#Hitman 2007

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Timothy Olyphant in Hitman (2007)

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Asexuality in Film: Part 5 Hitman franchise (Hitman 2007; Hitman Damnation by Raymond Benson 2012; Hitman Agent 47 2015)

Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant; Rupert Friend)

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Hitman is, and has been for a long time, about the commodification of people.

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Watched the Timothy Olyphant Hitman movie from 2007. Is it a good movie? Eh, still love it. I used to have a giant poster I got from the local Movie Gallery. Its not a good Hitman movie, but a solid mid 2000s action movie. Made me want to watch John Wick, so Im gonna go through all 4 of those. I don't think Ive seen Chapters 3 or 4 now that I think about it. Good chance the first (and only the first) Smokin' Aces will creep in between JW movies, or right after. Maybe Shoot Em Up after that. Other recommendations are welcome. Pew pew time.

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The way when he's in a fight/infiltration mission it's like a switch flipped and hens immediatly this hyper confident guy who does everything right. Just. Guy who is excellent at killing and maiming and terrible at every other conceivable life pursuit.

Ok so. I finished it and the story is so damn good. High quality movie 100% recommend. Also he's giving me such huge ace vibes omg. In 2007. Executive produced by Vin Diesel?? Girl what. And the disguises. The fight scenes again those fucking fight scenes. The duckies. The "using a sniper rifle as binoculars to look at love interest". The lines. The bodies box. Also how he strolls around everywhere in the exact same clothes and nobody notices lmaoo

I'm actually dying at the 2007 Hitman movie.

So, (spoilers!) but in the story basically 47 is forced to drag along some random girl or else she'll die. She's drunk, she hits on him, he feels awkward...

AND FUCKING SEDATIVE SYRINGES HER TO GET OUT OF IT AHAHHHH

I can't even, this is so in character 😭

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Movie #61 of 2024: Hitman

I have a feeling this was the movie that prompted Olga Kurylenko to fight like hell to prevent her Bond girl character in Quantum of Solace from becoming a sex object.

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Hitman (2007) - review

Reviewed by: LitewriterCheck out more of my reviews and articles on “Sunset Movie Reviews” by Litewriter Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating: “Hitman” (2007) is rated “R” due to the strong bloody violence, language, and some sexuality/nudity. (Information courtesy of IMDb.com) CINEMATIC REVIEW | Hitman (2007): A Sharp but Flawed Bullet Hitman (2007) is an Action Thriller…

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Hitman (2007) Movie Review

Hitman – ABC Film Challenge – Video Game Movies – X (Xavier Gens) – Hitman – Movie Review Director: Xavier Gens Writer: Skip Woods (Screenplay) Cast Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies) Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible 2) Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) Robert Knepper (RIPD) Ulrich Thomsen (The Celebration) Plot: A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as ‘The…

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asexuality!!!!

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Weekly Shonen Jump 55th anniversary appendix in Weekly Shonen Jump 2023 issue #33

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Name: Sage

~●○°●○°●○~ Likes: Whump, horror, gore, torture, angst, injuries, suffering. Hurt/comfort AND hurt/no comfort. Mad science, medical trauma, body modifications, painful transformations, feral behavior, body horror. Explain it in visceral detail and I'll marry you. But also tooth-rotting fluff of turtle tots. Also family going Beast Mode to protect someone they love. Squicks: Rape/sexual assault. No shipping outside canon ships pls and thank you. Also would prefer to avoid major character death and Bad Future Timeline Rise, please. No 2012 or Bayverse fics. Favorite Iteration(s): 2003, 2007, The Last Ronin, and Rise

