ONE CUSSIN' KICK-ASS HIT-GIRL

GOOD GRIEF, Charlie Brown!!!


Get ready to get acquainted shortly with "Hit-Girl," a 10 year old assassin from the upcoming movie "Kick Ass," due for an April release.
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A Feb. 24 front page story in the New York Times Arts section will see to it that you will be suitably intrigued, or advocating the calling out of the National Guard cultural wars division to slay the evil, mind-warping Hollywood independent film-making moguls.
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The R-rated movie, a fantasy/dark comedy taken from the pages of a similarly twisted comic book features 13 year old Chloe Moretz playing the pre-teen cutie, good with a gun, and other.
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And all this is at issue due to what they call a "red branded" movie trailer, which since late last year has gone viral on the Net, and also gone koo-koo for cocoa-puffs on some parental groups who see the film as yet more proof we are all going to hell on a rotting, risque rail.
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In the trailer, Hit-Girl tells her father, played by Nicholas Cage that she is, "only fucking with him," calls some impending victims of her gun-play, "cunts," blows several heads off, severs a few legs, and, well, you get the idea. Yes, kids still say-and do-the darnedest things.
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Of course having young girls in raunchy movies is nothing really very new, with perhaps the most salient example being Jodie Foster as the 13 year old prostitute in Taxi Driver, released in 1976, also to a few howls of self-righteous indignation.
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However, one may argue that Foster's role was that of a groundbreaking
nature, conceived by a genuine auteur in director Marty Scorsese, and certainly not played for loquacious laughs and pr-teen titillation like Hit-Girl obviously is. (Apparently, this teen thing is to be the rage.)
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And which side you may come down on for this movie may also depend on if you have children about the same age as Hit-Girl, who doubtless will become the kiddies new(est) hero, simply because she is driving the poor harried parents bunny-boiling mad.
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If you are not presently supervising brats, then you can go to the move and be suitably dumbed-down with nary a care.
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But Lionsgate, who will release the film and are expecting it to be a smash, may suffer a backlash when it hits the mainstream media blender, or God Forbid, the US Congress gets sour wind of it.
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With this eventuality,things could get very interesting...
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Thee, hoo-ha: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/kick-ass-red-band-hit-girl-trailer/