I was not playing when I said 'SUCKERPUNCH 4EVER'.
I want to take a minute to examine the Suckerpunch posters.
Here's one that I saw on the train platform today:
What do you see here? Or rather, what DON'T you see?
Closer:
No T. No A. Seriously, look at this poster. Look at their chests, their faces. Both are fully or partially blocked. And look at the 'skimpy' outfits. The most you see are stomachs, and Babydoll's (the blonde in the front) isn't even straight on. It's to the side, in the middle of an action.
Do you see any men? There were definitely dudes in this movie. In the background are the silhouettes of some of their enemies, but technically they weren't human (or even living).
Here are the other ads featuring women on the same platform:
One woman. Sexy pose. No T&A, but def suggestive. No action.
Also: lol graffiti. Sorry, Edie Falco! You deserve better.
Jackie O. One woman. No action. Not suggestive, per se, but look at her eyes, and then look at the eyes of the girls in the SPunch poster. Their eyes are looking up and away from you; Jackie's are looking at you.
This one was my favourite. Look, more than one woman! Oh... except, one of the women is in a tight embrace with a dude, and the other is... naked. And you can't really see her face.
Ok! 5 women, no men. 4 women with their back to the viewer, asses in full view, faces in total shadow. Then we have the woman's face above, doing the sexy Lolita glasses move with her face partially obscured, and her lips redredred with a slight smile.
First, let me sidebar and openly wonder why they didn't write 'STORIbook WedDEANS'. I mean... cmon.
Second, one woman, with a man. No action (on either of their parts), and this has been clearly photoshopped. Tiny waist, chest visible, legs in front in her short skirt. Also, this dress is not much different than the outfits the girls wear in SPunch. Does this count as skimpy?
Three woman! One man! Now we're cooking with feminism! This is a better poster than the others, for sure. The catch is that this movie is kind of trainwreck for women. Mirren (on the far left)- who is a motherfucking GODDESS btw and should be playing second fiddle to Russell Brand, of all fucking people- plays, and i am not making this up, Brand's NANNY who takes care of him and placates his whims and wants him to marry his OTL. Garner (on the far right), plays the 'harpy'- she's some super rich woman who openly tells him their marriage is for business only, and forces him to do shit he doesnt want to do. At some point in the trailer, she chases him around in dominatrix gear and gets STUCK BY MAGNETS TO HIS BED, which causes him to quip at her, instead of offer help.
BECAUSE GOD FORBID WOMEN ARE ACTIVE DURING SEX.
Sorry, raged out there for a second. But yeah. The woman in the middle plays his OTL, a manic pixie dream girl who is, you know, poor but quirky. Or whatever is the nerdboner standard nowadays.
This won't pass the Bechdel test.
And finally... one woman. Who has been murdered. Staring vacantly at you with her dead eyes.
Suckerpunch 4ever, right guys?
The other thing about the poster is that that's not controlled by the director, or even the producers. Marketing is totally a studio thing. So either somehow, Snyder & his crew got their hands on this and made it right, or the studio did it this way on purpose.
Or maybe I'm just crazy.
Regardless, I think my reading is obvious. I am willing to concede to others' feelings about SPunch, at least as far as to say that everyone views art differently, so what can one do, but on this poster, I think it's just facts to say that it's feminist.
Anyone else seeing it differently?
Here's one that I saw on the train platform today:
What do you see here? Or rather, what DON'T you see?
Closer:
No T. No A. Seriously, look at this poster. Look at their chests, their faces. Both are fully or partially blocked. And look at the 'skimpy' outfits. The most you see are stomachs, and Babydoll's (the blonde in the front) isn't even straight on. It's to the side, in the middle of an action.
Do you see any men? There were definitely dudes in this movie. In the background are the silhouettes of some of their enemies, but technically they weren't human (or even living).
Here are the other ads featuring women on the same platform:
One woman. Sexy pose. No T&A, but def suggestive. No action.
Also: lol graffiti. Sorry, Edie Falco! You deserve better.
Jackie O. One woman. No action. Not suggestive, per se, but look at her eyes, and then look at the eyes of the girls in the SPunch poster. Their eyes are looking up and away from you; Jackie's are looking at you.
This one was my favourite. Look, more than one woman! Oh... except, one of the women is in a tight embrace with a dude, and the other is... naked. And you can't really see her face.
Ok! 5 women, no men. 4 women with their back to the viewer, asses in full view, faces in total shadow. Then we have the woman's face above, doing the sexy Lolita glasses move with her face partially obscured, and her lips redredred with a slight smile.
First, let me sidebar and openly wonder why they didn't write 'STORIbook WedDEANS'. I mean... cmon.
Second, one woman, with a man. No action (on either of their parts), and this has been clearly photoshopped. Tiny waist, chest visible, legs in front in her short skirt. Also, this dress is not much different than the outfits the girls wear in SPunch. Does this count as skimpy?
Three woman! One man! Now we're cooking with feminism! This is a better poster than the others, for sure. The catch is that this movie is kind of trainwreck for women. Mirren (on the far left)- who is a motherfucking GODDESS btw and should be playing second fiddle to Russell Brand, of all fucking people- plays, and i am not making this up, Brand's NANNY who takes care of him and placates his whims and wants him to marry his OTL. Garner (on the far right), plays the 'harpy'- she's some super rich woman who openly tells him their marriage is for business only, and forces him to do shit he doesnt want to do. At some point in the trailer, she chases him around in dominatrix gear and gets STUCK BY MAGNETS TO HIS BED, which causes him to quip at her, instead of offer help.
BECAUSE GOD FORBID WOMEN ARE ACTIVE DURING SEX.
Sorry, raged out there for a second. But yeah. The woman in the middle plays his OTL, a manic pixie dream girl who is, you know, poor but quirky. Or whatever is the nerdboner standard nowadays.
This won't pass the Bechdel test.
And finally... one woman. Who has been murdered. Staring vacantly at you with her dead eyes.
Suckerpunch 4ever, right guys?
The other thing about the poster is that that's not controlled by the director, or even the producers. Marketing is totally a studio thing. So either somehow, Snyder & his crew got their hands on this and made it right, or the studio did it this way on purpose.
Or maybe I'm just crazy.
Regardless, I think my reading is obvious. I am willing to concede to others' feelings about SPunch, at least as far as to say that everyone views art differently, so what can one do, but on this poster, I think it's just facts to say that it's feminist.
Anyone else seeing it differently?