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Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle Of Life
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
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Memorable Movie Quotes
Kosa: Do you ever do anything the easy way?
Lara Croft: And risk disappointing you?
Lara Croft: Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs. Yin and Yang. Right and Wrong. Men and Women. What's pleasure without pain.
Lara Croft: I'm not leaving you because I couldn't kill you. I'm leaving you because I could.
Trivia
One of Angelina Jolie's stunt doubles was a man.
In the scene where Lara Croft and partner jump off a building with "flying suits" on, the stunt was performed by the two men who invented the suits. No CGI, wires, nets, or other SFX were involved. This suit was invented by Patrick de Gayardon who was killed in parachute accident in April 1998 during testing of a new parachute type in Hawaii.
At one point in the movie, Lara Croft attacks a bad guy using very sophisticated movements with an antique rifle. Her movements are taken from Queen Anne Salute used by the U.S. Army Drill Team.
The film was banned in China because "it damaged China's reputation, giving the impression of a country in chaos, with no government and over-run by secret societies".
The skin on Lara's upper left arm is rarely seen exposed in this film. Angelina Jolie sports a large tattoo on her upper left bicep which requires make-up to cover up. The fact her left arm is rarely bared in this film (her opening scene in a bikini is shot in such a way her RIGHT arm, not her left, dominates) may be due to criticism that the tattoo was sometimes poorly concealed in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
At the time of the film's release, Angelina Jolie said she had no desire to play the character a third time. Nonetheless, some planning for a third feature was undertaken until early 2004 when the studio announced plans for another Lara Croft film starring Jolie had been cancelled.
Just as in the first film, there are several scenes in which the live-action Lara mimics the computer game version, in particular a scene in which she climbs around a pagoda and pole-vaults to a helicopter. She also takes a nasty fall as the animated Lara was prone to do.
When Lara Croft first meets up with Terry Sheridan at his Barla Kala prison cell, "DOBRO POZHALOVAT" (Welcome) is carved on the cell wall.
The episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants" (1999) playing on the television is "Jellyfishing" from the first season of the show.
In the film, Lara and Terry walk into a mall in Hong Kong called Times Square, after which they make their way to a then-unfinished taller building called the IFC tower. The film treats the two buildings as if they are attached, but in fact they are a subway train ride apart. The large skylight that looks up the IFC tower from Times Square was digitally added into the scene.
The character of Jonathan Reiss exposes his private jet passengers to a form of Ebola. The "antidote" is a clear capsule with small black pills in it. In reality, this is a herbal medicine made in China and is a cure for an upset stomach.
Goofs
During Lara and Kosa's Jeep ride to Mt. Kilamanjaro, we see the Jeep getting covered with mud, yet when they arrive at the village the Jeep is clean.
Lara's face is forced down onto broken glass by Reiss' henchman Sean causing her to bleed on the table. When she comes up there are no marks, scratches or blood on her face.
Lara cuts her arm to attract a shark, but later when she is picked up by a submarine, her wetsuit's arm is unmarred.
When Terry and Lara are on the ship, and Terry steps into the room when Lara is looking out the window and we see that the top bunk has white and red patterned sheets. Terry goes to put a gun under Lara's pillow but finds she's already put two there. THe next time we see it, the top bunk is made up like Lara's, with a white sheet and a khaki blanket.
Lara plants the tracking device while in Shanghai. By the time Terry gets to her, she's still flat on her back from falling off the helicopter. She looks at her display and it shows the helicopter approaching Hong Kong. The helicopter has covered the 764 miles from Shanghai to Hong Kong in only a few minutes.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $90,000,000
Opening Weekend: $21,783,641 (USA) (27 July 2003) (3,222 Screens)
Gross: $65,660,196
Filming Dates: August 27,2002 to March 19, 2003
Filming Locations
London, England, UK
England, UK
Greece
Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
(studio) (interiors - Greek temple/African caves)
Alexandra Slate Quarry, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Hong Kong, China
International Finance Centre, Central, Hong Kong, China
Kenya
Llyn Gwynant, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Ol Doninyo Lengai Volcano, Tanzania
Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
(studio)
Santorini, Greece
Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China
Wales, UK