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| + | {{Witch|name = Bonnie|image = Bonnie Infobox.jpg|born = c.1980|species = [[Witches|Witch]] (depowered)|status = Alive|relatives = [[Bonnie's Mother|Unnamed mother]]|powers = [[Magic]] <br> |
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| + | [[Witchcraft]]|significant spells = Removing her burn scars|location = Los Angeles|played by = [[Neve Campbell]]}}{{Template:Quote|Well, excuse me, but I've spent a big chunk of my life being a monster and now that I'm not, I'm having a good time; I'm sorry that bothers you.| Bonnie}}'''Bonnie '''is a main character in ''[[The Craft]]''. She is a practicing [[Witches|witch]]. Bonnie is presented as a shy, insecure teenager who suffers from burn scars along her back and shoulders as a result of a fire when she was a child. Once [[Sarah Bailey]] joins her [[coven]], she is able to cast a spell which relieves her of both her physical and emotional scarring, causing her to become both beautiful and conceited. |
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| − | |name = Bonnie Daniels |
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| − | |image = [[Image: thecraftbonnie.jpg|250px]] |
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| − | |born = October 30, 1980 |
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| − | |status = Alive |
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| − | |relatives = [[Bonnie's Mother | Unnamed mother]] |
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| − | |powers = All basic [[Witch| witch]] powers like the ability to cast spells |
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| − | *[[Telekinesis]] |
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| − | *[[Glamour| Glamouring]] |
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| − | *[[Pyrokinesis]] |
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| − | *[[Levitation]] |
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| − | *Knowledge of the [[Witch| Wiccan]] arts, [[Magic| magic]], and [[Witchcraft| witchcraft]] |
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| − | |location = [[Los Angeles]] |
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| − | |played by = [[Neve Campbell]]|species = [[Witch]] <ref> Lost her powers due to the misuse of them</ref> |
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| − | |significant spells = Making herself beautiful outside as well as in}} |
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| − | '''Bonnie''' is a shy, withdrawn young spiritual [[Witch|witch]]. She is the daughter of two unnamed parents, best friend of Nancy Downs, Sarah Bailey and Rochelle Gordon and a former member of a circle the four once were apart of. |
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| + | She is portrayed by [[Neve Campbell]]. |
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| − | During her childhood, she was involved in a fire accident which left burn scars all over her back. |
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| − | Sometime either before or in 1996, Bonnie began to dabble in magical practices with Nancy Downs and Rochelle Gordon. Although the three girls practiced, they needed a fourth member of the coven to be complete. Bonnie was the intuitive one and the most eager to get a fourth member. |
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| + | ===Background=== |
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| + | Bonnie was born in 1980, presumably in Los Angeles, California. Sometime prior to the beginning of the film, Bonnie was involved in an accident involving fire, which left her back and shoulders severely scarred. This evidently had a significant impact on Bonnie's mentality that it is implied that she tried or at least thought of committing suicide by cutting her wrists. |
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| + | Initially, Bonnie is presented as very underconfident, mostly as a result of her burn scars. She wears her hair over her face and dresses in dark, loosely cut clothing, covering most of her skin. She is best friends with [[Nancy Downs]], an outcast with a gothic aesthetic, and [[Rochelle]], the only African-American student in her school. Together, the girls practice witchcraft. According to Bonnie, they need to find a fourth member for their coven so that they can achieve full power. |
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| + | [[Sarah Bailey]], a new student, immediately attracts Bonnie's attention. Whilst in class, Sarah absent-mindedly focuses on a pencil, causing it to stay upright and rotate on her desk, until she is brought back to reality by Bonnie's gasp. Bonnie expresses her belief to the others after class that someone has arrived to be the fourth. Initially reluctant, Nancy and Rochelle slowly befriend Sarah and accept her into their coven. |
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| − | After the arrival of Sarah Bailey, Bonnie witnessed Sarah using magic in class. Immediately, Bonnie reported to Nancy that she was their fourth member. |
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| − | + | They all cast spells as part of an initiation rite. Bonnie, who is undergoing experimental treatment for her scars, casts a spell to become beautiful, ''"outside as well as in"'', which is successful and results in her scars disappearing. Unfortunately, since her emotional scars as well as her physical scars are now gone, this results in Bonnie becoming gradually more conceited and self-absorbed, until she is a vain and shallow shell of her former self. Now at full power, the girls cast individual spells for personal gain. |
