By his own admission,Zack Snyderisn't the most commercial of directors, but he was at one point a very successful director of commercials.
Before reanimating the zombie genre with 2004's remake of"Dawn of the Dead"and turning a Spartan budget on"300"into a $456 million hit two years later, Snyder was Madison Avenue's go-to visionary, picking up a Clio Award for a memorable Jeep"Frisbee"commercial.
But when he closed his eyes, he fantasized he was making movies— one movie in particular.
"I had written a script just because I hadn't made a movie and I was getting bored of making TV commercials,"the 45-year-old director says."I had written the script and in it there was a sequence in which these guys forced this girl to dance. She closes her eyes and when the music starts she has this fantasy that she goes somewhere else.
"I {later} went back and read it and that was a part of it I really liked, this little sequence."
The result of that little sequence,"Sucker Punch,"opened Friday.
The movie starsEmily Browningas Baby Doll, an emotionally fragile young woman who slides into a fantasy world as she faces an involuntary lobotomy in a bleak 1960s mental institution. She's aided in her quest to escape by four leggy inmates— played by the likes ofAbbie CornishandDisneyrefugeeVanessa Hudgens— who cleave through all manner of enemies (steam-powered German zombies!) while squeezing into intensely tight bustiers.
In short, it's an"Inception"-like trip that mashes up every influence Snyder had growing up inGreenwich, Conn., from Japanese anime to"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."Blink and you'll miss the loving details like the symbols on Baby Doll's swords that spell out the movie's entire story line.
But will mainstream audiences get the winks and nods?
"I feel like on one level the movie is just a straight awesome romp with a slightly 'Twilight Zone' ending,"he says."If you don't care to dig in, you don't have to by any means."
Snyder himself is pleased with the results. It takes a long to time to go from 30-second spots to 110-minute films; to get to Hollywood fromConnecticut.
"I always told everybody that {making films like this is} what I'd be doing,"says Snyder."I may not have believed it, but that's what I said."
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