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Kinetic Cinema that Kicks Ass! Follow up to Marya Wethers' "Bad Ass Babes" Program
At our last Kinetic Cinema screening on March 11th, guest curator Marya Wethers showed at a different side of the screendance spectrum than our usual experimental fare: Hollywood action films that feature powerful female leads kicking butt.
T-X from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The evening was arranged by character, with Marya giving background exposition about each woman and illustrating her points with key scenes from films. The characters featured in the program reflected Marya’s personal favorites, and weren’t meant to encompass the entire range and history of female characters in action films. Rather it was a personal tour of the ladies that have inspired Marya the most, and she made us all feel like we were sitting in her living room sifting through the best bits of her DVD collection.
Some of my favorites from the evening were:
Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) from The Matrix series.
Pure elegance punctuated with vulnerability. In the opening scene from The Matrix, Trinity seduces you with a slow motion leap, before giving you a sharp crack in the nose.
Trinity's Kick
Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) from Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
The Bungee Ballet scene combines high adventure with silk pajamas. Gotta love Lara’s McGyver-like ingenuity, using her remote car starter to blind the enemies with a garage full of headlights while making a getaway on her motorcycle.
Lara's bungee ballet workout gets interrupted.
T-X (Kristanna Loken) from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
She’s an advanced cybernetic organism from the future and she kicks Arnold’s ass!
The Angels (Drew Barrymore as Dylan Sanders, Cameron Diaz as Natalie Cook, and Lucy Liu as Alex Munday) from Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.
The Angels
