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...dead lugs, here was a nimble and refined British heroine who oozed sex. Her style was a wonderful collision of opposites: preppy pigtail and glasses with pistol-packing twin thigh holsters. Male video gamers were hooked. And for the first time, so were their wives and girlfriends. "I think [Croft] is a new definition of celebrity," says "Tomb Raider" producer Lloyd Levin. "Christina and Britney have massive popularity, but they are vacuous, so absolutely vacuous. A lot of females love Lara. She's contradictory, very human and obsessed with death. She'd rather be in tombs than in the daylight...
...James Bond is everywhere in the enormous stage built for 007 films in London's Pinewood studios. You can even find Sean Connery dropping in to snack in the cafeteria. But recently a different action hero has set up residence. Major space on the lot was given to Croft Manor, a Victorian mansion decorated with grand staircases, stained-glass windows and prehistoric pottery. In one corner, there's a glass-walled computer room filled with a dozen flat, plasma screens that monitor the solar system. Beside them sits an evil-looking robotic biped that serves alternately as sophisticated jukebox...
...anyone who has played the smash-hit video game Tomb Raider can tell you, Croft Manor is the home of Lara Croft, the aristocratic female archaeologist with an eye-popping physique and an Indiana Jones-size taste for travel and adventure. Croft aficionados, though, have never known the place to look this high-tech, or this highly detailed. They have also never met its other inhabitants: the butler, the sardonic tech geek who lives in a trailer out back, or Lara's late father, Lord Croft, who will appear in his manor's observatory packed...
...Probably no human could live up to the sexy-tough-girl fantasies that Croft has inspired, but Jolie - with her uplifting Triumph bra and cool intensity - may well satisfy the most hard-core Tomb Raider fans. "I didn't want a bimbo movie all about tight costumes," says Simon. "With Angie, I can get an Oscar-winning performance in every scene, but she'll still satisfy the lust in Lara that everyone sees... She's sexy, and I think a very slight tomboy. People are also now comfortable with female action leads. People can have their cake...
...Oscar-winning actress admits she had her own doubts about slipping into Croft's boots. She had never played Tomb Raider and knew the character only from watching her first husband, Jonny Lee Miller, play the game. Says Jolie: "Like every woman, I'd go, 'Ugh, her! Oh, boy, there's a woman who makes me look average and feel inferior.' I hated her. I'm praying now I can live...