick

Olivia Two Sentence Horror Stories: Teeth

Ramona Royale American Horror Story: Hotel | Rita Veder Vampire in Brooklyn

Tallulah Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood | Tara Thornton True Blood *Character wasn’t always a vampire, so some of the content is of human Tara, until/unless I can find time to make a separate tag for Vampire!Tara |

Valentina Suicide by Sunlight | Vanessa Brooks Blade | Vampira | Vampirella |

Family Friendly Versions:

Lucinda & Melissa Cavender ABC Family’s Halloween special ‘The Midnight Hour’ | Marceline The Vampire Queen Adventure Time | Sarah Fox My Babysitter’s a Vampire | Wilhamena Mettle OK KO, Let’s Be Heroes

IDK, Because I don’t go here (I don’t/haven’t watched everything above, but the stuff that I didn’t watch, I knew enough to know who the audience is. The ones below, I simply have no idea and probably will not learn...

Farah Hauville The Wayhaven Chronicles

Senna, Zafrina Twilight

#BFCD Monsters & More Masterlists #BFCD Spooky Season #Vampire Characters Masterlist #black vampires #vampires #masterlist #tags masterlist #List will be updated as needed #black female characters #Nesha Photosets #Character Compilations

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opinionbyabby · 5 months

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“Ganja and Hess.

Welcome and welcome back to my readers of the Opinions by Abby blog, I'm so excited to have you guys back. It's been a while since we have posted here but it does feel good to be back. This is unfortunately our last blog, I hope you guys enjoy it. For our last discussion post we are going to discuss a classic nineteen seventies film called, “Ganja and Hess.” Ganja and Hess is an American horror film directed by Bill Gunn and explores themes of spirituality, addiction, and African American Identity. The plot of the film follows Dr. Hess Green, an archeologist studying the Myrthians, which is an ancient African nation of known blood drinkers, with his assistant. His assistance name is George Meda and he is known to often have an unstable side. It is shown to the audience that George, the research assistant, is unstable when he tries to kill himself in Dr. Green's mansion, lucky he was able to get talked out of it. The story took a turn however when Dr. Hess Green turns into a vampire after being stabbed by his assistant with an ancient African dagger from the Myrthians.

When Meda first tried committing suicide he was talked out of it by Dr. Green, which created a more unstable situation for Meda. In return Meda attempted to kill Dr. Green with the dagger and then kills himself, resulting in both their deaths, or so we thought. Dr. Green survived the stabbing and drank Medas blood in return turning him into a vampire. He is left alone learning how to survive a life of immortality and a new craving for blood. Trying to find a new way to survive without killing anyone around him he is found stealing blood bags from local doctor offices in search of curing his craving so dyingly needs. A new addiction has emerged where he needs the blood to survive but also recognizes the harm it causes to the ones around him. One of my favorite things about this film is that it doesn't focus on the own horror within vampires itself but rather focuses on the psychological and existential aspects of immortality. Most people around us are scared about the concept of death itself however I believe that the idea of living forever has its own kind of horror that isn't often explored. I found it really unique and mind opening.

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101besthorror · 7 months

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Movie #100: Ganja & Hess

Release: 1973

Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes

Director: Bill Gunn

Ganja & Hess was so good oh my gosh. It’s about an anthropologist named Dr. Hess Green who becomes a vampire after his assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger. Dr. Green then falls in love with Ganja Meda who is the assistant’s widow.

I watched this movie a while ago I just forgot to make the summary thing and honestly I really loved it and I’m probably gonna watch it again soon it was great. I’m surprised this was my first time hearing about it. Very underrated

#movie #ganja and hess

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deadlinecom · 11 months

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gsmattingly · 11 months

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Review "Ganja and Hess"

I watched "Ganja and Hess" directed by Bill Gunn and starring Duane Jones and Marlene Clark. Bill Gunn also appears in the film as George Meda. I've been meaning to watch this for a long time but it took me a while to get around to watching it. It was interesting. I can't say that I was greatly enamored of it but I enjoyed watching it to a limited extent. It was, for the most part, rather slow paced. Now I like many slow-paced films but some of this seemed a little bit too slow for my full appreciation. I liked the church scenes with the singing. I don't recall any scenes with the characters having pointy teeth. They just seemed to drink the blood. It was a somewhat unusual interpretation of the vampire theme and possibly more erotic than menacing. The camera work had some good moments although I didn't consider it necessarily fantastic. The ending was somewhat different and it took a second look for me to fully realize what occurred during those last scenes.

