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| Are you misinterpreting this? | |
| Posted By: va1or <m.j.durrin@gmail.com> | Date: 6/4/11 2:18 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: Tomb Raider trailer out *OT* (Jillybean) : I couldn't imagine Faith going through that trailer like Lara did. And I : couldn't imagine Chell going through the trailer either. So damned : passive! Infuriating. I don't see what's so passive about Lara here. Remember, this is an origin story. They basically telegraph that she is a recent college (?) grad and has been on no death defying adventures. So when the ship gets flooded and she gets trapped underwater, she is discovering her will to survive. She's not Super-Lara yet?. Yeah someone helps her out, but she is fighting for her life. She makes a terrifying leap, misses her target, washes up to shore on a capsized boat and then starts getting all Rambo complete with bloodied face and painfully fastens dressing to her own wounds. Besides, I may be wrong, but I think you may be misinterpreting the entire thing. I think the mystery man whose arms we see only and the man who is yelling to her to jump are the same man. A phantom in her mind. Why, do we only see the rescuer's arms and why, as soon as she is out of the water does he disappear and not also run and jump? Perhaps it's her mental image of her father or a mentor who trained her. It's when he starts helping her that she speaks of finding something inside ourselves to go on. In other words, she is seeing this important figure as an inspiration, compelling her to be strong. I know almost nothing of Tomb Raider fiction and may be completely wrong here. Anyways, I like the gritty track they are taking here. I had zero interest in Tomb Raider before. This looks far more interesting to me anyway.
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