If Star Trek Into Darkness screenwriter Damon Lindelof could go back in time through some wormhole there s one major change he d make to the script.
Amid some criticism over a scene in the sci fi flick that has Alice Eve s Dr. Carol Marcus stripping down to her underwear on the flimsiest of pretexts Linedlof apologized for the gratuitious scene.
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I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress Lindelof who co wrote the script with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman said in a mea culpa on Twitter.
Lindelof s apology comes after the scene of Eve in her unmentionables overshadowed the eye popping action scenes in the film s first trailer and became the talk of the internet.
West Ian/West Ian/PA Photos/ABACA (back row) Noel Clarke Bryan Burk Karl Urban Alex Wurtzman Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof (Front row) Chris Pine Simon Pegg Alice Eve Zoe Saldana Zachary Quinto JJ Abrams and Benedict Cumberbatch at the premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness in London in May 2.RELATED ACTRESSES STEP UP IN 'STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS'
After seeing the finished movie online reviewer Jill Pantozzi wrote of Eve s weapons specialist Suffice to say her purpose in the film was minimal and they made her stand around in underwear for absolutely no reason. We didn't even see an actual display of the intelligence she was touted to have.
That sort of scene however has long been a staple of sci fi and action movies which has traditionally catered toward younger male demographics. Even Sigourney Weaver the matriarch of kick ass sci fi heroines shed her clothes to dispatch the title creature in 1979 s Alien. And Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia's metal bikini in Return of the Jedi is still the talk of 12 parsecs.
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Eve herself told the Daily News after the film s London premiere that she wasn t particularly surprised by the demands of the scene though she clearly seemed to prefer avoid answering the same question in every single interview.
AP Fisher shows off the famous metal bikini in this or any other galaxy in a scene from 1983 s Return of the JediI think the nature of what we do is visual and so all of us are subject to typecasting the Oxford educated actress told the News.
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I think (director) J J. Abrams very carefully and decidedly walks the line between allowing audiences to have what they expect from cinema which is to have these paradigms but also to try to slightly adjust tired stereotypes.
So he gives us strength. And he does it for men too. There's vulnerability in all humanity and that vulnerability doesn't just belong to women.
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Did you notice that every man in this movie cries she added.
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