On this week’s episode of Slice of SciFi, we brought you a story about screenwriter Jane Goldman and her work adapting “Kick Ass” for the big-screen.
As we told you on the show, part of the movie is the bloodthirsty 11-year-old girl, Hit-Girl, who drops dropping F-and C-bombs while slashing bad guys to death to the soundtrack from “The Banana Splits.”
And while director Matthew Vaughn says that he can see why that might raise the eyebrows of some, he says that people shouldn’t criticize without seeing the movie first.
“I think it’s really important that if you’re going to criticize a movie or say this is morally wrong, go see it,” Vaughn told SciFi Wire “Then I’ll listen to your opinion. But if you haven’t seen it, I’m not really that interested. I’m not forcing someone to buy a ticket. If you go watch the movie, you’re making a conscious decision, I hope, unless you’re watching a pirate DVD, of engaging and paying us money for a movie. After that, you’ve got the right to say whatever you want. But beforehand, I’m not interested.”
He went on to say that something that those protesting the film haven’t picked up on yet is that it’s a satire and not a politically correct one.
“”The people who are taking it overly seriously haven’t seen the film,” Vaughn said. “The way I feel is—and I said this earlier—it’s a movie. You do not have to buy a ticket, number one.”
He goes on to say that once audiences see the film, they will understand a bit more of what turns Hit Girl into the foul-mouthed killing machine we’ve seen in the trailers.
“Hit Girl’s father is a single parent obsessed with crime, training his daughter with dangerous weapons. He’s not supposed to be a role model for child rearing.
“Secondly, this is a character that slaughters and kills people and has from the age of 5 been brainwashed,” Vaughn continued. “If she was working for the U.S. government, killing the Taliban, and a 19-year-old Navy SEAL, no one would complain.”
One thing that’s raising eyebrows is the character’s language.
“It’s interesting that we’re discussing more about the fact that she swears more than she kills,” Vaughn said. “I would rather be in a room with a bunch of people swearing at me than hacking me up.”
And Vaughn really doesn’t care what you say about the movie: “As long as they’re not reporting that someone’s gone and copied what they do in the movie, I’ll be fine with them complaining and causing controversy,” Vaughn said.
“Kick Ass” opens in theaters on April 16.
I expect this movie is going to be really, really effed up.
And strangely, that just makes me want to see it even more.