The Split Between Jovovich and ‘Hardcore’ Resident Evil Fans
Isn’t it just tragic when the Anti-Zombie crowd can’t get along? Witness this, from a recent interview with Milla Jovovich:
Was there a backlash from hardcore fans who were upset that Alice didn’t originate in the game?
Oh yeah, there are, like, 15 people in the world that spend all day really hating me. Like horrifically hating me with a passion. They’re always writing.
I tell them: “Why don’t you just write a script?” But if you ask one hardcore fan about something, they’d disagree with that hardcore fan over there.
Another hardcore fan might think the hunters should have been in the movie. And what are the hunters? They’re big frogs. There are a lot of characters in the Resident Evil games that are not very photogenic.
I love watching her mental gears lurch; she compares inventing a cheesy action hero archetype character for the movies (amnesia? superpowers? clones?) to the decision on whether or not to include a particular type of ‘enemy’ creature that hasn’t been integral to the games since the early 90s at any rate.
Also, she thinks that the reason they weren’t put in the movies is that they’re not ‘photogenic’? Really? And what, RE’s depiction of Zombies makes them look like supermodel brain surgeons?
Oh, poor, poor Milla. You cash big paychecks playing the ultimate in shallow Anti-Zombie superheroes, and then are miffed that not all the twitchy anti-social loners who pay to put their butts in seats ( in between paying to play iterations of the game franchise) care for you.
What a difficult life that must be, compared to, say the lives of the Zombies you defame. Or even the poor Zombie Rights activists who sit through your cinematic abortions, the last one at IMAX price, out of their deep commitment to The Cause.
Rest assured though; we here at the ZRC didn’t spend all day hating you. Today it was, like, five minutes tops.
H/T to BuyZombie with whom we had a great conversation on Twitter about Ms. Jovovich’s broad range of acting/smirking.
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Looks like we just found one of those fifteen people.
As I mention in the actual post, I’m *not* one of those fifteen people who hate her all day long out of videogame fan-dom.
For one thing, as you might expect, we here at The Zombie Rights Campaign are not hardcore ‘fans’ of Resident Evil, which is the pre-eminent Anti-Zombie game franchise in the world, at least until Call of Duty: Black Ops takes over said world.
For another, there are a lot more interesting personalities in the Anti-Zombie media community. We can’t really spare that much time for Smirky here, I just found this one media appearance amusing to mock, that’s all.
Back to the grindstone!