The device uses technology differently from what she is familiar with, but it’s a mechanism she can easily understand. One of the first things we see Naru do is examine one of the French fur trappers’ bear traps. That is because they were skinned by white colonists. Tracking the Predator she finds snakes and wolves skinned whole, but she also finds buffalo-not creatures that would make a worthy trophy for the Predator. It is not glamorized or exoticized it is just how she lives.Īnd the Predator is not the only threat she and her community face. She is a hunter in a culture where hunting is a core part of their way of life, and the tools Dutch has to resort to in the first film are already her stock in trade. Prey ditches the hyper-masculinity, and the film’s hero, Naru (Amber Midthunder), has no need to journey back to any kind of mythical primordial past. Against the background of ‘80s hyper-masculinity, the movie is a journey that speaks to there being something powerful, primordial, and manly about the hunter/prey relationship. In Predator, we see Schwarzenegger stripped of his arsenal and allies until he has to go it alone against the monster with only a homemade bow and arrow and his knowledge of the terrain. If there is one successful strand to all the movie’s best existing follow-ups, it is that the name of the franchise may refer to the alien hunter’s quarry as often as the alien hunter itself. He reverts to a primordial state, red in tooth and claw, and only then is he ready to take on the Predator. The two play cat and mouse, and over the course of that game, Schwarzenegger loses his comrades in arms, his gear, any contact or support from the government he supposedly serves. The alien Predator’s whole deal is going to alien planets and killing the biggest, meanest, beefiest mothers there. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the biggest, meanest, beefiest mothers in Hollywood movies. Yet at the same time, it has also placed hard limits on what future movies can (or should) do with that concept.
In the process, it not only created a good follow up movie to Predator but also a solid template for creating many, many more Predator movies-if you were so inclined. So Prey has managed to do what five previous attempts at a Predator sequel have failed at.
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