YouTube - Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder) - Trailer HD - 2011 (ad free)
From Zack Snyder
Spoilers Below
I've been looking at this trailer a lot at first when I saw it I went cool, then huh?. After that I was speculating the potential of this movie as a great film and possibly a video game. I immediately thought that I should write a book like this then shook it away as I knew I was just caught up in the moment and majority of the time it never turns out good to copy others. After all that I've been trying to guess what the film could be about. I took some images here from the trailer and added my interpretations on them. The overall concept I'm getting from this is that the film starts out being about escaping from a corrupt mental institution. I left out a lot of shots because with some I am just dumbfounded. Take a look. Note the spoiler bits are meant to read after reading all the image tags the first time.
First image we see. A beautiful woman sleeping with her head against a rain splattered window.
(SPOILER)I am guessing that this is some time before she's in the mental institution and most likely after the funeral of the person she was involved with. In the funeral pic it was raining too.
We then see this sign noting a mental institution in the city of Battleboro in the state of Vermont in the USA. Googled the city and it states that it's the oldest city in the state and is known for its vibrant art community.
Here you see the lovely lady being dragged in while struggling. She is angry and scared.
(SPOILER)After she tried her move.
Here you see a samurai cleaning a katana
(SPOILER)Most likely the sensei that taught her to fight
Here you see some menacing or badass looking enemies. You can also see a temple crossing behind them.
Our girl being badass. She is in a sort of archetyped pose and I'm getting a real sense of feel of anime from this shot. Most likely because it's a woman wearing a school uniform holding a samurai sword. I also noticed that the bangs of her hair billowing in the wind resembles the demon Shishiwakamaru's hair bangs when he gets mad. You can see the steps of the temple behind her.
(SPOILER)I'm thinking this is the moment where her skills are tested to become a full samurai or perhaps this is even before she meets the sensei and this fight is a test to prove her worth. A third option could be that some kind of samurai or demon gang has beef with the temple and she's standing up to defend it. Least likely option.
I'm clueless hear
(SPOILER)Still clueless
Some mafia lookin thugs here
(SPOILER)The Don's henchman confronting our hero, she could possibly be trying to escape and they block her path, anything.
Man in the middle looks like the big cheese. Can see a fine black or some other dark skinned race chick on the opposite side of the doors. She was probably crying before the door opened and her fear worsened when the don came in.
Here you can see several sexy ladies dressed in lingerie in a dressing room. The attire resembles burlesque type wear. I also believe it is revealed that the don's name is Blue.
(SPOILER)This also seems like these women have no combat prowess probably before they learn how to fight.
Our hero on stage in lingerie. pretty much confirms my last thought.
(SPOILER)I am guessing this is the first time she is on stage here when she is forced to dance to stay alive.
Definitely does now
(SPOILER)The girls are forced to perform burlesque routines to customers
Someone's funeral
(SPOILER)The funeral of the person she was connected to. It's raining here just like in the first screenshot.
An investigation scene here at the scene of a crime perhaps.
(SPOILER)Probably before our hero gets sent into the crazy house.This might actually be moments before the little girl is discovered. Looks to be in a bathroom
A small girl scared, possibly hiding in a closet, a nasty bathroom stall, or someplace else.
(SPOILER)Maybe the person who was murdered. Our hero's sister?
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Overall I'm seeing this as a film that involves a young woman who was connected to a crime and possibly witnessed it. The mafia comes to her place and threatens that if she testifies she's dead. Something along those lines or maybe perhaps like what happened to Angelina Jolie in Changeling. She makes an attempt to tell someone maybe a cop and she is taken away wrongfully to this corrupt mental institution run by the mafia that forces the women to stripping at night for guests. Doesn't sound too creative to me. This girl meets the other women and after a while she is sick of the situation being tortured and being treat like a piece of meat. She or someone else tries to influence the girls to break out when there's armed guards and the women have no weapons or any sense of battle.
I'm not sure how the girls manage to learn how to fight and escape, but they might manage to knock out a guard while terrified stealing his guns and proceeding to escape with a presumed well thought out plan. They are caught, but manage to escape by sheer luck. Someone a sensei comes into play and teaches the main girl at least how to truly fight.