I dreamt I was backstage, and Babydoll was dancing.
I was so excited at the fact that I could finally get to see her dance that had long eluded me in the movie. But then I realised, if she was dancing, I need to be stealing something from the audience members. And so I ran among the audience and did not get to see her dance.
I woke up realising that Sucker Punch was not as objectifying of women as we expect. The most objectifying moments, which would be when Babydoll dances seductively and made all the guys in the film go gaga, were cut out and replaced with shots of female empowerment instead. Girls with guns with cute keychains attached killing big male samurai.
So there is some sense in saying it was a calculated loss. By marketing the movie as objectifying women, then pandered to the comic book males who are probably the guys with some of the worst ideas of women. But when these guys came to watch the movie, all they got was sucker punched. No objectifying dance, just empowered samurai slaying women. So the movie took a step back to take two steps forward.
Cool.
But she's the coolest.
OoOoOoOo red hair!!!
I was so excited at the fact that I could finally get to see her dance that had long eluded me in the movie. But then I realised, if she was dancing, I need to be stealing something from the audience members. And so I ran among the audience and did not get to see her dance.
I woke up realising that Sucker Punch was not as objectifying of women as we expect. The most objectifying moments, which would be when Babydoll dances seductively and made all the guys in the film go gaga, were cut out and replaced with shots of female empowerment instead. Girls with guns with cute keychains attached killing big male samurai.
So there is some sense in saying it was a calculated loss. By marketing the movie as objectifying women, then pandered to the comic book males who are probably the guys with some of the worst ideas of women. But when these guys came to watch the movie, all they got was sucker punched. No objectifying dance, just empowered samurai slaying women. So the movie took a step back to take two steps forward.
Cool.
(GIF doesn't work on my blog. Click on it to see her move.)
But she's the coolest.
OoOoOoOo red hair!!!
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