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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
Oscar Isaac
Carla Gugino
Jon Hamm
Scott Glenn
CinematographyLarry Fong
Edited byWilliam Hoy
Music byTyler Bates
Marius de Vries
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • March 25, 2011 (2011-03-25)
Running time
126 minutes
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish
Budget$82 million
Box office$8,085,000 (estimate)[1]

Sucker Punch is a 2011 American action-fantasy film written by Steve Shibuya and Zack Snyder, and directed by Snyder.[2][3] Sucker Punch features an ensemble female cast[4] comprising Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung. The film follows a young woman in the 1960s about to be lobotomized as she attempts to escape an asylum with her inmate friends.

Development began in March 2007. The script, which was penned by Snyder and Shibuya, was finalized in five months and was actually planned to be made first before Watchmen. For Sucker Punch, Snyder gathered most of the Vancouver-based production team who worked on Watchmen.[5] 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.

Sucker Punch was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres at midnight on March 25, 2011.[6] It was previously announced that the film would be released October 8, 2010.[7] Snyder is currently mapping out the Blu-ray interactivity for the film in preparation for the film's home media release.[8]

Plot

In 1955, a 20-year-old girl nicknamed “Baby Doll” (Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her stepfather at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane after accidentally shooting her sister while trying to prevent him from molesting them. Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), one of the asylum’s orderlies, is bribed by Baby Doll’s stepfather into faking the signature of the main therapist, Dr. Vera Gorski (Carla Gugino) and having Baby Doll lobotomized before she can either inform the authorities of what really happened the night her sister died or reclaim her recently deceased mother’s fortune, which her stepfather wants.

In the five days that it will take for the Doctor (Jon Hamm) to arrive, Baby Doll is encouraged by Mrs. Gorski to retreat to a fantasy world inside her mind in order to cope with the harsh reality that she’s living in. In this world, Baby Doll is a newly arrived dancer at a brothel owned by the mob. Baby Doll’s virginity will be sold to a client known as “The High Roller”, who will be arriving in five days. While at the brothel, Baby Doll befriends several of the dancers: the loyal Amber (Jamie Chung), the street-smart Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), the outspoken Rocket (Jena Malone) and her reluctant older sister Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish). Meanwhile, the brothel's dance trainer, Madam Gorski, tells Baby Doll to dance for the rest of the girls in order to prepare her for the High Roller. As Baby Doll hesitates, Gorski whispers to her, "You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!"

As she begins to dance, Baby Doll’s mind travels to another fantasy world, in Feudal Japan, where she meets the mysterious 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 item - "a mystery" that will require "great sacrifice". She is then given a sword and a gun by the Wise Man and told to fight three gigantic demon samurai that guard the temple where the Wise Man lives. Baby Doll wins and returns to the brothel, where she discovers that she has mesmerized everyone – including Blue – with her dance.

The first item, a map, is kept on the wall of Blue's office. After reluctantly agreeing to Baby Doll's plan for freedom, Sweet Pea agrees to get a copy of the map. She interrupts Blue at dinner, telling him that Baby Doll is dancing. He leaves, and she sneaks into the office. When Baby Doll begins to dance, she again travels to a fantasy world, this time battle scarred trenches of World War I. The General (Scott Glenn) gives the girls their mission, steal the map from the German Commander before it is handed off to the courier. They assault the German position, filled with clockwork Steampunk soldiers, and manage to retrieve the map. Back in the brothel, Blue convinces Mrs. Gorski to let Baby Doll dance for the Mayor the next night, to raise funds for the brothel. Sweet Pea successfully copies the map, but Blue finds evidence of her presence in his office.

The girls then have to steal a lighter from the Mayor. Baby Doll does her dance for him while Amber, his favorite girl, gives him a lap dance and steals the lighter from his pocket. This time, Baby Doll’s mind travels to a fantasy world where she and her friends must invade a castle filled with Orcs that are battling knights and steal two crystals lodged in the throat of a baby dragon. They succeed, but accidentally awaken the mother dragon in the process and fight it in the skies aboard a bomber plane piloted by Amber. They manage to lure the dragon into a trap and Baby Doll kills it. Back at the brothel, Amber successfully steals the lighter.

Blue realizes things are missing and that they are planning something. In order to prove that any attempts to defy him will only lead to problems, he openly threatens the girls. Blondie starts having second thoughts about the plan and tells Mrs. Gorski everything, but Blue is nearby and discovers the truth.

