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Sucker Punch
File:Sucker Punch poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byZack Snyder
Screenplay byZack Snyder
Steve Shibuya
Story byZack Snyder
Produced byDeborah Snyder
Zack Snyder
StarringEmily Browning
Abbie Cornish
Jena Malone
Vanessa Hudgens
Jamie Chung
Carla Gugino
CinematographyLarry Fong
Edited byWilliam Hoy
Music byTyler Bates
Marius de Vries
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
March 25, 2011 (USA)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish
Budget$82 million
Box office54,272,000[1]

Sucker Punch is a 2011 action-fantasy thriller film about the fantasies of a young woman who is committed to a mental institution. It was written by Steve Shibuya and Zack Snyder, directed by Snyder [2][3] and the cast includes Emily Browning as the central character, Babydoll.[4]

It was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres in the US at midnight on March 25, 2011.[5]

Plot

In the 1960s,[6] a 20-year-old girl nicknamed "Babydoll" (Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her stepfather at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane after she is blamed for the death of her younger sister. Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), the asylum's orderly, is bribed by Babydoll's stepfather into faking the signature of the asylum's psychiatrist, Dr. Vera Gorski (Carla Gugino), to have Babydoll lobotomized so she can neither inform the authorities of what really happened nor reclaim her recently deceased mother's fortune. As she enters the institution, she notices details of its layout and security.

In the five days before the surgeon (Jon Hamm) arrives, Babydoll retreats to a fantasy world in which she is a newly-arrived virgin in a brothel owned by the mob. She befriends four other dancers—Amber (Jamie Chung), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), Rocket (Jena Malone) and her older sister, Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish). Dr. Gorski appears here as the girls' dance instructor and tells Babydoll that her virginity will be sold to a client known as "The High Roller" who will be arriving in five days.

Madam Gorski forces Babydoll to perform an erotic dance. As she does this, she fantasizes an adventure in feudal Japan, where she meets the Wise Man (Scott Glenn), who tells her that she can escape if she collects five items: a map, fire, a knife, a key and a fifth, unrevealed item that would require "great sacrifice". He gives her a sword and a gun, instructing her to fight three demon samurai, which she defeats. Back in the brothel, the dance was apparently successful and has impressed the mobster boss, Blue.

Inspired by the Wise Man, Babydoll convinces her friends to prepare an escape. During subsequent dances, she imagines adventurous events that mirror the efforts of her friends in obtaining the items required to escape. These episodes are entering a bunker protected by steampunk German soldiers in the trenches of World War I to gain the map; storming an orc-filled castle to cut two crystals from the throat of a baby dragon for fire; boarding a train filled with robot guards to disarm a bomb to gain the knife. In this last episode, Rocket sacrifices herself to save her sister and dies when the bomb detonates. This is paralleled in the brothel fantasy, where the cook attempts to stab Sweet Pea as she steals a knife, instead killing Rocket who has jumped in to save her sister.

Blue realizes that the girls are planning something and hears Blondie telling Babydoll's plan to Madam Gorski. Finding evidence of the girls collecting the items, he locks Sweet Pea in a utility closet for her attempted theft. He later takes the girls backstage, where he proceeds to make examples of Amber and Blondie by shooting them. He tries to rape Babydoll, but she stabs him with the knife and frees Sweet Pea with Blue's master key. She and Sweet Pea start a fire with the stolen lighter so that, as a result of the fire alarm, the institution's doors unlock. They sneak out but their final exit is blocked by hoodlums.

Babydoll decides that the fifth item is herself and that her sacrifice is needed to complete Sweet Pea's story. She distracts the guards, allowing Sweet Pea to escape. The scene then cuts back to the asylum in which the surgeon has just performed the ice pick lobotomy. He is perturbed by her final expression and starts to question Dr. Gorski. They realize that Blue has forged the signature and he is apprehended as he is assaulting Babydoll in her cell while she remains catatonic.

Sweet Pea has escaped to a bus station but is stopped by suspicious police as she boards a bus. The bus driver—revealed to be the Wise Man who had helped the girls in their adventures—misleads the police and allows Sweet Pea to board without a ticket. Before pulling away, he tells her that she still "has a long way to go".

Cast

Title

The title Sucker Punch is not explained during the movie. Zack Snyder has said that there are two meanings:[16]

There’s a mechanism in the movie that sneaks up on you. We sort of plant the seed of this thing, and then at the end of the movie it kind of comes back around. I think that in some ways, that’s what the sucker punch is. But also you, the audience, have like a preconceived idea when you look at Baby Doll. You think she’s innocent and sweet, that she’s capable of only a certain amount of things. But I think that’s a mistake. So that has something to do with the title, too.

