Flipping channels last night we stumbled across the latest Lora
Croft, Tomb Raider movie and enjoyed its mix of Raiders of the Lost Ark
obstacles and obsessed bad guys, combined with the plucky heroine who survives
just fine without always needing a man to bail her out. It was pretty good, and
I appreciated the absence of Angelina Jolie pouting and posturing.
As this new Lora
fought her way through typhoons, jungles, and cave-ins, I was struck by the
same thought I’ve been having as I watch Kate Beckinsale in the new Amazon
Prime series The Widow. (Very good, by the way, with lots of plot turns
and here’s another self-sufficient plucky-but-flawed heroine, even if she does
inexplicably never lose the curl in her ponytail.)
Does no one
ever eat? If I had to go without sleep for days, chase bad guys, and
alternatively be chased by bad guys, my blood sugar would have bottomed out
after the first four hours. These women never have so much as a glass of juice.
Once in a great while they might throw back a shot of tequila along with the
guys, but that’s not going to provide the energy you’re going to need if you’re
galloping around toting an AK47.
And no one
ever heeds the call of nature. In one scene, Kate wakes up in her jeep, having
slept there all night. As she threw it into gear and hurtled off down the
unpaved road, My Guy and I simultaneously had the same reaction:
“What? She’s
been there all night! Doesn’t she need to pee?”
Ha! Biological needs take a back seat to action and plot, I guess!
ReplyDeleteMost things I watch they NEVER pee when getting up in the early morning. The edits are tight and that few seconds walking to the bathroom gets cut.
ReplyDeleteSee your point. And why do the lady enforcers wear shoes that would kill your feet standing but they can run blocks in them while on empty stomachs and full bladders?
ReplyDeleteExactly!
DeleteI've seen that movie and agree it's great, but have you noticed she spends a bi of time in the water? Probably pees right there in the ocean. Or river.
ReplyDeleteBut this leads into why so many Hollywood people are so thin, production time costs a fortune, and every time someone needs a bathroom break, production time is lost. So they don't eat, which greatly cuts down on lost production time, but does nothing for their health, with "stars" living on vitamin shots etc.
Good points all. I can see you've put some valuable thought into this, too.
DeleteI laughed at your observation that nobody ever pees or eats. It sure would make life easier, wouldn't it? :-)
ReplyDeleteOMG! Think of the time we'd save!
ReplyDeleteNobody ever seems to pee in books or films.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, the lack of pee in all the books bothered me. Poor Laura and Pa and Ma. What about Henry Aldrich, pursued by Indians. He was so good at covering his tracks, but what about those so difficult to hide functions!
ReplyDeleteA farming wife told me, as an adult, "we just lifted our dress and went on the spot. No underwear!" There's a Laura Ingalls Wilder image for ya!
Well, when you think about it, it would mean that much less laundry to do. No small thing when I assume they were boiling it in a vat in the yard.
DeleteAND makeup...they wake up in the morning all made up...nothing like me at all...staggering to the bathroom half asleep, naked face, morning mouth...headed for the toilet and then the toothbrush and the hairbrush:)
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