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| − | ==Early life== |
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| − | Not much is known about Bonnie's early life other than she was born in 1980 and was involved in a horrible fire accident when she was very little, thus, leaving greusome burn scars all over her back and shoulders. The scars made her withdrawn and timid, causing her to resort to witchcraft. |
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| + | Sarah believes that using magic inappropriately will invoke the Rule of Three, a Wiccan law which states that ''"what you send out, you get back threefold"''. After Nancy invokes the spirit of [[Manon]], she becomes much more powerful as a result and starts to use her powers in a dark, murderous fashion. Both Bonnie and Rochelle are nonchalant towards Nancy's actions. Sarah tries to reason with them, citing the Rule of Three, but Bonnie and the other girls blow Sarah off and dismiss her warnings. As Sarah becomes more uncomfortable, she tries to leave the circle. Sarah tries to cast a binding spell on Nancy to prevent her causing harm, but it is unsuccessful. As a result, Nancy begins to use her powers to torment Sarah. In a final attack at Sarah's house, the girls use glamours to convince Sarah that her parents have been killed in an accident, and torment her with hallucinations of vast quantities of bugs attacking her. Eventually, Nancy slits Sarah's wrists with an athame, causing her to flee upstairs to her room. A fading Sarah invokes Manon herself. Nancy, meanwhile, has ordered Bonnie and Rochelle to retrieve Sarah. Sarah uses her newfound power to glamour a mirror, causing it to show Bonnie and Rochelle their reflections after the Rule of Three has come to pass, portraying Rochelle as bald as a result of her spell on [[Laura Lizzie]], and Bonnie with her burn scars having returned - only this time, covering her face. Believing this to be the 'Rule of Three' at work, Bonnie ceases her attack on Sarah and flees with Rochelle. After successfully beating Nancy in a final magical battle, Sarah later binds Bonnie's powers, along with Nancy and Rochelle's powers. |
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| − | Bonnie was born on the 16th of August in 1980 to Mrs. Daniels and and unnamed father. |
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| − | Bonnie was severely scarred in a fire and this makes her extermley introverted girl and Bonnie uses Mano as a way to belong and be protected. She is truly beautiful on the inside and seemingly has a quality that makes others want to protect her, however [[File:Bonniethecraft.jpg|thumb|192px]]when she gets her whish of being beautiful on the outside as well as in, she becomes extermely narcissistic. it is belived that her element was fire and her 'animal' fittingly was a butterfly, anther interesting note is that aside form her school uniform Bonnie was usually in black or darker hues. |
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| + | Bonnie goes with Rochelle to see Sarah at the end of the film, apologizing for what happened earlier and offering to let Sarah hang out with them. She also greets Sarah's father, who is oblivious to what has been going on; Rochelle glibly apologises for the glamour showing the death of Sarah's parents, calling it ''"a practical joke"''. The girls let slip that they have lost their powers, which is the real reason that they want Sarah to hang out with them. Bonnie does not seem very sincere, which Sarah clearly picks up on, and she tells Bonnie and Rochelle to "hold [their] breath" until she calls. As Bonnie leaves with Rochelle, she snickers and says that Sarah ''"probably does not have any powers anymore anyway"'', prompting Sarah to prove her wrong by using magic to break a tree branch above their heads, which nearly falls on Bonnie and Rochelle. As a parting shot, Sarah tells Bonnie and Rochelle to be careful, as they do not want to end up like Nancy. |
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| − | Bonnie didn't fit in when it came to high school, and was good friends with two other girls, Nancy and Rochelle. The three were in a coven and dabbled in magic. The circle was unsuccessful in power because it was incomplete. To be complete and have full power, they needed a fourth person. Bonnie, being the intuitive one, knew about the arrival of the fourth girl that would complete the circle. In French class, Bonnie spotted new girl Sarah using magic and reported to Nancy who refused to believe that a fourth was needed. Afterwards, Nancy gave Sarah a chance and the circle was complete. Bonnie was the nicest, most likely because both of the two felt like outsiders. After casting a spell to be beautiful, she did. The spell however was selfish, causing it to backfire. She became more arrogant and conceited everyday. |
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| + | At the beginning of the film, Bonnie is shown to be kind and sweet-natured, though also very shy and weak-willed. This largely stemmed from her severe scarring, which Bonnie felt very self-conscious about, to the point where she even referred to herself as a "monster" and was willing to do just about anything to get rid of them. After seeing Sarah use magic in class, she was the first to believe Sarah should join their coven. |
