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Friday, May 09, 2008 --- 77 days ago http://gamernode.com/news/6667-another-videogame-movie-to-ignore/index.html
| I don't trust videogame movies and there are more than a few examples not to. So when news breaks about the new Street Fighter movie, titled Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li , I usually ignore it. But it is my duty to report my findings on the internet, so I will indulge you this time readers... this time. Justin Marks the writer of such classic films as Unbroken and Fast Forward recently discussed why Chun-Li (played by Kristen Kreuk) was the focus and made a point to say " I've never seen a successful action movie (in my mind) that blatantly sexualised [sic] its female lead and succeeded for its audience; Catwoman, Elektra, the list goes on and on. " " Then I think back to The Terminator, or possibly my all-time favourite movie, Aliens, and I think of how Ripley is depicted in that film. She's a tough woman, but not because she came from a place of wearing tight pants and beating up men. She's tough because she had this core emotional story about a life that could have been and never was. To me, that's the way you write a woman in these kinds of movies. " I guess his list is like my list of awful videogame movies. And just when you believe Justin Marks when he says, " We've gone to great lengths to make sure Chun-Li is not just a sex object fantasy for people's desktop backgrounds, " he totally reverses everything. " That said did I mention Kristin is gorgeous? And there's one very steamy night club scene ... |
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