Nano assistance.

[swestrup]

I need some help with some background material. I'm not a movie buff, but one of my characters is. Can folks help me come up with a list of movies where a normal-looking woman turns into an unstoppable killing machine? No robots.

So far, all I can think of is Species and Ginger Snaps. I've ruled out Eve of Destruction and the latest Terminator due to the No Robots thing...

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[sfllaw.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that the sentence mixing "movie" and "normal-looking woman" has caused an incongruence in my brain.

[swestrup]

I meant movie-normal not normal-normal!

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

Well, to a degree you could use Alien 1-N. The Matrices are also contenders. Also springing to mind: Thelma and Louise, Kill Bill, and Natural Born Killers. All have varying degrees of applicability. I'm a bit surprised I can't think of more.

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero both have a certain amount of unstoppable-female-killing-machine action.

[swestrup]

This is true, but I was thinking more along the lines of a female version of the hulk, as opposed to someone who needs years of training and/or a massive arsenal.

Tank Girl cannot just head down the street in her tank and not get noticed...

[sps.livejournal.com]

Ok, if you want stealth destructiveness, I like Read or Die. I mean, I wouldn't call Agent Paper 'unstoppable' or really so much of a 'killing machine' but she's got a really high score for weapons stealth.

And of course Storm (in both X-Men movies) and Jean Grey (in X2).

Oh, and what's-her-name, Mina, the vampire in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. I pretty much got nothing then. You may want to consider some sort of vampire movie, but I haven't seen many myself.

[dcoombs.livejournal.com]

House of Flying Daggers, in a similar vein.

[sps.livejournal.com]

Well, what about things other than robots? Cat People...?

[swestrup]

Cat people works! After Ginger Snaps is about a werewolf.

[swestrup]

Uh, I meant 'after all'.

[metawidget]

I guess Carrie is, in a way, in that vein.

[swestrup]

Yeah, and that has interesting ramification for my story... I need to think about that a bit.

[xipetotec.livejournal.com]

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
The Faculty is a good one.

[miseri.livejournal.com]

Would "So I Married An Axe-Murderer" work?

[swestrup]

Not really. Without the axe, how dangerous are they?

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

Scope out River in "Serenity", due out on DVD before Christmas.

[sps.livejournal.com]

How could I have forgotten River?

[swestrup]

Yeah, River is sure scarey in the series, but I'm not sure what she can do. I didn't see the movie because it came out while I was in Denmark, and it was gone when I got back.

I'll have to borrow a friend's DVD. I'm sure several folks on my flist will be picking it up.

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

"Firestarter" and "The Craft" might assist as well for powers trips. "The Long Kiss Goodnight" and "La Femme Nikita" for estrogen-laden assassins.

[sps.livejournal.com]

If we're doing Besson, the Fifth Element trumps Nikita....

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

I didn't count Leeloo because she's PERFECT, but you do have a point. ^_^

[lasher.livejournal.com]

"Ripley" aka Sigourney Waever from all of the Aliens movies. She kicked a lot of alien butt.

"Alice" aka Mila Jovavich of the Resident Evil movies. She kicked a lot of zombie and mutant creature butt.

[lasher.livejournal.com]

And oh yea... what about Uma Thurman in Kill Bill or the "Aileen Wurnos" character from the movie "Monster"... that movie was about a real life female serial killer in Florida.

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

The Fifth Element
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Ring (What? The thing coming up the well is womanish and unstoppable and she kills people!)
Nikita
Red Sonja (okay, that's just too cheesy...)
The Matrix

[swestrup]

Yeah, but how many of these folks could walk into a bank without setting off alarms. The Lady from the fifth element, sure and Trinity. Mabye Nikita (if she had her gun well concealed) but Red Sonja or the thing from the well? I don't think so!

[swestrup]

Oh, and I've never heard of the Long Kiss Goodnight, what is it about?

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

The Long Kiss Goodnight is about a secret agent who gets memory loss and ends up as a nice, sweet family mom. Until she starts getting flash backs.

Even if you can't find a use for it in your writings I recommend it as a good movie to watch. Gina Davis and Samuel L. Jackson.