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| − | When Bonnie was a child, she was in a horrible fire that left her with scars all over her back and shoulders. The scars are the main contribution to Bonnie's withdrawness. Somehow, everyone at school seemed to know about the scars. Chris Hooker stated that friends of his have actually seen the scars. After the completion of the circle, Bonnie cast a spell to be beautiful outside as well as inside. The spell was successful, causing the scars to spontaneously dissappear. This stumped the gene therapists and her mom. |
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| + | After using magic to heal her scars, Bonnie changes drastically, becoming far more confident and outspoken. She dresses in more revealing clothes, wears make-up, and carries herself with dignity. She also flirts with boys or states her opinion on things. Unfortunately, Bonnie also becomes increasingly self-absorbed and vain, with Sarah saying she has become "completely narcissistic". Bonnie dismisses this and turns on Sarah, using magic to attack and frighten her, demonstrating her darker and more malicious side. |
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| − | In a deleted scene, Sarah performed a healing spell on Bonnie. Bonnie felt that Sarah was powerful enough to heal her back completely and that the doctors had no idea what they were doing. |
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| − | Because of Bonnie's misuse of magic, Sarah used a spell to make Bonnie believe that she had burn scars all over her face, even though she didn't. This frightened Bonnie out of Sarah's house. |
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| + | However, Bonnie does express reluctance at actually causing serious harm to Sarah, feeling that Nancy has taken things too far. Despite this, she dismisses it as a joke and even asks Sarah if she wants to hang out some time, though Sarah clearly does not see the funny side and lets Bonnie know exactly what she thinks of her and her so-called 'pranks'. |
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==Powers and abilities== |
==Powers and abilities== |
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| + | Bonnie is a witch, thus possessing magical talents. She is capable of focusing on an intent and outcome and willing it to happen. Once her coven was at full quota and full magical power, she (along with the others) was able to manipulate a car and cause it to hit a vagrant who was harassing Sarah. She later cast a spell to make herself more beautiful, causing her severe burn scars to heal, although it is revealed in a deleted scene that this was more due to a spell Sarah cast. She is also capable of a wide variety of feats such as levitation, glamouring, telekinesis, etc. She embodies the element of fire, therefore she most likely is more adept in fire magic and pyrokinesis. |
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| − | Bonnie is an "un-natural" witch, meaning she performs magic using external forces. Although Bonnie can perform spells, rites and glamours, her magicial abilities are merely a result of her leeching form Sarah's power. Even if Bonnie's magic isn't true, she is capable of performing and projecting incredible magical characteristics. After Sarah's realization that the girls had used their powers for bad, she bound them, leaving her powerless. |
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| − | *[[Levitation]] : Bonnie is able to suspend herself above the ground. |
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| − | *[[Spell Casting|Spell casting]]: Bonnie is able to cast any kind of spells she desires. |
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| − | *[[Glamour]]ing : Bonnie is able to cast illusions so real that it is to cause others to believe that it is real. |
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| − | *[[Telekinesis]] : Bonnie is able to move objects with her mind. |
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| − | *'''Dream manipulation: '''Bonnie was able to manipulate and invade Sarah's dreams to scare her. |
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| − | *'''[[Weather Manipulation]]: '''The ability to manipulate weather patterns with the mind. |
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| − | *'''Power channeling''': Bonnie is able to channel the magical powers of others. It was implied in early stages of the film that Bonnie's (along with Nancy and Rochelle's) magical abilities were merely just a result of her leeching from Sarah's magic. |
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| − | ===Losing her powers=== |
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| − | When [[Sarah Bailey|Sarah]] discovered her true ability, she stripped Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle of their powers for misusing them. In this case, Bonnie's "beauty spell" made her arogant, mean and narcissistic. Although Bonnie's powers were stripped form her, she still chants and calls the corners with Rochelle and Sarah. It's unknown how Bonnie's powers were actually stripped. It's presummed that Sarah used a spell to do it, just like she did with Nancy. |
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| − | ===Channeling [[Sarah Bailey|Sarah's]] powers=== |
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| − | It was stated in early edits of the film and in parts of the script that Bonnie's magical abilities was merely a result of her leeching form Sarah's power. |
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| − | ===Mother=== |
