Hanna

Jim McLennan · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:03 pm **Posts:** 470

This tale of a teenage assassin was already our Video of the Month for February, but there's an international trailer out which emphasizes the action-y aspects rather more. You can see it below: seems like GWG will be trending younger in 2011, between this and Sucker Punch, and with The Hunger Games getting into pre-production.

Mindwitch · **Joined:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:40 pm **Posts:** 34

DAMN THIS MOVIE LOOKS GOOD! when is it out? is it coming out in america?

Jim McLennan · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:03 pm **Posts:** 470

April 8th is the release date in the US. Should be fairly wide, I think.

Jim McLennan · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:03 pm **Posts:** 470

Hanna director Joe Wright has been lobbing verbal hand-grenades at his rival in the spring action-heroine market:

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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.

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I remember when the Spice Girls came out in the '90s and they called it 'Girl Power' - I think that's bullshit. I probably shouldn't say this but the posters for recent films with girls kicking arse - there's one out at the moment - there's girls in the poster in bikinis and crop-tops, and they've got pigtails and they're dressed up as schoolgirls. They're being sexualised, this is supposedly 'Girl Power' female empowerment and that's bullshit. Female empowerment is not about sex, that is the point of female empowerment. It's about brains and not objectifying women.

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Hmm. Obvious question: empowered women aren't allowed to be sexy?

Yāoguài · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:06 am **Posts:** 68

They're definitely allowed to be sexual -- to want things. A woman who doesn't want anything, or doesn't know what she wants, isn't empowered.

The sexualizing of women isn't innately disempowering, but women do have to struggle with it. An empowered woman is effective enough in her dealings with the world that everyone has to take her seriously. She's an effective enough businesswoman, lawyer, cop, martial artist, teacher, whatever, that no one writes her off.

In the real world, there are plenty of young professional women who like to dress up sexy for a night on the dance floor, but that's a part-time thing. It's who they choose to be for six hours a week. The primary image of the strong woman in her day-to-day life is her day-to-day clothes, the ones she wears when she's making the world take notice of her accomplishments. And lots of women can be freaking hot in those day-to-day clothes.

Jim McLennan · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:03 pm **Posts:** 470

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Third this weekend goes to Hanna, which stars Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana. Hanna looks like a small film, but was marketed as a big one, and the payoff appears to be decent. Hanna earned a somewhat suprising $12.3 million from only 2,535 venues this weekend, giving the thriller a venue average of $4,852. From Focus Features, Hanna could have opened as an arthouse/platform release, but Focus knew they had a winner and went wide. Moviegoers responded to a deft marketing campaign that began months ago (and a very cool tagline: “Adapt or Die”), and one that was followed by some seriously good reviews. Hanna was 71% fresh at RottenTomatoes, with 82 reviewers out of 155 finding something to like. Hanna is one of the few action films in release, and with this one actually being good, audiences responded. The opening gross might not blow folks out of the water, but this is a decent opening for a small film. Hanna cost Focus $30 million to make, a number this one should see before leaving North American cinemas.

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It actually has a shot at out-grossing Sucker Punch, which is just short of $34 million, and likely to get not much more (though it'll get $20 when Chris, I and our son take it in at a Tuesday matinee). Saw it this morning, and it's quite impressive; reminded me a lot of the Bourne movies, but also has a modern Grimms' fairy-tale feel to it.

Mark · **Joined:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:43 pm **Posts:** 21

I have to admit that I just don't "get" this film - the plot is extremely similar (I mean like law-suit similar) to the graphic novel series "Beautiful Killer" but without the morally ambiguous ending to it. Maybe I'm just getting old or maybe the story is to predictable for my liking for me to find it enjoyable; I mean, ** SPOILER ALERT **...

...genetically enhanced assassins created from young children is a standard trope of the Sci-Fi genre that's been covered numerous times by now so it wasn't that much of a surprise to me. It could only have been worse if the DNA used was that of Cate Blanchett's character in the first place.

Oi vey - I'm probably the odd-one out though.

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