Alita: Battle Angel
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Alita : Battle Angelbrings Alita ’s openhanded eyes to life in arresting fashion , making them look incredibly believable , but the movie fail to compellingly explain why her android body conforms to a sexualized " ideal " consistency case . Robert Rodriguez’sAlita : Battle AngeladaptsYukito Kishiro’sBattle Angel Alitamangafor the big concealment , lend this theatrical role to live - natural process using CGI to transform actress Rosa Salazar into the hero . Alita : Battle Angelworks as an origin history for Alita , with then android ’s core being salvaged by Dr. Dyson Ido ( Christoph Waltz).Alita spends much of the movieattempting to discover who she was and forge a path for the soul she wants to be .
During the first two acts ofBattle Angel , Alita utilizes the body that Ido created for his sickly daughter before she was murdered . In the second number , Alita light upon an android warrior ’s body on a ship belong to the United Republics of Mars ( URM ) and feels a connection to it . After her battle against Grewishka ( Jackie Earle Haley ) , in which the body created by Ido is destroy , he attaches her to the URM tech eubstance . It ’s here that Alita last becomes the character from the manga , sexualized grownup body and all , but the explanation the moving picture yield for why she looks that way is eye - rollingly bad .
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Ostensibly , Alita : Battle Angeldepicts Alita with full-grown eyesand a sexualized " ideal " type of body because that ’s how the fiber looks in the manga . We can presume the flick did n’t want to reimagine or redesign the character in any agency , and the filmmakers went to large lengths to bring Alita ’s uniquely prominent eyes to life . However , the movie never explicitly explains why Alita ’s eyes are so enceinte . We do see in flashback that all the other URM android had eyes like that , so it ’s part of their figure . ButBattle Angelgoes to the worry of explaining why Alita ’s URM body transforms from how she originally constitute it to a body with large breasts , a small waist and an overall thin coming into court . After Ido connects Alita ’s core to the torso , it transubstantiate and Nurse Gerhad ( Idara Victor ) makes a comment that the technical school is conform toAlita’sidea of how she should look .
The demarcation between how the pic treats Alita ’s eyes , which are big just because that ’s the manner she and the URM mechanical man were designed , versus her dead body ( which is give an literal , expositional explanation ) implies that the filmmakers fuck they ’d need to explicate why her organic structure became oversexualized . The filmmakers have a go at it they ’d need to justify why Alita went from the muscular appearance of the original URM eubstance to the sexualized feminine trunk it becomes in monastic order to keep up the type ’s manga design - and their justification is silly in its delivery .
Rather than implicitly explain Alita ’s soundbox bet how it does because it ’s how the androids were designed ( similar to why her eyes are large),Battle Angelplays it off like this is Alita ’s own ideal warrior body - one with sexualized proportion and seemingly very little muscle . Sure , we know Alita was likely programme to conceive that , but the way the movie depicts this scene , especially in the context of having instal Alita as a free - thinking and disaffected character reference , make her conform to anyone else ’s ideal does n’t make sense . Further , it also does n’t make sense that any woman ( human or cyborg ) having the opportunity to transform their body into that of a warrior ’s would enlarge her breast and lop her arms , shank and legs . For example of how genuine fair sex think warrior women should look in media , just look to theredesigned She - Raon Netflix ’s animated show , or theAmazonian warriors of Themyscirain Patty Jenkins’Wonder Woman .
To imply that Alita would pick out a sexualized " ideal " distaff body type over a more practical , less sexualized one is n’t just laughable , it goes against everything established about her character . She ’s a role who is depict using her consistency to agitate and is n’t ever shown care much about how it looks , but in the moment of her transformation , all that seems to be thrown out the window simply so the movie can justify making sure their chief distaff character has a " aphrodisiac " body . It ’s a disservice not just to the character of Alita , but toAlita : Battle Angel’sfemale viewers .
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