Animators also relied on videotapes of the two stars - and close observation - to help them breathe life into their woman warrior.

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The other reason Ms Gordillo has been so instrumental to political life in Mexico is down to her self-coined "warrior" persona.

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Everything from the facial expressions on the warrior to the scales on the fierce creature came to life like never before.

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If God prized human life enough to bind himself to it through incarnation, then you, barbarian warrior, should not murder.

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One wonders, though, what tales Rainbow Warrior 3 will have to tell at the end of its working life - and how much of a dent it'll manage to make on the less tractable issues that head today's agenda.

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