What would you rather see Carla Gugino dressed up in: a nurse’s uniform or a madam’s dress/corset? Fortunately for you fanboys, you’ll get both costumes in Zack Snyder’s upcoming “Sucker Punch.” Gugino is reuniting with her “Watchmen” director for the film, in which she’ll play a dual role. Of sorts.
The film takes place in a 1950s mental institution, where a young girl (Emily Browning) has been sent for a lobotomy. However, with the help of her friends (Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone and Abbie Cornish) she enters an alternate reality with hopes of escaping the hospital.
In the story’s real world, Gugino will play a nurse at the institution; in the fantasy world she plays the head of a brothel. I'm guessing that she will be the film’s villain, since both roles are authoritative, though it’s unclear what kind of relationship she will have to the girls.
Doesn’t this all sound a little like “Return to Oz”? In that underrated film, Dorothy escapes a mental institution to a fantasy world. Is it any coincidence that Jean Marsh also played a dual role as both that hospital’s head nurse as well as the wicked Princess Mombi of Oz?
In any event, Gugino will certainly please the target geek audience, whether she’s good sexy or evil sexy. I can certainly see her playing bad and bitchy, but she’s mostly known for playing relative good girls, whether she’s the mother of a couple of “Spy Kids,” or a literal supermom in “Watchmen.”
Do you want to see Carla Gugino as a villainous Nurse Ratchet/evil madam? Or, do you hope her characters are on the side of the young girls? Do you even care one way or another as long as Gugino’s the one onscreen (and in the corset)?
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