I’d like to compile a list of movies one would associate with each of the signs / planets. Let’s give it a whirl starting with Scorpio, Pluto and the 8th house.
These movie picks should involve sex and psychology… perhaps betrayal, double cross, you get the idea. Please leave as many details as you can (without spoilers).
My pick is, The Beguiled. This is a Clint Eastwood movie filmed in 1971. It holds up completely, thirty-five years after the fact.
This movie shocked me. It has a lot of audacity even for today. It is overtly twisted but also sublime. As sophisticated as you may be, you could probably spend months unraveling just exactly what is going on and who is to blame for what.
Your turn!
“Unfaithful” with Richard Gere and Diane Lane.
I think it’s very Scorpionic……..
And even if you don’t think so, at least you’ll get some hoooot sex scenes involving Oliver Martinez…(whew…fanning myself at the thought of it). I think it portrays all of the emotions of having an affair, and also the rage a spouse feels when they discover they’ve been betrayed. I love it!
Oh hell yes, shell. That’s a terrific movie.
Love Clint Eastwood flicks. He’s just got something about him, very sexy 😉 I’ll have to check this one out!
If you like mystery and want something to unravel over and over again, here are 2 picks for pluto/scorpio/8th house:
Tell No One – twisted and well put together w/great soundtrack. Has all the ingredients – crime, betrayal, corruption, the underworld, deep love and lots of twists and turns. French w/English subtitles. Loved this one.
Mulholland Drive – dark, mysterious and hard to unravel. Also great soundtrack. Betrayal, crime, mafia, love gone awry, decomposition of dreams. Slight neptunian flavor. David Lynch’s best.
I love Mulholland Drive!
OMG–I was just looking up this movie online the other day for a poem I was writing. I saw The Beguiled only once–when I was 12, I think, and it STILL sticks with me; the ending scene is seriously messed up, worthy of any Poe short story. Weird sychronicity that you should mention it. “Blue Velvet” is very Scorpio twisted; I saw that movie three consecutive nights when it first came out in the theater way back when (Scorpio Moon conjunct Neptune here). My other fave: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Cult classic with my favorites, Bette & Joan! And what’s interesting about that movie is that there is an astrological chart hanging on the wall in the sisters’ kitchen (if I am remembering correctly). Always wanted to freeze frame that scene and take a closer look…
I think Fatal Attraction has to be mentioned.
but I also think Harry Potter movies fit that bill as well.
here’s one that might seem a bit of a stretch but I think so
and I LOVE it:
Shaun of the Dead. hello, zombies… plus the protagonist faces death and has a major transformation from working stiff to hero. and zombies.
Harry Potter, definitely
The Eyes of Laura Mars! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/
And Caché. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/
“Closer”… definitely.
yes!!
yesss.
Mulholland Drive
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Double Jeopardy
Frida
Manchurian Candidate
The 6th Sense
Ghost
Sin City.
Rob! I loooved “Closer”.
Especially that song at the end by Damien Rice.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a Scorpio book…
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Ang Lee’s Lust Caution. Intense.
I recently watched “A Passage to India” (again). I love this movie for its distinct subtleties and obvious wisdom and mystique of Mrs. Moore and Professor Godbole.
What exactly happened in the Marabar Caves? ? ?
“What exactly happened in the Marabar Caves? ? ?”
Alec Guinness found a tub of boot polish
I don’t know that he’s actually a Scorpio, but anything with Ralph Fiennes. What a freaking hot and twisted mofo. Deep. Sexy. Completely mental and manipulative and knows what you’re thinking before you think it. It’s not just raw, stupid anger or aggression or sex, it’s intensified and refined through a mental filter. An cool exterior that hides his depth.
Yeah, I like old Ralph a lot 🙂
indecent proposal
Last Tango in Paris with Marlon Brando
anything film noir…
henry & june…
Yes. Definitely. Love that movie.
Pixie, i think Ralph is a Virgo. I think some Virgo´s get to be scopionish, especially the guys. I like him too.
Ralph Fiennes is actually a Capricorn with Moon and Venus in Scorpio..
Here’s another: “Quills” with Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, and Joaquin Phoenix (he is my Ralph Fiennes). This film is about the Marquis de Sade being held in a madhouse for his deviant writings, and all the Scorpionic shenanigans that take place there. Not for the squeamish, rated R, and the film did receive 3 Academy Award noms. Intelligent, intense, sexual, manipulative, power games…all very Scorpio. The real obsession, though, in my opinion, in the film is how far de Sade will go to write, for at one point his writing materials are taken away from him…but he is not thwarted! (I won’t give away the details).
