There aren’t many times when I go to a movie and I leave speechless. But that did happen to me recently when I saw the film Kick Ass. For those of you that don’t know, the film is about an average to slightly nerdy comic book loving kid who decides that he can be his own type of superhero. He dresses up in a wet suit and heads out into the street to save some people. The film is based on the comic book by Mark Millar, is written by Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn (the pair the brought us the underappreciated Stardust) and directed by Vaughn.
Now you ask why did Melissa Silverstein of Women & Hollywood a) want to even see this film; and b) what about it could have made her speechless?
The answer is Hit Girl. (Alert: there will be spoilers below)
First, let’s be clear. This is a movie for adults. If your kid wants to see it, say no.
Hit Girl is a character that I have never seen on screen before. She is an 11 year old girl assassin. This girl played amazingly by Chloe Grace Moretz is a walking destruction machine. She shoots, she stabs, she bayonets. She does things on screen that literally left my mouth agape. FYI- no studio would touch this movie. They loved it but said you gotta take out Hit Girl. No one would finance a film with an 11 year old girl killer. Those movies are just not made in Hollywood.
The thing about Hit Girl is not just that she is a brutal and ruthless killer. She enjoys it. Way. Too. Much.
And the language. I really thought there were language limits but Hit Girl pushes those boundaries, and quite frankly, after this movie I don’t think there are any language barriers left. They’ve been trampled by an 11-year-old girl. Never before have a heard the c-word (yes, that word) uttered by a girl describing men. While I was horrified at the moment I have to admit that I smiled at the same time because she was doing something onscreen I never thought I would see. A girl kicking ass. Literally.
So I am conflicted. The thing about Hit Girl as Jane Goldman said to me in an interview and I agree with, is that because she is 11 the violence is not sexualized. So much of violence we see in films is perpetrated on women because they are women. Hit Girl kills because that’s what her daddy (Nicholas Cage) taught her to do (let’s not get into the bad parenting here.) You know you’re into different territory when the first scene you see of your heroine is her father teaching her take a bullet in a vest.
The question I’ve been asking myself since I saw the film is does Hit Girl movie us forward or backward? I don’t really have a final answer. The pros are that she is actually the hero of the film. She saves everyone and kills all the bad guys. The last time I saw that was…well…never. The actress who plays Hit Girl Chloe Grace Moretz wanted to play an Angelina Jolie type action role. This is the type of part she told her agents to find according to a story in the NY Times: “You know, like an action hero, woman empowerment, awesome, take-charge leading role.” It warms my heart that young actress is interested in playing these kinds of parts, that they want to for lack of a better word, kick ass is cool. Also, the fact that all these guys are destroyed by a girl never becomes an issue. There’s no sexist bullshit about guys being killed by a girl. She comes and wreaks havoc and all these guys want to do is survive.
The cons are the language and the fact that she uses her “girlness” to disarm people (because, really who would think a little girl could kick your ass?)
We would never be having this whole conversation about Hit Girl if the character would have been Hit Boy. No one would care in the same if a 11-year-old boy said the c-word. I’d probably just dismiss it as another sexist movie and character and move on.
I’m still very conflicted about this. I don’t know if this is progress or if this is setting up girls in a very bad way. But one thing I do know is that with all the buzz about the film surrounding the film I am hoping that the sequel will be called Hit Girl instead of Kick Ass 2.
Just a Sweet Young Actress? $&@%# Right! (NY Times)
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I too felt a little conflicted about hit girl. I think her use of the C word was completely gratuitious and controversy seeking (and I am fond of swearing). But part of me loved to see her up there and I thought about when I was 11 and fantasised about being a super-spy character. I would have loved to have seen a character like her when I was young; however inappropriate it may have been.
For me the painful part was her stand-off with the baddie played by Mark Strong when he says something like “you killed all those people! I would have loved a son like you”. For me that highlighted that she’s a girl and made me think about all the gender differences that exist in comic book, super hero and crime stories.