Andrew O'Hehir, writing in Salon, sees the title as the essential theme of the movie,[17]

If you want to understand Snyder's central narrative gambit, it's right there in the title. He gives us what we want (or what we think we want, or what he thinks we think we want): Absurdly fetishized women in teeny little skirts, gloriously repetitious fight sequences loaded with plot coupons, pseudo-feminist fantasies of escape and revenge. Then he yanks it all back and stabs us through the eyeball.

Production

"A while ago I had written a script for myself and there was a sequence in it that made me think, 'How can I make a film that can have action sequences in it that aren't limited by the physical realities that normal people are limited by, but still have the story make sense so it's not, and I don't mean to be mean, like a bulls--t thing like Ultraviolet or something like that."

Zack Snyder[18]

Development

Sucker Punch first gained attention in March 2007. Snyder put the project aside to work on Watchmen first.[19][20] The film was co-written with Steve Shibuya, who is the author of the original score that the story is based on.[21][22] Snyder directed and produced with his wife and producing partner, Deborah Snyder, through their Cruel and Unusual Films banner. Wesley Coller was executive producing.[23]

Warner Bros. announced in early 2009 that they would distribute Sucker Punch due to the success of Snyder's previous film, Watchmen.[21][24][25]"They've never said, 'Ahh, it could have been shorter,' or, 'Too bad it's so R-ish.' And that's really cool. I'm challenging them again with Sucker Punch."[21][24][25] In early interviews, Snyder stated that he would make Sucker Punch an R-rated film, but a later interview stated that he was aiming for it to be rated PG-13.[26] In its theatrical release, the movie was ultimately rated PG-13. Snyder was ultimately forced to cut many crucial scenes before the film's release in order to satisfy the MPAA's censors, but claimed that the home media release of the film will be a director's cut and closer to his original vision.[27]

When Snyder was in San Diego hosting a Blu-ray live screening of Watchmen for Comic-Con, he handed out t-shirts for Sucker Punch featuring the first art for the film. The art was designed by Alex Pardee of Snafu Comics.[28] Pre-production began in June 2009 in Canada. Snyder had also added that he enjoyed the freedom of filming his own original script.[29] Photographer Clay Enos was hired to take still pictures on set and to take portraits of the main girls.[30]

Snyder has stated one interpretation of the film is that it is a critique on geek culture’s sexism and objectification of women.[27]

Casting

Cast of Sucker Punch at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International

Before casting started in March 2009,[31] Snyder revealed his ideal cast for the feature film.[32] He decided to go with an all-female cast with this film saying that "I already did the all-male cast with 300, so I’m doing the opposite end of the spectrum", contradicting the "no female leads" stance Warner Bros. took in 2007.[33][34][35]

Snyder had tapped Amanda Seyfried first for the lead role, Babydoll.[31] "We'll see. We're trying to, so...She's great. It would be great if it worked out", Snyder said when asked if Seyfried was up for the role.[36][37][38] Snyder had also offered roles to Abbie Cornish, Evan Rachel Wood, Emma Stone, and Vanessa Hudgens.[39] Despite Snyder's aim to have her play the role of Babydoll, the actress turned it down due to conflicting schedules between the film and her HBO series Big Love.[40] Days later, Browning agreed to replace Seyfried in the role. During the confirmation of her involvement, Hudgens, Wood, Cornish and Stone were all still in talks.[7]

Wood dropped out of the project due to scheduling conflicts with her recurring role in HBO's True Blood and her stage production of Spider-Man.[41] She was later replaced by Malone for the role of "Rocket".[42] Chung signed up for the role of "Amber" which Stone was supposedly tapped to portray.[9][11] Gugino, who was cast as "Madam Gorski", a psychiatrist in the asylum, previously worked with Snyder on Watchmen.[43] Hamm was confirmed in late August 2009 to be playing "High Roller." Isaac was also tapped at around the same time.[13][44][45]

Snyder confirmed that Glenn agreed to be involved in the project, portraying "The Wise Man".[15] Hudgens describes her role as the "tough one."[46][47] "I'm so stoked about it", she said. "I kept telling everyone, 'I want to do an action film.' But they were like, 'Maybe in a few years.' So I'm like, 'Ha, in your face. I am doing one now!'"[48] Each of the five girls has two characters—one is in the real world and the other one in the fever dreams.[49]