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| − | Bonnie didn't seem to be very close with her mother, but that may have been because of her shyness. After Bonnie's genotherapy "worked", she seemed to be closer with her mother and everyone else. |
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| − | Bonnie was perhaps the closest to Sarah as she is the first to accept her in the circle. When Bonnie was in the hospital, Sarah visited her and attempted a healing spell, showing that she cared very much for Bonnie. |
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| − | ===Mitt=== |
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| − | When Bonnie arrived at school with her "new look", Mitt seemed to show an interest in Bonnie, but then again, so did every other guy in the classroom. |
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| − | ==Appearance and personality== |
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| − | Bonnie has long, wavy hair which was used to conceal her face most of the time. After casting a confidence spell, she began to dress it more.Bonnie is very shy and withdrawn becuase of her feeling on not fitting in with everyone else. When Bonnie was younger, she developed multiple burn scars all over her back and shoulders. Becuase of this accident, she closed up. She rarely ever spoke and often had her hair hiding her face. After casting a spell, she became more outgoing, confident and in no way withdrawn. She also became arrogant and narcassistic as a result of the spell. She dressed more confidently and began to behave rudly. |
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| − | ==Significant Spells== |
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| − | Bonnie, feeling the polar opposite of beautiful, casts a spell to bring beauty about herself, inside and out. Bonnie's spell was selfish, causing it to backfire. Bonnie became more arrogant and narcissistic every day. Only caring about her self and her looks. Although she felt more confident about herself, it lead to her almost killing Sarah which was not what she wanted at all. |
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| − | When the girls realize that they have a great power between them, they decide to invoke [[Manol]]. Bonnie called the southern corner by the powers of fire and feeling. |
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| − | A sequel for The Craft went into production, however, it was terminated. It is unknown if it would inolve the same characters as it did in the original like Bonnie. |
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==Quotes== |
==Quotes== |
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| + | {{Quote|You know, every morning I wake up, and for a split second, I think I'm normal... then I remember.|Bonnie to [[Sarah]] about her scarring}} |
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| − | ''"Nancy, We need someone to call the corners; North, South, East, and West."'' |
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| + | {{Quote|Nice ass!|Bonnie catcalling a man after her spell is successful}} |
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| + | *In a deleted scene, it is implied that Bonnie's scars were healed with the help of Sarah, who performed a healing ritual on Bonnie while she was at the hospital. |
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| + | *Neve Campbell, who played Bonnie, became best friends with Rachel True (Rochelle) during filming. |
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| + | *Bonnie was portrayed by Neve Campbell, who also portrayed Sidney Prescott, a character from the ''Scream'' franchise. ''The Craft'' came out the same year as the movie ''Scream''. It also starred Skeet Ulrich, who portrays [[Chris Hooker]]. |
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| − | ''"Don't be shy, honey! Nice ass!" '' |
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| + | *Producers spotted Neve Campbell from her TV show ''Party of Five''. Prior to ''The Craft'', Neve had never done movie work. She was asked to read and the producers eventually decided that she'd ''"make a good Bonnie"''. |
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| + | *According to the filmmakers, Bonnie's classical element is fire. |
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| + | * [[Nancy Downs]] |
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| − | *It is never stated how Bonnie's scars came to be. |
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| + | * [[Rochelle]] |
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| − | *Bonnie used magic for a sense of control. She felt that she didn't have any because people veiwed her as a "monster" or strange. |
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| + | * [[Witch]] |
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| − | *She often wears an ankh symbol necklace. The ankh represents eternal life. |
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| − | *She was born on October 8, 1980. |
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| − | *She's 16 years old. |
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| − | *Her father was never seen or mentioned of. |
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| − | *In the CW series, ''The Vampire Diaries'', there is a witch character also named Bonnie. |
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==References== |
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Revision as of 04:58, 22 July 2020
- "Well, excuse me, but I've spent a big chunk of my life being a monster and now that I'm not, I'm having a good time; I'm sorry that bothers you."
