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There's a scene in the middle of Kick-Ass 2 that involves 10 NYPD officers being relentlessly slaughtered. Two of them are blown up by a propane tank, two of them are killed by the blades of a lawnmower, and the other four are killed by similar means. I suspect that this is the part of the movie where Jim Carrey, while watching "Kick-Ass 2" for the first time, thought to himself, Nope. I'm out.
We don't know that for sure, of course, because Carrey isn't doing press to promote Kick-Ass 2. In June, Carrey tweeted, "I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence ... my apologies to others involve [sic] with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart." Having now seen Kick-Ass 2, Carrey probably made the right decision.
Like a lot of people, the Sandy Hook shootings had a large effect on Carrey. He's since been extremely vocal on the issue of gun control and violence. Once Carrey went "all in" on this topic, there was really no turning back. He certainly can't preach to people about how guns are bad -- even penning a song about Charlton Heston's now infamous "cold dead hand" line -- then tell people to go see a movie with extreme gun violence. I am not saying that movie violence and real violence have any correlation (I am not a scientist); I'm just trying to look at this from Carrey's unique perspective.
Carrey's Kick-Ass 2 co-star Chloe Grace Moretz was recently quoted as saying, "If you are that easily swayed, you might see The Silence of the Lambs and think you are a serial killer." That's fine and all, but the violence in Kick-Ass 2 is just so ugly and mean spirited compared to that movie, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Case in point: There's an almost-rape scene in "Kick-Ass 2" that's played for laughs. A male character is going to rape a female character, except that the male character is unable to get an erection and thus the rape never happens. (Note: In the source material, the female character actually is raped.) So, yes, Carrey has every right to take a step back from ugly material.
Carrey's face is featured prominently on the Kick-Ass 2 poster, yet Carrey's screen time as Colonel Stars and Stripes is surprisingly short. (In other words: If you are seeing this movie only because you are interested in Carrey's role, you are going to be very, very disappointed.) He appearance is so brief, in fact, that if Carrey was only aware of the scenes he filmed, I could definitely envision a scenario where he was blindsided by the amount of violence in the rest of the movie. (For what it's worth, in response to Carrey's tweets back in June, "Kick-Ass" creator Mark Millar wrote that nothing in the film
To be fair: It's not as if Carrey's character is a saint. Colonel Stars and Stripes is, like pretty much everyone else in the Kick-Ass movies, a vigilante dressed in a superhero costume. Colonel Star and Stripes was a former mob enforcer who became a born-again Christian, and then decided to fight crime. In Carrey's only true action scene, he hits a few guys over the head with a wooden stick, admonishes a few people for using foul language, then lets his German Shepherd chew on an accused sex slave trafficker's penis. After all of this, Carrey's character holds a gun to this same man's head, but we later find out that the gun he uses is never loaded.
So, yes, even if Carrey didn't know the true level of violence or the flippant tone of the film, he did know there was some violence. But the fact is that Carrey has become such a champion of gun control, he kind of painted himself into a corner. People will forget about Kick-Ass 2; people wouldn't forget Carrey's perceived hypocrisy. The issue of gun control obviously means something to Carrey -- certainly a lot more than the 10 minutes of screen time he has in (what is in my opinion) a bad August movie that no one will remember in a month.
Full disclosure: I actively despised Kick-Ass 2. The film's tone is schizophrenic, jumping from deaths that are played for laughs to deaths that we're supposed to care about, then back again. Seriously: pick one. Also: A rape scene played for laughs is not funny. I have no idea why anyone in his right mind would include that in the final film. (For more on this issue, check out this insightful piece by CinemaBlend's Kristy Puchko.)
Perhaps it was that afterthought scene, in which 10 NYPD officers are slaughtered, that occurs so close to a hilarious scene, in which high school girls vomit and defecate at the same time. (I would have liked to have been in the writers' room as the "we have them puke" faction battled it out with the "we have them poop" faction, only to end in tragic compromise.) Perhaps it was the attempted rape played for humor. Whatever the reason, Carrey wasn't going to double down his reputation on Kick-Ass 2. Now I see why.
