The pretty girls weren't nerdy, dirty, or funny and a lot of the protagonists required some sort of makeover to be heard.
#TOMB RAIDER 2001 FULL#
The '90s were full of a lot of teen romcoms, and entertaining as some of them were, they really put people into specific categories and fairly strict boxes. Not by her friends, not by her enemies, and not by herself.Īngelina Jolie's Lara Croft has been "#Goals" for me since the hashtag was merely a pound sign. Like her beauty, her intelligence and her abilities were never questioned. When it comes to the task at hand, she fearlessly stands on a ledge in a temple staring down at a room full of men armed with guns and egos, and when she tells them they are wrong, they listen. This empowerment, however, does not reside solely in private rooms with partial nudity. She owned the room, and put fear and doubt into this confident man's eyes. With a quick exchange and a subtle hint of flirtation, she lets the future James Bond know who he is dealing with. Later, she startles a naked Daniel Craig, her frenemy/lover(?) of sorts throughout the story, after sneaking into his room. Her confidence in herself doesn't end there. Her butler tells her that "a lady should be modest," and she throws off her towel and proclaims "yes, a lady should be modest." She gave not a single fuck, and my 10-year old self was thinking whatever the 2001 pop-culture vernacular equivalent for "Yass queen" was. I remember when I first saw the scene where she gets out of the shower.
#TOMB RAIDER 2001 MOVIE#
Honestly, there is a part of me, as a child and even now as an adult, that isn't completely convinced that Tomb Raider is work of fiction, and Angelina Jolie just did the movie to throw people off her superhero scent. She is emotionally vulnerable and almost childlike when it comes to talking about her father, she is coy and delightful and endearing and respectful when interacting with native peoples and children, she is tough and fierce and commanding when dealing with her foes, and she is focused when facing a task. She was able to perfectly portray so many different facets of femininity and be believable as an action star. However, it is much more than looks that make the woman. To state the obvious, Angelina Jolie looks exactly like the title video game character, with all of the necessary charm and endowments. Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft is some of the most perfect casting that I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. One needn't look any further than the woman herself to figure out what makes Tomb Raider entrancing and entertaining. Don't get me wrong, I had a lot of friends both gamer and non-gamer alike, but as far as I know, none of my male gamer friends have stories of being grilled to the nth degree at GameStop because they had the audacity to not need any help. He believed me later, but only because a close male friend vouched for me and said, "No, dude, it's true." I was thankful for the assist, but still sad that it was required. My freshman year of college, I proclaimed at a party that I was pretty awesome at Mortal Kombat, only to be laughed at by a male acquaintance. I remember as late as my junior year in high school getting a condescending "That's cute" when I told a guy, who I considered a friend, that I played the same video games as him. It wasn't until I got to college that girls playing video games became cool and the norm and like "so hot." Games may have been evolving at a rapid rate, but they still weren't quite the staple they are today. I couldn't quite identify why I was staring at her, but I was so curious about this woman with a long brown braid like the one my mom always put in my hair, standing strong amongst all the boys.
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I can't honestly recall if we actually owned the game or I just remember seeing one of those little paper "coming soon" ads that fell to the floor as you were quickly ripping open the box to get to the game you actually purchased. Somewhere between 'Doomguy' and James Bond, there was Lara. I would always see her peering out of the stack of games. In fact, my first time ever taking on the character was with the 2013 reboot, but she was always there. She also carries custom mag holders to facilitate quicker reloading of both handguns.I never played Tomb Raider.
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As in the original videogame, she keeps her handguns prominently holstered on her thighs and almost always draws them both at the same time. 45 version and the corresponding 18-round 9mm magazines. This is evident as throughout much of the film, Lara's USP's are equipped with JetFunnels (H&K's fancy name for flared magazine wells) which are not available for the. The signature pistols of Lara Croft ( Angelina Jolie) in the film are Heckler & Koch USP Match with stainless slides.
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