movies with asperger characters

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Before becoming psychotic, Nash has many Aspie traits in A Beautiful Mind, which is why it is one of my biggest obsessive fixations (if you couldn't already tell ). He's basically this clumsy, socially awkward geek who can't relate to anybody and thinks differently. I really love the interaction between him and Alicia (the scene in my signature) because it gives me hope that I will some day find a boyfriend and we can bond over our geekiness. There's so much in the movie that I can relate to, physical gestures and such. He does some stimming-esque things that are so me. I watch the movie when I'm feeling really, really overwhelmed and need to watch it as a tension-release thing (I usually just listen to the soundtrack).
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This is something I STRIVE to think about, even though I usually focus on my favorite chars from movies, which are usually kick-butt women from action movies. Here is a possibility:

Selene from "Underworld"... *shot by Underworld fans for even suggesting such a thing* But wait, listen! I shall tell you why I think so: She is apparently a logical-based thinker, and she has constant obsession of trying to to annhialate all the other Lycans. Her opinions and behavior ar radically different from teh other vampires, who have a very social caste. The one scene that really comes to mind whenever I think about the possibility of her having ASD is in teh first movie. The other vampires are having a social gathering downstairs while she is upstairs at her laptop, looking at a video from the first action sequence in the movie. Then Erika, who is supposedly the complete opposite of her (loving parties and socializing), come into the room and tries to convince her to come out of the room and join the party. Selene refuses.

Peter Parker I think has ASD, HANDS DOWN. I thought that the first time I saw him in high school, and that line about the spiders has convinced me even further.

Itchy in ADGTH2 (All Dogs Go To Heaven 2) strikes me as having a couple aspie traits.......or maybe he's just neurotic.

I think Roger Bannister, as he is portrayed in the movie Four Minutes, has strong Asperger's traits. He is very intelligent, has an excellent memory, which helps him excel in his medical studies while his classmates stumble, he does his own thing and trains in his own way, which doesn't endear him to the British press and is shy and quiet.

Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXVINjb1noQ&mode=related&search=[/youtube]

I'm not keen on touchy feely movies but this one is OK.

Now I know the character doesn't necessarily have to be aspie (he probably isnt). But when I saw this movie (1997-1998?) I didnt know anything about aspergers, it just kinda felt like that could have been me... minus the math-genius part but so many other things that I could relate to. You tell me.

Bat man always seems very distant from others. The women fall for him because of his looks and his public status. The conversations that he has with women in the movies make him look like a good AS candidate. At all those "broken into dinner party" scenes, it is a good thing he always had to leave to fight the crime.