Lara Croft estimates that one of the most familiar European and American female characters is the world's gaming fans.
Since the release of the first part in 1996, "Tomb Raider" has attracted many fans and become a super BIG IP with global influence.
Tomb Adventure, Mechanism Unlocking, Action Adventure, Female Protagonist, Tomb Raider pioneered many role-playing games, and its unique charm endures.
After a period of downturn and mediocrity, the game Tomb Raider 9 once again received high ratings and good market returns, and the movie of the same name -
Tomb Raider is here!
"Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origins" has landed in the Chinese mainland theater line on March 16, and after the release, douban online 6.4 points, foreign IMDB online 7.0 points, this Douban score is lower than IMDB is rare.
Fans who scored low scores in the mainland generally believe that alicia Vikander, the heroine who plays Laura, has no breasts and fat buttocks, has a variety of styles, lacks the physical charm of European and American women, and is no longer a hot meat bomb that easily captures male fans.
To that, I would like to say,
Such a energetic girl, her sexiness you may not understand.
Alicia Vikander, Hollywood's fast-rising superstar, has both beauty and strength. Widely acclaimed for her outstanding performances in the science fiction film "Mechanical Ji" and the feature film "Danish Girl", she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2015 and squeezed into the ranks of Hollywood's A-list actresses.
In addition, she is also a megaloman, our "Magneto", the wife of The Shark, Michael Fassbinder.
This seemingly petite soft girl with a delicate classical beauty transformed herself in Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origins, wrapped in a short-sleeved shirt, wielded a bow and arrow, and rushed forward, bursting with amazing energy.
From the perspective of body shape and outfit, Alicia Vikander perfectly fits the image of Laura in the game, accurately showing the female adventurer Laura when she is 21 years old.
New version of the Tomb Raider game screen
In order to adapt to various environments, show the full vitality and tenacious vitality of women, go to heaven and earth, fight and run, Alicia Vikander has paid great hardships in peacetime.
Alicia Vikander gained 10 pounds in a short period of time, strictly controlled diet, reduced body fat rate, 6 small abdominal muscles plus a body of tendon meat, full of lines, simply feel explosive.
The aesthetic changes in the new era are no longer just to shape women into weak literary and artistic young women, but to need some brave and intellectual female explorers.
In the film, in order to experience the pain of the body and truly show the natural reaction, Alicia Vikander abandons the stuntman, and the dangerous action scenes are all personally fought.
It is because of her dedication that we see a laura that blends fragility and tenacity, mature with childishness, and has a new image from the inside out.
The story adapted from the game is entirely tailor-made for Alicia Vikander.
Lara in the story loses the protection of her father (Richard Crawford) at a young age, has been reluctant to admit her father's death, and floats in society by her own ability.
In order to live, she became a food delivery man,
Because he could not pay the club fee and was disliked by the boss,
Hearing that there are hundreds of pounds of bonuses and the eyes shine,
The film removes the aura of Laura's "superhero" and brings us a more grounded image of a civilian female hero.
She will be "hanged" in the boxing ring, and she will also accept the ridicule of losing after the game, secretly determined to try to change the status quo and win the next victory.
The image of lala, who is independent, bold, strong, and a little mischievous, quickly stands up, and she is closer to the ordinary person's outlook on life, and is the appearance of a young girl who has not yet been promoted to a hero.
As the heroine, Alicia Vikander plays Laura like an ordinary person, with the pressure of life, troubled by seven passions and six desires, she reversed the image of the demigod and demigod protagonist in traditional action genre films, and narrowed the psychological distance with the audience with an infinitely close attitude.
The plump characters and successful casting make the film half successful, and "Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origins" is also well versed in character archetypes and plot archetypes, and the story ultimately tells the theme of "growth".
Through the growth motif and hero archetype, the audience can easily connect with others through the subconscious transcendental realm of the individual, and obtain a social transcendental experience and psychological epiphany.
The pattern script models the structural paradigm of the "four-in-one", and then young Laura will be forced to enter the adventure world from the real world, encountering and integrating some characters such as bad guys and wise men in the experience of growing up.
She will face her own shadow, learn something from her wise men, defeat her opponents, and complete her transformation from mortal to heroic.
