Kick-Ass is an American comedy superhero in 2010 based on a comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. published by Marvel Comics. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, produced with Brad Pitt and co-authored the script with Jane Goldman. The film is produced in Toronto, Canada. The release is generally on March 25, 2010 in the UK and on April 16, 2010 in the United States. This is the first installment of the Kick-Ass movie series.
It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who sets out to be a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". Dave is caught in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), a former policeman who, in his attempt to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) and his son (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) (Red Mist), has trained his eleven-year-old daughter (ChloÃÆ'Â · s Grace Moretz) to become Hit-Girl's cruel ploy.
Although it has generated some controversy due to profanity and violence perpetrated by a child, Kick-Ass is well received by critics and viewers. In 2011 she won the Empire Award for Best British Movie. The film has gained a strong cult following since it was released on DVD and Blu-ray. A sequel, written and directed by Jeff Wadlow and produced by Vaughn, was released in August 2013, with Johnson, Mintz-Plasse, and Moretz repeating their roles.
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Plot
Dave Lizewski is an ordinary teenager living in Staten Island, New York. Inspired by comic books, Dave plans to become a real-life super hero. He bought and modified the scuba diving suit, and armmed himself with a stick. During his first visit, he was stabbed and then hit by a car. Once recovered, it gets the capacity to withstand pain and increase endurance as it has multiple bones replaced with metal.
In his absence at school, rumors spread that he was gay, because he was found naked by paramedics after throwing his costume. As a result, his old crush, Katie Deauxma, immediately tried to be his friend. Unhappy with the misunderstanding, Dave still appreciates the opportunity to get closer to Katie.
Dave returned to the criminal fight and became famous after intervening in a gang attack. Calling himself "Kick-Ass", he creates a Myspace account where he can be contacted for help. Responding to Katie's request, she confronted a drug dealer, the Apostle, who had harassed her. In the place of the Apostle, Kick-Ass was quickly overwhelmed by the Apostles' thugs. Before they can kill him, two costumed officers, Hit-Girl and his father, Big Daddy, intervene, easily slaughter the criminals and go with their money. Upon returning home, Dave realizes that he is on top of his head, and plans to stop the crime. However, Hit-Girl paid him a visit and encouraged him.
Big Daddy's main identity is Damon Macready, an honest police ex-officer. Framed by the Mafia boss, Frank D'Amico, he was imprisoned. His wife committed suicide, leaving her daughter, Mindy. Against the protests of his former counterpart Marcus Williams, Damon trained himself and Mindy in preparation for revenge on Frank. They have ruined Frank's operation by robbing his warehouse, robbing his money and destroying his medicines.
Frank believes Kick-Ass is responsible for the attacks and targets him, impulsively killing a party entertainer dressed as Kick-Ass. Frank's son, Chris, suggests a different approach. He posed as a vigilante, "Red Mist," and befriended Kick-Ass. He plans to lure Kick-Ass into Frank's wooden shed and unmask it. However, they found the shed burn and the Franks died. Red Mist picked up a hidden camera he had previously placed in the warehouse, and saw Big Daddy killing the men and burning the barn. Red Mist and Kick-Ass split up. D'Amico watches the recording and learns Big Daddy and Hit-Girl.
After the event, Dave decides to stop being Kick-Ass. She reveals her identity to Katie, and cleans up her misconceptions about being gay. She forgave him and became his girlfriend. However, Red Mist contacts him again, and tricks him into revealing Big Daddy and the Hit-Girl location. In one of Big Daddy's safe houses, the Red Mist shot Hit-Girl from the window, and the Franks caught Big Daddy and Kick-Ass.
Frank intends to torture his thugs and execute his prisoner in a live Internet broadcast. While Kick-Ass and Big Daddy are being beaten by Frank's gangsters, Hit-Girl, having survived the shootings, bombed the hideout and killed all the gangsters. During the fight, one thug makes Big Daddy on fire. Damon and Mindy say goodbye to tears before Big Daddy dies of burns.
Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl decide to defeat Frank D'Amico once and for all. Hit-Girl infiltrated Frank's headquarters, and killed many guards and accomplices before they ran out of bullets. When he is cornered by the criminals, Kick-Ass arrives with a jet packet equipped with miniguns and kills the remaining criminals. Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl then take on Frank and the Red Mist. Kick-Ass fights with the Red Mist and they drop each other. Frank beats the weary Hit-Girl. Before he can kill him, Kick-Ass regains consciousness and shoots him with a bazooka. Frank bursts out the window and explodes in the air. Dave and Mindy resign from the fight of evil. Marcus became Mindy's guardian, and he enrolled in Dave's school. Meanwhile, Chris D'Amico sits in his father's office, wearing an enhanced suit. Facing the camera, he says, "as a great man once said, wait for them to get my burden," before firing a gun at the audience.
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Cast
The creators of the Millar series, originally from Scotland, asked Scottish television show host Glen Michael to make a cameo appearance despite his cut role from the film. Millar was also set to make a cameo as Scottish alcohol but the scene was cut from the film. WCBS-TV news reporter Maurice DuBois, Dana Tyler, and Lou Young made a cameo appearance.
The image of Matthew Vaughn's wife, Claudia Schiffer's model, stands out on the billboard poster.
Production
Development
The movie version right from the comic book was sold before the first edition was published. Developed in parallel, the film's authors take different story directions, to reach many of the same conclusions. Mark Millar recognizes the difference, explaining that a comic usually has eight actions, while the film usually has a three-pronged structure.
Vaughn says that, "We write scripts and comics at the same time so this is a very collaborative organic process I met [Millar] on the premiere of the film Stardust We did very well I know who he is and what he has done but I do not know him He gave me the idea I said, 'That's great!' He wrote a synopsis, I said, 'Great, let's do it now! You write comic, I'll write the script. ' "Jane Goldman is one of the screenwriters, saying that when she worked with Vaughn she did "construction work" and "interior design" while Vaughn acts as an "architect."
Millar says that screenwriters Goldman and Vaughn have made "girl films", after more emphasis on character emotions, and especially in softening Katie Deauxma's character. Millar stated that movie viewers would have trouble accepting Dave and Katie are not together, while the comic audience would be more receptive to the idea. Frank Lovece of Journal International says that Katie is "much less Mean Girls" in movies than in comics, and that the romance between Dave and Katie "proves the need to offset the widespread sense of optimism which is stripped layer by layer, under an angry cynicism and goes straight to the hole to nihilism. "Kenneth Turan from the Los Angeles Times says" romance provides an interesting background that the more grotesque aspects of the film play against. " Other changes include having the Red Mist known as a secret antagonist from the beginning, as well as making it less evil, and D'Amico's mass initially thought Kick-Ass was the one who slaughtered his people.
In the original comic book, Big Daddy is not characterized as a former policeman, but as a former accountant who is motivated to fight crime with the desire to escape from his life and because of his love of comic books. In the film, his original origins and motivations are genuine: author Mark Millar states that disclosures about Big Daddy's background will not work in film adaptations, and "will ruin the movie."
Comic artist John Romita, Jr. stated that Big Daddy's story in the movie "works better to stop short (...) you love him better in the movie".
The top of the film differs significantly from the comic, with the use of jetpack and rocket launcher: Millar calls this "necessary" because "we built so much stuff we needed, Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star moment". Comic author Stephen Grant argues that the movie "cheated" on the premise of a "real life" super hero by having more fantastic events and that this is "why it works... that's where a lot of humor comes from... when the movie finally makes the idea [fantasy] explicit we are so far into the magician's actions that our instinct is to play together â €.
Vaughn originally went to Sony, which distributed Layer Cake , but he refused a call to reduce violence. Other studios expressed interest but wanted to create an older character. Specifically the studio wants to turn the Hit-Girl character into an adult. Goldman said that while studio executives said it would be less offensive to portray Hit-Girl as a teenager, Goldman argued that it would be more offensive since, as a teenager, Hit-Girl would be sexual. Goldman says that Hit-Girl is not supposed to be sexual.
Vaughn had little difficulty adapting to the movie: the movie did not have a studio. The big studios doubted the success of adaptation as a violent superhero, which made the film independently funded, but it gave him the freedom to make movies as he imagined, without worrying about high sensors. Vaughn believes enough in the project to raise the money itself. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Red Mist) said that the creator of the film was wondering whether the distributor would take the film. On the set of kidding Vaughn is called Kick-Ass as something that will be "the most expensive home movie I've ever made".
