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Brittany Murphy: The quintessential crazy girl


Have you guys noticed that Brittany Murphy always plays someone is isn't quite right in the head?

Is she being typecast, or is she really a nutjob, I wonder? LOL


"Where are all the good men dead, in the heart or in the head?"
- Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

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brittany murphy is an amazing actress

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Oh, I think she's great. Don't get me wrong.

I just noticed that I own about five movies in which she stars, and in each of them she's playing someone that's a little off mentally.

1. Prophecy II
2. Freeway
3. Girl, Interrupted
4. Don't Say a Word
5. Cherry Falls

I'm sure there are others that I just can't remember right now.

I just wonder if she's being typecast or if there's something about HER that just leads people to cast her in those types of roles.


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yeah, she does play people a little off mentally but she is awesome at it.
these are the movies where she does play one of these characters but is still amazing:
Prophecy II
Freeway
Girl, Interrupted
Don't Say a Word
David and Lisa

thats all i can think of

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Yeah she always plays parts like that,ya know some people are good at playing certain parts!

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Don't forget Drive, a great movie and one where Brittany Murphy plays, well, you know. She was perfect in Prophecy II. There are girls like that, ones who will try to run the show one minute but then put up with being drug around by the collar the next like when Gabriel took her out of the cafe. I really felt sorry for her when Gabriel told her that she didn't know what she was in for, and I think he did too.

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Wow, you must really be hating the fact that you wrote this post not so long ago, huh?

Change of opinion in retrospect?

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Why should his opinion chgange just because she died?

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the Crazy Girl characters are one of the things i always liked about Brittany Murphy

Rob Zombie is one of the greatest directors today

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I always liked her psycho characters. She definitely was good at portraying them.
She was pretty cute in this one, in that crazy sort of way.
RIP

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