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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1995 film directed by Rachel Talalay Tank |
Girl Theatrical release poster Directed by Rachel Talalay Screenplay by Tedi |
Sarafian Based on Tank Girl by Alan Martin Jamie Hewlett Produced by Richard |
B. Lewis Pen Densham John Watson Starring Lori Petty Ice-T Naomi Watts Malcolm |
McDowell Cinematography Gale Tattersall Edited by James R. Symons Music by |
Graeme Revell Production companies United Artists Trilogy Entertainment Group |
Distributed by MGM/UA Distribution Co. Release date March 31, 1995 ( |
1995-03-31 ) (United States) Running time 104 minutes [1] Country United |
States Language English Budget $25 million [2] Box office $6 million [2] [3] |
Tank Girl is a 1995 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by |
Rachel Talalay and written by Tedi Sarafian . Based on the British comic |
series of the same name created by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin , the film |
stars Lori Petty , Naomi Watts , Ice-T , and Malcolm McDowell . Set in a |
drought ravaged Australia years after a catastrophic impact event , it follows |
the antihero Tank Girl (Petty) as she, Jet Girl (Watts), and genetically |
modified supersoldiers called the Rippers fight Water & Power, an oppressive |
corporation led by Kesslee (McDowell). After reading an issue of the Tank Girl |
comic she had received as a gift, Talalay obtained permission from the comic's |
publisher Deadline to direct a film adaptation . She selected Catherine |
Hardwicke to be the production designer , and worked closely with Martin and |
Hewlett during the making of the film. Tank Girl was filmed primarily in White |
Sands, New Mexico , and Tucson, Arizona . The film's critically praised |
soundtrack was assembled by Courtney Love , and the Rippers' makeup and |
prosthetics team was headed by Stan Winston . Winston's studio were so |
enthusiastic about the project they cut their usual prices in half to meet the |
film's budget. Financially unsuccessful, Tank Girl recouped only about $6 |
million of its $25 million budget at the box office and received mixed reviews |
from critics. [4] Martin and Hewlett have since spoken negatively of their |
experiences creating the film, and Talalay blamed some of the film's negative |
reception on studio edits over which she had no control. Despite the box- |
office failure of the film, it has since become a cult classic and has been |
noted for its feminist themes. Plot [ edit ] In the year 2033, after a decade- |
long global drought in the wake of a comet striking the Earth , the little |
remaining water is controlled by Kesslee ( Malcolm McDowell ) and his Water & |
Power (W&P;) corporation, which subdues the population by monopolising the |
water supply. Rebecca Buck – "Tank Girl" ( Lori Petty ) – is a member of a |
commune in the Australian outback that operates the last water well not |
controlled by the corporation. In an attack on the commune, W&P; troops kill |
Tank Girl's boyfriend, Richard ( Brian Wimmer ), and capture Tank Girl and her |
young friend Sam (Stacy Linn Ramsower). Rather than killing her, Kesslee |
enslaves and tortures the defiant Tank Girl. Jet Girl ( Naomi Watts ), a |
talented but introverted jet mechanic who has given up trying to escape W&P;, |
urges Tank Girl to make less trouble for their captors, though Tank Girl |
refuses. Among other forms of torture, W&P; personnel push her down into a |
long pipe to induce claustrophobia . The mysterious Rippers slaughter guards |
at the W&P; compound, then escape. Kesslee uses Tank Girl to lure the Rippers |
into the open, but they gravely wound him. Tank Girl and Jet Girl escape |
during the attack. Jet Girl steals a fighter jet from W&P; and Tank Girl |
steals a tank, which she modifies heavily. The girls learn from the eccentric |
Sub Girl ( Ann Cusack ) that Sam is working at a sex club called Liquid |
Silver. They infiltrate the club, rescue Sam from a pedophile , Rat Face ( |
Iggy Pop ), and then humiliate the club's owner, "The Madame" ( Ann Magnuson |
), by making her sing Cole Porter 's " Let's Do It " at gunpoint. W&P; troops |
break up the performance and recapture Sam. Tank Girl and Jet Girl wander the |
desert and find the Rippers' hideout. They learn that the Rippers are |
supersoldiers created from human and kangaroo DNA by a man called Johnny |
Prophet. Tank Girl befriends a Ripper named Booga ( Jeff Kober ), while a |
Ripper named Donner ( Scott Coffey ) shows romantic interest in Jet Girl. |
Despite the objections of the Ripper T-Saint ( Ice-T ), who is suspicious of |
the girls, the Rippers' leader Deetee ( Reg E. Cathey ) sends the pair out to |
capture a shipment of weapons. The girls bring the weapons crates back, though |
most of them are empty. After finding Johnny Prophet dead in one of the |
containers, the girls and the Rippers realize that W&P; has tricked them. The |
girls and the Rippers sneak into W&P;, where they are ambushed. Kesslee, whose |
body had been reconstructed by the cybernetic surgeon Che'tsai ( James Hong ), |
reveals that Tank Girl has unknowingly been bugged . Deetee sacrifices himself |
damaging the generator, and in the darkness the Rippers turn the tide of the |
battle. Jet Girl kills Sergeant Small ( Don Harvey ), who had earlier sexually |
harassed her. Kesslee reveals that Sam is in the pipe, her life endangered by |
rising water. Tank Girl kills Kesslee, then pulls Sam out of the pipe. The |
film ends with an animated sequence showing water starting to flow freely. |
Tank Girl drives down rapids, pulling Booga behind on water skis, then takes |
them over a waterfall, shouting for joy. Themes [ edit ] Lori Petty, who |
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