Ohh, great topic:)
Two of my favourites in this genre would be
“Dangerous liaisons” (1988) and “The Shawshank redemption” (1994).
I also heartily recommend “The celebration” (Denmark, 1998) if you can get hold of it…:) It takes on family secrets and -scapegoating. Unforgettable!
I really like this idea. Im going to have to make a list and watch some I havent seen.
I few that I think can be quite scorpio are
Cruel Intentions (one of my favorites)
Silence of the Lambs
Tristan and Isolt ( another favorite)
Perfect Stranger
Gossip (A gemini scorpio theme!)
Ooohhh, I loved Closer too!
Shell – that song is “The Blower’s Daughter”, and it is so good 🙂
These are all some great movie picks, I’m gonna write them down.
Uh, I spaced out and shared a Pisces-type movie. Doh!
my husband (scorp rising) is big on scorpio flix so we see a lot of them. last night, for example, he had to watch half of Bladerunner to see which version was being played on tv, the regular or director’s cut. why he felt compelled to know i have no idea.
One that I haven’t seen mentioned here is A Simple Plan – other people’s money bringing a heck of a lot of shadow.
And Boogie Nights, loosely based on John Holmes life is another (which Mulholland Drive is also, although less loosely and a lot more Neptuney version).
Shell… Wonderful movie, yeah? Damien Rice’s music is used as the score to this almost completely throughout…
Come to think of it, “Closer” isn’t just Plutonian… it’s Neptunian and Saturnine, also.
Will be back to post it for those threads 😉
What a great idea! There are so many I can think of but really “In The Realm of the Senses” would have to be my recommendation. It’s a Japanese film about the the true story of a woman who became obsessed with her lover’s penis and eventually chopped it off and carried it around with her in her purse. You kinda just have to watch it.
Oh “True Romance,” for sure. I always thought that Alabama Whitman was the most Scorpio of female lead characters.
I thought of a few, but as much as I remember liking them they’ve gotten horrible reviews on RT. I haven’t seen them in this century so I won’t list them.
Does “Pan’s Labyrinth” count as Plutonian?
No one’s mentioned “Flowers in the Attic?!” Abuse, incest, power struggles, murder, cheese, it’s got it all!
Someone listed “Silence of the Lambs,” but I think “Red Dragon” (with Ralph Fiennes, Ed Norton, and ex-Sir Hopkins) is a better fit here.
I’m more attuned to books.
I would recommend “In the Cut” by Susanna Moore, although the movie slaughtered the awesomeness right of it. See also “Lunch” by Karen Moline, which is so distinctly Scorpionic it’s variously amusing and appalling. Both are about sex, murder, and obsession, although the treatments are vastly different.
In fantasy, The Black Jewels series (especially the first three) by Anne Bishop follows a marvelously Plutonian family through a time of trouble and war, as the child grows up and learns how to wield her enormous magical power responsibly.
How about the movie Charly, based on the book “Flowers for Algernon”?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charly
an oldie, but a goodie.
Eyes wide shut
Sex, Lies & Videotape
I had forgotten about that, love it! Spader has a sort of Scorpio feel to him.
Yikes – I remember being HORRIFIED by The Beguiled! Most Scorpionic film I think I ‘ve ever seen is Bad Timing, a Nic Roeg film with Art Garfunkel as a Psychology Professor in an obsessive love affair with can’t-remember-her-name-Nic-Roegs-wife, and Harvey Keitel as the weirdo detective who investigates the ensuing events. Sex, death, psychology, the whole damned eighth house is there.
Double Indemnity, 1944, with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck… “The story was based on a 1927 crime perpetrated by a married Queens woman and her lover. Ruth Snyder persuaded her boyfriend, Judd Gray, to kill her husband Albert after having her spouse take out a big insurance policy—with a double-indemnity clause. The murderers were quickly identified and arrested.”
Sex, death, betrayal, AND insurance money! Whee!
Turns out Art Garfunkel is a Scorpio too
Another Clint Eastwood movie that fits: TIGHTROPE. Sexual, psychological and kinky.
Also Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO. A man with an all-consuming obsession and love for a dead woman. I’d say that counts.
And I second Del’s suggestion of DOUBLE INDEMNITY. One of the best movies ever made and all about Pluto/Scorpio/8th house. I love classic Hollywood.
Freaking love this thread.
La Femme Nikita
Naked
The Krays
After Dark My Sweet
Memento
The Departed
American Psycho
and probably the most plutonian film I have ever seen; a Clockwork Orange.
….OK I’ll stop now.
One more: CARNIVAL OF SOULS. A nice little spooky movie that was made in the 1960’s and has become a cult classic. It’s a perfect Halloween movie.
