now, take those chicks from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - these are the quiet ones you don't think can be tough, they are just normal people with kickass skills. Which I like. So, that's what the Milla Jovovich characters always feel like, wiry, desperate women who are like ... some animal backed in a corner - they WILL fight. I believed her more in The 5th Element than in Resident Evil which just wanted her running around in a skirt. I can't believe that movie. A skirt and a BORROWED gun for only HALF the movie. puhleez.
but, for me ... Marcellus has captured it, of course. (LOOK LEFT). my queen, my muse, my love - female assassin extraordinaire - Aeon Flux. I have a fascination for killing, I guess. The others, they're just trying to survive. Aeon, she's trying to survive and get her jollies f*cking with people. With the occasional burp of a conscience. Hhehe. AND she be beautiful, sexy, and not afraid of sex and being a female. SHe isn't hardened.
And this is where we come to my conundrum. I like an action heroine who kicks ass AND is capable of ... sexual vulnerability. Emotional vulnerability. Ripley ... she's faced with the horror of the loss of life, which is across the board for all of us - ohmigod, horrible things are happening here, must get under control and survive and save lives if I can. We only see her Terminator side really, and there are some minor emotional moments, but really - she's on buttkick mode. Same for Linda Hamilton. She was definitely an improvement on T1 but ... she was tough to the point she couldn't really be a mother to her son - which is understandable but at the same time - it's not there. She's on Rambo mode.
So, me likey the chicks who ... have that subtlety, that ambiguity of "focus" on the target, I guess. Who circle it, leave us guessing. No one else can trust them and watching them, neither can we. that's the ultimate femme fatale. the one who'll shoot you without a second thought and not regret it, and if she does, we won't ever really know for SURE. and she'll do it like ... it's second nature. there is something incredible about strong self discipline, martial arts, weapons mastery ... agility ... dexterity ... all that yummy kickass stuff.
so for me, the best action heroine is a femme fatale. but yeah, i get for others it might not be the same. but i loved Carrie Ann Moss, she's my runner up. she isn't so hardened that she doesn't feel anymore ... it's there, and she's veiled it, but we we see it slip at all the right moments.
anyhoo. there we are.
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She would have done Storm justice!! Halle was too quiet and even tempered. Damn, that's a shame. She looks pretty damn good for her age; I'd cast her as an ass kicking secret agent or something. She IS too old to be running around half naked in some teen-oriented action flick...but I sure as hell could see her doing something in a cop uniform.