The sequence of 2D/3D animated comic books in this film takes almost two years to complete. Romita makes a pencil, Tom Palmer does the ink, and Dean White does the color. Vaughn gave Romita a carte blanche on the art direction of the order.
Filming
The filming locations include Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Dip 'N' Sip Donuts on Kingston Road in Toronto, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, and "lots of Toronto landmarks that play brilliant acting"; and various locations in the UK, including Elstree Studios. The opening sequence with Nicolas Cage was filmed at a waste factory in east London.
The Atomic Comics store in the movie is based on a real life-based Arizona real-life chain whose owner, Millar says, is a friend of artist John Romita Jr.. Millar asked Mike Malve's permission to use Atomic Comics in the movie, and an Atomic Comics model version was created in a London pilot studio for use in film making.
Controversy
In January 2010, an uncensored preview clip from the film was attacked by the family advocacy group for displaying violence and the use of the line "Okay, you cunts, let's see what you can do now," ChloÃÆ' Â «Grace Moretz, 13 years old during filming. Australian Family Association spokesperson John Morrissey said that "his shoulders are very offensive and inappropriate values, without the saving grace of a traditional super hero victory". Some critics, including Christopher Tookey of the Daily Mail, accused the film of glorifying violence, saying that Hit-Girl "was made to look as seductive as possible". Tookey's view of Hit-Girl is heavily criticized, with many commentators - including Andrew Collins, film editor of the Radio Times - wondering why he found sexual characters. This causes Tookey to claim that he is a victim of cyber-bullying. Responding to the controversy, Moretz stated in an interview, "If I ever say one word I say on Kick-Ass , I'll be punished for years!" I'll be stuck in my room until I'm old 20 years! I will never in a million years to say it. I'm an ordinary girl, every day. "Moretz said that while filming, he can not force himself to say the title of the film aloud in an interview, instead calling it a" movie "in public and a" Kick-Butt "at home.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse expressed surprise that people were upset about the language but did not seem to be offended that Hit-Girl killed many people.
Ratings
In an interview with Total Film , Aaron Johnson insisted that the film remained faithful to the mature nature of the comic series by displaying a large amount of profanity and graphic violence. The film received an R rating by the MPAA because of "strong brutal violence throughout, spreading language, sexual content, nudity and some drug use - some involving children", and was ranked 15th from BBFC. Director Matthew Vaughn felt the 15 certificates were about true and expressed some surprises on the film after receiving a "PG [sic] rating" in France.
Reception
box office
The film earned more than $ 12 million internationally before its opening in the United States. On the weekend of its debut in the United States it took $ 19.8 million in 3,065 theaters, averaging $ 6,469 per theater. Kick-Ass is reported number one, before How to Train Your Dragon for $ 200,000, which is in its third week of release. On Saturday, April 17, 2010, it fell to number three behind How To Train Your Dragon and Date Night . On Sunday, May 2, 2010, it fell behind A Nightmare on Elm Street , How To Train Your Dragon , Furry's Revenge , > Back-Up Plan , Night Date , Clash of the Titans and The Losers . These figures for Kick-Ass ' s gross weekend include non-weekend earnings, because the movie was previewed during Thursday night before release. The last dirty film in the US was $ 48,071,303 and $ 48,117,600 off the US with gross worldwide of $ 96,188,903.
The film is listed among the most violated films of 2010; according to statistics on TorrentFreak, the film was illegally downloaded more than 11.4 million times, second only to Avatar.
Critical response
In the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 75% approval rating based on reviews from 244 critics, and the average score was 7/10. The consensus of the site reads: "Not for the faint of heart, Kick-Ass takes the genre of comic adaptation to a new level of visual style, bloody violence, and ecstatic profanity." Metacritic commissioned a film score of 66 out of 100, based on a weighted average of 38 reviews from mainstream critics.
