![]() Richard Croft, the heir to the Croft family fortune, was a famous archaeologist in his own right. It’s loosely touched on in Tomb Raider lore, but Lara was not the first archaeologist in the Croft family. Right – Following In Her Father’s Footsteps In the movies, the mystical enemies are replaced with the Illuminati and gangsters, while the closest thing Lara comes to solving a puzzle is a scavenger hunt for a hidden letter from her father. From undead soldiers to demonic monsters to freaking dinosaurs, she fought them all and continued on to explore and solve complex labyrinths on the way to treasure. Wrong – Brushing Off The Mystical And PuzzlesĪlong with her dual-wielding pistols, Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider games was known for fighting off mystical enemies and solving ancient puzzles. The action scenes in both movies are easily some of their greatest highlights, and it’s that action that helped make Lara Croft into a gaming icon. Whether she’s wielding her signature dual hand cannons or bringing an unloaded rifle to a swordfight, the Lara Croft movies feel most like the games when Lara has her guns out. The Lara Croft movies have plenty of gun-blazing action. She only needed two guns for shooting and two hands for climbing through ancient ruins (and for holding the guns). She alone could handle any enemies and obstacles that stood in her way from uncovering hidden treasures. ![]() But the Lara Croft we know never needed a man to help her find artifacts. And to be fair, the casting of Daniel Craig and Gerard Butler as each movie’s charming and sarcastic hunk of man meat were both apt. We get it, it’s Hollywood, so there are bound to be some love interests thrown our way. Action movies were (and largely still are) a male-dominated genre, but she harnessed her inner Lara Croft and showed early on that any person with two guns can kick some serious ass. The same can be said for movies when Jolie first stepped into Croft’s shoes for 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Even with her, uh, disproportionate dimensions, video games had scarcely seen any strong female lead characters before she came along. When Lara Croft was first introduced in 1996’s Tomb Raider, she was catapulted towards the top of the very short list of female video game protagonists, including names like Samus Aran and Ms. Right – Female Protagonists in Male-Dominated Mediums Granted, the Lara Croft in the games is encouraged to smash ancient pots to find collectibles, but at least she had more respect for the artifacts she’d pursue. So, what does a self-respecting archaeologist do when such a hunch arises? Simple! Smash it with a hammer. She has a hunch that the real artifact is within the casing that Bryce, her tech engineer, is meticulously taking apart. Wrong – Lara Croft: Archaeologist/Hammer Smasherĭuring one scene in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Lara recovers an artifact and brings it back to her mansion for further study. ![]() Jolie as Lara Croft may go down as the best casting for a video game character in a movie. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone else who better represented what we thought the pixelated heroine would look like in real life. You can debate whether or not the Lara Croft movies are any good, but there is no arguing that Angelina Jolie had the Lara Croft look nailed down. To help prepare us for Tomb Raider, we looked back at Jolie’s take on Lara Croft to see how they lived up to one of gaming’s most famous characters. ![]() Angelina Jolie assumed the role in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its 2003 sequel Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life, which still stand as the first and sixth highest-grossing video game adaptations, respectively. However, this isn’t the first time that Lara Croft has come to the big screen. Tomb Raider is set to hit theaters on March 16 and aims to portray Lara Croft with a similar survivalist style that we’ve seen in the most recent Tomb Raider games.
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