Sucker Punch (2011 Film)
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Sucker Punch (2011 film)
Sucker Punch is a 2011 American fantasy action film[3]
directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by him and Steve
Shibuya. It is Snyder’s first film based on an original
concept.[4][5] The film stars Emily Browning,[6] Abbie
Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung
and Carla Gugino. The storyline follows the fantasies of
a young woman who is committed to a mental institution,
as she makes a plan to escape the hospital before undergoing a lobotomy.
pressed Blue and other onlookers.
Babydoll convinces the four girls to join her in preparing
an escape. She plans to use her dances as a distraction
while the other girls obtain the necessary tools. During
her dances, she imagines fantastic adventures that mirror
the escape efforts. These adventures include infiltrating
a bunker protected by steampunk-inspired World War I
German soldiers to gain a map (mirrored by Sweet Pea
copying a map of the brothel/institution from Blue’s ofThe film was released in both conventional and IMAX fice); storming an Orc-infested castle to retrieve two firetheatres in the United States at midnight on March 25, producing crystals from inside a baby dragon (mirrored
2011.[7] The film was negatively received by critics and by Amber stealing a lighter from the mayor’s pocket);
under-performed at the box office.[8]
and boarding a train and fighting robotic guards to disarm
a bomb (mirrored by Sweet Pea stealing a kitchen knife
from the Cook’s belt). During the last fantasy, Rocket
sacrifices herself to save Sweet Pea and is killed when the
1 Plot
bomb detonates, which is paralleled by the Cook fatally
stabbing Rocket while she tries to protect her sister.
In the 1960s,[9] a young woman[9] nicknamed Babydoll
(Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her abusive wid- Blue overhears Blondie relaying Babydoll’s plan to
owed stepfather (Gerard Plunkett) at the Lennox House Gorski, confirming his suspicions that something is
for the Mentally Insane after she is blamed for the death amiss. He has Sweet Pea locked in a utility closet and
of her younger sister. The stepfather bribes Blue Jones confronts the other girls backstage. He shoots Amber and
(Oscar Isaac), an asylum orderly, into forging the signa- Blondie and attempts to rape Babydoll, but she stabs him
ture of the asylum’s psychiatrist, Dr. Vera Gorski (Carla with the kitchen knife and steals his master key. Babydoll
Gugino), to have Babydoll lobotomized so she cannot in- frees Sweet Pea and starts a fire to keep the orderlies ocform the authorities of the true circumstances leading to cupied while they look for an exit. They escape into the
her sister’s death. During her admission to the institution, courtyard, where they find a throng of men blocking their
Babydoll takes note of four items that she would need to way. Babydoll deduces that the fifth item needed for the
escape is in fact her own sacrifice. Despite Sweet Pea’s
attempt an escape.
protests, she insists on revealing herself to the visitors,
Babydoll slips into a fantasy world in which she is newly thus distracting them long enough to allow her friend to
arrived in a brothel owned by Blue, whom she envisions slip away unnoticed.
as a mobster, where she and the other patients are sex
slaves. She befriends four other dancers – Amber (Jamie Back in the asylum, the surgeon has just performed BabyChung), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), Rocket (Jena Mal- doll’s lobotomy. The surgeon is baffled by Babydoll’s exone), and Rocket’s sister and “star of the show”, Sweet pression, and asks Gorski why she authorized the proPea (Abbie Cornish). Dr. Gorski is envisioned as the cedure. Gorski realizes that Blue has forged her signagirls’ dance instructor. Blue informs Babydoll that her ture and summons the police, who apprehend Blue as
virginity will be sold to a client known as the High Roller he attempts to sexually assault a lobotomized Babydoll.
(Jon Hamm), who is actually the doctor scheduled to While being led away, Blue also incriminates the stepfaperform the lobotomy. Gorski encourages Babydoll to ther. Babydoll is shown smiling serenely, having apparperform an erotic dance, during which Babydoll further ently found freedom within her own inner “Paradise”. It
fantasizes she is in feudal Japan, meeting the Wise Man is revealed her dream is actually a fantasy flashback par(Scott Glenn). After she expresses her desire to “escape”, alleling events that really happened in the hospital.
the Wise Man presents Babydoll with weapons and tells At a bus station, Sweet Pea is stopped by police as she
her that she would need to collect five items: a map, fire, tries to get on a bus to Fort Wayne, but she is rescued by
a knife, a key, and a fifth, unrevealed item that would re- the bus driver (the Wise Man), who misleads the police
quire “a deep sacrifice” but bring a “perfect victory”. She and allows her to board.
then fights three samurai giants. As her fantasy ends, she
During the end credits, Dr. Gorski and Blue perform
finds herself back in the brothel, her dance having im1
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PRODUCTION
"Love Is the Drug" in a glitzy musical sequence that in- The art was designed by Alex Pardee of Snafu Comics,[20]
cludes all five female leads.