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2 of my all-time favorites: “Dangerous Liasons” (Malkovich, Glen Close, Michele Pfeifer) and
“Body Heat” – (Kathleen Turner, and William Hurt” – Hot, hot.
Ooh, Dorothy, BODY HEAT is a good one. So much hot.
Match Point – a Woody Allen flick with Scarlett Johansson. Sex, lies, self-serving interests, and a shocking finale. If you like Closer, you’ll like Match Point.
”Cruel Intentions ”
There is a lot of manipulation , revenge and seduction
and I would say ”Butterfly effect”! ( ability to change the past(as in transformation)
I cant think of anything else!
“Burn After Reading,” from the Cohen brothers, who do shock, betrayal, sex and the Dark Side really well I think, ‘coz they make you laugh while they’re at it. It’s got George Clooney, Brad Pitt (lotsa eye candy there), and of course Frances McDormand, plus an English actress whose name escapes me but she’s good too.
Love this thread.
And I love satori’s suggestion of the Harry Potter movies – they even have a Phoenix! I’ve made a list of all the suggestions here that I have yet to see – thanks everyone for your contributions.
Oh and how about Robert Altman’s Gosford Park? It’s Scorpio Lite, in a way, but still a beautiful film I think.
I’d pick the Anniversary with Bette Davis (who had a scorpio moon). It’s all about power, control, manipulation and rejection within a family. The matriarch has obviously been denied her wants her whole life so all her power has just turned to poison. Bette Davis is a pure charismatic bitchpants!
I liked a clockwork orange and memento, but I don’t know if they are overtly Scorpy.
I also liked Mongol- I think that Timudgen was a Taurus and his lady was a scorp. That whole thread about her being kidnapped and getting pregnant and Ghengis raising the boy as his own was historically accurate. The son was eventually killed by the first legitimate son in a war over inheritance 🙁
I love blade runner too! The director’s cut is much better- no stupid moralising voiceover. How disturbing is the bit where deckard practically rapes rachel?
Now I’ve had time to think some more here goes:
The Alien series, in particular aliens3 and alien:resurrection. Talk about embracing your shadow side!
Blood Wedding (Spanish) A woman’s husband is killed in front of her the night of their wedding so each night she dresses in her bloody wedding dress and dances with his ghost under the moon.
Secretary- the whole selfharm, bondage, sex with the boss, punishment as pleasure etc. A subnote to this one: I tried to get my parents to watch it and my dad couldn’t stomach more than 1/2 an hour. My mum watched the whole thing, then lectured me about sexual harassment in the workplace.
And last but by no means least, Battlestar Galactica!!! Yeah it’s a series, but it’s freakin’ SICK. Humans nearly annhialated, being chased through the galaxies by evil cylons. Lots of references to the zodiac AND the old testament AND ancient Roman society. Women just as aggressive and sexually predatory as men. Brilliant! My scorp brother and I both love it and we disagree about everything else-(he would say the Bond series are the ultimate scorp movies.) Also, nearly all the core cast are aries’- makes sense, with all the war!
The Vanishing (the original Dutch version more so than the American remake w/ Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges)
The Last Seduction
Klute
Match Point
Body Heat
Vertigo
Just Tell Me What You Want
Blood Simple
The Andromeda Strain
Monsoon Wedding
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Batman (1989, starring Michael Keaton–I’m serious)
YES. Damn it you beat me to it. I thought of Blood Simple right away! One of my favorites. I’d also mention Bitter Moon and Wild at Heart. And The Last Picture Show. And Purple Rain. And Flash Gordon. Because of Ming and his hot ass bitch of a daughter. ♡☆♡
Hello Elsa and Company,
I’m enjoying the postings on this topic. I have one Scorpionic movie suggestion that is actually fun and campy. It’s The Fifth Element (1998). Regeneration, action and transformation of the characters. The female lead (Milla Jovovich) is fashioned to look like Venus de Milo. And the smoldering Pisces Bruce Willis is the hero who saves the day.
And of course Gary Oldman is one of the villains. 🙂
Thank you–great blog!
Oh wow!! Hats off to Little Miss Hermit. I just watched “The Celebration” and was a hoot! So very Scorpionic, I’m talking a free for all in emotionality–whoo! A perfect movie for us emotional scuba divers. I loved how the guests kept trying to party in the mayhem LOL.
Lot off great movies mentioned here:) Looove What ever happened to baby Jane. Clockwork orange!! I dont know if I love it , but its very …I dont know really, but I am glad it was made:)
A really good and unique scorpionic film, in my eyes..is Dogville….It is very special…I think it is Nicole Kidmans greatest act. I really tells u the truth about human nature..