Prey director Dan Trachtenberg on complaints about Amber Midthunter's character: 'It’s almost a Mandela Effect thing of the way people misremember the original movie... I think people remember Predator as, ‘Guys with big guns fight the thing,’ you know?'
Prey Director Dan Trachtenberg has stated that complaints surrounding the film's female lead Naru, played by Amber Midthunder, result from fans misremembering the core dynamic between heroes and the villain in the franchise's first outing, Predator. Airing on Hulu and Disney+ earlier this year, Trachtenberg's Prey is the franchise's fifth film but follows a narrative chronology dating back to the Predators' earliest on-screen hunt.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Both pay tribute to the former films within the franchise and present refreshing perspectives from which to understand the central conflict between hunter and prey. The film offered as many tense escapes and violent showdowns as one may have expected from the return of one of cinema's most feared monsters.
There was a very strange reaction, too, in… it’s almost a Mandela Effect thing of the way people misremember the original movie. […] But I never really wanted to correct that thinking, because it helps the movie.
Trachtenberg seems to be reminding viewers that the original film was never about hulking male action heroes blowing the alien threat away but rather stripping them of the arsenal that gives them an advantage. In essence, both Predator and Prey force the hunter into a position of vulnerability. Their solutions to evading and defeating an entity far more physically and technologically powerful than them are where the excitement of the conflict comes from.
Of course, Prey could be said to be loaded with action sequences that require a suspension of disbelief, but in a world where fans have pitted the Predator against the Caped Crusader on YouTube, the complaint of a female lead lacking the believable capability to take on her foe seems suspect in its conviction.
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