with title art work by Los Angeles graffiti artist Galo Canote. Pre-production began in June 2009 in Canada. Snyder had also added that he enjoyed the freedom of filming
his own original script.[21] Photographer Clay Enos was
2 Cast
hired to take still pictures on set and to take portraits of
the main actors.[22]
• Emily Browning as Babydoll
• Abbie Cornish as Sweet Pea
• Jena Malone as Rocket
3.2 Casting
• Vanessa Hudgens as Blondie
• Jamie Chung as Amber
• Carla Gugino as Madame Vera Gorski / Dr. Vera
Gorski
• Oscar Isaac as Blue Jones
• Jon Hamm as The Doctor / The High Roller
• Scott Glenn as The Wise Man / The General / The
Bus Driver
• Gerard Plunkett as The Stepfather / Priest
• Patrick Sabongui as Earl
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3.1
Production
Development
Cast of Sucker Punch at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International
Before casting started in March 2009,[23] Snyder revealed
his ideal cast for the feature film.[24] He chose to go with
an all-female cast in this film saying that “I already did
the all-male cast with 300, so I'm doing the opposite end
of the spectrum.”[25][26][27]
Snyder had tapped Amanda Seyfried first for the lead role,
Babydoll.[23] When asked if Seyfried was up for the role,
Snyder said, “We'll see. We're trying to, so ... She’s
great. It would be great if it worked out”.[28][29][30] Snyder had also offered roles to Abbie Cornish, Evan Rachel
Wood, Emma Stone, and Vanessa Hudgens.[31] However,
Seyfried turned it down due to a conflict in schedule with
her HBO series Big Love.[32] Browning agreed to replace
Seyfried in the role. During the confirmation of her involvement, Hudgens, Wood, Cornish, and Stone were all
Warner Bros. announced in early 2009 that they would still in talks.[33]
distribute Sucker Punch due to the success of Snyder’s Wood dropped out of the project due to scheduling
previous film, Watchmen.[13][16][17] “They've never said, conflicts with her recurring role in HBO’s True Blood
'Ahh, it could have been shorter', or, 'Too bad it’s so R- and her stage production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the
ish.' And that’s really cool. I'm challenging them again Dark.[34] She was later replaced by Malone for the role
with Sucker Punch.”[13][16][17] In early interviews, Snyder of “Rocket”.[35] Chung was signed up to play “Amber";
stated that he would make Sucker Punch an R-rated film, Emma Stone had been offered the part but declined due
but a later interview stated that he was aiming for it to be schedule conflict with her film Easy A.[36][37] Freida Pinto
rated PG-13.[18] In its theatrical release, the movie was ul- was also considered for the role of “Amber” before it
timately rated PG-13. Snyder cut many crucial scenes be- went to Jamie Chung. Gugino, who was cast as “Madam
fore the film’s release in order to satisfy the MPAA's cen- Gorski”, a psychiatrist in the asylum, previously worked
sors, but claimed that the home media release of the film with Snyder on Watchmen.[38] Hamm was confirmed in
will be a director’s cut and closer to his original vision.[19] late August 2009 to play “The High Roller”. Isaac was
Sucker Punch is described by Snyder as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”. The film first gained attention
in March 2007. Snyder put the project aside to work on
Watchmen first.[11][12] The film was co-written with Steve
Shibuya, who authored the original script on which the
story is based.[13][14] Snyder directed and produced with
his wife and producing partner, Deborah Snyder, through
their Cruel and Unusual Films banner. Wesley Coller
served as executive producer.[15]
When Snyder was in San Diego hosting a Blu-ray live also tapped at around the same time.[39][40][41] Snyder
screening of Watchmen for Comic-Con, he handed out T- confirmed that Glenn agreed to be involved in the project,
shirts for Sucker Punch featuring the first art for the film. portraying “The Wise Man”.[42]
3.5
3.3
Title
Training
Prior to filming, the cast had twelve weeks of training
and fight evaluations, beginning in June 2009 in Los Angeles and continuing through filming. The leads in the
film were taught to deadlift up to 250 pounds (110 kg)
for their roles. Damon Caro, the stunt coordinator and
fight choreographer from 300 and Watchmen, Snyder’s
previous films, was hired for the action design,stunt training and fight choreography for the movie.[43][44] The other
cast members started training without Hudgens while she
was involved with other projects, including Beastly.[45]
Abbie Cornish said that the rest of the cast were training
six hours a day, five days a week in martial arts, swords
and empty hand choreography.[46] Snyder said 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.”[47] Snyder remarks that in the girls’ imaginations “they can do anything”.[48]
3.4
Production and design
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approach everything, and then keep pushing it
from there.[54]
Rick Carter served as production designer[55] 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.[56]
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.[46] Warner Bros.
announced earlier that Sucker Punch would be released
in 3D format.[57] Snyder describes the conversion into
3D as a completely different process.[58] However, it was
later announced that the film would not be presented in
3D. Snyder filmed a “Maximum Movie Mode” interactive Blu-ray commentary for the film’s home media
release.[59]
Snyder wanted to design the film 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.”[60] Snyder also noted the influence of Asian iconography, particularly Japanese elements such as samurai, anime, and mecha.[61]
Pre-production began in Los Angeles in June 2009 then
moved to Vancouver in July. Principal photography be- 3.5 Title
gan in September 2009 in Vancouver, and concluded
in January 2010. With an $82 million budget,[49] post- The title Sucker Punch is not explained in the film. Snyder
[62]
production began in September 2009 and was expected to has said that there are two meanings:
[6][50]
last until January 2010 in Vancouver and Toronto.
