Is Dominic Toretto's Personal Code a factor in the Vin Diesel Babylon A.D.?
I'm not suggesting that Toorop is Dominic, although there is an idea that "movie stars" tend to "play themselves" in every role (Jared Harris contrasted this with "chameleon" actors who make every role distinct, Gary Oldman & Tom Hardy as examples.)
Here's what I mean:
- In Babylon A.D. (2008) Toorop states that all a mercenary has is his balls and his word. Toorop has given his word to deliver Aurora.
- During the arctic crossing, Aurora states that they have become family via their shared struggles.
- In NYC, Toorop & Aurora make sweet love, and she subsequently reveals she is pregnant and Toorop is the father.
- Toorop breaks his word, and does not deliver Aurora.
It's been established that Toretto's personal code comes down to one thing: Family. Under the sometimes complicated system of warrior codes, there can be conflicting loyalties. In this case, Toorop breaks his word, destroying his honor as a mercenary, because he has a higher loyalty he must serve: family.
- Did the Babylon A.D. film change the story to make Aurora's fetuses Toorop's, or was this in the book?
If this was not a factor in the books, where Vin was surely the person with the most power on that film, being the element that guaranteed box office and generates pre-sales of the distribution rights, did Vin influence the script to reflect his most successful franchise?
If so, can Dominic Torreto's personal code be said to have been a factor in the plot of the Babylon A.D. (2008) film?
Best Answer
The two films aren't even remotely connected. The idea of family and honor is found throughout the history of movies. This is like asking if Al Pacino's role in The Godfather had anything to do with his role in Scarface. Both are gangster-related, both characters are steeped in family and honor (in fact, he also says the line, "There's only two things I have in this world; my word and my balls. And I don't break 'em for nobody."), both eventually fell from grace.
Vin Diesel actually has a more diverse background than you're giving him credit for. He was in Saving Private Ryan and showed none of the "character traits" you bestow on him. He was also in The Pacifier, where he played a completely different type of character. Action starts are often typecast, so their characters have similarities, but they also audition for those parts and, except in the case of Stallone who writes most of his movies, are not guaranteed to win a given role. To think Babylon A.D. was re-written just because of the Fast/Furious franchise is giving Diesel way too much credit.
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