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Lara's Identity Confused By Exploitation?
Thanks to BBC News for their article exploring whether the diversification of the Tomb Raider brand has helped lessen it. The author points out: "Rather than consolidating the brand, the multiple incarnations [games, comics, public appearances, adverts, movies..] of the character seem to have diluted it which begs the question - who exactly is Lara today?" In fact, he suggests that the public may be forgetting Tomb Raider was a game: "At least Angelina Jolie seems to be giving the stunts and iffy dialogue of The Cradle Of Life her all. As such, she is arguably now more Lara than the original digital incarnation." As well as there being no single 'image' of Lara Croft, he concedes videogame quality may have a lot to do with it: "The [most recent] game itself is such a source of irritation that the personality of its heroine gets subsumed into the negative experience of playing it."
How is this any different than James Bond?
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
"Who really gives a shit?"
This isn't some big icon of popular culture that's going to go down in history as a symbol for the age - it's a videogame and a couple of mediocre movies.
Sheesh.
What'dya mean there's no BLINK tag!?
really is this any different from any of the super hero movies that have come out as of late?
in the League of Extraordinary Gentleman comics
tom sawyers isnt even in it.. whats her name isnt even a vampire....
new teen titan cartoons they changed some characters drastically such as thunder and lightning dont even remotely look like they did in the comics
xmen would been really lame with yellow spandex!
hulk origin is drastically changed in the movie
spider man never shot webbing outta his arm in the comics or older cartoons
lets face it things get revamped for different media all the time
my opinion on this is that sometime i like it sometime i dont
back in the day we didnt have no old school
What was lara about in the beginning? BOOBS. LOOKIE HERE AT MY BOOBS. LIMEY BOOOOOOOBS, CHECK OUT MY BOOOOOOOOBS. But somewhere in there, they actually managed to make a PRETTY GOOD GAME. So it sold like hotcakes. I would have bought TOMB RAIDER if it was Earl from "Toe Jam and Earl." The boobs weren't what made the game great. SINCE THEN, however, everything they have put out has been shit, INCLUDING those awful movies. The "Lara Croft" phenomenon has become nothing more than media-perpetuated bullshit.
There was once a time when she was being hailed as a "feminist cyber icon", a character who not only starred in a great game but also managed to become a household name.
I doubt she was ever hailed as that by anyone with brains. She was the ultimate teenaged boy's dream: sexy girl with incredible knockers who kicks ass. A true "feminist cyber icon" would have kicked ass without the 42DDs and the daisy duke shorts.
GMD
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An over commercialized, mass-marketed, money-maker for Hollywood whose sole purpose is to tie in new products under the same brand umbrella and sell it to the sheep.....errr...public.
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...is that when I saw 'Lara' in the headline, I automatically assumed it was Lara Croft.