What I liked about the character is that she felt just a little conflicted too. She’s good at what she does but she does it because that’s all she’s ever been trained to do and she lives for her father’s approval. And I liked that the film didn’t shy away at presenting her as a quasi-tragedy and a textbook case of lousy parenting. Sure her initial action sequence was a bit too ‘cute’ (the ‘c’ word seemed dropped in just to get people upset), but for all the punditry sight-unseen, I was surprised that Vaughn and company treated her as a real person and not just some adolescent fantasy figure. And yes, I’d say the movie and the character is progressive, especially as most of the hand-wringing has revolved around the fact that all of this killing is committed by a young child, as opposed to being up in arms over it being committed by ‘a girl’.
For those who care – http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/2010/04/review-kick-ass-2010.html
I haven’t seen the film so I cannot really comment– but HIT GIRL is sooooo cute and it’s always nice to see strong female roles onscreen– girl or woman.
Based on your description of Hit-Girl I am 100% absolutely seeing this damn movie.
Haven’t seen it yet, but I have to say I’m actually more excited to see James Gunn’s “Super” with Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page, mostly because I’d rather see grown-ups find their inner super-hero, you know? I just find that more interesting. That, and that whole child killer thing creeps me out, frankly.
I’m psyched to see Ms. Page knock out another crazy good performance, but when are we going to get a superhero movie with a woman as the MAIN ass-kicker?
I used to really be into comic book characters, until I realized that they’re stuck in perpetual adolescence. The problem that I have with this movie is that it appears to glorify violence. I really don’t think it makes any difference whether violent people are male or female – it’s still not progress. But maybe for some people it will be an eye-opener.
I’ve been hearing about this movie for months mostly because I have a web series CHICK which is about a young woman who dreams of being a superhero.
I haven’t seen the movie yet. I plan to. Have read some passionate dialogue on Mark Millar and his portrayal of women in his comics. The consensus would be he does not empower women in his films. I read that Hit Girl dies in the end in his comic book. Sounds like that’s not the case in the movie.
Not thrilled about the c word use mostly because I just don’t like words connected to the female reproductive system that portray the v-jay jay as bad. But that would be a whole other topic. :)
Overall here’s to empowering women and exploring more and more complex, unconventional female characters in the movies. That’s my goal as a filmmaker.
I thought Hit Girl was great. Finally, a female doing an all action role without it being sexualised in any way (despite comments otherwise here in the UK – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1262948/Kick-Ass-Dont-fooled-hype–This-crime-cinema-twisted-cynical-revels-abuse-childhood.html), and I agree that had it been ‘Hit Boy’, and 11/12 year old boy instead, that there wouldn’t have been so much controversy over the violence.
As for the use of the ‘c’ word, I thought that too was pretty empowering. Instead of it being used in a misogynistic way, I think the idea to have a young girl saying it brings quite a few ideas into question – why is ‘cunt’ such a controversial word anyway? ‘cock’, ‘dick’ and ‘prick’ aren’t. I think that concept is sexist in itself. Overall, pretty good film!
“Never before have a heard the c-word (yes, that word) uttered by a girl describing men.”
I have. It was on a playground when I was going to school – grade school, in Nine- well, let’s just say I wasn’t born in the last decade. :p So it fits to me.
Since I haven’t been following this much, I am actually surprised that there is a whole bunch of controversy surrounding this. This almost seems pitch perfect for what it is: an action genre film that addresses adult content.
After reading the piece on Davis, where it was cited that even girls in children’s films dress sexually, looking at that poster alone was a breath of fresh air: clothes that are not revealing in any way (like the unexplained midriff cut-out that so many characters sport these days, ugh), and SENSIBLE SHOES! (sorry that is always a pet peeve of mine). Even her stance is awesome – she really is poised atop that building there like Batman. I would have loved to have a role model like that when I was younger.
It seems content wise, from what’s been said that it is almost pitch perfect. As a violent action genre film, I would become highly annoyed with a whole lot of hand-wringing about it. Yet, throw just enough taint on it so that there are no copy-cat kids who’ll want to imitate that stuff.
