Having witnessed the kinetic blastathons that were 300 and Watchmen, you could be forgiven for thinking that Zack Snyder is not a director who reins himself in very often. However, the germ of the idea for Sucker Punch apparently came about because Snyder was tired of doing just that.
“A while ago I had written a script for myself,” Snyder told SlashFilm back in 2007, “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?’”
The answer to that question is apparently to operate in the world of fantasy. Whilst 300 and Watchmen were both deliriously OTT, they were both grounded to some extent (although 300 takes some pretty spectacular detours) in the real world. However, Sucker Punch will spend much of its run-time in the imagination of its protagonists, allowing Snyder to really crank the mayhem up to eleven.
“I’ve tried to just make good looking shots all the time,” Snyder told Movies Online. “It's not just in the action sequences. Movies are visual, and (the visuals) influence the movie all the way across. In every aspect of the film, I think we did something that was striking, and that's kind of how I want the experience of watching a movie.”
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Hadouken76
Mar 4th 2011, 9:46
All i know is you've had that picture of Emily Browning at the bottom of your homepage for ages and its very distracting!
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QuietLife
Mar 4th 2011, 10:36
@Hadouken76 Tell me about it! Since the publicity for Sucker Punch started up my work rate has dropped by about 70%! Not that I'm complaining TF! Keep it up!
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writerdave87
Mar 6th 2011, 13:12
Are you kidding? If you're surprised a film set in a brothel starring a bunch of teenage actresses who've been in bondage gear and schoolgirl outfits in almost every trailer/image released is going to be raunchy... I think the dancing scenes actually seem like quite a cool idea depending on how they're executed.
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Agent69
Mar 6th 2011, 15:36
It looks retarded.
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writerdave87
Mar 6th 2011, 23:33
Well it's got nothing to do with if you're gay or not, I just thought the sexualisation of the characters was pretty obvious from the get go. I don't want to see it just for Emily Browning in a schoolgirl outfit lol but that was always going to be an element to the movie.
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QuietLife
Mar 7th 2011, 12:13
@writerdave87: "I don't want to see it just for Emily Browning in a schoolgirl outfit..." I do! Hehe. ;) But seriously, this guy did Watchmen which I adored so there. If you don't want to see it, don't.
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Hadouken76
Mar 7th 2011, 19:23
You guys have been watching too much bubblegum anime lol
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QuietLife
Mar 8th 2011, 15:59
Dude, you're my new best friend. Great find!
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