DECODING HOT GIRL
ON GIRL ACTION
Copyright 2004 www.tombraiderchronicles.com
[ July 5th 2004 ]
Hot chicks
kicking celluloid ass are far from a new phenomenon.
Varla, the outrageously busty, menacingly sexy
antiheroine of Russ Meyer's seminal 1965 Faster,
Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, isn't even the first in
a long line of killer babes that includes the
original Charlie's Angels, Alien's Ripley, Terminator
2's Sarah Connor, The Long Kiss Goodnight's Charly
Baltimore, Buffy of vampire-slaying fame, Out
of Sight's Karen Sisco, any number of Pam Grier
characters and, of course, Thelma and Louise.
The past
half-decade or so has yielded a particularly abundant
crop: Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, Alias's Sydney
Bristow, the new Charlie's Angels, Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon's double whammy of Yu Shu Lien and
Jen Yu, and, most recently (and, perhaps, spectacularly),
Kill Bill's the Bride. Such images are becoming
both more common-just look at the pileup since
2000-and more mainstream. Varla and Foxy Brown
kept company in the ghetto of exploitation, but
Lara, Buffy and Syd have moved well beyond their
culty roots. And as for Nat, Dylan and Alex, well,
Charlie's Angels and its sequel grossed more than
$490 million worldwide.
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