And it seems like when Mark Miller’s character’s have female infusions (Jane Goldman here and Angelina Jolie in Wanted – because he wrote that right? I forgot) these characters can really pop.
And I didn’t see The Professional, but didn’t Natalie Portman’s character seem to be leaning towards becoming an assassin by the end of the film? Or was that not the case?
I definitely feel like this is a step forward. Is action everyone’s cup of tea? Certainly not. But women should be able to play a variety of roles. And if we can see a boy playing this, why not see a girl as well? In fact, weren’t one of the reasons for excluding women from these types of action-based genres was because people were uncomfortable with females doing these things? Frankly I am sick of the female characters who for some reason have a hard time killing…for no apparent reason other than they seem to be female.
To me this sounds like everything Elektra SHOULD HAVE been.
I can’t wait for the interview tomorrow! Thanks.
I respond at length on my blog– http://girlsmediamystery.blogspot.com/2009/09/dont-fear-reaper-hit-girl-and.html
Young boys are not penalized for wanting to emulate Batman or Darth Vader, despite the extremes to which those emulations can be taken. My gut tells me that even if Hit Girl is an imperfect heroine, the more strong girls one sees onscreen, the more girls will feel empowered to be the heroes of their own adventures. Hit Girl is kicking down the door for more competent, powerful female heroines and anti-heroines in the future.
Excellent review. Couple of points:
1) “does Hit Girl movie us forward or backwards?” – You didn’t say “forwards” – good. Match it up with “backward” and you’re in business.
2) “She comes and reeks havoc” – Carnage usually is smelly, but one “wreaks” havoc.
Thanks!
The problem with this movie is not her language or what she does. That’s too vague, and it makes it sound like this movie would be okay if it simply didn’t violate some shallow middle class taboos. To hell with that logic. If that’s what this move were about, I’d applaud it.
The problem is that the character of Hit Girl is a convenient (and transparent) cover for the weak, insecure, male writers of movies like this one, a character who, by token of her gender and twee facade, grants them license to present their aggressive fantasies of violence on screen.
You want to see the perfect picture of both real teenage violence and teenage female strength? Go watch some of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Videos. Then you’ll find out what happens when thugs and gangsters confront helpless young women (and men) with guns and knives. Horrific things. The strength part comes in when these girls go before their communities and tell the stories of what has happened to them and participate in rebuilding their country.
Teenagers ARE capable of the kind of violence in Kick Ass, and when they act on those impulses, the result is some of the worst tragedy imaginable.
“But this is just a fun lark of a movie.” And you’re an ugly American who understands nothing of what the world outside of your velvet suburban monkey cage looks like. You want to make a movie about a strong eleven year old? How about the story of a girl who tells her cloistered geek-boy friends to put down the video games for a minute and help start an organization to help real victims of violence.
You see a lioness out on the Serengeti plains. She’s low in the grass. Her eyes dart about looking for a target. Her shoulders shift left then right as the pads of her paws find traction is the warm, loose earth. In an instant she’s running full sprint after an antelope. Her heart is racing in rhythm with her step as she chases after her victim. She draws closer and closer then springs on top of the antelope. The grass eater stumbles and falls on it’s side as the lioness’ sharp teeth sink into the soft flesh of it’s neck. Warm, dark blood splashes the back of the lioness’ through as the salty, iron taste of blood fills her mouth. The antelope’s thrashing slows and stops, coming to a crescendo with a brief shutter and a gurgle. As it’s life slips away the lioness releases it’s pray as the rest of the pride arrives to eat.
Now imagine that same lioness, trapped, collared, tossed in a cage in a circus somewhere and taught to preform tricks for the amusement of others. Her eyes once bright with life grow gray and faded. Her muscled and sleek form becomes soft and weak. She is broken, damaged and lost forever. The thing that was most beautiful about her has been killed.
