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And besides, Croft didn’t stop being objectified: Her shirts were still low-cut and she bent down a lot. Rosenberg’s comments were widely criticized for appearing to suggest that designers were looking to satisfy a heterosexual male player, rather than a larger diversity of playing audiences. “They’re more like, ‘I want to protect her.’ There’s this sort of dynamic of ‘I’m going to this adventure with her and trying to protect her.'” “When people play Lara, they don’t really project themselves into the character,” executive producer Ron Rosenberg said at E3 in 2012. Women who might have been interested in the more realistically proportioned Croft were put off by descriptions of this new character. In 2013, publisher Square Enix debuted a Tomb Raider reboot that featured a younger, less curvy but also less capable Lara Croft. But I felt we had to for the game,” the actress told the Boston Globe in 2001.Ĭroft’s proportions suggested that to get male and female gamers interested in a female heroine, she had to look like a sex symbol in addition to being a capable fighter.Ĭroft’s body has continued to be a battleground among video game publishers and players. We weren’t even going to put the shorts on. “They all knew that in casting me I was going to want her to be a woman that I’d like, that I didn’t find stupid, that I didn’t find demeaning. “There was a difference in the way the character was in the game and the way she was represented in the advertising,” original Tomb Raider designer Heather Stevens told the New York Times in 2016.īut as the years wore on and graphics quality improved, the body that Croft’s designers proffered became a symbol of the video game industry’s commitment to male consumers over their female players.Īcademics wrote a number of papers arguing whether Croft was a feminist hero or, as one scholar put it, a “cyberbimbo.”Īngelina Jolie wore a 36D padded bra and donned hot pants for her roles as Croft in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and 2003’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life, even though Jolie wasn’t originally so into the latter idea. Of course, collaborators on the original Tomb Raider have said the voluptuous design helped sell the games.

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To be sure, the Lara Croft of the original 1996 Tomb Raider console and PC games had overly exaggerated proportions, a cartoonish quality that its original developers have said was the result of the restrictions posed by 32-bit consoles.īecause long hair was difficult to realize in early video games, the developers amped up Croft’s breasts and hips in order to telegraph that she was a woman. “Dear fanboys, if you’ve never played this game and have no interest in doing so, quit whining about Lara/Vikander’s boobs. #tombraider #tombraidermovie,” she wrote.Īnother pointed out that Vikander’s version of the character comes from the 2013 game reboot, which was far less sexist than earlier installments.

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well, their opinions do not matter and neither do they, because this movie is not for them.

“The people talking about Alicia’s boobs being too small…. It doesn’t really matter whether you ‘see’ Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft… she is, deal with it,” wrote one user.Ī Lara Croft cosplayer said she is unconcerned with what online trolls say about Vikander’s take on the character. Let’s stop acting like the size/shape of a woman’s breasts predict her ability to play Lara Croft.

“When Tomb Raider was released in 1996, Lara Croft’s boobs were triangular.

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Fans of the video-game series and the kick-ass female adventurer lit into Kirk, calling his observation misguided and ignorant.