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Joe Wright vs. Zack Snyder: 'Sucker Punch Objectifies Women'

Posted by Superheidi | Wed, April 06 2011

Joe Wright, director of the amazing action thriller film Hanna, rips Zach Snyder and all his 'female empowerment' bullshit about Sucker Punch a 'new one'.

In a recent Vanity Fair interview about Hanna, director Joe Wright was told that Zach Snyder answered a question about female empowerment in a previous interview about Sucker Punch the same way Wright did.

Wright responded with brutal honesty:

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“I haven’t seen Sucker Punch, but I think the main issue with female empowerment is the sexual objectification of women. Looking at the poster of Sucker Punch, I would say that is perpetuating the sexual objectification, therefore I can’t see how that is empowering…I don’t really believe in irony. I think irony is a kind of hiding place for dishonesty. It’s an intellectual trick, but there’s no heart in irony. There needs to be heart in our social change.”

I really want to check out Snyder's twitter account now, to see if we end up with a Lindeldof Situation.

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Wed, 04/06/2011 - 16:30

Tristan Sinns

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God, I wish Snyder hadn't said anything like that. I like exploitation films. Why can't we look at Sucker Punch as a cheesy exploitation film? Looking at it as "female empowerment" is FAIL.

Sigh.

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Wed, 04/06/2011 - 16:40

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"Hanna" opens in my area this weekend and I can't wait to see it.

Wed, 04/06/2011 - 17:50

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Man, we have a whole series of "vs." articles going! They need their own tag!

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Wed, 04/06/2011 - 18:38

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Joe Wright raises a fair point-but his comments about irony are dead wrong. This is not merely an opinion thing. Irony is an entirely valid writing approach that also allows for intense honesty.

Wed, 04/06/2011 - 19:28

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"Hanna" sounds fantastic. Hope it comes to New Zealand sooner than later.

Wed, 04/06/2011 - 19:53

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Thomwade wrote:

Joe Wright raises a fair point-but his comments about irony are dead wrong. This is not merely an opinion thing. Irony is an entirely valid writing approach that also allows for intense honesty.

Sure, but "irony" is often used to mean "I'm being an asshole, but it's okay because I know I'm being an asshole and am pointing it out to you."

Wed, 04/06/2011 - 20:50

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matango wrote:

Thomwade wrote:

Joe Wright raises a fair point-but his comments about irony are dead wrong. This is not merely an opinion thing. Irony is an entirely valid writing approach that also allows for intense honesty.

Sure, but "irony" is often used to mean "I'm being an asshole, but it's okay because I know I'm being an asshole and am pointing it out to you."

But that's not what Wright said. Wright blasts all irony as dishonest. And either he is being willingly overwrought or he doesn't understand the power that irony is capable of...which means he is sadly a limited storyteller.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 19:55

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Joe Wright is awesome. I hope Hanna will be awesome.

The problem with Sucker Punch is it took itself really, really seriously and ended up being weird. Why would a young woman imagine herself in a brothel dancing and being objectified and mistreated by men? Why would that be the fantasy of a young woman? Why would someone escape from their crappy circumstances by daydreaming about even crappier circumstances? It doesn't make sense and it's weird.

At least exploitation films know what they are. I don't really get what Snyder was trying to pull off.

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Thu, 04/07/2011 - 23:42

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Julie Kerr wrote:

Spoiler alert!

Well, if you want *weird* - how's this. Her dancing was often a "distraction" so the other girls could accomplish their missions. Given that she never really was in a brothel, and it was all a delusion - what *then* was she actually doing as a distraction, for which the "dancing" was symbolic?

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