Mar 23 2011

Sucker Punch: A Very Serious Essay on Feminism

posted in Movies, No Seriously, Picspam

This weekend, acclaimed director Zack Snyder (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole) will be releasing his latest film, Sucker Punch.

While plot details are purposely being kept under wraps, we know it’s about a quintet of institutionalized young women in the 1950s who turn to an imaginary land in order to empower themselves to escape. Also, dragons and mech and explosions and shit.

But this is more than just your usual thriller. In an action-movie landscape usually bereft of strong, intelligent heroines, Zack Snyder has introduced FIVE women, each more complicated than the last, and none of them afraid of mech or dragons or frostbite or anything, because it’s only in your own imagination that you’re truly free to wear your cheesecakiest outfits and conquer double standards and whatever else ladies are concerned about.

Under the cut, please find a very serious photo essay about the myriad feminist facets of this new masterpiece from director Zack Snyder, his cowriter Steve Shibuya, production designer Rick Carter, and costume designer Michael Wilkinson.

Rebuttal Essay: The Men of Sucker Punch

FEMINISM. You’re welcome, ladies.

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  • Fan of sci-fi and fantasy

    While I found  it was a good film, I hated the ending. Plus the idea that a 20 year old woman would create a brothel as their fantasy world. Seriously, a brothel! That's either a dude's imagination or she supposed to be seriously messed up.
    I know a brothel wouldn't be my fantasy world!

  • Sucker Punch seamed like one of the best movie ideas I could ever hope
    for when I heard/saw that there was everything from a girl with a
    samurai sword to robots involved, but then I heard about the whole
    mental asylum aspect, and abruptly came in my pants.

  • zac snyder (not really)

    Hey! this film totally passes the Bechdel Test! it has lots of ladies in it and they talk to each other about lingerie and unrealistic fight scenes, not just about men!

  • Natalie

    Right, because in my imagination, I'm all about the bustier, silk stockings, and high heels. Are you sure this isn't about a guy's imagination?

  • Silentboba

    Okay, reading the title of this post followed by the first two pictures, I didn't even need to read anything else to burst out laughing. Reading the text added to the humor, of course... but the pictorial essay was hilarious in context.

    Plus... seriously... 1950's Sailor Moon outfit with a katana?

  • DJ Hexadecibel

    Yes... seriously. ;)

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