The modern feminist movement seeks to do the same thing to women. They deny women’s special, unique nature as women. They are told to deny their nature, that they are incomplete and imperfect unless they seek to do the same things that men do. They are forced to prove their worth by preforming tricks, like a trained lion in a circus or and 11 year old girl cursing up like a salor and killing like a soldier as the audiance cheers her on. In the end they and society are left broken, damaged and lost.
Sigh. I think I will go crazy if I read one more person saying that Hitgirl is “empowering” for women. Really? So, like a serial killer is empowering for men? Empowerment? It’s not bayonetting people and throwing around the C-word. That’s called crass and gratuitous violence for shock value and profit.
Worries the hell out of me that women would think that this is some step in a positive direction. It’s not. You’re all excited because she’s uber-violent, but NOT sexualized. Girls are being exploited now in the media through violence. They’re wearing pistols on their necklaces, and beating the hell out of each other on cell phone videos. This is empowering? No. Being violent and foul-mouthed in not empowering. Being a strong girl who can stand up for herself WITHOUT hurting others.. now THAT is empowering. Rachel Correy was an empowering figure, a cartoonish pre-pubescent killers is not. I’m embarrassed for my fellow females. I thought we were better than that.
PS- Nathan Piazza, I think I love you! Well said!!
Kick Ass is not quite as progressive as people would like to think it is. First of all, having an 11-year-old killer is hardly new – does no one remember “Leon”? Secondly, Hit Girl’s characterisation ties in very strongly with Manga fantasies of Japanese schoolgirl heroines. And at the end of the film, Hit Girl literally has to be rescued by a man. That was the film’s weakest point for me – and it fell down because of it.
Nathan: It’s ironic that as a presumed feminist, you’re so quick to use stereotypes: “And you’re an ugly American who understands nothing of what the world outside of your velvet suburban monkey cage looks like.” So everyone who enjoyed the movie is an ignorant ass? Classy.
Have you even seen the movie? The girl that Kick-Ass has a crush on is the the other side of the moral compass. She helps people, not by dressing up as a superhero, but by volunteering at a needle exchange. She’s there to show how real-life, rational people try to make the world a better place. All of the character who dress up have various degrees of mental instability.
Maybe part of Hit Girl “wish fulfillment” to women like Silverstein isn’t that they want to be her. But that they wish that some of those Liberian thugs and gansters you mention would – just once – run into someone like Hit Girl.
Smurfette, I think you’re off the mark. Warning: Major Spoilers. Don’t read this if you plan to see the movie.
Were you equally upset when Hit Girl has to be “rescued” by Big Daddy when he shoots the last bad guy with his sniper rifle in the first big fight scene?
She’s the one who does the rescuing of the bound and helpless heroes – a role that would traditionally be played by her, not them.
And the end of the film really upset you that much? Hit Girl knew that there were too many of them for her to do the job herself. She ended up being “rescued” because that was part of the plan – Kick-Ass was her backup. Even with that, the body count was roughly, what? Hit Girl 20, Kick-Ass 4.5 (half being Red Mist, who survived.)
One more spoiler:
Oh, and Kai, Hit Girl does NOT die in the comic. Perhaps the biggest change from the comic to the movie is that in the comic, he doesn’t get the girl. She’s outraged by his deception and has her new boyfriend beat him up.
Sorry guys, but I really think there’s something creepy about the whole thing regardless of gender. If it was Hit-Boy mowing down gangsters, I would still be upset.
I think the comment about Hit-Girl being very much a Japanese ‘Magic-Girl’ inspired fantasy are very appropriate. There have been plenty of characters like this in Anime/Manga storylines going back a while. It’s new to Hollywood and maybe to Western mainstream audiences, but that’s the DNA I saw in the character as I watched the film. Cutesy female able to invoke magical powers of physical ability to overmatch all normal foes. It’d derigeur in Japanese pop culture (albeit more overtly sexualized).
Overall, this iteration of ‘Magic Girl’ probably misses simply due to the adult nature of the material. I think it’s correct to say that a female (or male) that asserts independance or authority through extreme acts of violence, sadism and vulgarity isn’t really an ideal we should be holding our youth to aspire to. At some point good taste and boundaries have to apply.
