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Battle of the Titans : Romijn vs Loken
By Harinda Vidanage
While two of the most notorious horror characters fight it out in the screens these days in Freddy Vs Jason dubbed the battle of titans of horror a different type of analysis can be made on two female stars.

These two stars Kristanna Loken and Rebecca Romijn , who are black characters in their respective movies but in great demand represent the dichotomous relationship with main characters of the movies assigned to them.

In early movie making the most favorite type of movies were the classic western tales and the Western Genre never changed and dominated the movie world for a long time from John Wayne to Clint Eastwood the balance never swayed. Women are shown as weak in order to accentuate the heroic qualities of men.

The Western is a male-dominated genre, partly because the frontier experience has always been connected with ideas of masculinity rather than femininity never changed but the super charged heroines are now dominating the movie world contrary to the beginnings.

Rebecca Romijn, the blonde bombshell for whom the term statuesque seems too limiting, though MTV’s House of Style lifted her beyond the ranks of ordinary mortal supermodels in 1998. The year 2000, when Rebecca complete extra surname after getting hitched to actor John Stamos joined fellow X-Men movie lovelies Halle Berry and Famke Janssen for a cover shoot that still makes average comic-book nerd reach for any thing which would release his breath as she carries the inhaling giving zero chances of exhaling.

The X men movie gave her a new life, the most prominent member of the Magneto group and the most time consuming star as the make up artists had to labour for hours to create the mystical Mystique.

No one imagined in the first X men movie Rebecca was minus any kind of clothing covered only by her body painting. In X men United she was the most agile of all, performing all types “flexi-rigid” actions. All the the X men crew took the honors of rechristening of Rebecca as “The Blue”. Born November 6, 1972, in Berkeley, California, into a household that Rebecca says she has been unfairly labeled “hippie.” “Hippiness to me implies a dirty slacker thing, but it wasn’t like that. Well, I did see a lot of naked people. And I still do!”

Along with this Femme Fatale, finds Rebecca slinking around on the wrong side of the law for notoriously provocative director Brian De Palma (Carrie, Scarface, Mission: Impossible). She robs, lies, and generally leads costar Antonio Banderas through Paris by his cojones—and then the steamy movie really gets interesting. Luckily, we have a thing for dangerous women. Now, if we can just figure out a way to make them have a thing for us.

It is heard that Bryan Singer who is working on his X men 3 prescript has reserved a considerable role for mystique, apart from Prof. Xavier and Wolverine, Mystique has sustained a larger role in last two movies and will be back for the third chapter as well.

If Rebecca was the super hero villain Kristanna Loken is the evil female Terminatrix from the future. This gorgeous, 5’11" former model who took up modeling when she was 15 years old honed her acting chops on such lowbrow fare as Mortal Kombat: Conquest and Aliens in the Family, but justice has been served on the most deserving manner as she now gets to kick Arnold’s ass in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

“I’d definitely say that there’s an underlying sexual tension between the characters, mostly through some compromising positions in the fight scenes,” reveals Loken, who reportedly beat out a host of actresses, from Famke Janssen to ex–WWF wrestler Chynna who In recent interviews Schwarzenegger has admitted to lobbying for the role of new Terninatrix the TX but despite all that, to bag the role of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s android foe in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

The actress also had to master Kaya Maga a form of Martial arts of Israeli origin which is even now being trained in Israeli military. These two characters were introduced in this analysis as they are not the super stars of the movie industry nor acclaimed film actresses by high flying film critics but the presence they made in the movies X men 2 and Terminator 3 opens up a new dimension to the thinking that models cannot be good actors but models can be high flyers even in the movie realms and they can do lot more than posing or cat walking.

These movies are not classics but in the industrial equation for film making were best performers of the year 2003. The two characters are exceptions, few sighted their importance in both the movies. Loken as TX and Schwarzenegger as T 100 were depictions of the yin and yang of the Terminator formula and the Shape shifting Mystique was used to connect most of the scenes in both the X men movies. This type of portrayals philosophically can be judged as equal contributors in making and unmaking heroism in cine language.

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