~●○°●○°●○~ Prompt #1 - 2003 (or Rise). Agent Bishop has gotten his hands on one or all of the turtles, only now he's got the time he needs to do with them as he pleases. Taking samples, vivisections, bio-mechanical experiments, double mutations, medical horror, it's all on the table. The more brutal the better. Prompt #2 - 2007. Leo's pretty much resolved things with Raph, but he's still got two other brothers who probably deserve apologies. He disappeared for years without a word, no way Donnie and Mikey haven't got hurt feelings over that. Whatever conversation or confrontation comes from this will likely be awkward and a little hurtful. Prompt #3 - The Last Ronin. AU where Ronin/Mikey lives and gets to raise the babies. Slice of life with Yi, Moja, Uno, and Odyn at any age. Mikey discovering the trials and tribulations of raising four baby mutant turtles (and trying hard not to be like his father). Wholesome or angst, it's up to you. Prompt #4 - Casey Jones in trouble. Maybe used as bait, or got in too deep and needs to be rescued, or stumbling from a bad injury. Maybe Casey gets mutated or experimented on. Make your favorite Jones suffer! Prompt #5 - One of the turtles gets sold like a curio at an auction house. Who bought them and for what nefarious purpose? To be a pet? To live in a zoo? To be a guard? A hitman? For entertainment? Endless possibilities! (I was specifically thinking of Tales of the TMNT and the Purple Dragons selling Raph, but figured this could work for any iteration.) ~●○°●○°●○~

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I was originally going to write an entire rant about the treatment Skip Woods gives to his female characters across both his outings in the Hitman franchise. I started going through Hitman (2007) with the intention of studying how Nika was portrayed as a character with the sole purpose of ranting about problems I saw in the way Woods handles women, female leads in particular (to be frank, there are few other female characters of note in either film; Diana is grandfathered in as an important character, but as I've ranted about before and will do so again, Katia's mother doesn't get the grace of a canonical name despite haunting most of H:A47). But, as I was doing that, I realized how similar the films are overall, at least in how they set themselves up.

One of the big points for me was the similarity between Katia and Nika, not in minute details but in overall character sketch: a woman in a bad position in life who is in need of rescue and (perhaps by necessity of genre convention) sexy. But not just any kind of sexy, she also has to be exotic. Nika is a Russian sex slave, a stereotype that may have flown in 2007 but needed necessary updating for 2015. So, Katia's mother is Sri Lankan Tamil. (She's initially implied to be mixed, which would slot her into the But Not Too Foreign trope where acceptable love interest territory lies, but when the story shifts gears to sibling team up mode and John is revealed to be a straight up antagonist, Katia is directly stated to be the product of mad science. It's highly probable that but for necessary modifications, she is a direct clone of her own mother--"You are the reflection of the woman I loved.")

There are other points I observed, too, mostly in setup (the details of deviation allow for the films to run different courses in their second halves). The prologue of the program that produced 47, the placements of any flashbacks (they taper out by the half-way point), the entire plot of "initial hit kick starting the action, followed by find the girl (whether that was an original goal or not), followed by kidnap the girl and deliver to her a series of key revelations, followed by drag her along to help on the mission". I don't watch enough movies (action movies in general or Woods' work in specific) to know whether this is scènes à faire or if H:A47 is really just Hitman (2007) with a different coat of paint. But I also don't think it's a bad thing. Lots of creatives have pet themes that make it into almost all their work.

The similarities also make it really easy to see where I think one version did better than the other. The prologue and flashbacks 47 has to getting tattooed from Hitman (2007) are something I prefer over H:A47, for example. Instead of the clinical sterility of medical exams, we get glimpses into the actual training the boys were given, including the implication that they were the ones responsible for shooting any of their number who tried to escape. 47 fixates on the tattoo because it caused him a lot of pain. There's a similar moment in H:A47 but instead 47 is asked if it hurt, and says yes. Coupled with the fact that in the 2015 version of the prologue, we do see 19 get his number, and the machine doing the stamping... gets it done in a couple of seconds and 19 doesn't even flinch. In the 2007 version somebody is using an actual tattoo gun, forcing him to keep a steady hand and 47 to hold as still as possible to not mess up the lines. To quote Dan Olsen: "inference is dramatically inferior to being shown."