Originally, production would have started in June 2009,
There’s a mechanism in the movie that
but it was postponed.[51] Production concluded on Jansneaks up on you. We sort of plant the seed
uary 22, 2010.[52] Snyder confirmed that prior to the set
of this thing, and then at the end of the movie
production date, he already shot some fantasy sequences
it kind of comes back around. I think that in
for Sucker Punch.[21] Snyder said the film is a “stylized
some ways, that’s what the sucker punch is.
motion picture about action and sort of landscapes of the
But also you, the audience, have like a preconimagination and things of that nature”. Snyder had also
ceived idea when you look at Babydoll. You
been decided on the film’s title for some time, stating it
think she’s innocent and sweet, that she’s capais a pop-culture reference. “It’s about hopefully what the
ble of only a certain amount of things. But I
movie feels like when you watch it, more than a specific
think that’s a mistake. So that has something
'Oh, it’s a story of this person.' It’s all stylized.”[53]
to do with the title, too.
The film includes an imaginary brothel that the five girls
enter in the alternate reality, where singing and dancing Andrew O'Hehir, writing in Salon, sees the film’s title as
take place. The fantasy sequences include dragons, aliens, its essential theme:[63]
and a World War I battle. Snyder expressed his interest
in the film’s content:
If you want to understand Snyder’s central narrative gambit, it’s right there in the tiOn the other hand, though it’s fetishistic
tle. He gives us what we want (or what we
and personal, I like to think that my fetishes
think we want, or what he thinks we think we
aren't that obscure. Who doesn't want to see
want): Absurdly fetishized women in teeny litgirls running down the trenches of World War
tle skirts, gloriously repetitious fight sequences
One wreaking havoc? I'd always had an interloaded with plot coupons, pseudo-feminist fanest in those worlds – comic books, fantasy art,
tasies of escape and revenge. Then he yanks it
animated films. I'd like to see this, that’s how I
all back and stabs us through the eyeball.
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6 RELEASE
Snyder has stated one interpretation of the film is that it of classic songs”) of tracks by Alison Mosshart, Björk,
is a critique on geek culture's sexism and objectification Queen, and performances from stars Emily Browning,
of women.[19]
Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac. The album was praised
by music and film critics, as were Browning’s vocals.
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Music and dance
Main article: Sucker Punch (soundtrack)
“The exploration of how these songs could be used to tell
the story and comment on the action has been one of the
more unusual and satisfactory parts of this process.”
Marius de Vries[64]
Music plays an integral role in the film. “In the story,
music is the thing that launches them into these fantasy
worlds”, Snyder explains.[25] Composer Tyler Bates said
that the songs “function as the subconscious mind of Baby
Doll and her journey”, and musical producer Marius de
Vries considered “an important task of the songs to signplace which particular world you are inhabiting at a particular moment”.[64] 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.[13] Dance choreography was spearheaded by Paul
Becker.[65] Emily Browning did the vocals for the songs
“Sweet Dreams”, “Asleep” and “Where Is My Mind” that
are played during the movie.[66] Carla Gugino had to take
singing lessons for her scenes as a choreographer madam
in the brothel.[67] The brothel scenario has “sexy” songs,
as Jamie Chung described, and dance fantasy scenes.[68]
Due to time constraints, Snyder was forced to cut most of
the dance sequences for the theatrical release 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.[19]
5 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 July 27 on
Apple Trailers. The second official trailer was released on
November 3 and was attached to Due Date, Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and Black Swan.[58] On
February 15, Titan Books released the official “Art of the
Film” book full of pictures, to mark the film’s release in
the following month.
The film received a PG-13 rating. To avoid an R rating,
a sex 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]
In the United Kingdom, the film received a 12A certificate for “moderate violence, threat, language and sexual
references”. The film was passed with no additional cuts
required.[1] The extended director’s cut was given a 12.
