12 years after the release of Sucker Punch, director Zack Snyder reflects on the negative reaction to the film, which is his most infamous bomb.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Sucker Punch director Zack Snyder opens up about the negative reactions to the film, now 12 years after its release. Hitting theaters in 2011, Sucker Punch is Snyder's first film based off an original concept, with the director serving as co-writer alongside Steve Shibuya.
“I feel like the main criticism of the film was that it was too exploitative. People took the movie as if the girls fighting and all that stuff was the movie. I found that slightly disheartening… “For me, when I was working on the action sequences with Damon Caro, I was always like, ‘No, no. It should be more blissful. It should be more lyrical than tense.’ I'm not that concerned with the peril than I am with the bliss of the in-mind empowerment of what Babydoll is doing in the moment. The dance is her power. Her sexual power, her athletic power, her everything.
“I was fascinated by this idea of music and movement and spectacle being the ultimate drug that is impossible to snap out of. Even just the ‘Love is the Drug’ sequence, where Oscar Isaac and Carla Gugino do their little dance number - it’s the most fun sequence in the movie because it's literally a day in the life. It's really setting the stage for the hierarchies of the place, which was a really fun way to render it.
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