(As a random aside, the monks in the 2007 version go completely unexplained. I think they were only included because in the second game 47 briefly converts to Catholicism and lives in a monastery. I have a web of theories about how the movies and games play off each other; this and 47's wearing the stripe tie from Blood Money for the first act are on that pin board.)

On the other end, I think Katia is an improvement, character wise, over Nika, and that boils down to one specific change. Katia is 47's little sister, a product of the same experiments that produced 47 himself. Because Katia also has Agent abilities, this handily allows her to participate freely in the action, in part because 47 spends the second half forcing/teaching Katia to use her abilities for combat until she can manage without prodding. Nika, for her part, acts in her storyline in spite of 47. She's told over and over again to stay put and not wander off or interfere, and she wanders off and interferes (though she does only interfere once; 47 scared her straight after that). Nika's primary story function is... teaching 47 to love? It's unclear, and her method half the time is to attempt to seduce him which, given his explicit rejection of the idea, counts as assault. Making Katia 47's sister eliminates the need for any weird "romance" dynamic involving 47 himself, and makes them much more equal in their interactions.

I want to make another point of comparison, too, and this is going to bring in ideas from the games. It's 47's relationship to his own name, which has clearly changed as time goes on. In Blood Money (which I'm certain influenced Hitman (2007)), 47 states "Names are for friends, so I don't need one." In Hitman (2007), he tells Nika "The place I was raised, they didn't give us names, they gave us numbers. Mine was 47." Both of these statements imply that he doesn't view 47 as a proper name but as something imposed on him (there's an argument to be made that in the 2007 film, the Organization used numbers as a means to strip their orphan charges of identity to keep them in line and foster loyalty).

However, in H:A47, he has this exchange:

Sanders: "So why don't we start with your name." 47: "47." Sanders: "That's... not a name." 47: "No, but it is mine."

Additionally in the prologue sequence of Hitman (2016), he has this exchange:

47: "I believe they called me... 47." Diana: "That's not a name." 47: "So make it one."

The acceptance of "47" as a name in its own right implies a version of the character more at peace with his clonehood and circumstances. In H:A47 especially, there are implications that the clones had a sort of subculture, or cultural identity among themselves (47 outright states that while each clone gets barcoded at birth, they only get the corresponding number stamped on them "when [they] become Agents", and if that's not a rite of passage I'm a wheel of cheese). One could surmise that their numerical identifiers were given appropriate significance, and I have nothing to go on here but I do think they lined up in numerical order for everything that required them to assemble in an orderly fashion (which is everything they could have been required to do at the lab).

The point I'm trying to make here is that as the Hitman franchise has progressed, the character of 47 has changed his relationship with the fact that his name is 47 (and everything that implies). Here I'm not going to say one or the other is bad, but I do think it's interesting and worth further study.

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what fandoms were you in long before twisted wonderland? I mean like over 10 years ago.

Anon, thank you for this question because it made us sit down and actually look through the albums of my old art and write a list LOL We thought it’d take like 30 minutes tops + 10 minutes to write all of this down, but it took 2+ hours yikes… So sorry, no other replies today :(

And made us realise just how much we revisit certain fandoms 🤦‍♂️ I guess we’re loyal!

Some of them were just very brief phases when we watched/rewatched something, I drew like 5 sketches for this thing and we moved on after about a week. But it was still prominent enough for us to feel like “Oh right, Ryu was drawing (this) back then”. Damn, 2013-2016 were insane, we were jumping around so much… When did these people have time to watch and draw so much shit??

Since this blog is very old, you can find some of my very old shitty fanart for a lot of those here. In all honesty, I really want to draw fanart on some of the more obscure and old ones again… if you have questions about any of this, feel free to ask!