Undoubtedly, this wise man is Laura's father, and with the inspiration of wisdom and the motivation of love, she cracks the trap left by her father and embarks on an adventure to find her father.
A mysterious island far away in the waters of Japan, the legendary tomb with the power to change the world became her destination to "transform" herself and integrate her father.
Halfway through, she also finds the help of Lu Ren (Wu Yanzu), a young captain who is willing to risk money and also hopes to find her father's whereabouts, and the two enter the isolated island hand in hand, and a huge conspiracy slowly approaches them.
Laura's adventures end with her eventual full growth, the emotional conflict between father and daughter, and the conflict between the protagonist's opponent are all released and ended in the climax.
And in this adventure of the girl's transformation into a heroine, we see a more modern female aesthetic, extremely sexy heroine image.
In the film, women are no longer the sexual objects of male gaze, the vase that acts as a façade, "moving", "tough" up, "rough" women also have the charm of seduction.
The sense of player perspective created by the motion shots allowed the game to be adapted into a film, radiating a light that bridged the gap between the two species of games and movies.
The film's moving shots are full of life and dizzying.
The slightly longer first act is questioned for procrastination, but the bike chase scene, from the theme to the story, and the character growth have a crucial genre element paving effect.
Joining the game for the bounty and becoming the object of being chased and captured by everyone is the epitome of Laura's entire story, and the smooth and relaxed texture makes the later scenes of running, dodging, falling, jumping, and impact have a priori perceptual understanding.
In the film, Laura, like the captured "fox", encounters wave after wave of danger, and she needs to go from escaping, hiding, to turning to face.
From subconsciously escaping to turning around to face, the girl becomes a heroine.
Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origins relied on its strong special effects production capabilities and deep financial resources to design a grand thrill "level" for Lara with multi-act scenes.
The first scene is the raging tide under the earth-shattering storm, the fragile hull is ravaged by the rocks on the shore in the waves, and our small Laura wise courage to escape and successfully dock.
The next scene is more magnificent, the twists and turns are continuous, because of the escape into the river Lara pulled the crashed scrap plane on the edge of the cliff, because of metal fatigue, first the wings were broken, Laura who had to jump into the cabin faced the complete disintegration of the fuselage, and escaped the ascension by parachute at the moment of a thousand gunshots.
The crew was afraid that the abuse was not sad enough, in the process of landing, with rapid editing, let our Laura break through the obstacles, roll over fiercely, and lara who issued a wailing voice saw that people were heartbroken.
This sense of vulnerability gives us a glimpse of an alternative, real hero protagonist.
When women face challenges and dangers, their first reaction is no longer fear, no chicken power; nor is it a superhero-like brutality, dominating the crowd with crushing momentum, but relying on flexible bodies, tenacious perseverance to adapt to changes, revealing women's unique courage in weakness, showing the independence and courage of women in the new era.
So, Alicia Vikander's Laura is de-feminine, even de-gendered, but she's definitely sexy.
At the same time, this sexy new-age woman also has a good mind, and the climax of the film is that Laura leads everyone into the tomb to deal with various sudden death mechanisms, disappearing floors, murderous dark weapons, and terrifying abysses that let us see Laura's wise mind and tough body.
The novel and ingenious design of the tomb, the various dangerous escapes that make the audience fearful, and the fist-to-flesh fight scenes make the audience extremely happy.
What is even more surprising is that the average heroine will encounter the prototype of love in the growth journey of integrating herself, and complete the repair of the self with the final unity.
But "Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origins" is extremely pure, the heroine Laura is busy dealing with family affection, saving the world, simply do not even talk about love, only at the beginning of the flirtation with the male characters, and then with the handsome brother Wu Yanzu played by the captain "point to the end".
The film does not have those clichéd kisses at all, but at the end of the film, Laura picks up two guns, always allowing the character to maintain the unique sense of competence and beauty of modern women.
Such a Lara, such Anisia Vikander, is too sexy, I'm afraid you can't stand it.
Walking in disbelief and seeing,
Sooner or later, this cute and hard goddess will sweep the screen and change the stereotypes of women in movies.
The adventure has only just begun,
Don't you hurry to buy a ticket to call for the new age goddess!