{"id":890,"date":"2010-09-15T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=890"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:04:07","slug":"maggie-q-a-new-nikita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2010\/09\/maggie-q-a-new-nikita\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Q: A New Nikita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dvanonline.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/nikita_france1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-898\" title=\"Nikita_france\" src=\"https:\/\/dvanonline.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/nikita_france1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Action flicks are my junk food&#8211; you name the genre: superhero, martial arts, fantasy, sci-fi and of course, SPY.\u00a0 When I heard a new TV series based on Luc Besson&#8217;s french 1990 film, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_%28film%29\">La Femme Nikita<\/a>, was coming to the CW soon as most die hard fans of any film would, I was excited but mostly skeptical.\u00a0 I had watched the original film a handful of times and sighed in disappointment when it was remade in 1993&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point_of_No_Return_%28film%29\">Point of No Return<\/a> with Bridget Fonda.\u00a0 The latter version was definitely inferior, matching the story line for the most part to the tee but the performances and leading lady in PONR was not as muscular, crazy or sexy as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anne_Parillaud\">Anne Parillaud <\/a>in the French version.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really understand when Hollywood remakes films from foreign countries just basically to change the language, where is the creativity in that? Use subtitles people.<\/p>\n<p>I held the same sort of skepticism for the new TV series. But of course everyone who is versed in the original film had to ask themselves who was granted the leading role.\u00a0 And the drumrole&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0702572\/\"> Maggie Q<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-893\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dvanonline.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/maggieq1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-893\" title=\"maggieq\" src=\"https:\/\/dvanonline.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/maggieq1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggie Q as Nikita<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 Really?<\/p>\n<p>I was stunned.\u00a0 All of those years of watching minorities in action flicks land roles as expendable sidekicks flashed before me, and I&#8217;m not talking about the 50s, as recent as The Matrix, 2005&#8217;s King Kong, etc&#8230; Unfortunately in some genre&#8217;s they don&#8217;t even land in the film.\u00a0 Peter Jackson&#8217;s Lord of the Rings was a huge disappointment.\u00a0 In general, universal descriptions of elves highlight their tendency to have slim, hairless bodies and slanted eyes and if this doesn&#8217;t scream &#8220;insert an Asian actor here&#8221; then I don&#8217;t know what can.\u00a0 Of course there were races in LOTR that did have features reminiscent of people of color: these belonged to the bad guys.\u00a0 Now Maggie Q, an actress of Vietnamese\/Polish-Irish-American descent was slated to have a leading role on network television.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-895\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dvanonline.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/asian_elf1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-895\" title=\"asian_elf\" src=\"https:\/\/dvanonline.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/asian_elf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Asian Elf&quot; by D. Cameron Calkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/cw-video\/nikita\/\">CW&#8217;s Nikita<\/a> did not disappoint&#8211; once one realizes they are watching network television, it is hard not to enjoy this lighter, campier extension of the original.\u00a0 The main storyline follows Nikita, forced to once live the life of an assassin working for the Division, has escaped and been in hiding for 3 years only to emerge again with hopes of taking the Division out. Maggie Q&#8217;s Nikita is beautiful, tempestuous and although supermodel thin, she does have the moves and muscle tone to make it believable (unlike Fonda).\u00a0 Q actually comes from a line of martial arts movies and trained with Jackie Chan.\u00a0 My very first introduction to her was in the over-produced and over-sexy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naked_Weapon\">Naked Weapon<\/a>.\u00a0 Thankfully here her acting is more on stage and we are able to see her expressing various sentiments beyond the easily enjoyable sexy and fierce&#8230;there are also some delightful twists to the plot.<\/p>\n<p>Lien Truong<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Did you like this post? Then please take the time to rate it (above) and share it (below). Ratings for top posts are listed on the sidebar. Sharing (on email, Facebook, etc.) helps spread the word about diaCRITICS. 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