The film's framing and pacing is, at times, unconventional, sometimes good, sometimes no so good. The scenes range from dream-like to sharp, focused and quick.

This was a 113 minute version as opposed to the severely edited 78 minute version. The disc was from Kino Lorber. I guess the added minutes came from various found 35mm original versions. It was noticeably grainy here and there.

In the classic films list, They Shoot Pictures Don't They, this film comes in at position 5076.

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speculativevampires · 1 year

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Ganja & Hess, 1973 dir. Bill Gunn

In 1972, Bill Gunn was approached by an independent production company to produce a vampire Blaxploitation film for $350,000. He was given a significant degree of creative control, and the resulting film was not what the producers were expecting -- Gunn had made a poetic, surreal, heavily symbolic film, not a gory, action-driven and fast-paced horror movie.

Duane Jones stars as Dr. Hess Green, who is made a vampire as a result of being stabbed in Africa conducting anthropological research on the Myrithians, an ancient blood-drinking civilization. He was stabbed three times: "one for the Father, the Son, and one for the Holy Ghost." The change it causes in him -- to have a need to drink blood -- is referred to as a disease. Gunn is not creating a vampire character that wields power; instead, Dr. Hess is pathologized, and his thirst for blood is most characterized as an addiction, and he is an ill victim of a curse.

Dr. Hess's assistant George Meda comes to stay at his impressive, isolated estate but soon kills himself in the bathroom. His wife, Ganja, soon calls looking for him and asks to stay until he returns. Ganja and Hess quickly become lovers and get married even after Ganja finds her husband's dead body in the basement freezer. After their wedding, Hess stabs Ganja with the African dagger, resulting in her conversion to vampirism. They have a dinner guest over that Ganja kills. Hess then also becomes suicidal and reads that standing in the shadow of the cross is the one thing that can kill him. He visits a church during service and kneels before the minister, then leaves and we find him in a dark room with Ganja, sitting below a wooden cross. He steps into the shadow, dying and leaving Ganja behind. The film ends with Ganja staring out of the windows of Hess's mansion, seeing the dinner guest run out of the water and towards her.

The following images and quotations from the film showcase the carefully curated visual and textual aesthetic and attempt to parse out and identify key components of the work that align it with Afrofuturist fiction.

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enigmalestari · 1 year

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Polisi Tangkap Warga Aceh Pembawa 1,3 Ton Ganja di Medan, Hendak Diedarkan di Jakarta

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filmwitches · 4 years

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MARLENE CLARK as Ganja Meda in Ganja & Hess (1972) dir. Bill Gunn

#horroredit #userbrittany #nerd4music #bergmaningrid #userksusha #usergina #witchinghourz #josephlosey #Ganja and Hess #Marlene Clark #Bill Gunn #*#by michi

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blueiight · 7 months

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ganja & hess will always be one of my favorite movies. the mythology of the zombi, the true palpable fear enslaved africans had of being the everlasting immortal slave, is repurposed into the myrthians, an afrocentric progenitor race of vampires. the music and culture of the black baptist church is intentionally placed to remind viewers of black diasporic syncretism. dr. hess initially spurns the church, but ends the movie in seeking salvation, and chooses his own mode of liberation. where george meda starts is where dr. hess ends— suicide under a god he truly believes in (whether its the myrthians or christ), death over being an immortal black monster. dr. hess’s arc also runs parallel to the titular ganja, a woman who was made immortal bc of her beauty, who was hated by her mother for fears of a precocious sexuality, who is made to marry the doctor who killed her husband, forced to seduce another man, refuses suicide with dr. hess in favor of being immortal. the movie ends with the man coming out the grave, and ganja in the mansion. ganja indeed, took care of herself in the end (somehow)

