Can Battleship Strengthen Rihanna's Image, Publish-Chris Brown?

A completely new batch of Battleship stills show singer-switched-actress Beyonce in Navy gear manning various combat machinery since the resident weapons specialist in Taylor Kitsch's crew. But tend to her feature debut in Peter Berg's summer season blockbuster combat the critique she's getting from returning, no less than properly, with Chris Brown? The stills (below, via Universal and Digital Spy) hit the internet inside a conspicuous time for Beyonce, who was simply assaulted last season in those days-boyfriend Brown. Carrying out a three-year split, throughout which period Brown was sentenced to domestic violence counseling and community service and bought to step away from Beyonce by constraint order, the two labored with on some tunes released now. According to producer The-Dream, who oversaw the "Birthday Cake" remix featuring Brown, the move was Rihanna's idea. "The actual factor is actually to forgive," he referred to to Billboard Magazine. "And ... you must have confidence in people." Some celebrity-audiences proceed and take reunion as not just a specialist expression of forgiveness. "This content couldn't are actually clearer all over the world,In . produces Hollywood Life's Bonnie Bigger. "We're a couple of again and that we say it inside the most effective way that we believe how -- through our music." That seems like a bit of the stretch, but no matter the connection, many fans who supported Beyonce as she came back in the general public fallout in the 2009 incident are naturally upset the 24-year-old would unite on any front along with her former attacker. Enter Battleship. At least a year following a assault, Beyonce was cast as Petty Officer Raikes in Universal's naval actioner. She'd been looking to destroy into film already, telling MTV in 2008 they was searching "seriously" into making her acting debut. Battleship, then, provided a good chance as Raikes, Beyonce reaches play a effective, serious-minded character involved directly to use it sequences whom she's known to as "one of the males" -- rather than the film's eye chocolate, as embodied in Brooklyn Decker as Kitsch's love interest. That character quality alone may have been a good enough reason to destroy in to a side career in acting with Battleship, it allows Beyonce to project an image of strength and resilience to her fans. Within the helm from the gunboat or transporting assault rifles, she's observed in times of control and dominance, the would-be executor of violence (against aliens, in this particular situation) as opposed to a victim. Clearly, that isn't saying Battleship will erase the feel of Beyonce, battered and bruised, out of your collective recollections. It certainly shouldn't, whatsoever. Which is under a pointed personal statement that, say, a G.I. Jane or possibly a Brave One-styled vigilante pic might be it's a subtle move that at the same time assists in easing first-time actor Beyonce to the movies in the supporting role with elevated seasoned stars around to accomplish the heavy-lifting. Conspicuous since it is that new Beyonce-holding-guns images were released to the world round the same time period as her Chris Brown collaborations (joining a few more that have been formerly released by Universal), it shows an effort to guard her image within the backlash that any Brown-related association invites. But Battleship has not been seen, and Beyonce, that has not directly addressed the Brown collaborations, may but nonetheless restore or further alienate her following inside the days later on.