6 Release
6.1 Critical reception
In September 2009, Chung reported that they had begun Sucker Punch was negatively reviewed by film critics.
recording tracks for Sucker Punch.[69] Oscar Isaac said
Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reports that
the songs used in the film are not original, but are new 23% of 202 critics have given Sucker Punch positive rearrangements of existing music.[70]
views, giving it an average rating of 4.1/10; the consenTyler Bates (who composed all of Snyder’s previous live- sus states: “It’s technically impressive and loaded with
action films) and Marius de Vries (who composed the eye-catching images, but without characters or a plot
score for the film Moulin Rouge!) co-wrote the film to support them, all of Sucker Punch 's visual thrills
score. The official trailers contain samples from the songs are for naught.”[73] The film holds a 33 out of 100 on
“Prologue” by Immediate Music, “Crablouse” by Lords Metacritic, signifying “generally unfavorable” reviews
of Acid, "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin, among 29 critics.[74]
"Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles, “And Your Although Snyder had claimed that he wanted the film to
World Will Burn” by Cliff Lin, "Panic Switch" by the “be a cool story and not just like a video game where
Silversun Pickups, and “Illusion of Love” (Fred Falke you're just loose and going nuts”,[60] some critics comremix) by Uffie.
pared the film unfavorably to a video game in their reSucker Punch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on March 22, 2011[71] by WaterTower Music. It
contained nine tracks, all covers, remixes, and mash-ups
(as the label website says, “wildly re-imagined versions
views. 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
6.2
Box office
stars calling it “an unerotic unthrilling erotic thriller in
the video game mold”.[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] Reviewing it for The Sydney Morning
Herald, Giles Hardie called the film “incredibly ambitious”, and explained that while “traditional depths of
character development and motivation are sidelined, [...]
this is intentional, allowing the audience to immerse in
the layers of dreams and later piece together what actually happened”.[78]
British film critic Mark Kermode described the film
as “the most boring, ploddingly put together, infantile,
crass, adolescent, stupid, chauvinistic twaddle that I've sat
through in a very, very long time.”[79]
Legendary Pictures reportedly attributed the movie’s failure to become a box office hit due to movie audience not
accepting a female action hero.[80]
6.1.1
Depiction of women
Sucker Punch also drew criticism for its depiction of
women. Several critics described the film as misogynistic
and others expressed concern over its treatment of sexual violence.[81] Monika Bartyzel of Moviefone writes:
“The women of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch are not empowered. Though they are given vicious snarls, swords
and guns, the leading ladies of Snyder’s latest are nothing
more than cinematic figures of enslavement given only the
most minimal fight. Their rebellion is one of imaginative whimsy in a heavily misogynistic world that is barely
questioned or truly challenged.”[82] Michael Phillips of
The Chicago Tribune stated that “Zack Snyder must have
known in preproduction that his greasy collection of nearrape fantasies and violent revenge scenarios disguised as
a female-empowerment fairy tale wasn't going to satisfy
anyone but himself.”[83] 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.”[84] 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
and believes the target audience as a whole is in favour
of it.[85] Peter Debruge of Variety argued 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.”[86]
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However, Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times suggested 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.”[87] In a retrospective article about the critical reception of Sucker Punch, James MacDowell questioned the alleged misogyny of the film, arguing that it
does not in fact aim to offer female empowerment, but
is instead “a deeply pessimistic analysis of female oppression”, because it makes clear that, “just as men organize the dances, so do they control the terms of the
fight scenes; in neither do the women have true agency,
only an illusion of it.”[88][89] Writing in a separate piece
for The A.V. Club months after giving the film a “C-"
grade, Nathan Rabin concluded, “Depending on whom
you ask, Snyder set out to make either the ultimate sexist masturbatory fanboy fantasy or the ultimate critique
of sexist masturbatory fanboy fantasies. He failed spectacularly on both counts, but in true Fiasco form, there’s
something fascinating and even strangely majestic about
that failure.”[90] Scott Mendelsohn of The Huffington Post
called the film a “bitterly sad and angrily feminist miniepic”, and said that while it presents scenes of “matterof-fact lechery from men towards women that is an accepted norm in our society, both then and now”, it “earns
kudos for daring to actually be about something relevant
and interesting. It is actually very much about the sexualization of women in popular culture, rather than just
using those tools to make pointless exploitation fare.”[91]
Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict posited that Sucker
Punch uses the “prism of popular culture to say something about the roles that women find themselves forced
into—and not just in the fantasies of geeks and fanboys”.
Bromley further judged that the film is “about fighting
a losing battle. About using every tool at your disposal,
be it sexuality or physical strength or wit or the ability
to band together to fight a common enemy—the tool of
Sisterhood—and about how that still isn't enough.”[92]
6.2 Box office
Sucker Punch grossed $19,058,199 in its first weekend, an
opening that placed it second behind Diary of a Wimpy
Kid: Rodrick Rules.[93] It also opened in 23 markets that
weekend, standing at sixth in the overseas box office with
$6.5 million.[94] The following weekend, it dropped to
seventh place in North America with $6 million,[95] but
fared better overseas, where an expansion to 16 more
countries led to a $11.5 million gross which topped the international ranking.[96] Sucker Punch eventually grossed
$36,392,502 domestically and $53,400,000 abroad, leading to a worldwide total of $89,792,502, not making back
its $82 million production budget, as studios on average
get 55% of the gross.[2]
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6.3
7
Awards and nominations
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• Sucker Punch at Metacritic
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Sucker Punch is a 2011 American fantasy action film[3]
directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by him and Steve
Shibuya. It is Snyder’s first film based on an original
concept.[4][5] The film stars Emily Browning,[6] Abbie
Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung
and Carla Gugino. The storyline follows the fantasies of
a young woman who is committed to a mental institution,
as she makes a plan to escape the hospital before undergoing a lobotomy.
pressed Blue and other onlookers.