#yn.#ganja & hess

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talesfromthecrypts · 2 years

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Favorite film vampires

Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview With the Vampire

The Girl in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Severen in Near Dark

David in The Lost Boys

Miriam Blaylock in The Hunger

Count Dracula in Dracula (1931)

Jerry in Fright Night (1985)

Ganja Meda in Ganja & Hess

Deacon in What We Do in the Shadows

Deacon Frost in Blade

#filmedit #horroredit #usergiles #useroptional #myedits #mygifs #novempire but i forget how to color halfway through the set #im addicted to making little icons to put in my gifs

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blackfemmecharacterdependency · 2 years

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BFCD Black Women in Horror/Monsters & More Masterlist

Black Women in Horror | Final Girls | Slayers | BFCD Monsters & More Masterlists

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Old Woman Josie Welcome to Nightvale | Olivia Two Sentence Horror Stories: Teeth

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Wilhamena Mettle OK Let’s Be Heroes |

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Yvonne A Nightmare on Elm Street Series |

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Zafrina Twilight | Zoe Head Count |

Children in Horror | BFCD Family Friendly Spooky Season |

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*List will be updated throughout October*

#Black Women in Horror #Children in Horror #long post #BFCD Spooky Season #October #BFCD Masterlist #BFCD Black Women in Horror Masterlist #black female characters #monster girls #slayers

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doomonfilm · 3 years

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Thoughts : Ganja & Hess (1973)

I’m not sure how it got by me when Spike Lee released Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, but I was somehow unaware of the fact that the film was a remake of the Bill Gunn underground classic Ganja & Hess, which I’d heard of but had not had the pleasure of seeing. With Black History Month approaching, and a plan in place to use my timeline to voice examples of unjust killings, I decided to use the DOOMonFILM - FIlm Discussion Group as a platform to celebrate Black creatives. On the same day that I shared an article about Bill Gunn to the page, the I Saw What You Did podcast covered him as well, and I took that as a sign to finally dive into his catalog, with Ganja & Hess being the obvious entry point.

Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones) is the personal doctor for George Meda (Bill Gunn), a man with a vampiric addiction to human blood that must be satisfied in order for him to survive. After contemplating a failed suicide, George Meda decides to attack Hess in his sleep, stabbing him with a ceremonial dagger that passes the vampirism forward to Hess before finally succeeding in killing himself. For a brief time, Hess attempts to feed on the blood he is able to find and obtain from victims without drawing attention to himself, but one day, Ganja Meda (Marlene Clark), the estranged wife of George, returns home. Ganja and Hess quickly form a romantic bond, and eventually Ganja discovers George’s body, but rather than be fearful, her relationship with Hess deepens, and the two are eventually married. For a time, they share their exploits, but eventually the pair is forced to make tough personal decisions that directly impact their relationship.

For a vampire film made in the heart of the exploitation (and blaxploitation era), Ganja & Hess is surprisingly high-brow, intellectual and poetic in its approach. Rather than linger on scenes of vampires creeping in the shadows, glamourizing themselves and hammering home their bloodlust to the point of being ridiculous, the film treats its vampiric characters as sympathetic victims, similar to someone with a drug addiction that fuels their actions and desires. To that end, when Hess becomes the new victim, we are forced to share in his torture and despair, rather than find entertainment in his potential adventures and folly. When served up Ganja on a silver platter, he would rather retreat in shame to curb his addiction to blood rather than use her as a source of food, even when Ganja chooses to display the less favorable aspects of her character. Ganja & Hess also takes a brief stint to focus on Black identity, among all of the other topics it handles, with the same amount of grace and subtle touch as said topics... Ganja’s reflections on Black womanhood and child-raising particularly stand out as a powerful moment.

