Sucker Punch quotes

View Quote Q: What are your thoughts on how Zack Synder writes women? Cornish: I think Zack himself is very much in touch with his femininity as much as he is his masculinity. He’s very sensitive and caring.
Malone: Also, the script speaks for itself. If I’d read the script and felt that if he didn’t know what he was talking about, I don’t think any of us would be here. He’s exploring so many different levels of female archetypes and allowing them to break and bend and expose themselves with amazing different forms of strength and insecurity, and allowing these women to really be fully-fleshed characters. I was thinking that they could really be men or women. IN an action movie, we’re so used to seeing these men, but literally we could almost be sexless were it not for the specificity of the world that we’re in.

View Quote Q: What is your connection to the other girls in the film? Browning: Well, I come into the insane asylum.
Q: Is it an immediate bonding or something?
Browning: No, when I get to the asylum, I don’t really…it’s really just me seeing them and then I guess they then kind of get incorporated into my fantasy. Rocket and I sort of become really close. Sweet Pea and I sort of butt heads a little bit because I think she worries that I’m going to lead Rocket astray. Vanessa, Blondie, is kind of Sweet Pea’s little offside and she doesn’t like me very much. Amber is really kind of naïve and sweet, and really wants to be my friend. I sort of take this weird leader position and try to help them escape.

View Quote Q: While we already sort of know the character you play, could you talk about who you play in the film? Gugino: Yes, so I play Dr. Gorsky and Madame Gorsky, as her alternate personality is. So you know there are sort of dual worlds going on, right? So in the real world, it’s 1960’s Lennox House psychiatric institute, and I’m a psychiatrist who is very Freudian in her ways. Not a big fan of the lobotomy. She’s Polish, so…as I was doing some research into the character, I found out that, in Russia, lobotomies were made illegal in 1950, so I think that, in her perspective, that she’s come over to sort of do the more, kind of progressive therapy with music and regression and dealing with kind of probably for better or worse, Freud, what he kind of discovered in the later years has been updated and she’s not there yet. And I work with Oscar’s character who is sort of the…what do you consider your incarnation in that world? Because he’s more than…he’s kind of become something different since you…
Oscar Isaac: Yeah, for me, I do see it as…the character I’m playing is Blue Jones, who is an orderly at this asylum. And I think he’s someone who’s generally been pretty powerless in his life. And so he uses this position at this kind of unorganized, slightly chaotic old asylum to have a position of power. And so I think he kind of hordes information and he collects things and he has a slightly OCD thing about him. And he becomes like the don of the institution to a certain extent, and I think that, we’ve talked about that perhaps even he may have helped Dr. Gorsky get a position there.
Gugino: Or some sort of…yeah.
Isaac: Maybe like a visa thing or…
Gugino: She’s an immigrant. There are so many levels of this story that we’re discovering, but also that, when audiences see it, I’m sure there will be many different interpretations, but it definitely seems as if there’s been…they’ve worked together for a period of time and there’s some sort of a…you know, they come from very different places, but there’s been some sort of…
Isaac: So then in the fantasy world, I know literally, I guess, it’s Baby Doll’s imagination creating this world, but for me, I kind of imagined it as what the orderly imagines or wishes he was, which is this respected charismatic, you know…
Gugino: And Madame Gorsky definitely also is, again, it seems as if what is in Baby Doll’s fantasy is a heightened version of what she observes initially. Interestingly enough, in both worlds I use music, as a psychiatrist and also as a dominatrix/choreographer, slash Madame. [laughs] Never thought I’d say that! That that’s what I’m playing. In the brothel. So yeah, I’ve never done anything like this so it’s fascinating. It’s been really, it’s sort of endlessly…which I know we talked about somewhat with Watchmen as well, but it’s endlessly…you can keep digging deeper and deeper and finding more and more stuff.

View Quote Q: Why are your characters in the asylum? Malone: It’s hinted at in the script, but it’s more vague to allow people to fill in what they want. We got ultimate freedom, but Zack does have the final say. He’s a collaborator at heart. That’s what so exciting. Whatever Abbey brings, or I bring, or the moment brings. Just being in it and finding things from all the trust that the girls have. Being together really brings out a whole different level of intimacy instead of just talking about the theory. It becomes way more human and animalistic, the approach of how to find the connection between the girls.

View Quote Q: You have to perform this character in several different levels of fantasy and reality on top of all of the physical stuff. Is it extremely challenging? Browning: I think for me there is no real differentiation in character in all of the fantasies worlds because it is my fantasy. For the other people, I think maybe there is more a difference with the girls being in the asylum and then in the brothel. I think it’s more different. But because it’s from my point of view, I sort of get off a little bit easy there.

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View Quote [after Babydoll has danced for the first time] All that gyrating and moaning... a dance should be more about titillation. Mine's personal, it says who I am. What the heck does yours say?

View Quote A mind bending vision of reality from the director of Watchmen & 300.

View Quote A. O. Scott, "Well, Here They Are, Wherever This May Be", New York Times, (March 24, 2011).

View Quote Abbie Cornish - Sweet Pea

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View Quote Actually, the whole film is a surgical strike on your visual senses and intellectual faculties. Snyder’s efforts to have you believe this is some kind of empowering, riot-grrls-together redemption story would be more convincing if the cameras didn’t slather quite as droolingly whenever the women, clad in fishnets and schoolgirl outfits, come into view. The men, meanwhile, are a one-dimensional army of lechers, paedophiles, rapists and misogynists. The standard defence for this kind of film is that it’s not meant to be analysed too closely, it’s only entertainment. With Sucker Punch, you could also say that its narrative slackness is down to its themes (mental instability) and to the way that it taps into the dream logic of gamer culture. But even its battle scenes are deadly boring. If I had to choose between this and the most bog-standard computer game, it wouldn’t be any contest at all.

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View Quote Alyssa Rosenberg, "Loved ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’? You should watch this Zack Snyder movie.", The Washington Post, March 21, 2016; as quoted in "With ‘Sucker Punch’ Zack Snyder Began Struggling With Ideas He Couldn’t Quite Control", by Charles Bramesco, Uproxx, (03.28.16).