It's very rare to witness the formation of a Mary Sue in nature, but the Resident Evil trilogy managed to capture all three stages of evolution on film and share them with the world!
(Spoilers obviously follow)
Movie 1 Alice: Oh! I'm naked and have amnesia. Wait, I'm a badass security agent who knows kung fu. Whee!
Movie 2 Alice: Oh! I'm naked and have amnesia. Wait, I've become an unbelievable martial artist and I have psi powers and my blood is magical and my also my brain is being controlled by science! WHEE!
Movie 3 Alice: Oh! I'm naked and cloned and finally over the amnesia! Wait, I'm the ultimate fighter of the entire universe and my psi powers are so strong I can make energy shields and manipulate fire and there are cameras in my eyes (which change color) because the government experimented on me and I'm on the run because they want to use me to destroy the world and my blood is so powerfully magical that it is both the cure for the zombie plague AND the source of an even worse strain of zombie plague and I can go around wearing hot pants in the desert without getting sand up my cooter and everyone wants to capture me but all ten thousand of my clones have formed an army and we are all going to use our powers to bring down a global conspiracy. WHEE!
The survival-horror genre has never been so terrifying.
PS - Resident Evil: Extinction uses that nasty-ass photoshopping technique that I hate so much. Throughout the film Mila Jovovich randomly went from sweaty and covered with pores to blurry and barbie-smooth, although the 'crawling' effect didn't seem to be present. A different retoucher, maybe?
I have begun to worry that this terrible, terrible abuse of technology might actually be catching on.
July 5, 2008
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Hmm I wonder what's up with that. What I.... on questionable legality got my copy of Residentl evil 3 it wasn't touched up at all like that.
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason why I never buy anything.
-Ty_Ping