The way that Bill Gunn mixes the ideas of faith and fear are poignant to say the least, and the inclusion of both the church and religious art provides an interesting source of emotional subtext for the film. This point is driven further home with the inclusion of different African visions and music that fade in and out of the film’s “consciousness”. Even the George Meda character (played by Gunn) speaks of his failed suicide attempt as “the murderer releasing the victim”, as if to inform us that his soul is a prisoner in the body of a vampire. Ganja & Hess is also presented as a love story more so than a horror film, which is interesting in of itself as the romance spawns from the dark recesses of George Meda and Dr. Hess Green’s conflict, as well as George and Ganja’s fractured relationship. Once the sparks begin to fly between our titular characters, the moments of love are given the same attention and presentation as the moments of fear, making the relationship portions and the vampiric portions feel like parallel films rather than an intertwined narrative, and further driving home Dr. Hess’s hold on humanity in the face of his tortured existence, with the only true connecting thread being Ganja’s acceptance of Hess’s condition (and the way she aides him in his survival)... it is this singular connecting thread, however, that eventually pulls the two stories together into a shared journey.

The film soundtrack oscillates between deep soul, Christian-based music and songs that emulate spirituals to great effect, pulling us down into the murky depths of our main characters with each new music cue. Portraying all of the characters in the film as educated Black men, women and children rather than disadvantaged and impoverished potential victims is a breath of fresh air, and Hess is given the chance to display his humanity even in the wake of his tragedy. The editing and pacing of the film have a “slice of life” feel that is unique to the “genre” (if you want to label the film as a traditional “horror” or “vampire” film in the first place), which in turn, brings a sort of narrative expansion to the idea of the vampire that seems to have been in itself expanded upon, especially in the modern era of the vampire-loving movie-going public. The sex scenes and moments of sensuality are handled in possibly the most tasteful, artistic manner I have seen scenes of that nature ever handled. The cinematography implements a voyeuristic, fly on the wall approach, as flash and flare would distract from the methodical, grounded approach taken by Gunn (although artistic insert shots are occasionally sprinkled throughout).

Duane Jones carries himself in a very dignified manner, partly as if to portray the stereotypical associations that come with a vampire, but also seemingly as a ploy to keep his humanity (and his lofty position as a doctor) front and center, rather than be defined by his tragedy. Marlene Clark could easily have stepped in as the femme fatale, but she instead opts for a more grounded, well-rounded characterization, warts and all, which humanizes her amongst a world filled with chameleon-like “monsters”. Bill Gunn is the closest thing to a traditional vampire presentation, letting a charismatic intellectual vibe fuel his brief stint in the film. Supporting roles by Candece Tarpley, Leonard Jackson, Sam Waymon, Richard Harrow, John Hoffmeister, Betty Barney and Mabel King round out the cast.

For a film that was supposed to be a cash-grab follow-up to Blackula, Ganja & Hess is anything but that. The film stands as possibly one of the most gorgeous and powerful pieces of art to come out of the Blaxploitation era (though the film in itself is not necessarily a Blaxploitation film), and as mentioned previously, it has seemingly served as at best a direct influence, and at worst, an unknown indirect influence on the entire span of vampire films that followed. It was also interesting hearing lots of soundtrack moments and little sound snippets that I have heard sampled in endless songs, which I did not expect, but wholly enjoyed.

#ChiefDoomsday #DOOMonFILM #BillGunn #Ganja&Hess #MarleneClark #DuaneJones #SamWaymon #LeonardJackson #CandeceTarpley #RichardHarrow #JohnHoffmeister #BettyBarney #MabelKing #WilliamGaddis #JudithThompson

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mifunebooty · 4 years

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As requested by ❤anon❤ to post my favorite 60 women from films, here you go! As ive seen on pbs shows about greatest books, please applaud between every one of these!