The movie is largly violence-porn with an aethetically pleasing ‘Magic Girl’ protagonist. In our current environment of cartoon violence passing for live-action entertainment, anything is possible from anybody. I just quail at the thought of children running around in Hit Girl costumes this Halloween, pretending to solve all their problems through imaginary acts of butchery, swearing up a storm all the while.
Well, Melissa. I saw the movie twice. I’m pretty much on the same page that you are.
As a comic geek and a film geek, I had a really great time watching this film. I don’t know (maybe I’m a horrible american) but this movie was so much fun to watch. To put it gently, this movie is REALLY rough around the edges in a lot of ways. Hit Girl definitely fits into the tone of the film.
But, I don’t think the film glorifies violence at all. The physical pain that Kick Ass endures is very real and looks horribly painful. It’s not cartoonish at all. Kick Ass has NO SUPERPOWERS when he’s getting stabbed, knuckled punched or clubbed in the balls. It takes the superhero fantasy and shows how horribly hard it would be if tried in real life.
The subject of Hit Girl. I don’t think it’s a step forwards nor backwards for feminism. I think the film specifically tackles the issue that Hit Girl should be living a normal happy life.
The part where she kills the room of people and says the C word is interesting. Everytime she kills someone she stops and smiles for Kick Ass as if she’s showing off or putting on a performance. But, I think it’s important to point out that Kick Ass’s face is absolutely horrified each time one of the dudes gets killed. Also, once Big Daddy dies, Kick Ass offers Hit Girl a normal life and she eventually gets one which is a positive thing.
Showing a little girl who enjoys killing certainly is not a step forward for feminism.
The ending where Hit Girl pursues and kills all the bad guys avenging her father though was AMAZING to watch. The second time I saw the film there were mainly all young men in the audience and one young woman. I noticed that when Hit Girl was kicking ass at the end (while Joan Jett was playing, no less), the young woman was laughing in enjoyment. The same way Spiderman is empowering to nerds who wish they had the power to kick ass like him; I feel is what Hit Girl is for us women who feel disadvantaged or powerless at times. I’d like to think that the young woman laughing during this part felt a little catharthis and well, empowered, and because of the feeling of empowerment; Hit Girl is not a step backwards either. It’s somewhere in the middle.
I have to say as comic geek and film geek, that I think this movie is a little more sophisticated in it’s storytelling than what meets the eye.
No one would finance a film with an 11 year old girl killer. Those movies are just not made in Hollywood.
IIRC Rynn Jacobs was within a week of her 13th birthday throughout The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Filmed in 1976.
And in a way she is a better role model, because no one could possibly emulate Hit-Girl (or should want to). Rynn, on the other hand, spends the entire story dealing with people who are all bigger, stronger, better connected, and with more claim to power and authority in the world, than her. She depends entirely on the ability to think quickly, keep cool, and always think ahead.
Although in the book she is a matricidal serial killer.
When I read the comic, I did not think that the gender of hit-girl was at all relevant in this history, and the only morale I got regarding her was that she was an unfortunate little girle whose father had messed up her head… while Kick ass was a poor boy whose head had been messed up by loneliness.
And I stumble on this website and see that many of you consider that this is “empowerment”. Astounding. So what are you saying, that you’d like to be physically stronger than men, so that you could beat them up? In what way would that make you better than any of those male brutes who think with their fists? Be careful, because it is very easy to become what one despises.
Besides, if your idea of female empowerment is a woman who is able to fight men with her fists and defeat them, then you’ll be lucky to find empowered women at all.
On the other hand, if your idea of an empowered woman is an intelligent, (spiritually) strong, resilient, resouceful, dignified, caring, self-respecting person, you’ll find that you’re literally surrounded by empowered women.
My biggest problem with Hitgirl was the fact that she murdered a scantily clad and innocent woman as the woman was screaming and trying to flee. Murdered her by stabbing through her body with swords.
