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oh oh oh oh oh!!!! exciiiiteddd ...
as you can tell my first true love is Aeon Flux, WHY are you only letting us chose movie women! yeah yeah it's a movie site pfft. I say that because NO I do not mean the remake crap. Charlize Theron in My Lady's place was an abomination, I don't care if they dyed her hair black.
Anyway. Agreed re: Sarah Connor. Agreed Re: Ripley. I definitely like these women.
The thing I'd say about my preferred/idea of a tough woman, is that she is by NATURE something dangerous, ie, she is not MADE into something dangerous by circumstances or a wrong done to her. Ie, it was a given, not a choice, to be something dangerous/tough.
So Sarah Connor and Ripley and The Bride = tough women in tough circumstances. I like them and see where others dig em, but I can't by my definition. I honestly never saw The Bride as a true assassin, which she supposedly was before getting married. Even those gangly limbs showed survival instincts, not the toned muscle of Vivica Fox when they fought. She seemed to be a normal woman in extraordinary circumstances who was dangerous not by sheer talent or skill or nature but by her animal instinct to survive, retrieve her daughter, and punish the man who hurt them both. Between her and the other women in the movie I found O-ren Ishii more the true tough woman by my book - so ruthless she chops off men's heads with grace and cold serenity. WOO!
ahem. so this sense of "dangerous by nature" comes to me via:
- aeon
- kate beckinsale in underworld, though she's still a little soft. she lost some points rolling around in that love scene in the sequel.
- toootally re: angela bassett (she kicks halle berry as Storm anyway)
- haha re: the chick from Heavy Metal, i'd say she and aeon were the precursors to all these women!
- and THANK YOU re: La Femme Nikita!!! Though she was made into a weapon so she doesn't quite count for me. I fell in love with her and then met Aeon and traded up. my trophy killer upgrade!
- kinda sorta Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil. though she leans toward that survivor feral sorta thing.
- totally love trinity, esp in that awesome shiny black pleather, ehhehe. i felt like jada pinkett coulda been something but she fell all flat.
i like my women killers intense, violent, skilled with weaponry/martial arts, showing physical prowess while retaining their womanly charms, and exacting, not all wacked out and hyper or scared. like, they can BE scared they just have to be so tough they barely show it. ya know?
as you can tell my first true love is Aeon Flux, WHY are you only letting us chose movie women! yeah yeah it's a movie site pfft. I say that because NO I do not mean the remake crap. Charlize Theron in My Lady's place was an abomination, I don't care if they dyed her hair black.
Anyway. Agreed re: Sarah Connor. Agreed Re: Ripley. I definitely like these women.
The thing I'd say about my preferred/idea of a tough woman, is that she is by NATURE something dangerous, ie, she is not MADE into something dangerous by circumstances or a wrong done to her. Ie, it was a given, not a choice, to be something dangerous/tough.
So Sarah Connor and Ripley and The Bride = tough women in tough circumstances. I like them and see where others dig em, but I can't by my definition. I honestly never saw The Bride as a true assassin, which she supposedly was before getting married. Even those gangly limbs showed survival instincts, not the toned muscle of Vivica Fox when they fought. She seemed to be a normal woman in extraordinary circumstances who was dangerous not by sheer talent or skill or nature but by her animal instinct to survive, retrieve her daughter, and punish the man who hurt them both. Between her and the other women in the movie I found O-ren Ishii more the true tough woman by my book - so ruthless she chops off men's heads with grace and cold serenity. WOO!
ahem. so this sense of "dangerous by nature" comes to me via:
- aeon
- kate beckinsale in underworld, though she's still a little soft. she lost some points rolling around in that love scene in the sequel.
- toootally re: angela bassett (she kicks halle berry as Storm anyway)
- haha re: the chick from Heavy Metal, i'd say she and aeon were the precursors to all these women!
- and THANK YOU re: La Femme Nikita!!! Though she was made into a weapon so she doesn't quite count for me. I fell in love with her and then met Aeon and traded up. my trophy killer upgrade!
- kinda sorta Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil. though she leans toward that survivor feral sorta thing.
- totally love trinity, esp in that awesome shiny black pleather, ehhehe. i felt like jada pinkett coulda been something but she fell all flat.
i like my women killers intense, violent, skilled with weaponry/martial arts, showing physical prowess while retaining their womanly charms, and exacting, not all wacked out and hyper or scared. like, they can BE scared they just have to be so tough they barely show it. ya know?
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life without movies is like cereal without milk. possible, but disgusting. but not nearly as bad as cereal with water. don't lie. I know you've done it.
life without movies is like cereal without milk. possible, but disgusting. but not nearly as bad as cereal with water. don't lie. I know you've done it.
