Zack Snyder stands up for his ‘sexist’ ‘Sucker Punch’

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Zack Snyder came out in 2011 with Sucker Punch. The film is seen as one of his lesser works. There was also a lot of criticism. The director now looks back on that.Sucker Punch follows a young woman (played by Emily Browning) who is abused by her stepfather. As a result, she tries to escape reality. She does this by imagining that, together with a number of other women, she is looking for a way out in worlds inspired by action, fantasy and sci-fi films, among other things.

Reception
Not everyone was a fan of this. Some go even further and call the film sexist, as the main characters are scantily clad and perform all kinds of male fantasies. Snyder is now speaking up.

That’s how the director calls it a protest film about the way women are portrayed in genre films: ”10 years ago, when the movie came out, I was asked why I dressed the girls like that. Then I said, “You did, not me!””

”I’ve always considered Sucker Punch myself an indictment of pop culture. It was a fun movie to make and I still love it”.

Extended cut
Recently came Zack Snyder’s Justice League uit. Now the director also announces that in addition to the cinema version of Sucker Punch, there is also an unreleased extended cut of this film.

”It was the first film that I really had to radically restructure to make it more commercial. So there is also an unpublished director’s cut”. Do you hope to ever see it?

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