The girls’ next mission is to have Baby Doll distract the brothel’s cook while Sweet Pea steals his butcher knife. Baby Doll’s mind travels to the distant future, where the girls’ mission is to enter a train filled with robots and disarm a bomb therein, the “Kitchen Knife”, before it explodes and destroys a futuristic city. However, at the brothel, water spills across a short in the radio's power cord that is producing the music that Baby Doll is dancing to, causing the music to stutter and fade out. Without it, the cook snaps out of his trance and realizes Sweet Pea is stealing from him. At the distant future, the girls are ambushed by a robot that reactivates the bomb and damages Rocket's jetpack. Rocket sacrifices herself to allow the others to escape and dies when the bomb detonates and destroys the entire city. At the brothel, the cook accidentally stabs Rocket (who jumped in the way to protect Sweet Pea) and kills her.

Blue bursts in and, realizing what has happened, he locks Sweet Pea in a utility closet while sending Amber off to get ready for the girl's show and threatens Baby Doll. Before the girls go on stage, Blue confronts Amber, Baby Doll, and Blondie in front of everyone and kills Blondie and Amber in retaliation for the girl's botched escape attempt (Amber for helping Baby Doll, and Blondie for "being a snitch"). After hitting Mrs. Gorski and kicking everyone out of the dressing rooms, he tries to rape Baby Doll, but she stabs him with the knife (stolen from the kitchen) and escapes with Blue’s master key. She releases Sweet Pea with it and uses the lighter to start a fire. The alarm goes off and the doors unlock, allowing them to escape. However, the gate that leads to their freedom is surrounded by Blue’s men. Baby Doll realizes that the final item is her, and that this isn’t her story, but Sweet Pea’s. She then exposes herself, distracting Blue’s men and allowing Sweet Pea to escape.

Back in the real world, Baby Doll is taken to the Doctor’s office, where she is lobotomized. Mrs. Gorski is there, and regrets not being able to help Baby Doll, who stabbed Blue and helped a fellow inmate escape the asylum. The Doctor asks her why she agreed with the lobotomy then. When Mrs. Gorski says she didn’t, they realize the truth and call the police. Meanwhile, Blue kidnaps Baby Doll and takes her to the solitary, where he intends to rape her in retaliation for being stabbed earlier. However, Mrs. Gorski and the Doctor burst in with the police and have him arrested. In hopes of reducing his sentence, Blue agrees to tell the cops everything about Baby Doll’s stepfather.

Meanwhile, an escaped Sweet Pea is seen preparing to board a bus. However, she is stopped by a pair of suspicious policemen. She is saved by the driver, who reveals himself to be the Wise Man and tells the policemen she has been on the bus the entire time, giving her an alibi. After they leave, Sweet Pea says she doesn’t have a ticket. The Wise Man says that this is no problem and they drive off into the distance.

Cast

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... It's as crazy as anything else that I have ever done. It's a movie that nobody can get made with the ending that it has and the subject matter."

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 is co-written with Steve Shibuya, who is the author of the original score that the story is based on.[21][22] Snyder will also direct and produce with his wife and producing partner, Deborah Snyder, through their Cruel and Unusual Films banner. Wesley Coller is executive producing.[23]

Warner Bros. announced in early 2009 that they will 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][26][27] In early interviews, Snyder stated that he will make Sucker Punch an R-rated film, but a later interview he then stated that he was aiming for it to be rated PG-13.[28] In its theatrical release, the movie was ultimately rated PG-13.

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.[29] Pre-production began in June 2009 in Canada. Snyder's pre-production work includes continuing to draw and look at concept art. Snyder also added that he enjoys the freedom of filming his own original script.[30] Photographer Clay Enos was hired to take still pictures on set and will also take portraits of the main girls.[31]

Casting

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

Before casting started in March 2009,[32] Snyder revealed his ideal cast for the feature film.[33] Snyder 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.[34][35][36]

Snyder had tapped Amanda Seyfried first for the lead role, "Baby Doll."[32] "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.[37][38][39] Snyder had also offered roles to Abbie Cornish, Evan Rachel Wood, Emma Stone, and Vanessa Hudgens.[40] Despite Snyder's aim to have her play the role of "Baby Doll", the actress turned it down due to conflicting schedules between the film and her HBO series Big Love.[41] 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.[9]