I am like this movies BIGGEST FAN…well this and Chloe Moretz/Mindy Macready/ Hit-girl’s BIGGEST FAN
I absolutly love this movie I think its the best movie ever made, and im such a dork I made a whole collage of Chloe Moretz with pictures of almost all movies she has been in and also a collage of the movie Kick-ass
But im commenting on this because of my oppinions as a TWELVE YEAR OLD
Im twelve years old and I saw this film. Im not going to say how but I saw this movie and it was AWESOME.
Now what you wrote about Chloe moretz and her role and Hit-girl and how amzing this movie was…I agree, totally..
BUT
What you said about “the C word” I dont really agree all that much
YES alot of kids that age dont use that word..infact im pretty sure most people that age havent ever even heard of the word…but I personally know a few people that age that do use that word…not often…not even more than once but I have heard them use it.
The point im trying to make here is I LOVE THIS MOVIE
and its not becuase of all the action or because of the characters or the actors/actresses
I love this movie because its nothing like that crappy Disney, fake cookie cutter shit
I love disney I totally do but the shows they have on these days are totally fake! I mean there entertaining and they’ve got great music but Im pretty sure no teenager lives there lives like that…
But in this movie
It shows what teens and even kids younger…in there pre-teens lets say, or even younger..act like
When adults see this movie they think “OMG im not letting my kid watch this;too much cursing and violence”
news flash
KIDS ALWAYS CURSE
even if its in their heads, or even one time only..they curse.
Anyway my main thing that im trying to say here is I love this movie because its real…maybe not the superheros and 11 year old assasin part [lol] …but the way the people talk and react and stuff. Thats how people these days usually act or re-act. I hope you guys are reading this…
All in all <33333 love this movie ;always will and its gonna be hard to top this =]
Absolutely ridiculous to see an 11 year old girl in a role like this. If you consider ‘empowerment’ the ability to physically beat up men, then I’m sorry for you. This isn’t going to happen.
All over the movie fantasy world we are seeing this fad of women beating up men. This is a silly fantasy and a dangerous one for some women who are naive enough to believe it is possible.
You should be basing your equality on self respect, intelligence and compassion because as long as you base it on physical strength your always going to be behind the eight ball.
Reality check; men are physically stronger than women.
Watching it for the second time in two days with my 12 an 10 y.o. daughters.
Did ad interview.
What do you think of Hit Girl. 10 y.o. “Awesome. She kills people. She’s like 11.”
How would you feel about her if she were a boy? “Less. All superheroes are boys. All the major ones.”
10 y.o.’s favorite part? When hit girl gets shot by her dad. “It’s like she’s not afraid.”
12 y.o.’s. When Kick Ass gets hit by the car. “He does a triple flip with a twist.”
Check back in 6 years and we’ll see how they turn out. The sex on the street and masturbation parts were uncomfortable moments for me. I think South Park may have prepared them, though. ;-)
Like all Super Heroes they were all vigilantes seeking justice, so its only fair to judge it within it’s genre. I would expect to judge it’s treatment of gender and age issues within the context of Superheroe movies, not society in general. I think people walk into a movie like his and suspend their disbelief. It not a documentary on genocide. Watching the evening news, talk shows and the Sunday afternoon punditry free-for-all is probably more psychicly damaging.
a few insights to some comments…
Nathan Piazza said
.” And you’re an ugly American who understands nothing of what the world outside of your velvet suburban monkey cage looks like”
-Nathan im sorry u fill that way.I hope u come to my country one day and u will find many great people from many places.most people who came to america did so to escape bad things in the world.I hope u understand though americans will come calling if we need too..The Japanese made the mistake as others have of thinking we are soft and weak and u see what happend to them during ww2…
“Hit Girl literally has to be rescued by a man. That was the film’s weakest point for me – and it fell down because of it”
-remember hit girl is eleven and had to fight with no wepons a full grown man who knew martial arts she got her ass kicked and that made it stay real.”even for me that was hard to watch” and in the end a littlr girl got saved.
