I have seen the trailer for "Sucker Punch" and I have seen many archetypes as well as a very energetic movie about a girl trying to escape from prison. The main character is a blond girl who has to go on a quest to get five items. Those five items are the key for her to escape the facility. To get those five items, her peers and herself have to go on a journey to the underworld and battle evil.
This looks like a heroic journey about a blond girl to free herself, but that is a very hard task. She has to go up against evil, magic, and dragons just to free herself out of prison. As I said before, she needed five items for her quest to be completed. The first item was a map, fire, knife, key and the last item was a mystery item. All five items symbolizes her journey and also closing to the end of her journey.
Another archetype that I think that the movie has is the battle between light and darkness. Light symbolizes the blond girl and hope. Darkness symbolizes evil and the chance of something bad happening to the protagonist. But as we all no, as bad things happen to the hero, the ending is usually a happy ending. But we do not no that yet, we will have to watch the movie and find out what really happens. Does the girl escape from prison, does she find the five items? Those are all unanswered questions that can be answered when the movie is released and we can watch it.
Nice post Shawn, it's very informative and made me consider different aspects of the movie and its plot. I also look forward to seeing if there is a happy ending or not.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a good movie and I can't wait to see what happens!
ReplyDeleteYo dawg,I noticed you missed the little fact that the trailer is full of blues and oranges, colors symbolizing both life and death (after all, they're shown in pretty bleak tones).
ReplyDeleteAlso, the mentors. The girl with the brown hair that looks like The Queen of Darkness and the old guy may be them. Just sayin'.
Also, the five magical items each have a meaning. The map to find a road, the knife to cut through wilderness, the fire to light one's way, and the key to open the final door.
Sucker Punch looks good. Good analysis Shawn. I'm wondering myself, do you think the hero is also in some sense the anti-hero? The blondie seems to have an attitude towards men in her society, yet may be hiding some demons in herself as well.
ReplyDeleteI think that she is a hero and not a anti hero because some guys just act dumb and thats what I think the case is in this movie.
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