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.[42] She was later replaced by Malone for the role of "Rocket".[43] Chung signed up for the role of "Amber" which Stone was supposedly tapped to portray.[11][13] Gugino, who was cast as "Madam Gorski", a nurse in the asylum, previously worked with Snyder on Watchmen.[44] Hamm was confirmed in late August 2009 to be playing "High Roller." Isaac was also tapped at around the same time.[17][45][46]

Snyder confirmed that Glenn agreed to be involved in the project, portraying "The Wise Man".[16] Hudgens describes her role as the "tough one."[47][48] "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!'"[49] Each of the five girls has two characters—one is in the real world and the other one in the fever dreams.[50]

Training

Prior to filming, the cast had trainings and fight evaluations. Training lasted for 12 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.[50][51] The other cast members started training without Hudgens while she was filming other films, including Beastly.[52] Snyder tells 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."[53] In the characters' imaginations, Snyder remarks that "they can do anything."[54]

Abbie Cornish reveals 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.[10] Damon Caro, known for choreographing stunts from films like 300 and the Bourne film series, worked with Snyder again for Sucker Punch as he has previously worked on all of Snyder's past films.[55][56][57]

Production and design

With an $82 million budget,[58] production took place in September 2009 and was expected to last until January 2010 in Vancouver and Toronto.[4][59] Originally, production would have started on June 2009, but it was postponed.[60] Production concluded on January 22, 2010.[61] Snyder confirms that prior to the set production date, he already shot some fantasy sequences for Sucker Punch.[30] 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."[62]

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.[5] 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.[5]

Rick Carter is 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.[10] Warner Bros. announced earlier that Sucker Punch will be released in 3D format.[65] Zack Snyder describes the conversion into 3D as a completely different process.[66] However, it was recently announced that the film will not be presented in 3D.

Snyder wanted to design the movie to where there's no limits on him at all, considering that he had co-written the script and this is his first original film not based on any earlier references, and says it is the most difficult part. He adds that he still wants it to "be a cool story and not just like a video game where you’re just loose and going nuts."[67] Sucker Punch is into a mix of real and digital, with the night club built next door to the First World War trenches, a castle's partial facade — dragons to be added later — and the grim asylum hallways.[5]

Music

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Music will play an integral role in the movie. "In the story, music is the thing that launches them into these fantasy worlds", Snyder explains.[34] 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 will be used as it was in Moulin Rouge!, as Snyder says.[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.[14] The brothel scenario will have "sexy" songs, as Jamie Chung describes, and dance fantasy scenes.[68] As of September 2009, Chung remarked that they already began recording tracks for Sucker Punch.[56] Oscar Isaac reveals that the songs used in the film aren't going to be original but they are going to be new arrangements of existing music.[69]

On the official "Sucker Punch" website, it is stated that 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!) are scoring 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, "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[70] 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") by Alison Mosshart, Bjork, Queen and performances from stars Emily Browning, Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac.

Track listing

No.TitleArtistLength
1."Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"Eurythmics5:18
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 (band) featuring Armageddon aka Geddy5:07
5."Search and Destroy"Skunk Anansie4:24
6."Tomorrow Never Knows"Carla Azar & Alison Mosshart7:35
7."Where Is My Mind?"The Pixies3:36
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. And 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.'"[71]

Reception

Critical reaction

In the first days, Sucker Punch had divided opinions. Early reviews of the film have been mostly negative, with critics praising the film's visual effects but criticising its plot, clichéd dialogue, and character development. Rotten Tomatoes reports that only 19% of 103 critics have given the film positive reviews.[72] As of March 26, 2011, The film holds a 36 out of 100 on Metacritic, signifying "Generally Unfavorable" reviews among 23 critics.[73] 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."[74] Roger Moore of 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." [75] A.O. Scott of The New York Times stated that there is nothing in the movie to enjoy beyond the tiny satisfaction in noting the movie lives up to its name. [76]

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 he thinks we think we want)."[77] Betsy Sharkey from the Los Angeles Times also wrote a positive review describing the film as "a wonderfully wild provocation" and "an intemperate and utterly absorbing romp through the id" that she said she wouldn't have missed for the world. [78] Also Rene Rodriguez and Shawn Levy gave a positive reaction.

For the public reaction it is apparently good. At Rotten Tomatoes it has a 65% like percentage and a 6.7 users score at Metacritic. It has been also a commercial success.

Box Office

Sucker Punch made an estimated $8,085,000 on its first day.[79]

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