If that was the case, then he should have cast all the humans as spindly and underdeveloped. There was a scene where Valerian and Laureline enter the military command room to provide security, and the script seemed to call for them to look like the biggest badasses around, people who make these career desk officers look like, well, desk jockeys. Instead, they looked like two high school kids surrounded by men who looked much more badass than they did.
The thing is, the idea of agents who look like gangly kids could have worked, if the script had made it clear that they weren't so much badasses as clever dicks who looked so harmless that they were always able to sneak in under other people's radar. But no, they were written up as badasses, and when I saw this in the theater the whole audience laughed at the scene where the spindly Laureline punched out Clive Owen. And Clive Owen is not a physically impressive man.
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TriumphReq (1857)
3 years ago
"looked so harmless that they were always able to sneak in under other people's radar. "
I think you got it there. They were harmless looking but completely deadly. The way Valerian welded the knives in the troll fisher banquet was high class and the way he took out the dark storm troopers with even more precision just goes to show their innocent but deadly look was their cover.
Trust me I've seen this IRL. I went to a Capoeira/Martial arts exhibition and there was this one Israeli kid that looked like he had just graduated high school. He was plain, no muscular build whatsoever but could fly through the air like you wouldn't believe and was an expert on Krav maga. It was actually kinda scary what he was capable of while seeming as if to appear as a mall rat. As they call some fast cars "sleepers" he was a sleeper of a human killer.
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