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Lara Croft
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The first appearance of Lara Croft is in a bathing suit propelling across the waters doing extreme flips on her surf cycle. The second image of of Lara is in a steel metal gray diving suit with a weapon strapped to her side. Impression: beauty, strength, power and talent. This fits with the new image of women on the screen. During the 70s and 80s it was difficult to present women in any position of power (important to the then emerging role of women) and yet maintain glamour (important for box office). Women, traditionally, had been relegated mostly to secondary and subordinate roles.
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Buxom adventurer Lara Croft was an immediate hit when she first appeared in the 1996 video game Tomb Raider. That title and its four sequels have sold more than 21 million copies, inspiring action figures, T-shirts, candy bars and a monthly comic book. This cyber-siren is ... the focus of more than 1,000 Internet fan sites. A blockbuster film was inevitable.
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Lara Croft has royal British blood, being the eleventh Countess of Abbingdon. Her family is in possession of three manor houses, and considerable property. Both her parents died, while she was still young. She possesses great skill as a gymnast, and ... is good at other disciplines such as shooting. This archaeologist adventurer has a perfect combination of beauty and brawns that has made her increasingly popular worldwide. This treasure-hunter has the same indomitable spirit as the great legends of history, always taking up the challenge no matter how dangerous the mission.
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In its opening weekend in the US, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider had the biggest ever takings for a movie based on a videogame, taking $48 million compared to the $31 million bagged by the previous champ, Pokémon: The First Movie. But, financial successes notwithstanding, the genre of feature films based on videogames has yet to produce a decent movie. Despite looking great and being well-cast, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is not that movie.
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This sequel to the 2001 hit video-game adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider finds Jan de Bont stepping in for director Simon West, helming his first feature since 1999's The Haunting. From a script by first-time scribe Dean Georgaris, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life finds Angelina Jolie once again portraying the titular curvaceous adventurer. But where the first film saw Croft in a race against the Illuminati to acquire an elusive relic that offers control over life and death, this entry in the series follows the heroine as she ventures to an underwater temple in search of the mythological Pandora's Box. Unfortunately, once she secures the legendary artifact, it is promptly stolen by the villainous leader of a Chinese crime syndicate. It is then up to Lara to get the box back before an evil mastermind gets hold of it and uses it to construct a weapon of catastrophic capabilities. Gerard Butler, Djimon Hounsou, and Noah Taylor head up the supporting cast.
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What's her story: For the first time, Lara Croft gets the star treatment as the first Tomb Raider movie gets the greenlight. Academy Award winning actress Angelina Jolie steps into the spotlight as the world famous spelunker, and the role of Lara Croft would forever be hers. Regardless of the movies themselves, in every second, Jolie shines as Lara. She sneers, she fights, she can even throw off an accent; it's all good with this vision of Lara. In fact, Jolie did such a fine job, she's returning to the character in the sequel, Cradle of Life.
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