Chloe Moretz’s Hit-Girl doesn’t just kick ass on the big screen — she’s also a force to be reckoned with in a new music video.
Moretz, alongside fellow “Kick-Ass” stars Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Clark Duke, are the stars of a new music video for The Soft Pack’s “Answer To Yourself.”
The video, directed by Kashy Khaledi, puts a new spin on the high octane action seen in director Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass,” not to mention a whole new meaning to the term “food fight” as well.
In the video, a high school geek played by Duke sits by himself at a lunch table, quietly minding his own business as he constructs one of the most formidable Twinkie towers of all time. When a group of Varsity jacket-wearing bullies start getting physical with a bespectacled girl on the opposite end of Duke’s table, an unlikely savior comes along — none other than Moretz herself, donning the same schoolgirl uniform she wears in “Kick-Ass.”
But instead of butterfly knives and handguns, Moretz’s weapons of choice are decidedly less deadly but no less effective — shaken up soda cans and other various food products are the tools of the trade this time around, as an epic food fight breaks out throughout the cafeteria.
As Moretz is busy beating the bullies into submission, her “Kick-Ass” compatriot Mintz-Plasse voyages into the cafeteria armed with a bazooka. But instead of packing explosive firepower, this bazooka is loaded with a messy liquid that’s bound to ruin anybody’s day.
While the video eases off on the bloody violence seen in next week’s “Kick-Ass,” the action-packed mayhem is well intact. Furthermore, it’s nice to see these young actors getting a chance to cut loose without actually having to cut anything!
(via MTV)
In “Kick-Ass,” Chloe Moretz’s 11-year-old Hit Girl is a knife-throwing, sword-wielding, bloody killer of bad guys. At one point her dad (Nicolas Cage) shoots her in the chest, and only after the pre-teen shakes off the shooting with a smile does the audience realize she’s been wearing a bulletproof vest.
These are boundary-pushing scenes, no doubt, even for an R-rated film, and in an interview with MTV News, Cage admitted he was originally unsure where filmmakers should draw the line.
“There were a lot of feelings about [the violence],” he said of Moretz’s character. “I was concerned. I knew it was going to be something that was uncomfortable for me as an actor.”
At the same time, Cage knew from past experience that being uneasy on set often leads to truly compelling on-camera work. What’s more, the actor said he opposed any softening of Moretz’s scenes as a matter of principle.
“My belief is that any art form — pop art or other — is by nature freedom of speech,” he said. “It depends how you come into the movie and what your agenda is. Hopefully you won’t have any agenda and you’ll just go and see an rated-R movie and receive whatever it is the director wanted you to receive. But if you have an agenda going in and say, ‘It’s inappropriate,’ you can pick that argument.
“Conversely, you can come out and say, ‘Chloe Moretz’s character is a pop icon of feminism strength,’” Cage continued. “Because women go to see this movie and they’re really wowed by it. They love her character and how powerful she is. It’s ‘I am woman, hear me roar.’”
Helping assuage Cage’s concerns as well was the simple fact that, regardless of age, Moretz is a remarkable actress. “I knew about her right away that she was marvelously charismatic and had her own unique sense of humor,” he said. “I knew she had star presence.”
(via MTV)
Kick-Ass premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on Friday, garnering impressive reviews from critics. You can read several new reviews about Chloe’s performance here.
Chloe attended the Kick-Ass panel on Saturday morning, as well as a signing at Vans promoting the new Kick-Ass shoes.
You can also check out a couple of videos from SXSW below.
There’s also a video from the Vans store signing here.
A new poster for the SXSW Film Festival featuring Chloe as Hit-Girl has been released.
According to MTV, the Hit-Girl poster — as well as the previous Kick-Ass and Red Mist posters — will only be available during Kick-Ass signings at SXSW, including Saturday morning’s official Kick-Ass panel.
Kick-Ass will be premiering at SXSW tonight, officially kicking off the festival.
Our “10 in ’10” series is continuing to roll out all week long, and one of our latest installments features “(500) Days of Summer” star Chloe Moretz – a 12-year-old girl with three films coming out this year, including the eagerly-anticipated remake of the vampire flick “Let the Right One In,” entitled “Let Me In.”
“It’s about a boy who lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Growing up, not many people like him, he’s not popular. He’s wimpy, kind of an outcast,” she said of the role played by Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Road“) in the flick, which is due in theaters October 1st. “Then this girl moves in, she’s totally different… she’s a beast, [being a vampire] is a demon inside of her and she can’t stop it from coming out… when I turn into a vampire, it’s terrifying.”
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