- — Bonnie
Bonnie is a main character in The Craft. She is a practicing witch. Bonnie is presented as a shy, insecure teenager who suffers from burn scars along her back and shoulders as a result of a fire when she was a child. Once Sarah Bailey joins her coven, she is able to cast a spell which relieves her of both her physical and emotional scarring, causing her to become both beautiful and conceited.
She is portrayed by Neve Campbell.
Biography
Background
Bonnie was born in 1980, presumably in Los Angeles, California. Sometime prior to the beginning of the film, Bonnie was involved in an accident involving fire, which left her back and shoulders severely scarred. This evidently had a significant impact on Bonnie's mentality that it is implied that she tried or at least thought of committing suicide by cutting her wrists.
The Craft
Initially, Bonnie is presented as very underconfident, mostly as a result of her burn scars. She wears her hair over her face and dresses in dark, loosely cut clothing, covering most of her skin. She is best friends with Nancy Downs, an outcast with a gothic aesthetic, and Rochelle, the only African-American student in her school. Together, the girls practice witchcraft. According to Bonnie, they need to find a fourth member for their coven so that they can achieve full power.
Sarah Bailey, a new student, immediately attracts Bonnie's attention. Whilst in class, Sarah absent-mindedly focuses on a pencil, causing it to stay upright and rotate on her desk, until she is brought back to reality by Bonnie's gasp. Bonnie expresses her belief to the others after class that someone has arrived to be the fourth. Initially reluctant, Nancy and Rochelle slowly befriend Sarah and accept her into their coven.
They all cast spells as part of an initiation rite. Bonnie, who is undergoing experimental treatment for her scars, casts a spell to become beautiful, "outside as well as in", which is successful and results in her scars disappearing. Unfortunately, since her emotional scars as well as her physical scars are now gone, this results in Bonnie becoming gradually more conceited and self-absorbed, until she is a vain and shallow shell of her former self. Now at full power, the girls cast individual spells for personal gain.
Sarah believes that using magic inappropriately will invoke the Rule of Three, a Wiccan law which states that "what you send out, you get back threefold". After Nancy invokes the spirit of Manon, she becomes much more powerful as a result and starts to use her powers in a dark, murderous fashion. Both Bonnie and Rochelle are nonchalant towards Nancy's actions. Sarah tries to reason with them, citing the Rule of Three, but Bonnie and the other girls blow Sarah off and dismiss her warnings. As Sarah becomes more uncomfortable, she tries to leave the circle. Sarah tries to cast a binding spell on Nancy to prevent her causing harm, but it is unsuccessful. As a result, Nancy begins to use her powers to torment Sarah. In a final attack at Sarah's house, the girls use glamours to convince Sarah that her parents have been killed in an accident, and torment her with hallucinations of vast quantities of bugs attacking her. Eventually, Nancy slits Sarah's wrists with an athame, causing her to flee upstairs to her room. A fading Sarah invokes Manon herself. Nancy, meanwhile, has ordered Bonnie and Rochelle to retrieve Sarah. Sarah uses her newfound power to glamour a mirror, causing it to show Bonnie and Rochelle their reflections after the Rule of Three has come to pass, portraying Rochelle as bald as a result of her spell on Laura Lizzie, and Bonnie with her burn scars having returned - only this time, covering her face. Believing this to be the 'Rule of Three' at work, Bonnie ceases her attack on Sarah and flees with Rochelle. After successfully beating Nancy in a final magical battle, Sarah later binds Bonnie's powers, along with Nancy and Rochelle's powers.