Babydoll convinces the four girls to join her in preparing
an escape. She plans to use her dances as a distraction
while the other girls obtain the necessary tools. During
her dances, she imagines fantastic adventures that mirror
the escape efforts. These adventures include infiltrating
a bunker protected by steampunk-inspired World War I
German soldiers to gain a map (mirrored by Sweet Pea
copying a map of the brothel/institution from Blue’s ofThe film was released in both conventional and IMAX fice); storming an Orc-infested castle to retrieve two firetheatres in the United States at midnight on March 25, producing crystals from inside a baby dragon (mirrored
2011.[7] The film was negatively received by critics and by Amber stealing a lighter from the mayor’s pocket);
under-performed at the box office.[8]
and boarding a train and fighting robotic guards to disarm
a bomb (mirrored by Sweet Pea stealing a kitchen knife
from the Cook’s belt). During the last fantasy, Rocket
sacrifices herself to save Sweet Pea and is killed when the
1 Plot
bomb detonates, which is paralleled by the Cook fatally
stabbing Rocket while she tries to protect her sister.
In the 1960s,[9] a young woman[9] nicknamed Babydoll
(Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her abusive wid- Blue overhears Blondie relaying Babydoll’s plan to
owed stepfather (Gerard Plunkett) at the Lennox House Gorski, confirming his suspicions that something is
for the Mentally Insane after she is blamed for the death amiss. He has Sweet Pea locked in a utility closet and
of her younger sister. The stepfather bribes Blue Jones confronts the other girls backstage. He shoots Amber and
(Oscar Isaac), an asylum orderly, into forging the signa- Blondie and attempts to rape Babydoll, but she stabs him
ture of the asylum’s psychiatrist, Dr. Vera Gorski (Carla with the kitchen knife and steals his master key. Babydoll
Gugino), to have Babydoll lobotomized so she cannot in- frees Sweet Pea and starts a fire to keep the orderlies ocform the authorities of the true circumstances leading to cupied while they look for an exit. They escape into the
her sister’s death. During her admission to the institution, courtyard, where they find a throng of men blocking their
Babydoll takes note of four items that she would need to way. Babydoll deduces that the fifth item needed for the
escape is in fact her own sacrifice. Despite Sweet Pea’s
attempt an escape.
protests, she insists on revealing herself to the visitors,
Babydoll slips into a fantasy world in which she is newly thus distracting them long enough to allow her friend to
arrived in a brothel owned by Blue, whom she envisions slip away unnoticed.
as a mobster, where she and the other patients are sex
slaves. She befriends four other dancers – Amber (Jamie Back in the asylum, the surgeon has just performed BabyChung), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), Rocket (Jena Mal- doll’s lobotomy. The surgeon is baffled by Babydoll’s exone), and Rocket’s sister and “star of the show”, Sweet pression, and asks Gorski why she authorized the proPea (Abbie Cornish). Dr. Gorski is envisioned as the cedure. Gorski realizes that Blue has forged her signagirls’ dance instructor. Blue informs Babydoll that her ture and summons the police, who apprehend Blue as
virginity will be sold to a client known as the High Roller he attempts to sexually assault a lobotomized Babydoll.
(Jon Hamm), who is actually the doctor scheduled to While being led away, Blue also incriminates the stepfaperform the lobotomy. Gorski encourages Babydoll to ther. Babydoll is shown smiling serenely, having apparperform an erotic dance, during which Babydoll further ently found freedom within her own inner “Paradise”. It
fantasizes she is in feudal Japan, meeting the Wise Man is revealed her dream is actually a fantasy flashback par(Scott Glenn). After she expresses her desire to “escape”, alleling events that really happened in the hospital.
the Wise Man presents Babydoll with weapons and tells At a bus station, Sweet Pea is stopped by police as she
her that she would need to collect five items: a map, fire, tries to get on a bus to Fort Wayne, but she is rescued by
a knife, a key, and a fifth, unrevealed item that would re- the bus driver (the Wise Man), who misleads the police
quire “a deep sacrifice” but bring a “perfect victory”. She and allows her to board.
then fights three samurai giants. As her fantasy ends, she
During the end credits, Dr. Gorski and Blue perform
finds herself back in the brothel, her dance having im1
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PRODUCTION
"Love Is the Drug" in a glitzy musical sequence that in- The art was designed by Alex Pardee of Snafu Comics,[20]
cludes all five female leads.
