Fitting Into The Shoes Of Lara Croft

I used to be a big fan of the video game, Tomb Raider, featuring the role-playing character, Lara Croft. I sort of accidentally found the game when I bought the first Playstation console. The first version of the Tomb Raider series was very crude—the graphics were nowhere close to what they are today. But one was still able to make out the intention of Lara's creator—that Lara was to be a very sexy archeologist. Some years later, the graphics have improved substantially, and the above is an illustration of Lara Croft.


And this is another view of Lara in an acrobatic maneuver.


A few years after the launch of the Tomb Raider video game, it was adapted into a movie, and the role was acted by none other than the godsend Angelina Jolie. Before the Tomb Raider movie, I must admit that I didn't really know Angelina Jolie. I've read about her a couple of times, but I did not know what she looked like back then. When I saw the movie, I was very impressed with Jolie. In my opinion, she fitted into the shoes of Lara Croft the video game character perfectly. She's sexy—pretty, long legs and all that. That first Tomb Raider movie became a huge success, and soon after that another sequence followed, although apparently not as successful as the first one.

Those were the only two Tomb Raider movies up to now. Then last week there was a stir amongst the Tomb Raider fans when rumours had it that a new Tomb Raider movie is in the pipeline. However, Angelina Jolie will not be in it. Instead, the Lara Croft character will be acted by Megan Fox.


And again, I don't really know Megan Fox. Apparently she's been famous for a while now, but I only know her from the movie, Transformers. In that movie I saw her as a beautiful and sexy girl.


Being a die-hard Tomb Raider fan, I don't really favour Megan Fox as Lara Croft. I can't see her fitting into the shoes of Lara Croft. For one thing, I think she's too young for that character. But of course the story teller can easily make a movie of a young Lara Croft. The other reason I'm against Megan Fox is, although she's a very sexy woman, somehow I think her legs are just too short for the Lara Croft of the video game. Perhaps the many photographers are not doing justice to Megan Fox—maybe the angle of the shots had resulted in short-looking legs, I don't know.

Thankfully, however, subsequently to those wide-spread rumours, it's now been confirmed that Fox isn't involved in the up-coming Tomb Raider movie after all. Maybe it's still possible that Fox will be chosen in the end, but if it's not her, I wonder who's gonna be the next Lara Croft.