There hasn't been a big Kick-Ass update in a while, which is a bit unfortunate considering how excited I am. So I thought I'd break the silence and bring you an update on the production. Last week we talked with actor Mark Strong, one of the finest English actors currently working. He just finished up roles in Body of Lies and RocknRolla and in addition to playing the villain in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (more on that in the future), he's playing the head villain in Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass. Not only does he give us a full breakdown of his character, who hasn't showed up in the comics yet, but reveals some interest details surrounding the production, including that it wasn't really the excessive violence that studios disliked.
Strong plays a character named Frank D'Amico, described as "a New York gangster, quite a nasty piece of work. He's a fixer, a drug dealer. And his world starts to fall apart when he realizes that his organization is being brought to its knees by what appear to be teenage superheroes." He continues on about the character's arc throughout the film: "So he's got this dilemma of realizing that his organization is falling apart and he can't quite work out why. So the film starts with him basically questioning one his guys, who he believes has taken his money or his drugs. And that scene is the most together you ever see him, and then over the course of the film, he basically falls apart. He starts to basically lose his mind."
"I've been shouting a lot, snorting a lot of coke, drinking a lot of whiskey, and threatening people with guns," he adds. We all know that the movie is based on Mark Millar's comic, but there are only four issues currently out on shelves at the moment, and none of them have really focused on D'Amico yet. However, Strong reveals that the plan is to finish each series off with a total of eight issues and that they're hoping to have three series. That's great to hear considering I loved the first four and was already anxious to see where they'd take the story next. Millar's Wanted only lasted one full series and he never continued it any further. Unlike Wanted, however, Kick-Ass is a direct adaptation of the comic without any major changes.
Getting back to the gritty side of things, back in August we reported that Matthew Vaughn was having trouble negotiating with Hollywood studios because the script was apparently way too violent for any of them to get into. He subsequently funded the entire production, rumored to have a budget upwards of $70 million, on his own. However, Strong, who has already been shooting the film with Vaughn, says he had a conversation with him that disproved those claims and somewhat clarified the whole situation.
"I'm not sure how true that is, in actual fact. Because I did mention that to Matthew. I said, 'What is the demographic for this movie? What age group and everything? Because if it's obviously as violent as the comics are, don't you lose your audience?'"
"I said, 'Isn't that the problem, that the studios all felt it was too violent?' He said, 'Well, if you choose to believe what you read on the internet, yes. But that wasn't actually the case.' He seemed to imply that it was just something that he wanted to do. And because he financed basically Lock, Stock and Snatch himself, he also financed Layer Cake himself. Stardust was a departure, in that Paramount was the distributor who also put money into it. But he still raised some of the money himself. He's just one of those guys who -- he has backers. But I think he likes having control over the movies that he makes. So he looked at Kick-Ass, loved the idea of it, and basically didn't particularly want anybody else to get involved. 'I'll make the film, and I'll make the film that I want to make. And then if other people like it, they can pick it up and distribute it.' I think that's close to the truth."
So does that mean it won't be as violent as originally thought? "Oh no, it's pretty violent," Strong says. "I just saw today the sequence at the end where Hit Girl comes in and takes out basically Frank and his goons, his nasty army. And it's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. And this is just the set up that the stunt guys and the fight arrangers have filmed. And it's absolutely astonishing. It's going to be incredibly cool." That definitely sounds like it should be pretty awesome. The violence in the comic includes an 11-year-old girl slicing bodies open and cutting heads in half with her ninja swords. I expect the violence in this to be at an acceptable R rated level, but not gory enough to be classified as horror.
While we've seen plenty of on set photos from the film, nothing official has been released just yet. We'll be anxiously awaiting any other big news we hear on this and will be sure to bring you any other cool photos we find, whether they're official or not. Mark Strong's character sounds like one hell of a nasty guy and I can't wait to see him both in the comics and in the movie once it's finished up - so stay tuned!
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