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Schoolgirl Assassin Coming to a Theater Near You
The comic book Kick-Ass is being adapted into a movie, and one of the main hooks is an 11-year-old girl who plays a trash-talking, butt-kicking ninja.
As this recently released trailer makes clear, Hit Girl is not messing around, with either her language or her murderous martial arts.
Jezebel has a positive take on the unusual superhero persona. “I smile every time I see that kid kicking ass and taking names in the trailer,” writes Latoya Peterson. “It is interesting to see a tweenage girl in a role that isn’t sanitized or sexualized.” But many commentators over at BoingBoing were disturbed by what one person termed the “blithe ‘murder is fun’ mentality” of the film.
The movie is rated R, so ostensibly Hit Girl is not supposed to be as a role model for any youth–she’s just a character who’s far more entertaining than your average killer. That said, anyone can watch the trailer online and we all know that an R rating hardly ever stopped a tween from seeing a movie.
What do you think? Is it cool that a girl is such a bad-ass? Or uncool that an 11-year-old is swearing like a sailor and throwing knives into people’s heads?
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C.G commented on Dec 23 09 at 9:17 pmI think it looks good, but i’m all about irreverent flicks
Rene commented on Dec 23 09 at 10:25 pmPeople need to get a grip! This movie is not going to make serial killers out of 11 year old girls. It’s a movie. If your daughter, aged 11 doesn’t understand fact from fiction, you have a larger issue on your hands
Anonimon commented on Dec 24 09 at 7:29 amThat is very disturbing. Child killers are what pass for entertainment these days? Could our culture get much lower.
Courtney commented on Dec 24 09 at 10:09 amWhy is this controversial? Tween girls have been cast in similar roles for decades. Jodi foster played a 12 year old prostitue decades ago, Natalie pittman got her start as a tween who befriends an older hitman and tries to follow in his footsteps, and Quentin Tarantino brought us a schoolgirl assasin in kill bill. Why is this so different? It’s obviously notmeant for tween viewers with an r rating. I was more disturbed by Linda Blair in the exorcist than I am by this, though the only negative effect that seemed to have was to kill her career.
maeby commented on Dec 25 09 at 6:04 pmI am going to watch this.
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