with title art work by Los Angeles graffiti artist Galo Canote. Pre-production began in June 2009 in Canada. Snyder had also added that he enjoyed the freedom of filming
his own original script.[21] Photographer Clay Enos was
2 Cast
hired to take still pictures on set and to take portraits of
the main actors.[22]
• Emily Browning as Babydoll
• Abbie Cornish as Sweet Pea
• Jena Malone as Rocket
3.2 Casting
• Vanessa Hudgens as Blondie
• Jamie Chung as Amber
• Carla Gugino as Madame Vera Gorski / Dr. Vera
Gorski
• Oscar Isaac as Blue Jones
• Jon Hamm as The Doctor / The High Roller
• Scott Glenn as The Wise Man / The General / The
Bus Driver
• Gerard Plunkett as The Stepfather / Priest
• Patrick Sabongui as Earl
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3.1
Production
Development
Cast of Sucker Punch at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International
Before casting started in March 2009,[23] Snyder revealed
his ideal cast for the feature film.[24] He chose to go with
an all-female cast in this film saying that “I already did
the all-male cast with 300, so I'm doing the opposite end
of the spectrum.”[25][26][27]
Snyder had tapped Amanda Seyfried first for the lead role,
Babydoll.[23] When asked if Seyfried was up for the role,
Snyder said, “We'll see. We're trying to, so ... She’s
great. It would be great if it worked out”.[28][29][30] Snyder had also offered roles to Abbie Cornish, Evan Rachel
Wood, Emma Stone, and Vanessa Hudgens.[31] However,
Seyfried turned it down due to a conflict in schedule with
her HBO series Big Love.[32] Browning agreed to replace
Seyfried in the role. During the confirmation of her involvement, Hudgens, Wood, Cornish, and Stone were all
Warner Bros. announced in early 2009 that they would still in talks.[33]
distribute Sucker Punch due to the success of Snyder’s Wood dropped out of the project due to scheduling
previous film, Watchmen.[13][16][17] “They've never said, conflicts with her recurring role in HBO’s True Blood
'Ahh, it could have been shorter', or, 'Too bad it’s so R- and her stage production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the
ish.' And that’s really cool. I'm challenging them again Dark.[34] She was later replaced by Malone for the role
with Sucker Punch.”[13][16][17] In early interviews, Snyder of “Rocket”.[35] Chung was signed up to play “Amber";
stated that he would make Sucker Punch an R-rated film, Emma Stone had been offered the part but declined due
but a later interview stated that he was aiming for it to be schedule conflict with her film Easy A.[36][37] Freida Pinto
rated PG-13.[18] In its theatrical release, the movie was ul- was also considered for the role of “Amber” before it
timately rated PG-13. Snyder cut many crucial scenes be- went to Jamie Chung. Gugino, who was cast as “Madam
fore the film’s release in order to satisfy the MPAA's cen- Gorski”, a psychiatrist in the asylum, previously worked
sors, but claimed that the home media release of the film with Snyder on Watchmen.[38] Hamm was confirmed in
will be a director’s cut and closer to his original vision.[19] late August 2009 to play “The High Roller”. Isaac was
Sucker Punch is described by Snyder as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”. The film first gained attention
in March 2007. Snyder put the project aside to work on
Watchmen first.[11][12] The film was co-written with Steve
Shibuya, who authored the original script on which the
story is based.[13][14] Snyder directed and produced with
his wife and producing partner, Deborah Snyder, through
their Cruel and Unusual Films banner. Wesley Coller
served as executive producer.[15]
When Snyder was in San Diego hosting a Blu-ray live also tapped at around the same time.[39][40][41] Snyder
screening of Watchmen for Comic-Con, he handed out T- confirmed that Glenn agreed to be involved in the project,
shirts for Sucker Punch featuring the first art for the film. portraying “The Wise Man”.[42]
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3.3
Title
Training
Prior to filming, the cast had twelve weeks of training
and fight evaluations, beginning in June 2009 in Los Angeles and continuing through filming. The leads in the
film were taught to deadlift up to 250 pounds (110 kg)
for their roles. Damon Caro, the stunt coordinator and
fight choreographer from 300 and Watchmen, Snyder’s
previous films, was hired for the action design,stunt training and fight choreography for the movie.[43][44] The other
cast members started training without Hudgens while she
was involved with other projects, including Beastly.[45]
Abbie Cornish said that the rest of the cast were training
six hours a day, five days a week in martial arts, swords
and empty hand choreography.[46] Snyder said 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.”[47] Snyder remarks that in the girls’ imaginations “they can do anything”.[48]
3.4
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3
approach everything, and then keep pushing it
from there.[54]
Rick Carter served as production designer[55] 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.[56]
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.[46] Warner Bros.
announced earlier that Sucker Punch would be released
in 3D format.[57] Snyder describes the conversion into
3D as a completely different process.[58] However, it was
later announced that the film would not be presented in
3D. Snyder filmed a “Maximum Movie Mode” interactive Blu-ray commentary for the film’s home media
release.[59]
Snyder wanted to design the film 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.”[60] Snyder also noted the influence of Asian iconography, particularly Japanese elements such as samurai, anime, and mecha.[61]
Pre-production began in Los Angeles in June 2009 then
moved to Vancouver in July. Principal photography be- 3.5 Title
gan in September 2009 in Vancouver, and concluded
in January 2010. With an $82 million budget,[49] post- The title Sucker Punch is not explained in the film. Snyder
[62]
production began in September 2009 and was expected to has said that there are two meanings:
[6][50]
last until January 2010 in Vancouver and Toronto.
