Vivian on 13/7/2010 at 18:56
I must have totally missed that bit.
Harvester on 13/7/2010 at 23:45
Me too, I didn't see anything sexual in her performance and I don't think it was intended as a sexualized portrayal of the character by the filmmakers.
jtr7 on 14/7/2010 at 00:50
People found her dirty talk and trash-talking of men a bit too dominatrix, and her entrance leading to this moment roughly mirrored many similar moments portrayed by grown women and drawings of grown women:
Inline Image:
http://calitreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/kick-ass-hit-girl.jpgBasically, it cut a little too close to kinky and fetishism for some, and too close to home for others, and I'm sure there are other takes on it.
Koki on 14/7/2010 at 08:59
Quote Posted by jtr7
People found her dirty talk and trash-talking of men a bit too dominatrix
Feminists, assemble!
DDL on 14/7/2010 at 10:41
While I think the concept of "an actual school girl dressing up as a school girl" being interpreted instead as "a school girl dressing up as a sexually mature woman pretending to be a school girl" is faintly ridiculous...I'm willing to concede that may have been at least partially the intention. Coz movie makers are weird.
V. Equinox on 14/7/2010 at 12:32
Hmm, even with that picture, I'm just not seeing it. I tend to think of Matilda's outfits in The Professional (specifically her playing dress-up as Madonna) as being more sexual than a typical school girl outfit. In this case, Hit-Girl's skirt is normal length, and she's not showing any cleavage or midriff.
Her dialogue struck me as vulgar (meant to provoke) but not erotic (meant to arouse).
Vivian on 14/7/2010 at 12:51
I think some people doth protest too much, to be honest.
Muzman on 15/7/2010 at 22:41
If you ask me some people find cool/tough comic book chicks very sexy, then it dawns on them she's 12 or whatever and they aren't quite as at home with this detail as the guy in the film.
Anyway, review: It's quite a fun watch and I enjoyed meself, but it's really not very good in the end. They went on and on about what a superhero would be like in the real world. This matters exactly once in the film, and from then on it's clearly not reality we're in. They got basically zero milage out of a fun premise. I kept waiting for it come back, particularly in the relationship stuff. I was hoping horrid miss perfect would reveal that she's actually a person at some point and her extra curricular valedictorian front was something of a burden. Failing that at least act like a miss perfect might a bit more often. The pivotal point was of course where 'the hero gets the girl'. Had this been reality like we had been told she would have been mortified and sent his lying sack of shit ass back to National Geographic photos. The film would have got acres more respect from me at this point anyway.
I was also holding out for the jet pack to inconveniently run out of fuel too. I'm fine with Big Daddy and the bad guys etc being comic book, just can we have reality elsewhere? That'd be great. And funny. Maybe that's just me.
Anyway, lightly amusing bit of action fluff with a bit of an indie sensibility, swearing little girls and funny English badguys pretending to be from New York.
june gloom on 15/7/2010 at 23:24
petition to change the thread title because this is clearly a Kick-Ass thread (though the thread itself is most decidedly not kick-ass)
Morte on 16/7/2010 at 07:24
Quote Posted by Vivian
I think some people doth protest too much, to be honest.
Anyone that thinks Hitgirl is being overtly sexualized is projecting an awful lot.