First people remember this is a movie.I have to say this if u think the world is nice place u dismantle your armies and destroy all your weapons and send all the police home in whatever country u live in and see what happens.Add to that if u think kids are not capable doing terrible things to others then u live in another world..present and past history show children can be as cruel savage as anyone..so give me a break and just enjoy the movie or not and leave ur bullshit at home…
OHMYGOD – It’s JUST a movie – GET OVER IT!
I agree with Jade – it’s one freaking movie. More importantly, it’s a non-documentary that, for once, tries to tell the truth. Violence in this movie is awkward, unnecessary, and tragic, and usually a direct result of some character’s stupidity. It’s not fun…except for when Hit Girl gets on the screen.
Just look at the commentary on here from girls around Hit Girls’ age — they sound pretty empowered to me. They aren’t thinking about the C-word being somehow ‘worse’ because “OMG, its literal definition refers to a woman,” they are thinking “wow, she’s so free and unafraid, she can say what she wants!” And that’s the thing, folks — seeing a flawed, gritty, borderline-sociopathic heroine like Hit Girl makes real girls strive to be LESS AFRAID of facing the real world. Sounds like empowerment to me.
If you’re going to tip the scales to ‘even,’ you’ve got to have some weight on the other end. I think Hit Girl carries far more weight than any ‘heroine’ played by zero-muscled, overly-busty Angelina Jolie, any “I Spit On Your Grave”/”Day Of The Woman” revenge flick, and any feminist essay on community involvement.
Bring on the real ass-kicking chicks. We’ll talk politics and feelings when the dust settles.
(FYI, I got to this site from Googling “hit girl costume” because I was already She-Ra last year)
It is a MOVIE! It is ENTERTAINMENT!
I, a female, thought it was hysterical. It didn’t change how I see myself or my husband or society around me.
Great article to provoke some thought but never forget (and never let your children forget) that this is hollywood, not the real world.
I’m 11 and was able to see the movie thanks to a friend of mine. My parents would skin me alive if they ever found out. As a tween, I found the movie AWESOME. I even have the full costume and my friends say when I dress up like her I look just like her. I my self do gymnastics and martial arts and can do all of the stunts she did but I do not need a stunt double. I too am very aggresive when it comes to bad guys. She a big impact on me. I too have butterfly knives. Just think if I could follow in her shoes. REAL LIFE Hit Girl
Empowerment… you mean like Lewinsky on Clinton, who was fully supported by N.O.W. in U.S.A. You sell your (s)hole for a dime.
oh lord its only a film! And the dvd does have an age certificate on it so your obviously not going to show it to your children. Anyone younger than that age cert should not be allowed to view it, it’s obviously there for a reason. I think the film is more of a tongue-in-cheek superhero movie not meant to be taken seriously. There’s no way a regular 11 year old girl is going around kicking ass and using extreme weapons of mass destruction. Unless its a foreign militia army thing maybe. I think the first few minutes of Finding Nemo is the most inappropriate horrifying footage i’ve ever sat and watched with a child, a movie that was age categorized for a child, showing a shark eating nemo’s mother and all the other little fish! That was terrible. i remember my child in tears. The only warning on the dvd said, “contains mild peril”! Anyway i thought Kickass was so cool, i’m heading to a halloween fancy dress, the theme is superhero’s. my hubby will go as Kickass and i’m being Hit Girl hehe :)
wait wait wait
ok I am not going to say like all that I am conflicted
why,,,,,,, after watching lots and lots and lots of dirty things
if we get an action comedy and a small girls is the main hero I got no problem
because I have watched movies like plot having men eating men, so if a girls mother is dead and his father tells her why then the bad guys just get their ass kicked by that womens child.. of course the script writer did not wait to raise the girl to age of 18 but this film is for people over age of 18.
Hit girls is Hit
an I am in love with the character and the script writer and the action stunts
“I read that Hit Girl dies in the end in his comic book. Sounds like that’s not the case in the movie.”
