Post by Lisa Rowe on Apr 15, 2008 4:39:33 GMT -7
First Name: Lisa
Last Name: Rowe
Middle Name: None
Age: 20
Height/Weight: Unknown
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dirty blond
Character description: See signaure
Persuasion: Depends
Type of Creature: Human
Powers: none
History: (from imdb since my bio was deleted on another site)
Played by Angelina Jolie, who one an Oscar for her performance, and based on a real woman from Susanna Kaysen's memoir, Lisa Rowe is perhaps the most striking character in the film Girl, Interrupted. Young, beautiful and oozing with seductive charisma, Lisa is a sociopath and a patient at Claymore hospital where she has resided for the past 7 years. Lisa is proud of her diagnoses, mocks her doctors and refuses to take her medication.
She is first introduced into the film when she is returned to the hospital after another brief escape. For a short initial period, Lisa appears relatively feisty, although still relaxed and somewhat pleased to be "home". However, a moment later Lisa flies into a rage and is sedated; a scene which marks the first glimpse into her turbulent character. Indeed, Lisa carelessly slips into different moods and personalities without warning or regret throughout the film. In her interactions and relationships with fellow patients she can be friendly, protective and even kind yet just as easily will become cruel and bullying in order to stay in control. Lisa clings to her brutal honesty and fierce rebellion, encourages others to do the same and exhibits a sense of superiority over those that do not.
It is after Lisa is moved to a different ward for singing to disturbed burn victim Polly and receives shock treatment that her strong persona begins to slowly crumble. In an attempt to escape the shock treatment, she wakes protagonist Susanna up in the night and suggests they run away to Florida. Glassy-eyed and agitated, she mistakes Susanna for her dead best friend and, for the first time, Lisa appears fragile. Temporarily regaining her cool, Lisa and Susanna stay with recently discharged patient Daisy and her most sinister moment arrives. She launches a heartless yet intensely honest attack on Daisy about her self-mutilation, incestuous relationship and the lie she is living by denying her problems. As a result, Daisy hangs herself. Lisa puts on an unabashed front and flees the scene.
The incident is a major turning point for Lisa. When she is eventually returned to the mental institution Lisa is dazed and trembling jerkily. Confined in a seclusion room, she continues to unravel until, at the climax of the film, goes into a manic rage towards Susanna. Suddenly, it is obvious that her rebellion and honesty, that were previously so catching, are not much more than false bravado when Lisa frantically proclaims her need to be, more or less, called on them. When Susanna does this and proves Lisa guilty of everything she stands against, Lisa collapses, both physically and psychologically. She is no longer the charming and fearless hero she once seemed to be, but simply a frightened, lost and extremely emotionally disturbed girl.
Lisa is last seen strapped to a bed crying numbly as she tells Susanna, and perhaps herself also, "I'm not really dead". The film does not reveal what became of her after that scene.
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Girl, Interrupted
Approved ~ Jenny[/color][/u][/font][/size]
Last Name: Rowe
Middle Name: None
Age: 20
Height/Weight: Unknown
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dirty blond
Character description: See signaure
Persuasion: Depends
Type of Creature: Human
Powers: none
History: (from imdb since my bio was deleted on another site)
Played by Angelina Jolie, who one an Oscar for her performance, and based on a real woman from Susanna Kaysen's memoir, Lisa Rowe is perhaps the most striking character in the film Girl, Interrupted. Young, beautiful and oozing with seductive charisma, Lisa is a sociopath and a patient at Claymore hospital where she has resided for the past 7 years. Lisa is proud of her diagnoses, mocks her doctors and refuses to take her medication.
She is first introduced into the film when she is returned to the hospital after another brief escape. For a short initial period, Lisa appears relatively feisty, although still relaxed and somewhat pleased to be "home". However, a moment later Lisa flies into a rage and is sedated; a scene which marks the first glimpse into her turbulent character. Indeed, Lisa carelessly slips into different moods and personalities without warning or regret throughout the film. In her interactions and relationships with fellow patients she can be friendly, protective and even kind yet just as easily will become cruel and bullying in order to stay in control. Lisa clings to her brutal honesty and fierce rebellion, encourages others to do the same and exhibits a sense of superiority over those that do not.
It is after Lisa is moved to a different ward for singing to disturbed burn victim Polly and receives shock treatment that her strong persona begins to slowly crumble. In an attempt to escape the shock treatment, she wakes protagonist Susanna up in the night and suggests they run away to Florida. Glassy-eyed and agitated, she mistakes Susanna for her dead best friend and, for the first time, Lisa appears fragile. Temporarily regaining her cool, Lisa and Susanna stay with recently discharged patient Daisy and her most sinister moment arrives. She launches a heartless yet intensely honest attack on Daisy about her self-mutilation, incestuous relationship and the lie she is living by denying her problems. As a result, Daisy hangs herself. Lisa puts on an unabashed front and flees the scene.
The incident is a major turning point for Lisa. When she is eventually returned to the mental institution Lisa is dazed and trembling jerkily. Confined in a seclusion room, she continues to unravel until, at the climax of the film, goes into a manic rage towards Susanna. Suddenly, it is obvious that her rebellion and honesty, that were previously so catching, are not much more than false bravado when Lisa frantically proclaims her need to be, more or less, called on them. When Susanna does this and proves Lisa guilty of everything she stands against, Lisa collapses, both physically and psychologically. She is no longer the charming and fearless hero she once seemed to be, but simply a frightened, lost and extremely emotionally disturbed girl.
Lisa is last seen strapped to a bed crying numbly as she tells Susanna, and perhaps herself also, "I'm not really dead". The film does not reveal what became of her after that scene.
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Girl, Interrupted
Approved ~ Jenny[/color][/u][/font][/size]