1. Amy Dunne played by Rosamund Pike on Gone Girl 2014

2. Alma played by Vicky Krieps on Phantom Thread 2017

3. Ponyo on Ponyo 2008

4. Patsey played by Lupita Nyong'o in 12 years a slave

5. Omocha played by Isuzu Yamada in Sisters of the Gion 1936

6. Tonya Harding played by Margot Robbie in I, Tonya 2017

7. Valkyrie played by Tessa Thompson in Thor: Ragnarok 2017

8. Jennifer Check played by Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body 2009

9. Dona Flor played by Sonia Braga in Dona Flor and her two husbands 1977

10. Princess Yuki played by Misa Uehara in The Hidden Fortress 1958

11. Lady Asaji played by the Isuzu Yamada again in Throne of Blood 1957

12. Carmen Jones played by Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones 1954

13. Sabrina played by Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina 1954

14. Oharu played by Kinuyo Tanaka in The Life of Oharu 1952

15. Blanche DeBois played by Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

16. Norma Desmond played by Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard 1950

17. Gilda played by Rita Hayworth in Gilda 1946

18. Laura Hunt played by Gene Tierney in Laura 1944

19. Mildred Pierce played by Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce 1945

20. Ki-jung played by Park So-Dam in Parasite 2019

21. Cleo played by Yalitza Aparicio in Roma 2018

22. Elle Woods played by Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2001

23. Clementine "Tish" Rivers played by Kiki Lane on If Beale Street Could Talk 2018

24. Madeline played by Helena Howard on Madeline's Madeline 2018

25. Anne Graham played by Tonie Collette in Hereditary 2018

26. Marlina played by Marsha Timothy in Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts

27. Paula played by Noamie Harris in Moonlight 2016

28. Sook-he played by Kim Tae-ri in The Handmaiden 2016

29. Elaine played by Samantha Robinson in The Love Witch 2016

30. Thomasin played by Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch 2015

31. Maggie played by Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a hot tin roof 1958

32. Emmanuelle Riva's anonymous character in Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959

33. Eurydice played by Marpessa Dawn in Black Orpheus 1959

34. Betty played by Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive 2001

35. Mon played by Machiko Kyô in Older Brother, Younger Sister 1953

36. Kiyoko played by Hideko Takamine in Lightning 1952

37. Cabiria Ceccarelli played by Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria 1957

38. Mamma Roma played by Anna Magnani in Mamma Roma 1962

39. Cléo played by Corinne Marchand in Cléo from 5 to 7 1962

40. Charulata played by Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata 1964

41. Licia played by Adrienne La Russa in Psychout for Murder 1969

42. Ganja Meda played by Marlene Clark on Ganja & Hess 1973

43. Claudine played by Diahann Carroll on Claudine 1974

44. Foxy Brown played by Pam Grier on Foxy Brown 1974

45. Conchita played by Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina on That Obscure Object of Desire 1977

46. Gorgeous played by Kimiko Ikegami on House 1977

47. Alma Starr played by Natalie Wood in This Property is Condemned 1967

48. Anna played by Isabelle Adjani in Possession 1981

49. Vivian played by Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman 1990

50. Mozelle played by Debbi Morgan in Eve's Bayou

51. Elizabeth Bennett played by Keira Knightley in Pride & Prejudice 2005

52. Masako Kanazawa played by Machiko Kyô in Rashomon 1950

53. Elena Tejero played by Ninón Sevilla in Aventurera 1950

54. Masako played by Chieko Nakakita in One Wonderful Sunday 1947

55. Beatriz Peñafiel played by Maria Felix in Enamorada 1946

56. Celine played by Julie Delpy in the before trilogy

57. Ed played by Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona 1987

58. Mrs. Chan played by Maggie Cheung on In the mood for love 2000

59. Kitty March played by Joan Bennett in Scarlet Street 1945

60. Sumie played by Noriko Sengoku in Scandal 1950

#Cherry says #counted these i got 30 out of 60 of these women are nonwhite!!!#hey anon i did it #this shit took almost 3 hours XOHEKXOSHDMXIWBNDKS #anyways im sleeby.....#gonna nap pls enjoy this isnt ranked #its supposed to but i got too tired

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