Originally, production would have started in June 2009,
There’s a mechanism in the movie that
but it was postponed.[51] Production concluded on Jansneaks up on you. We sort of plant the seed
uary 22, 2010.[52] Snyder confirmed that prior to the set
of this thing, and then at the end of the movie
production date, he already shot some fantasy sequences
it kind of comes back around. I think that in
for Sucker Punch.[21] Snyder said the film is a “stylized
some ways, that’s what the sucker punch is.
motion picture about action and sort of landscapes of the
But also you, the audience, have like a preconimagination and things of that nature”. Snyder had also
ceived idea when you look at Babydoll. You
been decided on the film’s title for some time, stating it
think she’s innocent and sweet, that she’s capais a pop-culture reference. “It’s about hopefully what the
ble of only a certain amount of things. But I
movie feels like when you watch it, more than a specific
think that’s a mistake. So that has something
'Oh, it’s a story of this person.' It’s all stylized.”[53]
to do with the title, too.
The film includes an imaginary brothel that the five girls
enter in the alternate reality, where singing and dancing Andrew O'Hehir, writing in Salon, sees the film’s title as
take place. The fantasy sequences include dragons, aliens, its essential theme:[63]
and a World War I battle. Snyder expressed his interest
in the film’s content:
If you want to understand Snyder’s central narrative gambit, it’s right there in the tiOn the other hand, though it’s fetishistic
tle. He gives us what we want (or what we
and personal, I like to think that my fetishes
think we want, or what he thinks we think we
aren't that obscure. Who doesn't want to see
want): Absurdly fetishized women in teeny litgirls running down the trenches of World War
tle skirts, gloriously repetitious fight sequences
One wreaking havoc? I'd always had an interloaded with plot coupons, pseudo-feminist fanest in those worlds – comic books, fantasy art,
tasies of escape and revenge. Then he yanks it
animated films. I'd like to see this, that’s how I
all back and stabs us through the eyeball.
4
6 RELEASE
Snyder has stated one interpretation of the film is that it of classic songs”) of tracks by Alison Mosshart, Björk,
is a critique on geek culture's sexism and objectification Queen, and performances from stars Emily Browning,
of women.[19]
Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac. The album was praised
by music and film critics, as were Browning’s vocals.
4
Music and dance
Main article: Sucker Punch (soundtrack)
“The exploration of how these songs could be used to tell
the story and comment on the action has been one of the
more unusual and satisfactory parts of this process.”
Marius de Vries[64]
Music plays an integral role in the film. “In the story,
music is the thing that launches them into these fantasy
worlds”, Snyder explains.[25] Composer Tyler Bates said
that the songs “function as the subconscious mind of Baby
Doll and her journey”, and musical producer Marius de
Vries considered “an important task of the songs to signplace which particular world you are inhabiting at a particular moment”.[64] 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.[13] Dance choreography was spearheaded by Paul
Becker.[65] Emily Browning did the vocals for the songs
“Sweet Dreams”, “Asleep” and “Where Is My Mind” that
are played during the movie.[66] Carla Gugino had to take
singing lessons for her scenes as a choreographer madam
in the brothel.[67] The brothel scenario has “sexy” songs,
as Jamie Chung described, and dance fantasy scenes.[68]
Due to time constraints, Snyder was forced to cut most of
the dance sequences for the theatrical release 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.[19]
5 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 July 27 on
Apple Trailers. The second official trailer was released on
November 3 and was attached to Due Date, Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and Black Swan.[58] On
February 15, Titan Books released the official “Art of the
Film” book full of pictures, to mark the film’s release in
the following month.
The film received a PG-13 rating. To avoid an R rating,
a sex 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]
In the United Kingdom, the film received a 12A certificate for “moderate violence, threat, language and sexual
references”. The film was passed with no additional cuts
required.[1] The extended director’s cut was given a 12.
