Michelle
Rodriguez: The
other Chronically Killed Actor
While digging
through Mr. Bean's stuff, I came across some funny things about the
Character Actress Michelle Rodriguez. I
love the Cracked.com story about MR and her less than varied roles
throughout her career. She pretty much plays the same set of
roles in all of her movies. From this post I came away with a few
facts;
1 She doesn't
smile that much.
2 She loves
playing a cop
3 Always plays
a tomboy. And, I like that. To be fair, most of her characters
would be Tomboys anyways because of the male-dominated jobs they're
in. (Marine, Cop, or Car Theft)
4 Tends to die
in her
movies (In Resident Evil, she dies over and over again.)
Now, it seems
her character in the Fast & Furious series is alive and well
after being killed fourth movie. And, she was brought back for the
RE series only to be killed again...again.
Someone actually
asked her why her characters keep dying in movies, and she had this
amusing answer to say. From
io9.com, ((Because I don't take my clothes off, and I'm
nobody's girlfriend. The writers are new to the whole tough girl
thing, and they don't know what to do with [me]. We've got the dude
who's strong, so what do we do with the chick who's strong? We kill
her. Eventually they'll get used to it, and maybe Salt
will change a thing or two. ))
Wow,
that's a loaded answer, ME. Actually, you're completely wrong about
the writers not knowing how to write tough girls. First, all those
videogames you play have a lot of strong female characters in them.
Starting from the old Nintendo days. What about the strong
characters in the MGS or ME series? The “Writers are new to the
tough girl thing” doesn't hold water. (Did I mention Ripley from
the Alien franchise?) Things started to shift after the Ripley
thing. Lost, a show you were killed off on, had a few strong female
characters too.
Now,
technically, she hasn't fully taken off her clothes in
her movies as far as Mr. Skin tells me. So, she at least is
correct there, but she still shows a lot of skin, thanks to her many
tank-tops. Bu, she might have a point there.
And,
the whole “Nobody's girlfriend” statement seems a bit out of
place too. In F&F, Letty
is the girlfriend of Vin Diesel's character. (Put
your name on it)
I
like that she has found a niche and stayed in it, but don't be
ashamed of it and blame it on others.
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