Boys who save ladies, and ladies that kick butt.

[secondlina]

 


I went to see "Kick-Ass" yesterday. It's good movie. Similar to Watchmen. It's also a violent, cynical deconstruction and criticism of superheroes. While "Watchmen" deconstructed the classic superhero,  "Kick-Ass" deconstructs the super heroic youth. You know, teenage and kid heroes like the Power Pack, the Young Avengers, the (original) X-men, Spiderman, etc. It's a good movie, but it's pretty gore. Basically, if you think Kill Bill and Watchmen are wastes of film, do not go see this movie. 

In the movie, I was amused by "Hit-Girl", who is a pretty bad-ass 11 year old "hitman", killing people by unloading epically various guns and swirling around a double-edged sword. She's pretty interesting as a character. And a bit saddening too - she's a kid raised to be a killer, glorified into a superhero by her father. It's odd, but interesting. I think she's the reason they decided to make other parts of the movie graphic. The directors probably figured they could get away with a lot of stuff. The horrified parents will focus on the swearing, slicing little girl.

This got me thinking about "Action girls" in general. 

Think of your favorite action girl. Did she ever get captured? They usually do...

-Isa

Comments

[gigabahamut666.livejournal.com]

I looooooved "Kick Ass".

I really liked the premise behind it of a world where people are fascinated by superheroes but no one has ever really gone out and tried. And the first 20 minutes show really good examples of why it would never happen. That makes it much like the world we live in today.

Nicholas Cage's character had me laughing so much, I loved how he was a mix of a really lethal killing machine but had the dialogue of Adam West's Batman down perfectly.

I had read that they couldn't get funding for the film from any studios because of the character "Hit-Girl" being so violent and in the end they managed to get the funding themselves.

As for my favourite action girl. Catwoman and Batgirl tops my list, and through the different media of TV series, animated series and comics, both have been captured, and pretty terrible things have happened to both as well (Batgirl paralysed and Catwoman had her heart removed).

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Those poor Batman girls! O_O

Yeah, the whole "little girl violence" issue made it so that nobody would fund them (hence the whole "let's do whatever we want, censors won't notice anything but the kid anyways"). Though, this kinda brings in Nicolas Cage in a pretty cool light : He's a giant comic fan and probably played in the movie for a salary much much much lower then what his current fame could get him. Then again, I heard he was also broke. Still a geek though.