2007: W.I.T.C.H., Oban Star Racers, Naruto lol my very young years

2008: Petshop of Horrors, Yami no Matsuei, Gravitation

2009: Hetalia, Vocaloid

2010: Vocaloid, Terra e…, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Hetalia

2011: Terra e, Kaze to Ki no Uta, Sound Horizon, Hetalia, Magi (mostly Judal), Kuroshitsuji (a little bit)

2012: Homestuck, Prince of Tennis, Sengoku Basara, Sound Horizon, DC (Batman + Robin, mostly Tim Drake), Thor, Danny Phantom, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, ATLA, Adventure time, D. Gray-Man

2013: Ed Edd n Eddy, Sound Horizon, Penumbra Overture, Lucius, Thor, Hetalia, Dan Vs, Hannibal, Shingeki no Kyojin, Death Note, Bakuman, Neon Genesis Evangelion, South Park, Durarara, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Litchi Hikari Club, Hellsing Ultimate, Yami no Matsuei, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Game of Thrones, Hannibal, the Simpsons

2014: Kuroko no Basket, Hadaka Shitsuji, Hoozuki no Reitetsu, Gravitation, Shingeki no Kyojin, Tytania, Panty&Stocking, Soul Eater, Bleach, Kill la Kill, Hellsing Ultimate, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood,  Ace Attorney (trilogy + Apollo Justice), Priapus (by Mentaiko/Itto lol I drew him a lot), Togainu no Chi, Outlast, Daria, Scooby Doo, Haikyuu, DMMD, Katekyō Hitman Reborn, Tokyo Ghoul, Free, Kuroshitsuji, Psycho-Pass, Yowamushi Pedal (HUGE!!!!!), D. Gray-man, One-Punch Man

2015: Metalocalypse, ATLOK, Gravity Falls, Guns n’ Roses (yeah the band), Hannibal, Steven Universe, View Askewniverse, the Addams family, Ace Attorney Dual Destinies, DMMD, Life is Strange, Over the Garden Wall, Rick & Morty, South Park, Miraculous Ladybug, Undertale, Watchmen

2016: Supernatural, Peanuts, Osomatsu-san, Outlast, Until Dawn, BioShock Infinite, Code Geass, LoTR, Game of Thrones, Hetalia, House MD, Zootopia, Shingeki no Kyojin, D. Gray-man, Hellsing Ultimate, LA Noir, Percy Jackson books, South Park

2017: American Horror Story, Danganronpa, Neon Genesis Evangelion, ATLA, Homestuck, Yuri on Ice (super briefly), Outlast 2, D. Gray-man, DMMD, Hetalia, Gravitation, Monster, Dream Daddy, Junji Ito, Boku no Hero Academia, Osomatsu-san, South Park, Hannibal

2018: Voltron, Danganronpa, Devilman (Crybaby and classic), Homestuck, Berserk, Gravitation, Bungo Stray Dogs (briefly), Gintama, Hellsing Ultimate, Hetalia, BTS, Priapus (he came back), LoTR, Togainu no Chi, Sweet Pool, Detroit Become Human

2019: Tanya Grotter books, Hannibal, Homestuck, D.Gray-man, Hunter x Hunter, Danganronpa, Durarara, ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., Soul Eater, ATLA, Witcher 3, Shingeki no Kyojin

2020: Shingeki no Kyojin, briefly Uncharted 4 and BioShock Infinite

2021: Shingeki no Kyojin, ATLA, Sk8, Jujutsu Kaisen, Squid Game

2022: The Great Ace Attorney, Sadistic Beauty, Hades, Mirai Nikki (suddenly), Akira, Encanto, the Gray House (the House In Which, it’s a book),  Cowboy Beebop, Fight Club, It (2017), Stranger Things, LoTR, Uncharted, Hetalia, Frozen (more like Hans/Anna lol), Kuroshitsuji, Twisted Wonderland

2023-2024: Mostly Twisted Wonderland, but we also posted some Scott Pilgrim stuff at the very beginning of this year.

I guess this is it. Woah…