Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises Again is a typical "vegetarian" movie, with adrenaline rushing, male hormones on screen, metal elements everywhere, and the theme of super-burning blood and saving the world, you must think that this is a movie that only pays attention to the preferences of male audiences. If you think so, it is too small to look at it, the female characters in this movie are also very brilliant, they are equal to the male characters, equally divide the honor and challenge of this world, and use the unique charm of female characters to make the whole film's literary drama more moving, and the martial arts are amazing.
Defeat the monsters, but also defeat yourself
As a mecha vs monster movie, the battlefield rose and the monster in the movie staged an alternative "Beauty and the Beast", and the female warriors are unambiguous in their fight against the monster, whether it is courage or strength, they are not lost to those male characters.
Mori Mako shows the extraordinary rationality and fearlessness of a female warrior at the critical moment when the plane is about to crash, sending important information about the unknown mech to the command a few seconds before the sacrifice. Amara, a 15-year-old girl, stepped forward when she learned that Lambert, the driver of the Vengeful Wanderer, was injured and took up the mission of destroying the super monster in his place. They fought alongside male warriors and advanced together.
Mori Mako, played by Rinko Kikuchi in Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises
In addition to the vengeful wanderers and heroic protectors in the film, the remaining mech cockpits have female characters, of which two of the three people who operate the Phoenix Guerrilla are female warriors, which shows that women can stand up, but not only half the sky.
In addition to their powerful external abilities, the female characters in Pacific Rim: Thunder Resurgence also have a strong heart, and they have to defeat not only monsters, but also demons that are more terrifying than monsters. Amara's parents were killed by monsters 10 years ago, which was a hurdle in her heart that she could not complete the neural bridge connection with other team members, but when the enemy was present, Amara quickly adjusted her state, defeated the heart demon, and became a new generation of excellent mecha warriors. There is also the female warrior Vic, from the beginning of resenting Amala's luck, to later fighting alongside him, with tacit understanding, is a manifestation of the transformation of female characters to overcome themselves.
These female characters with a sense of growth are not only in line with the mental state of modern women in the workplace, but also coincide with the consciousness of independent women. Such plump female characters are rare in Hollywood blockbusters in recent years.
Heals mechs, and also heals mech warriors
There is a warm healing function in women's nature, and the director of Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises Again gives female characters a more powerful healing. Not only can they mend mechanical wounds, but they can also heal human emotions.
The only mech maintenance man who appears in this film, Jules, is a beautiful young girl. Together with Amara after the drone armor attacked the Moyulan base, she quickly repaired the damaged mech so that they could devote themselves to the next battle. At the same time, when Jack and Lambert are preparing to fight the monster to the death, Jules gives the two pilots a spiritual healing with his own kiss, telling them to come back alive, warm and moving; and at the beginning of the film, Mori Mazi saves Jack from a depraved life and heals Jack's heart that has been injured by the loss of his father as a sister.
In other words, mechs and mech warriors save the world, women save mechs and mech warriors, and the female light is revealed. Few Masculine Hollywood blockbusters have elevated women to such an important position, and Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises Again is unique.
Show tenderness, but also show fearless feminine power
In terms of shaping female characters, the most admirable thing about "Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises" is that it not only shows the bravery and strength of women, but also does not forget to reveal their tenderness and delicacy.
Amara's bravery in leaping towards the vengeful wanderer surpasses her childhood cowardice of not daring to cross the broken bridge; the female warrior Vic alone wielding the Phoenix Guerrilla's heavy machine gun to fire at the monster is very cool; the female warrior Retana fights with the male classmates in close combat as soon as she appears, and beats the other party to the defeat, all of which show the fearless female power of the female characters.
Carly Spoony plays Amara Namani
But at the same time, we will also see that Asako Mori puts a hand on the glass window at the moment when the plane is about to crash, and her eyes are full of reluctance for the vengeful wanderer and her brother Jack; the charming smile that Jules shows when she saves Lambert in front of the fallen mech, which is the true expression of female tenderness. This emotion will not be deliberately suppressed because this is a film with a mecha as the protagonist, but because this emotional expression has achieved a natural "iron man tenderness".
Plump and three-dimensional female characters make Pacific Rim: Thunder Rise Up on a higher quality level, becoming a well-made film in its class.
In Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises, we can not only feel the audiovisual shock of the heart, but also enjoy the many female characters in the film, they fight side by side with the mech, not only have high looks but also have high reverse quotient, and bloom beautiful flowers of independent will in the world of steel straight men.