Training

Prior to filming, the cast had trainings and fight evaluations. Training lasted for twelve weeks. It started June 2009 in Los Angeles and continued through filming. The main girls in the film were told to deadlift up to 210 pounds (95 kg) for their roles. Damon Caro, the stunt coordinator from 300 and Watchmen, Snyder's previous films, was hired for the stunts, training and fight choreography in the movie.[49][50] The other cast members started training without Hudgens while she was filming other films, including Beastly.[51] Snyder has stated that when the girls are fighting, "[like] they're on their way to kill a baby dragon, they've killed all of these orc-like creatures and they're entering a door [and] it's this classic, real Navy SEAL style room clearing. They have machine guns but they're fighting mythic creatures, impossible creatures. The hand to hand stuff is all brutal, because Damon [Caro] did all the [fights] in Bourne and it has that vibe to it."[52] In the characters' imaginations, Snyder remarks that "they can do anything."[53]

Abbie Cornish has stated that the rest of them were training, prior to filming, six hours a day, five days a week, and were oriented with martial fighting, swords and choreography.[8] Damon Caro, known for choreographing stunts from films like 300 and the Bourne film series, worked with Snyder again for Sucker Punch, as he had previously worked on all of Snyder's past films.[54][55][56]

Production and design

Pre-production took place in Los Angeles in June 2009 then moved to Vancouver in July. Principal photography began in September 2009 and concluded in January 2010; filming took place in Vancouver. With an $82 million budget,[57] production took place in September 2009 and was expected to last until January 2010 in Vancouver and Toronto.[4][58] Originally, production would have started on June 2009, but it was postponed.[59] Production concluded on January 22, 2010.[60] Snyder confirms that prior to the set production date, he already shot some fantasy sequences for Sucker Punch.[29] Snyder shares that the film is a "stylized motion picture about action and sort of landscapes of the imagination and things of that nature." Snyder has been decided on the film's title for some time and says it concerns a pop-culture reference. "It's about hopefully what the movie feels like when you watch it, more than a specific 'Oh, it's a story of this person.' It's all stylized."[61]

The film includes an imaginary brothel that the five girls enter in the alternate reality, where singing and dancing take place. Hudgens was featured in a lush dancing scene and does a techno-belly dance musical number in the cavernous night club set while the character of Browning is tangling with a mutant German officer.[62] It also includes dragons, aliens and a scenario of World War I due to the time setting of the film. Snyder expressed his interest in the film's content:

On the other hand, though it's fetishistic and personal, I like to think that my fetishes aren't that obscure. Who doesn't want to see girls running down the trenches of World War One wreaking havoc? I'd always had an interest in those worlds — comic books, fantasy art, animated films. I'd like to see this, that's how I approach everything, and then keep pushing it from there.[62]

Rick Carter served as production designer[63] while the visual effects of the film were done by Animal Logic with 75 visual effects specialists, and the Moving Picture Company (MPC) who were awarded over 120 shots.[64] Sucker Punch operates on three levels—a reality, then a sub-reality where the psych ward world shifts into a strange high-roller's brothel. The final level is made up of a dream world where more action sequences that are removed from time and space take place.[8] Warner Bros. announced earlier that Sucker Punch would be released in 3D format.[65] Zack Snyder describes the conversion into 3D as a completely different process.[66] However, it was later announced that the film would not be presented in 3D. Snyder is currently mapping out the Blu-ray interactivity for the film in preparation for the film's home media release.[67]

Snyder wanted to design the movie as something with no limits, considering that he co-wrote the script from an original idea. He added that he wanted it to "be a cool story and not just like a video game where you’re just loose and going nuts."[68]

Music

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Music plays an integral role in the movie. "In the story, music is the thing that launches them into these fantasy worlds", Snyder explains.[33] Music becomes the backbone of the film. They used actual songs for Sucker Punch that would create suitable moods. It plays an important factor in the film and is used as it was in Moulin Rouge!, according to Snyder.[21] Dance choreography was spearheaded by Paul Becker, with Jeff Dimitriou as associate. Carla Gugino, who plays a "madam" in the brothel, had to take singing lessons for scenes wherein she plays a choreographer madam in the brothel.[12] The brothel scenario has "sexy" songs, as Jamie Chung described, and dance fantasy scenes.[69] Due to time constraints, Snyder was forced to cut out most of the dance sequences for the theatrical cut of the film, but there is one during the credits. He did mention that for the home media release of the film's "director's cut", the dance scenes will be re-inserted.[27]

In September 2009, Chung reported that they had begun recording tracks for Sucker Punch.[55] Oscar Isaac revealed that the songs used in the film are not original, but are new arrangements of existing music.[70]

Tyler Bates (who composed all of Snyder's previous live-action films) and Marius de Vries (who composed the score for the film Moulin Rouge!) wrote the score for Sucker Punch. The official trailers contain samples from the songs "Prologue" by Immediate Music, "Crablouse" by Lords of Acid, "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin, "Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles, "And Your World Will Burn" by Cliff Lin, and "Panic Switch" by the Silversun Pickups.

