![]() ![]() There are flashbacks within flashbacks and comedy title-cards (“4 Minutes Ago”) but the time-shifting dissipates momentum in the middle stretch - you never get the sense that Yan, whose only previous feature is absurdist satire Dead Pigs, has a firm grip on the narrative. It’s so much fun when the group finally come together, it feels like a misstep not getting them together sooner. ![]() The film sets up the question of who is Harley without Mr J? The answer lies with a motley crew of diverse women. ![]() Quickly recapping the events of Suicide Squad in animated form, we quickly learn Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Joker have broken up - she publically updates her relationship status by driving a truck into Ace Chemicals, the plant where she pledged herself to the clown prince of crime - and the film frenetically establishes her trying to cope on her own buying a hyena she calls Bruce (after Wayne), roller derbying, her partying antics captured in one long shot like a coked-up 1917. It’s a moving-on-after-a-break-up movie, a Marriage Story with punch-ups. Perhaps the first rug-pull is that it isn’t strictly a Birds Of Prey flick at all. It doesn’t all work, but it’s a gaudy, muddled, mostly entertaining glitter-grenade celebration of just how women can fuck shit up. Because Birds Of Prey not only shares the DNA of a girl gang who can kick your sorry ass - Cathy Yan’s film also boasts some of the subversive and rockabilly spirit of QT’s ’94 classic. It’s a particularly apt part-time alias for Robbie’s passion project, the first big-screen outing for DC’s all-women superhero squad. ![]() For the uninitiated, ‘Fox Force Five’ is Mia Wallace’s ( Uma Thurman) never-aired TV pilot in Pulp Fiction concerning five female secret agents each with a distinct identity and skill - a knife thrower, a kung fu master, a demolition expert and a French girl whose “speciality was sex”. It also flips the film's emphasis from the all-female Birds of Prey gang featured in the film to its more recognisable leader, Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn.Īccording to Google's search traffic analysis tool Google Trends, the phrase 'Harley Quinn' has consistently outperformed the phrase 'Birds of Prey' worldwide.At the behest of star and producer Margot Robbie, the working title for (deep breath) Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn) was ‘Fox Force Five’. Speaking to technology news website The Verge, a representative from Warner Brothers said the name change was part of a "search expansion for ticket sites," making it easier for people to find the movie.įilm and technology experts have interpreted the decision as an attempt to make the film title as search engine friendly as possible, given online search traffic represents a major and growing source of marketing. While movies often go through various name iterations before their release - Pretty Woman, American Pie, and Scream all had different working titles - it is rare for films to undergo a name change after they have already hit cinemas. Unusual for films to change names post-release ( Supplied: Claudette Barius/DC Comics)īut the film returned an underwhelming opening weekend during which takings reached $US33 million ($49 million), far lower than the $US50-55 million projections ($74-82 million). A scene from 2020 film Birds of Prey featuring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Margot Robbie, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez and Ella Jay Basco. ![]()
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