In the UK, The Guardian provides extensive coverage of the film by some of its critics and journalists. Peter Bradshaw gave the 5/5 star movie and called it "a blast in a bad taste factory" which was "really embarrassing, jaw-dropping cruel and a very funny riff in the quasi-porn comic book world, except that there really is not 'quasi' about that. "Philip French, writing for The Sunday Associate Paper
Christopher Tookey of the Daily Mail said, "Do not be fooled by the hype: Crime against this movie is twisted, cynical, and fun in childhood abuse". Chris Hewitt from Empire magazine gave the film 5/5 and stated it, "A very entertaining, fast-paced, ultra-violent cinematic thrill kicking places found by other films....] The film violence is fantastic and cartoonish and not taken seriously. "
The international critics who enjoy this film generally choose his courage, humor, and appearance from ChloÃÆ'Â Gr Grace Moretz. Peter Howell of Toronto Star gave top rank Kick-Ass, writes that production "works as a violent fantasy about our dangerous and agonizing time, where ordinary citizens feel compelled to take action against the decaying social order from within. " USA Today's Criticism Claudia Puig praises Moretz as" amazing... Even when she uses a strange weapon, she becomes very adorable. " Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote, "Quickly, periodically spitting and often very cruel, this film at once embraces and teases contemporary action films with Tarantino-esque personal praise." Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Entertainment gave B movie, but noted that "personally, I just hope that the movie ends with a bit less than an over-the-top action."
In the film Journal International, former Marvel Comics writer Frank Lovece says the movie "dynamic fun" "really improves on comics by not metaphorically kicking off the teeth of our heroes... and making it a sad addict who's wrong about almost everything. "She finds that," The comedy of dry humor... plays smoothly in the middle of scenes of chaos, outside the camera. "
The other reviews are more negative. Roger Ebert found the film to be very offensive and "morally reprehensible", giving it one of four stars. He cites rough and violent language, especially the scene where Hit-Girl was almost killed by D'Amico. "When kids in the age range of home video-audiences shoot each other every day in America, that sort of thing stops being funny." Ebert's only praise is for Cage, Johnson and Moretz performances. This movie makes a list of your movie "Movies" in a week.
Robey's team of The Daily Telegraph did not like the movie, rated it 1/5 and stated, "Matthew Vaughn's Kick Ass is hollow, teary and not quite there. ".
Karina Longworth writes for The Village Voice, unimpressed with the satire and the movie's intended theme: "It's never surprising as she thinks, the funny thing to be, or engaging in cultural criticism as it might be, Kick -Ass half-ass. "
Accolades
Release
Home media
In an interview, Matthew Vaughn said, "There are about 18 minutes of [deleted] footage, which is really good. the movie is a hit, I will do the pruning. "The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 3, 2010 in North America. This version does not contain such deleted content. Selling 1.4 million units in its first week, one-third of this in Blu-ray format, Kick-Ass debuted at number one on the DVD sales chart. The disc was released in the UK on September 6, 2010.
Once released in home video, he develops heretical sects.
Video game
Video games based on this movie are produced by WHA Entertainment and Frozen Codebase. It was released through the App Store on April 15, 2010 for iPhone and iPod Touch. The initial Apple platform release reported an unfinished beta version and was withdrawn from circulation while awaiting the re-release of a ready-made version. This game was released on the PlayStation Network on April 29, 2010. Kick-Ass, Hit-Girl and Big Daddy are playable characters. The game has a mission and Facebook integration. Both versions of the game received negative reviews.
Sequel
Despite various setbacks and uncertainties as to whether the sequel will come true, on May 8, 2012, it is reported that the sequel will be distributed by Universal Studios, and that Matthew Vaughn has chosen Jeff Wadlow, who also wrote the script, to direct the sequel. Aaron Johnson and ChloÃÆ'Â «Grace Moretz repeated their roles as Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl, respectively, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse returned as the main villain, going by the name of" The Motherfucker ". The film was released on August 14, 2013 in the United Kingdom and on August 16, 2013 in the United States.
See also
- Kick-Ass: The Game
- Kick-Ass: Music from Motion Pictures
- Movie Vigilante
References
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External links
- Official website
- the Kick-Ass channel on YouTube
- Kick-Ass on IMDb
- Kick-Ass in AllMovie
- Kick-Ass in Mojo Box Office
- Kick-Ass at Rotten Tomatoes
- Kick-Ass in Metacritic
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