Started by War Wager, Mar 20, 2007, 10:39:10 AM
Quote from: War Wager on Dec 20, 2007, 05:01:30 PMWell said ^ Saying that, Sanaa and Reiko are good actresses, it's just their characters are horribly written.
QuoteBut theres a major plot hole, she could easily walk back to the ship and tell everyone what happened = people know about black, dick-headed serpents.
Quote from: Aeus on Dec 20, 2007, 05:03:44 PMQuote from: War Wager on Dec 20, 2007, 05:01:30 PMWell said ^ Saying that, Sanaa and Reiko are good actresses, it's just their characters are horribly written. Judge Reiko when you've seen the film. No one has really commented on her.
Quote from: insaniac on Mar 20, 2007, 04:11:50 PMQuote from: 07predalien27 on Mar 20, 2007, 10:39:10 AMDoes anyone know what will happen to Lex Woods (Sanna Lathan)?die... and to stay far away from AVP2
Quote from: 07predalien27 on Mar 20, 2007, 10:39:10 AMDoes anyone know what will happen to Lex Woods (Sanna Lathan)?
QuoteThen the narratives of Alien and Predator came together in Alien vs. Predator (2004), and each franchise brought with it its own vision of Otherness: from Alien came the fusion of alien and woman, from Predator came the figure of the alien as a raced "Other" (just in case we did not read the Predator's head ornamentation as dreadlocks in Predator, Predator 2 poses the Predator against the dreadlock images of Jamaican gang members). Alien vs. Predator's implicit premise, that the Predator species is the extraterrestrial origin for our pyramids and that humans had worshipped the Predators as gods, turns the concept of "human civilisation" — and of colonisation — on its head. They are the conquerors and we are their children.Add to this narrative a black female protagonist, the accomplished mountaineer Alexa Woods. Her transformation from a sophisticated cautious woman to a wild-haired powerful fighter whose cheek, in the end, carries the mark of a Predator warrior clearly belies her move from purely human to similitude with the alien. To reward her victory and her assistance in the fight against the Alien species, and to signal her new identity, the Predators give her the retractable spear from one of their fallen comrades. She, the first ever black female protagonist of a science-fiction film, has become like the gods.
Quote from: gameoverman on Dec 21, 2007, 01:03:22 AMI look at her in a different way now I read that 'xenosex' article.QuoteThen the narratives of Alien and Predator came together in Alien vs. Predator (2004), and each franchise brought with it its own vision of Otherness: from Alien came the fusion of alien and woman, from Predator came the figure of the alien as a raced "Other" (just in case we did not read the Predator's head ornamentation as dreadlocks in Predator, Predator 2 poses the Predator against the dreadlock images of Jamaican gang members). Alien vs. Predator's implicit premise, that the Predator species is the extraterrestrial origin for our pyramids and that humans had worshipped the Predators as gods, turns the concept of "human civilisation" — and of colonisation — on its head. They are the conquerors and we are their children.Add to this narrative a black female protagonist, the accomplished mountaineer Alexa Woods. Her transformation from a sophisticated cautious woman to a wild-haired powerful fighter whose cheek, in the end, carries the mark of a Predator warrior clearly belies her move from purely human to similitude with the alien. To reward her victory and her assistance in the fight against the Alien species, and to signal her new identity, the Predators give her the retractable spear from one of their fallen comrades. She, the first ever black female protagonist of a science-fiction film, has become like the gods.If this is what Anderson was going for - then I can kind of accept her. At least it fits into some kind of narrative logic. It makes her something else than just another Ripley clone (which we are getting in AVPR).
Quote from: Dasani on Dec 21, 2007, 01:24:45 AMThe penguins got her...
Quote from: Yellow Alien on Dec 21, 2007, 01:35:54 AMWho gives a f**k?This thread needs to die.
