With brutal kicks and punches, she takes out each one - all while wearing thigh-high boots and fabulous ’80s eye makeup. Theron faces off against a barrage of bad guys on a steep staircase. One way “Atomic Blonde” represents a new step can be seen in the scene where Ms. Theron, we talked to several stars who helped push the genre forward about how action roles have changed for women, how much thought goes into why they throw a punch and what it means for all viewers, and especially young girls, to see a woman kicking ass onscreen. Tons more women could be amazing if they just had the opportunity.” Linda Hamilton in ‘Terminator.’ Scarlett Johansson right now. “I remember seeing her when I was young, and it really left an impression on me. Weaver’s as a big inspiration for her “Mad Max” performance. “I don’t think we’ve ever given women a fair shot to really have the opportunities to take on roles like these,” she said, citing Ms. Theron said these roles don’t come often enough. So there’s no distinction.” He added, “We don’t apologize for anything we’re doing, and we don’t give explanations for anything we’re doing.” Leitch explained: “I wanted to approach it like you would a movie with any other male action character. Theron pushes the limits of intensity and realism. Theron has been here before - her Furiosa was a big factor in the success of “Mad Max: Fury Road” in 2015 - but this summer, Ms. Theron joins a long line of actresses - think Pam Grier ( “Foxy Brown”) and Sigourney Weaver (the “Alien” movies) - who have changed how women are portrayed in action movies.
With “Atomic Blonde,” scheduled to be released on July 28, Ms. In her wake, she leaves her own trail of bruises and blood. Based on the graphic novel “The Coldest City” by Antony Johnston, she stars as Lorraine, an undercover MI6 agent who is sent to Berlin in the closing days of the Cold War to investigate a murder and clean up a mess left by the British government. In “Atomic Blonde,” Charlize Theron takes on the biggest action role for a woman on screen to date. The director David Leitch’s latest film has all the elements of a Jason Bourne or James Bond blockbuster - except for one major difference. I also have the original Diva song from the movie for a comparison.Speeding car chases, heart-stopping hand-to-hand combat, bodies left for dead on the pavement, a backdrop of international espionage. However, this Opera singer below nearly nails it. So until now it would seem that the Diva song is quite literally impossible to sing. So I purposely wrote un-singable things, some too low, some too high, sentences that were too fast, I would then arrange it with the sampler. For the scene to work, we needed her to sound like an alien, thereforee we had to create notes that no human could sing. Today she is in the world’s top ten sopranos. When the scene is shot she is a young talented soprano, yet her agent was Maria Callas’ one too, showing, if need to be, that she was already a promising artist. In that scene Maïwenn plays the diva but the voice is not hers, it is the one of a true opera singer, the Albanian Inva Mula.
This is a story told by Eric Serra Eric Serra tells about the notorious diva scene played by his girlfriend at the time Maïwenn, and of which he composed the music. While much of the song is sung by a real opera singer there are actually notes in there that human beings can’t actually reach. Remember Diva Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element? Remember how amazing her voice was, not to mention her range? There’s actually a story behind the song because it isn’t 100% what it seems.