Kick-Ass (2010) on Netflix
Dave Lizewski is an awkward teenager in Staten Island who asks why real-life superheroes do not exist. He modifies a wetsuit, names himself Kick-Ass, and is attacked while confronting muggers.
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Plot summary
Dave Lizewski is an awkward teenager in Staten Island, where he lives with his father. He is a comic book fan, and so are his friends Marty and Todd, and he has a crush on Katie Deauxma. Asking why no real-life superheroes exist, he modifies a wetsuit to become one, and muggers attack him and leave him critically injured. Doctors replace some of his bones with metal, which gives him an enhanced pain tolerance. A rumor spreads at his school that he is gay, and Katie approaches him because of it, and the pair become close platonic friends. After he saves a man from a gang attack he draws attention, and calling himself Kick-Ass he opens a Myspace account. Katie gets in touch, because a drug dealer is harassing her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kick-Ass (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film rights to the first volume were sold before the comic's first issue had even been published, and the comic and the screenplay were then developed in parallel, taking different routes to many of the same conclusions.
- Matthew Vaughn took the project to Sony first and refused their calls to tone down the violence. Other studios wanted Hit-Girl aged up; Jane Goldman argued that a teenage Hit-Girl would have been more offensive, not less, because she would have been sexualised.
- The 2D/3D animated comic-book sequence took almost two years to finish, with John Romita Jr. on pencils, Tom Palmer on inks and Dean White on colors. Matthew Vaughn gave Romita a free hand over its art direction.
- Chloe Grace Moretz could not bring herself to say the film's title aloud while she was making it, calling it "the film" in interviews and "Kick-Butt" at home.