She doesn’t die in either the comic or the movie.
Anybody who has a problem when the weak Kick Ass on the powerful
has a problem. Probably worried their outlet for expressing authority fantasies might be threatened. Nothing more sacred and defenseless than an 11 year old girl and when she gets tuff enough to defend herself how could you possibly have a problem with it. She can say anything she wants when she’s on the side of the weak standing up for themselves. Luv how she delivers the line “I’m Hit Girl” Cooler than all the Van Dammes and Segals put together.
Oh jade maby people like this movie or they just like hit girl
Hi I’m the axial person who plays hit girl
Ok I was kidding I’m not the person who plays hit girl
We are a retired couple in our 60′s. We went to see “Kick-Ass” because we thought “how cute, coupla teen-aged boy, wannabe hero’s, are going to go on a rampage against the bad guys. Gonna be a sweet comedy with a few semi-violent scenes sprinkled with some slapstick” Really, we were blown away and thoroughly enjoyed the movie’s entire premise. Great plot, well acted, completely non-predictable. We can’t emphasize enough how many times we looked at each other and said “didn’t see that coming”. We liked it so much we bought the DVD (and we NEVER buy movies). Hilarious, seat of the pants, Chloe Moretz rocks (as they say) and there’s a reason that Nic Cage did the movie, great actors DO great movies, he must have busted out laughing when he read the script. For the rest of you, it’s a movie for chrissakes, it’s entertainment and fantasy, it’s a mystery and anyone who sees it doesn’t have a clue what’s coming next and there are few movies these days (as well as tv shows) that don’t telegraph what’s coming. Delightful, highly entertaining, see it again and again just for the pure pleasure of seeing bad guys getting mopped up by a little girl….so many great one-liners: “Hey it’s a little girl, let her in”, hahahaha didn’t see that coming did you buddy?
Just a kwik response to an 11yr old girls combat ability. Hand to hand? Mass wins. Firearms??
As a proffesional ‘freestyle’ firearms trainer, Hit girl is more than capable.
In a gun fight, speed kills. 11 year olds are fast and fit.
Size. Smaller body, smaller target.
This would also allow the use of smaller, tighter cover.
Her size also allows ‘run and gun’ techs like seen in the corridor.
Though fantastic, this was very close toi reality. Its known as a negative freight train, your targets become your cover as you run towards them.
(Btw this really works, well, untill the reload but hey its a film!)
Ruthlessness. In a firearm situation you can show no mercy. It takes just 0.5 seconds to identify aim and shoot a target in cqb. She does this perfectly.
Sadly children with guns are ultimate soldiers, looking through the colours, costumes and martial arts, I can really see a glimmer of reality.
Finally, kids are gullible, with no sense of mortality, hence a trained child will be obedient and very very brave.
Okay i don’t see the big deal about the word people make a big deal about the “C word” Is stupid i mean penis dick isn’t why the heck is it so bad that she said it and i think that it is sexist that people are making a big deal about it. And what would be the difference if i guy did the part and said the word what makes it so bad about her saying it and not him it’s stupid and sexist
People should get over them selves by now women have been pulling there own weight for a long time and are just as strong as guys. So stop being so stupid saying”I wouldn’t have mind if it was a boy playing it but she’s a girl”
I mean why does it matter that she said C U N T
Omg it’s a womens vagina SO WHAT! It is a part of our body just like when guys call each other “Dicks” What’s the difference? Huh? Yeah that’s what i thought there isn’t one. You people just need to grow up and get over yourselfs!
The thing that disappointed me about Hit Girl was how they she didn’t have enough kid moments. She was an adult in a kid’s body, but I think it would have made her a very compelling (and still bad-ass) character if, for example, she just broke down in tears after her father died, or if she had made a kid-like mistake during her final confrontation with DiMico.
Had these things happened, it would have lessened the impact of the more uncomfortable aspects you mentioned, simply by making her more human.
But I’m not the director, and that’s that.
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