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...From the release of the first Tomb Raider in 1996, the game's star, Lara, was designed to be different. In a videogame scene filled at the time with Uzi-toting brain-dead lugs, here was a nimble and refined British heroine who oozed sex. Her style was a wonderful collision of opposites: preppy pigtail and glasses with pistol-packing twin thigh holsters. Male video gamers were hooked. And for the first time, so were their wives and girlfriends. "I think [Croft] is a new definition of celebrity," says "Tomb Raider" producer Lloyd Levin. "Christina and Britney have massive popularity...
...uplifting Triumph bra and cool intensity - may well satisfy the most hard-core Tomb Raider fans. "I didn't want a bimbo movie all about tight costumes," says Simon. "With Angie, I can get an Oscar-winning performance in every scene, but she'll still satisfy the lust in Lara that everyone sees... She's sexy, and I think a very slight tomboy. People are also now comfortable with female action leads. People can have their cake...
...aggressive regimen of kickboxing, canoeing, yoga and bed by 11 p.m. She affects a proper British accent for the film, something that may be a bit surprising to American theatergoers but that producers considered a necessity. "We're not trying to be Merchant-Ivory here," says Levin, "[but] Lara is as British as Bond, and the heritage is really important." In the film Jolie does nearly all her own stunts, which include bungee jumping, sword fighting, spear throwing, and even dogsledding in Iceland (which stood in for Siberia). "People say to me, You're a serious actress playing an action...
...stunts and sets attempt to stick close to what game players would expect. Consultants from Eidos, the software company that makes the game, hung around to be sure West didn't stray too far from the Croft mythology. Adrian Smith, the man who first typed the code that brought Lara into being nine years ago, traveled to the London set to give his blessing. Smith was impressed that Croft Manor's Old Library was stuffed with genuine, dusty old books on archaeology that visitors to the set could actually pick off the shelf and read...
...Fact is, TV has long been a woman's medium. Movies are guy space. So consider the release next month of "Josie and the Pussycats," a live-action version of the comic book and '70s TV cartoon series, and this summer's "Tomb Raider," with Angelina Jolie as supervixen Lara Croft. Consider, and savor, the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," the all-time top-grossing foreign-language film that was set to hit the $100 million mark at the North American box office last weekend. Ang Lee's martial arts fantasy features two strong women, a 30ish warrior (Michelle...