I know vikander got ripped for tomb raider but i didn’t know her neck is now twice its length What is going on with Lara’s neck in the Tomb Raider poster?! Girl looks like she’s about to pop off n start moving in herds… / Dgl9KA3Uw3Īlicia Vikander getting her neck ready for the Tomb Raider poster! / CxX1fh0OhR Her neck looks like she’s a John Carpenter Thing right as it’s revealing that it’s The Thing / RR3nlha5UG Its appearance on the poster could be considered a subtle Easter egg teasing fidelity to the source material.Īnd then there’s the matter of Vikander’s neck, which has drawn a lot of attention on social media:
The climbing ax featured in the poster is actually from the video games that act as the movie’s inspiration it first appeared in the 2013 Tomb Raider game that rebooted the franchise, and shows up again in its follow-up, Rise of the Tomb Raider in addition to its intended purpose, it can also be used as a weapon when necessary. However, there are two things in particular that make this poster noteworthy. (Thankfully, the positioning on this poster, and placement of the text, reduces potential sexualization of Vikander by de-emphasizing the curve of her back in the composition.) Similarly, the tagline on the tweet that revealed the poster - “Her legend begins” - is so generic as to almost be meaningless.
In many respects, the poster plays it relatively safe this is hardly the first teaser poster to show a movie’s lead character with their back to the audience, looking back with an emotion somewhere between mild frustration and grim determination on their face.
The action scenes are very slick (if overly familiar to anyone who's played the 2013 game) and the over-qualified supporting cast (Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Walton Goggins) keep a straight face despite being above this sort of thing.Ahead of Tuesday’s release of the first trailer for the movie, the teaser poster for the rebooted Tomb Raider has arrived, showing what makes Alicia Vikander different from the previous big-screen incarnation of Lara Croft. There is a clear commitment to grounding the narrative here – Lara's motivations are more human and they've all but eliminated the supernatural MacGuffins that drove the Jolie films.
This Lara wants nothing to do with her family's moneyed legacy, but when a coded message from her missing, presumed-dead father (Dominic West) sends her to Hong Kong and eventually to a dangerous, uncharted island, she begins to find her inner tomb raider. She's already something of a bad-ass, enjoying MMA training and working as a bike courier in London, but is a long way away from the globetrotting adventurer we know she will eventually become. Taking a significant amount of aesthetic and plot inspiration from the 2013 reboot of the popular game series, we are introduced to a younger, greener Lara Croft (Oscar winner Alicia Vikander). Films adapted from video games have now been around long enough for the first major franchise reboot (Hitman and Street Fighter don't count), and while this new Tomb Raider movie has more honourable intentions than the shallow Angelina Jolie-starring films from 20, it too suffers from the inherent superficiality that tends to plague video-game adaptations.
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