Claire Redfield: the character in the game and on the screen

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

In 1998, the well-known gaming company Kepkom released a sequel to the cult Resident Evil series. It was the most anticipated gaming event of the time. The game was loved by many gamer fans, so the sequel was warmly received.

In Japan, the game was released under a different name - "Biohazard: Part Two". But we will talk about the Russian localization of the game.

It is the second part of "Resident Evil" that can be considered the initial point in the history of the character Claire Redfield. True, she was originally supposed to be called Elsa and be a biker who returns to the city after the holidays.

Who are you talking about?

Claire Redfield is a character from the famous Resident Evil video game series. It is as the heroine of the game, and not the film of the same name by Anderson, which will also be briefly mentioned, that many are interested in her

Game incarnation

When the company changed Elsa Walker to Claire Redfield, the character's biography also underwent certain changes. If in the original plan it was a student who is going home after the holidays, then the character who replaced her is the sister of the protagonist of the original game.

Claire Redfield kept Elsa's appearance, getting an unforgettable look: a girl with dark hair, a jacket with a popular image for wartime pilots (an angel girl and air bombs) and a gun in her hands.

According to the plot of the second part of "Resident Evil", Claire meets a young policeman Leon, whose last name is the same as that of the President of the United States of America - Kennedy. The two heroes of the second part go on a dangerous journey through the city so that Redfield can find her brother Chris.

The game explains Claire Redfield's skill with firearms by the fact that they often trained with her brother. Judging by the second part, the exercises came in handy for the girl.

However, the city is in the grip of zombies and must be destroyed. In order to survive and successfully continue their mission, Claire, along with Leon, are trying to leave Raccoon City. When they succeed, the girl decides to return to the city and find her brother, this is the epilogue of the second part of the Abode, in which the heroine is mentioned.

In other projects, if the character appeared, it was not as central, but mainly added facts to the story already familiar to the players or was a multiplayer hero.

Fifteen years in the game world there was no biographical continuation of the character. It was hinted that Claire Redfield intended to destroy the corporation by breaking into Umbrella's Paris branch.

Last fall, the protagonist returned in the full-fledged game Resident Evil: Revelation. Part two . However, the fans did not meet the new look of the heroine too much.welcome. In a new adventure, the developers showed us a 32-year-old woman who works for a large bioterrorism company.

It is from this company that a group of military abducts Claire and Burton's daughter (a character from the original game), having previously put them to sleep with gas. When the heroine wakes up, she discovers that they have been placed in a prison on some island.

The joint rescue fails and Moira Burton remains on the island.

Despite falling from a great height, Claire manages to survive and in the fourth episode of the game she saves the survivors on the island.

By the way, Claire looks a lot like Ada Wong in the last game of the series.

Cinema and TV series actress

At the moment, there are six films based on the series of computer games "Resident Evil", in which the main role was played by Hollywood star Milla Jovovich. True, through the efforts of the director, there is no direct connection between games and cinema.

As far as is known, the game series does not have the "star squad" character Alice White, who became the central character in the movie series. However, there are some heroes from the game version of the Abode - Claire.

In the feature film "Resident Evil" in the role of Claire Redfield actress Ali Larter. Prior to that, she starred in well-known projects:

1) "Destination";

2) "Destination 2".

Directly in the game movie series, Ali was seen in the third, fourth and sixth parts of the Abode. How similar is the character to the game prototype? Similarity is only related tobrother Chris. The appearance of the character is completely unique and there is almost no resemblance to the original.

The appearance of the actress as Claire Redfield, whose photo will be a graphic supplement to the article, resembles the original Chris' sister.

The most successful in the film was the incarnation of Valentine and the second part of the movie saga.

A little about the franchise

As you know, fans met cool not only "Resident Evil". Many projects, when transferred to the big screen, lose the chronological sequence of the story itself. How successful this trend will be in rewriting game scripts, we will see very soon. In 2016, the world will see a number of film adaptations of the famous computer series.