Bonnie goes with Rochelle to see Sarah at the end of the film, apologizing for what happened earlier and offering to let Sarah hang out with them. She also greets Sarah's father, who is oblivious to what has been going on; Rochelle glibly apologises for the glamour showing the death of Sarah's parents, calling it "a practical joke". The girls let slip that they have lost their powers, which is the real reason that they want Sarah to hang out with them. Bonnie does not seem very sincere, which Sarah clearly picks up on, and she tells Bonnie and Rochelle to "hold [their] breath" until she calls. As Bonnie leaves with Rochelle, she snickers and says that Sarah "probably does not have any powers anymore anyway", prompting Sarah to prove her wrong by using magic to break a tree branch above their heads, which nearly falls on Bonnie and Rochelle. As a parting shot, Sarah tells Bonnie and Rochelle to be careful, as they do not want to end up like Nancy.
Personality
At the beginning of the film, Bonnie is shown to be kind and sweet-natured, though also very shy and weak-willed. This largely stemmed from her severe scarring, which Bonnie felt very self-conscious about, to the point where she even referred to herself as a "monster" and was willing to do just about anything to get rid of them. After seeing Sarah use magic in class, she was the first to believe Sarah should join their coven.
After using magic to heal her scars, Bonnie changes drastically, becoming far more confident and outspoken. She dresses in more revealing clothes, wears make-up, and carries herself with dignity. She also flirts with boys or states her opinion on things. Unfortunately, Bonnie also becomes increasingly self-absorbed and vain, with Sarah saying she has become "completely narcissistic". Bonnie dismisses this and turns on Sarah, using magic to attack and frighten her, demonstrating her darker and more malicious side.
However, Bonnie does express reluctance at actually causing serious harm to Sarah, feeling that Nancy has taken things too far. Despite this, she dismisses it as a joke and even asks Sarah if she wants to hang out some time, though Sarah clearly does not see the funny side and lets Bonnie know exactly what she thinks of her and her so-called 'pranks'.
Powers and abilities
Bonnie is a witch, thus possessing magical talents. She is capable of focusing on an intent and outcome and willing it to happen. Once her coven was at full quota and full magical power, she (along with the others) was able to manipulate a car and cause it to hit a vagrant who was harassing Sarah. She later cast a spell to make herself more beautiful, causing her severe burn scars to heal, although it is revealed in a deleted scene that this was more due to a spell Sarah cast. She is also capable of a wide variety of feats such as levitation, glamouring, telekinesis, etc. She embodies the element of fire, therefore she most likely is more adept in fire magic and pyrokinesis.
Quotes
- "You know, every morning I wake up, and for a split second, I think I'm normal... then I remember."
- —Bonnie to Sarah about her scarring
- "Excuse me, but I've spent a big part of my life being a monster and now that I'm not; I'm having a good time, I'm sorry that bothers you."
- —Bonnie to Sarah after Sarah accuses her of being narcisstic
- "Nice ass!"
- —Bonnie catcalling a man after her spell is successful
Trivia
- In a deleted scene, it is implied that Bonnie's scars were healed with the help of Sarah, who performed a healing ritual on Bonnie while she was at the hospital.
- Neve Campbell, who played Bonnie, became best friends with Rachel True (Rochelle) during filming.
- Bonnie was portrayed by Neve Campbell, who also portrayed Sidney Prescott, a character from the Scream franchise. The Craft came out the same year as the movie Scream. It also starred Skeet Ulrich, who portrays Chris Hooker.
- Producers spotted Neve Campbell from her TV show Party of Five. Prior to The Craft, Neve had never done movie work. She was asked to read and the producers eventually decided that she'd "make a good Bonnie".
- According to the filmmakers, Bonnie's classical element is fire.