Sucker Punch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was released on March 22, 2011[71] by WaterTower Music. The soundtrack album contains nine tracks, all covers, remixes and mash-ups (as the label website says, "wildly re-imagined versions of classic songs") of tracks by Alison Mosshart, Björk, Queen and performances from stars Emily Browning, Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac.

Track listing

No.TitleArtistLength
1."Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"Emily Browning5:18
2."Army of Me (Sucker Punch Remix)"Björk featuring Skunk Anansie6:50
3."White Rabbit"Emilíana Torrini5:07
4."I Want It All / We Will Rock You Mash-Up"Queen featuring Armageddon aka Geddy5:07
5."Search and Destroy"Skunk Anansie4:24
6."Tomorrow Never Knows"Carla Azar and Alison Mosshart7:35
7."Where Is My Mind?"Yoav and Emily Browning6:08
8."Asleep"Emily Browning4:20
9."Love Is the Drug"Carla Gugino & Oscar Isaac4:12

Marketing

Sucker Punch participated in the Comic-Con 2010 and showed the first footage of the film, featuring the songs "Prologue" by Immediate Music and "The Crablouse" by Lords of Acid. The trailer was released on Tuesday July 27 on Apple Trailers. The second official trailer was released on Wednesday November 3 and was attached to Due Date, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, and Black Swan.[66] In February 15 Titan Books released the official "Art Of The Film" book full of pictures, stills in a way to celebrate the film's release in the next month.

The film received a PG-13 rating. To avoid an R rating, a love scene was cut. Browning said, "I had a very tame and mild love scene with Jon Hamm... I think it's great for this young girl to actually take control of her own sexuality." She added, "[The MPAA] got Zack to edit the scene and make it look less like she's into it. Zack said he edited it down to the point where it looked like he was taking advantage of her. That's the only way he could get a PG-13 [rating] and he said, 'I don't want to send that message.'"[72]

Reception

Critical reaction

Sucker Punch has received mostly negative reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports that only 21% of 168 critics have given the film positive reviews.[73] As of 6 April 2011, the film holds a 33 out of 100 on Metacritic, signifying "Generally Unfavorable" reviews among 29 critics.[74] Although Snyder himself had claimed that he wanted the film to "be a cool story and not just like a video game where you’re just loose and going nuts,"[68] some critics compared the film unfavorably to a video game in their reviews. Richard Roeper gave the film a D, saying that it "proves a movie can be loud, action-packed and filled with beautiful young women—and still bore you to tears."[75] The Orlando Sentinel gave the movie one out of four stars saying that the film is "an unerotic unthrilling erotic thriller in the video game mold, Sucker Punch is Last Airbender with bustiers."[76] The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin wrote, "With its quests to retrieve magical totems, clearly demarcated levels, and non-stop action, Snyder’s clattering concoction sometimes feels less like a movie than an extended, elaborate trailer for its redundant videogame adaptation." [77]

However, Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com describes the film a "vertiginous thrill ride" that "gives us what we want (or what we think we want, or what [director Zack Snyder] thinks we think we want)."[17]

Sucker Punch has drawn considerable criticism for its depiction of women. Some critics have called the movie misogynistic and others have expressed concern over its treatment of sexual violence. Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune states that the film is "largely about thighs and cleavage" and that "Zack Snyder must have known in preproduction that his greasy collection of near-rape fantasies and violent revenge scenarios disguised as a female-empowerment fairy tale wasn't going to satisfy anyone but himself."[78] St. Petersburg Times critic Steve Persall found that the most offensive fact about the film was that it "suggests that all this objectification of women makes them stronger. It's supposed to be reassuring that men who beat, berate, molest and kill these women will get what's coming to them. Just wait, Snyder says, but in the meantime here's another femininity insult to keep you occupied."[79] A.O. Scott of The New York Times described the film as a "fantasia of misogyny" that pretends to be a "feminist fable of empowerment" and found that the film's treatment of sexual violence was problematic.[80] Peter Debruge of Variety argues that the film is "Misleadingly positioned as female empowerment despite clearly having been hatched as fantasy fodder for 13-year-old guys" and that the fact that the young women in the movie are "under constant threat of being raped or murdered" makes the film "highly inappropriate for young viewers."[81] However, Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times suggests that the film neither objectifies nor empowers women and that instead it is a "wonderfully wild provocation — an imperfect, overlong, intemperate and utterly absorbing romp through the id that I wouldn't have missed for the world."[82]

Box office

Sucker Punch made $19,058,199 in its first weekend, reported Brandon Gray of BoxOfficeMojo, an opening that placed it #2 rank behind Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.[83] As of April 4, the film grossed $50,635,494, worldwide.[83]

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