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Post by Destro on Dec 24, 2007 1:57:41 GMT -5
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Post by CkRtech on Dec 24, 2007 6:15:17 GMT -5
I'm not really concerned about her look - she definitely has the hot part down. She's also pretty thin. The only main feature of Chun-Li are those super thighs of hers.
I am more concerned about her ability to play a strong Chun-Li character. The new Street Fighter movie isn't simply that - It's a Chun-Li movie. Kristin has the lead role. I hope she can show the confidence that the "strongest woman in the world" would have. It's going to be quite a contrast from Lana Lang.
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Post by Destro on Dec 24, 2007 11:39:13 GMT -5
I hope she can show the confidence that the "strongest woman in the world" would have. It's going to be quite a contrast from Lana Lang. Yea, the reason I'm not a fan is bc I don't think she's that great of an actress (admittedly, I've seen her in smallville and nothing else), so I'm worried about her ability to pull it off as well. I wonder who'll play the other characters..no van damme, please. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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Post by Raggletag on Dec 25, 2007 21:51:27 GMT -5
Shouldn't Chun-Li be played by someone, ya know... asian?
Also, I can't STAND Lana Lang on Smallville. So that's two strikes against Kristin Kreuk from the start. But I'm not a really big Street Fighter fan anyway, so it's nothing I can get too worked up over.
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Post by CkRtech on Dec 25, 2007 23:19:13 GMT -5
Her mother is Chinese.
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Post by Destro on Dec 25, 2007 23:50:34 GMT -5
Also, I can't STAND Lana Lang on Smallville. So that's two strikes against Kristin Kreuk from the start. But I'm not a really big Street Fighter fan anyway, so it's nothing I can get too worked up over. Do you not like lana bc of Kreuk's acting, or bc of the character?
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Post by Raggletag on Dec 26, 2007 0:03:45 GMT -5
I honestly think it's just the character of Lana that bothers me, so I guess I can't really begrudge the actress herself as I haven't seen her in anything else.
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Post by CkRtech on Dec 26, 2007 2:23:03 GMT -5
Okay here's the deal for me on Kreuk/Lana -
She cries. All the time. She has that permanent crying look on her face & I hate that. Other actresses have somehow fallen into that. Liv Tyler and Minnie Driver are two others.
Maybe I am just crazy. But it seems like passive sadness is one of the main strengths and therefore only major emotion I have seen from her. You've got sad, angry-sad, heck - happy-sad! She is always drying her eyes in Smallville. I just want to make sure I can see angry-angry from her. I want fire without water. I want to see her do angry really well without always acting like she is hurt.
Perhaps I have only seen scenes like that by coincidence? Maybe she can do a lot more. And I also have to consider the fact that perhaps that is all she is given. Without dissecting Smallville, the pull on her from Lex and Clark just leaves her a crying rag doll of a character.
The bottom line is Chun-Li is no wimp. I have no problem if they want to do a backstory on her and Bison (I have not read anything about this movie) - meaning I have no problem if she initially gets her butt kicked. But her true character is what emerges from that - Chun-Li comes out of that swearing vengeance on the man that killed her father.
There's Kreuk's wounded moment. She can probably get that down pat - it's the evolution into the woman warrior that I am skeptical about. Come on, Kristin - prove me wrong!
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Post by Destro on Dec 26, 2007 16:22:02 GMT -5
I haven't watched too many eps of smallville, but I saw that in lana too, ck. Hopefully Kreuk can pull off playing a character that is in many ways the opposite of lana lang.
I really would like to see some backstory in this movie, especially with her father, Gen, Cammy, and Bison. Of course we need two big fights: Chun Li vs. Cammy and Chun Li vs. Bison, among others. Her father vs. Gen would be interesting too..
Honestly, I don't know if Li can take Bison (or if she should in this film); in many (most?) versions of the sf story, she loses the physical fight, but takes him down through her police work.
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