Lisa

Lisa Budwing is the tritagonist of the film Zathura, who was not in the original eponymous book. She is a cantankerous teenage girl, who does not get along at all with her younger brothers, Walter and Danny. In the film, she was woken up by her divorced father, who asked her to baby-sit her brothers until he got back, but she said that she and her unknown boyfriend are "hooking up" , which is much to his dismay, at eight. Even after promising to watch them, instead of doing that, she went back to sleep listening to her own music. That is, until the boys woke her up and warned her that they are in outer space due to titular game after the first turn caused a meteor shower, destroying the living room. For a few turns, she is frozen in cryonic sleep, and she is revealed to have woken from it when she found the boys and an astronaut are burning the house down. She became infatuated with the Astronaut, who is later revealed to be a future version of Walter, her own younger brother, which is much to her dismay. She is portrayed by Kristen Stewart.

Name: Lisa Budwing

Feature films: Zathura

Voiced and portrayed by: Kristen Stewart

Species: human

Gender: female

Status: alive

family: Danny and Walter (younger brothers), unnamed parents.

friends: Danny and Walter

enemies: Zorgons

Personality: easily annoyed, tomboyish, lazy, but otherwise helpful, sisterly, kind and caring.

Appearance[]

Lisa Budwing has tall, slender white skin, long, midium lengthed light brown hair, and navy blue eyes, and worn a long sleeved light green shirt, and a pair of white striped boxers when she went to sleep in her room, and a red long sleeved shirt over her black tank top, black pants, golden bracelets around her left wrist, and a black and grey and white checkered bracelet around her right wrist, a golden necklace around her neck, and black shoes when she thought that she is going to be late for her date, and became unaware that her younger brothers are trying to tell her that they are in outer space.

Trivia:[]

Strangely, she does not appear in the video game version of the movie.

In the original Zathura book by Chris Van Allsburg, does not include Lisa as a character and when the game ended, the brothers ended up in a park instead of the House.

Both Kristen Stewart and Josh Hutcherson have later starred as lead roles in famous book-to-film sagas. Hutcherson plays Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games while Stewart played Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga.

In the Film[]

Lisa was in her room asleep for much of the film and listening to her headphones during the Meteor Shower, making her not hear the meteors crashing through the roof. After the meteor shower, Walter and Danny came into her room and told her about the game and how their in space. She refused to believe them and got frozen in a Cryonic Sleep for five turns until the Zorgons started boarding the house. She turned on all the lights when she was supposed to keep the house dark in space. She discovered her brothers making a fire, (unaware that it's to lure the Zorgons to the house.) Lisa extinguished the fire and freaked out about their house being in space and the Zorgons. Lisa ran through the house trying to find a safe spot. The Astronaut told her to relax and she immediately became infatuated with him and decided to help her brothers. After being repaired and reprogrammed by Walter's reprogram card, the Robot chased the Zorgons away. Lisa saved her brothers by pushing their piano on a Zorgon and crushing it. After Walter made a wish on a shooting star card to give the Astronaut his brother back, she was shocked that she actually developed a crush on an adult version of Walter. The Zorgons return, but Danny manages to win the game. When the house and Zorgons were getting sucked up by a black hole, Lisa pushed Walter out of the way of the suction and got sucked up first, screaming. Then when the house was returned back to normal, Lisa returned. After when Walter and Danny stopped playing with a football, she told them to never speak of what happened to them all and they all walk towards their mom’s car.

Relationships:[]

Walter Budwing[]

In the beginning Lisa did not seem to care for Walter. When Walter and Danny woke her up, trying to tell her that they were in outer space, she just thought that it was night and that they were trying to tell her that she would be late for her date. When they told her that they were really scared, she softened up and told them to hurry up. When she was frozen, Walter seemed to be panicking. When she was unfrozen and she put out the fire that they were supposed to have, she screamed at Walter and Danny for putting the house on fire. When the game was over and a black hole came, Walter was standing at the edge of the house where the black hole could suck him in, Lisa stood up and ran to him and pushed him down to the floor, trying to protect him, but she got sucked inside instead. When everything was back to normal, Lisa, Walter and Danny were heading over to their mother's house. When Lisa went outside she looked at Walter and said that they should never speak of how she fell for the astronaut and how it really turned out to be her younger brother, Walter. Walter agreed and asked her if she really thinks his eyes are gorgeous, he laughed and she turned her head to look at her younger brother, embarrassed.

Danny Budwing[]

Like Walter, Lisa does not seem to like Danny, but by the end of the film, it is revealed she cared deeply for her brothers. One act of this was when she saved her brothers by smashing a piano into a Zorgon.

In her room, when Danny and Walter woke her up to what had happened and that they were now in space, Walter made a claim that Lisa would not freak out as much if it was Danny to wake her up, meaning she had more tolerance for him, since he was younger.

The Astronaut[]

Lisa first met the Astronaut when the house was under attack by the Zorgons. She was scared, but the astronaut assured her to trust him and that everything will be okay. Lisa, having been taken by surprise by his blue eyes, agreed with him and told him that she will never leave him. He left to take out the Zorgons, and Lisa took shelter with her brothers. Lisa, who is having become infatuated with the Astronaut, commented on feeling safe and protected by him, noting also that "He has such gorgeous eyes", much to Walter and Danny's dismay. Walter told her to not to try to get so close to the Astronaut, but she does not listen. It is not until after Walter wished for the Astronaut to have his brother back, who happen to be Danny, that she is shocked to realize that the Astronaut is her younger brother Walter, from 15 years into the future.

Quotes:[]

“It's already dark? l'm gonna be so late.” (Believing she overslept for her date.)
"SHUT UP, AND LISTEN TO ME!! Dad put me in charge until he got home, which means you guys need to do what I say. Do me a favor. GO DOWN STAIRS AND STAY OUTTA MY FACE."
"You guys actually set the house on fire!"
"I'll never leave you." (To the Astronaut.)
"He has gorgeous eyes." (About the Astronaut.)
"Lisa, is upstairs!" (After dropping a piano on a Zorgon)
"Oh my god!, and I wanted to..." (Realizing the Astronaut was an older Walter.)
"We never speak of this! Okay?" (To her brothers after they're back home.)
"who the hell are you?" (asking who the man was.)