6 Release
6.1 Critical reception
In September 2009, Chung reported that they had begun Sucker Punch was negatively reviewed by film critics.
recording tracks for Sucker Punch.[69] Oscar Isaac said
Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reports that
the songs used in the film are not original, but are new 23% of 202 critics have given Sucker Punch positive rearrangements of existing music.[70]
views, giving it an average rating of 4.1/10; the consenTyler Bates (who composed all of Snyder’s previous live- sus states: “It’s technically impressive and loaded with
action films) and Marius de Vries (who composed the eye-catching images, but without characters or a plot
score for the film Moulin Rouge!) co-wrote the film to support them, all of Sucker Punch 's visual thrills
score. The official trailers contain samples from the songs are for naught.”[73] The film holds a 33 out of 100 on
“Prologue” by Immediate Music, “Crablouse” by Lords Metacritic, signifying “generally unfavorable” reviews
of Acid, "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin, among 29 critics.[74]
"Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles, “And Your Although Snyder had claimed that he wanted the film to
World Will Burn” by Cliff Lin, "Panic Switch" by the “be a cool story and not just like a video game where
Silversun Pickups, and “Illusion of Love” (Fred Falke you're just loose and going nuts”,[60] some critics comremix) by Uffie.
pared the film unfavorably to a video game in their reSucker Punch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on March 22, 2011[71] by WaterTower Music. It
contained nine tracks, all covers, remixes, and mash-ups
(as the label website says, “wildly re-imagined versions
views. 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
6.2
Box office
stars calling it “an unerotic unthrilling erotic thriller in
the video game mold”.[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] Reviewing it for The Sydney Morning
Herald, Giles Hardie called the film “incredibly ambitious”, and explained that while “traditional depths of
character development and motivation are sidelined, [...]
this is intentional, allowing the audience to immerse in
the layers of dreams and later piece together what actually happened”.[78]
British film critic Mark Kermode described the film
as “the most boring, ploddingly put together, infantile,
crass, adolescent, stupid, chauvinistic twaddle that I've sat
through in a very, very long time.”[79]
Legendary Pictures reportedly attributed the movie’s failure to become a box office hit due to movie audience not
accepting a female action hero.[80]
6.1.1
Depiction of women
Sucker Punch also drew criticism for its depiction of
women. Several critics described the film as misogynistic
and others expressed concern over its treatment of sexual violence.[81] Monika Bartyzel of Moviefone writes:
“The women of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch are not empowered. Though they are given vicious snarls, swords
and guns, the leading ladies of Snyder’s latest are nothing
more than cinematic figures of enslavement given only the
most minimal fight. Their rebellion is one of imaginative whimsy in a heavily misogynistic world that is barely
questioned or truly challenged.”[82] Michael Phillips of
The Chicago Tribune stated that “Zack Snyder must have
known in preproduction that his greasy collection of nearrape fantasies and violent revenge scenarios disguised as
a female-empowerment fairy tale wasn't going to satisfy
anyone but himself.”[83] 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.”[84] 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
and believes the target audience as a whole is in favour
of it.[85] Peter Debruge of Variety argued 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.”[86]
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However, Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times suggested 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.”[87] In a retrospective article about the critical reception of Sucker Punch, James MacDowell questioned the alleged misogyny of the film, arguing that it
does not in fact aim to offer female empowerment, but
is instead “a deeply pessimistic analysis of female oppression”, because it makes clear that, “just as men organize the dances, so do they control the terms of the
fight scenes; in neither do the women have true agency,
only an illusion of it.”[88][89] Writing in a separate piece
for The A.V. Club months after giving the film a “C-"
grade, Nathan Rabin concluded, “Depending on whom
you ask, Snyder set out to make either the ultimate sexist masturbatory fanboy fantasy or the ultimate critique
of sexist masturbatory fanboy fantasies. He failed spectacularly on both counts, but in true Fiasco form, there’s
something fascinating and even strangely majestic about
that failure.”[90] Scott Mendelsohn of The Huffington Post
called the film a “bitterly sad and angrily feminist miniepic”, and said that while it presents scenes of “matterof-fact lechery from men towards women that is an accepted norm in our society, both then and now”, it “earns
kudos for daring to actually be about something relevant
and interesting. It is actually very much about the sexualization of women in popular culture, rather than just
using those tools to make pointless exploitation fare.”[91]
Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict posited that Sucker
Punch uses the “prism of popular culture to say something about the roles that women find themselves forced
into—and not just in the fantasies of geeks and fanboys”.
Bromley further judged that the film is “about fighting
a losing battle. About using every tool at your disposal,
be it sexuality or physical strength or wit or the ability
to band together to fight a common enemy—the tool of
Sisterhood—and about how that still isn't enough.”[92]
6.2 Box office
Sucker Punch grossed $19,058,199 in its first weekend, an
opening that placed it second behind Diary of a Wimpy
Kid: Rodrick Rules.[93] It also opened in 23 markets that
weekend, standing at sixth in the overseas box office with
$6.5 million.[94] The following weekend, it dropped to
seventh place in North America with $6 million,[95] but
fared better overseas, where an expansion to 16 more
countries led to a $11.5 million gross which topped the international ranking.[96] Sucker Punch eventually grossed
$36,392,502 domestically and $53,400,000 abroad, leading to a worldwide total of $89,792,502, not making back
its $82 million production budget, as studios on average
get 55% of the gross.[2]
6
6.3
7
Awards and nominations
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• Official website
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• Sucker Punch at Box Office Mojo
• Sucker Punch at Rotten Tomatoes
• Sucker Punch at Metacritic
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