SUCKER PUNCH character banners have fascinating backgrounds

SUCKER PUNCH character banners have fascinating backgrounds

Jul 23

Men love watching women dress up and prance around for their titillation. Americans love weapons and violence. Combining both of these together, Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch is almost guaranteed to be a huge financial hit.

Despite recklessly harming the cause of feminism, what is Sucker Punch really about? Slashfilm (in addition to providing these images) has helpfully summarised the plot thus:

The film stars Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Emily Browning, Scott Glenn, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung. The film follows Emily Browning’s character, Babydoll, who is confined to a mental institution from which she fantasizes an alternate reality. Browning and the other girls seen here are all wards of the institution … Snyder has said many times that the film will be a dark, violent fantasty full of guns, action and monsters.

A mental institution, you say? Good, good, I remember how much fun I had with Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis in one of those in 12 Monkeys. The backgrounds on the banners (look past the women, if you can) are all different and potentially exciting: there’s Far East architecture, some Lord Of The Rings-looking thing, Nazi-era Europe, the future, and what looks suspiciously like the surface of Mars / [insert fictional planet name here]. This sets the scene for some era-hopping, genre-bending episodic storytelling, and could potentially be rather interesting.

One thing that bugs me, though, is why a female mental patient would fantasise an alternate reality full of heavily-armed, scantily-clad women. And giant robots. And outer space. Seems a little more like a teenaged male fantasy to me.

Zack Snyder aims to punch your sucker on 25 March 2011, in the States; we’ll probably get it within a month or so of that.