Pitch Perfect (film series)

 

Pitch Perfect is an American musical comedy film series created by Kay Cannon, loosely based on the non-fiction book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory by Mickey Rapkin. Jason Moore directed the first film, and Elizabeth Banks directed the second and Trish Sie directed the third. Paul Brooks, Max Handelman, and Banks produced the films. It features an ensemble cast, including Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, Adam DeVine, Ben Platt, Alexis Knapp, Hana Mae Lee, Ester Dean, Hailee Steinfeld, Chrissie Fit, John Michael Higgins, and Banks. The series is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The first film was a sleeper hit. It received positive reviews and was financially successf noul, grossing over $115 million against a $17 million budget. A sequel was made and released in 2015, to greater financial success, grossing over $287 million against a $29 mill useion budget. The series has since gained a cult following, grossing $565 million worldwide, and the second film is the highest grossing musical comedy film of all time, beating School of Rock's record.

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Rebel Wilson - Pitch Perfect 3

 

Even before Pitch Perfect 3 hit theaters, the production was criticized for possible discrimination against its plus-size stars. Rebel Wilson posted a photo online of herself alongside her co-stars Brittany Snow and Chrissie Fit; while the latter two wore sleeveless tops, Wilson wore short sleeves. The photo sparked accusations of size discrimination, possibly intensified since Wilson has been a public defender of a healthy female body image.

The controversy escalated when people pointed out that Ester Dean, one of Wilson's co-stars, also wore a similar sleeved version of the striped sailor shirt in a photo of her posted on her Instagram account. Movie costume designer Salvador Perez finally took to Twitter to try and put out the fire. "I let each actor decide how the costume would fit, 

it was his choice," Perez wrote. "Rebel, Ester and Haney Mae wanted sleeves." In abnother photo posted by Kelly Jackie, each of the stars are seen wearing a variety of styles of the same sailor shirt. It appears that the photo that sparked the controversy in the first place may have been taken out of context.

 

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Ryan Reynolds - Green Lantern

This costume caused controversy the second time fans saw it. A fully CGI Green Lantern? The stills and original trailers for the film looked pretty bad, and while the studio insisted it would look amazing on screen, the animated costume has been widely regarded as one of the many reasons for the film's failure. Star Ryan Reynolds later admitted that he didn't care for the CGI set.

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 "I mean, it's brutal to make a movie where you wear a motion capture suit all the time," he pointed out. "I didn't even get to see the Green Lantern costume until the first trailer. I didn't even know what it looked like."

The filmmakers wanted to make something new for a superhero, and costume designer Ngila Dickson came up with the idea that the suit was his power manifesting out of the body, an interesting idea, but the special effects just didn't hold up, and Dickson agreed. . 

"We were literally doing what you would sculpt in a studio, but we were doing it with a computer," she recalled. "In many respects, we followed the same principles, but you never got the tangible result that you get from the construction that you do in a costume house."

 

 

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George Clooney - Batman & Robin

 

JOel Schumacher's Batman & Robin was a disaster, to put it mildly. Cartoon elements, terrible dialogue, and poor plot choices aside, fans will never forget the movie's costumes, specifically the bats.

"There's no way I can explain it to you, other than that I had no idea putting nipples on the bat costume was going to make international news," Schumacher described in a Batman special. "The bodies for the suits, the inspiration for them are Greek statues that have perfect bodies. And so we're molding this perfect body out of rubber, and they're anatomically erotic. So, it never occurred to me not to put nipples on the suits. of men because I did not know that the male nipple was a controversial part of the body. "

That all sounds reasonable enough, and if Batman and Robin had been successful on many other levels, audiences might have seen beyond the distractions of the locker room. Unfortunately, the film sent the entire franchise into limbo for a solid decade, leaving fans with years to poke fun at the worst misstep in the franchise's long cinematic history.

 

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Karen Gillan - Jumanji

 

In September 2016, audiences got their first glimpse of a photo from the set of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle by Jake Kasdan, a new adventure inspired by the 1995 Robin Williams-directed adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's children's book. In the photo, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black wear jungle-appropriate outfits ... 

along with their co-star Karen Gillan, who wears what amounts to child-size clothing. The photo drew immediate criticism, prompting Gillan to try to defuse the controversy by telling The Hollywood Reporter, "The payoff is worth it, I promise!"

THR later revealed that the film's first footage, which was screened at CinemaCon in March, explains Gillan's skimpy outfit. "The plot involves four high school students who are forced to clean the basement of their school while in detention," she reads herself in a summary. 

"They find an old video game (instead of a board game) and each one chooses a character to play." Gillan's character is a shy girl who transforms into her adult character, and as viewers saw in the first trailer for the film, the choice of costumes is a reflection of the way video games portray women.

 

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