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still did not think that she would be able to afford his studio on her budget. |
A meeting was arranged and Winston insisted on being given the project, saying |
the Rippers would be: "the best characters we've had the opportunity to do." |
[31] Winston's studio cut their usual prices in half to meet the film's |
budget. [31] Eight Rippers were featured in the film: half were given |
principal roles, the others were mainly in the background. Each Ripper had |
articulated ears and tails which were activated by remote control, and the |
background Rippers also had mechanical snouts which could be activated either |
by remote control or by the movement of the actors' mouths. [32] Each Ripper's |
make-up took about four hours to apply. Three technicians from Winston's |
studio were required to work on each Ripper's articulations during filming; no |
puppets or digital effects were used for the Rippers. [33] The main tank used |
in the film is a modified M5A1 Stuart . It was purchased from the government |
of Peru about 12 years prior to filming and had already been used in several |
films. Among numerous modifications made for Tank Girl , the tank's 37 mm |
antitank gun was covered with a modified flag pole to give the appearance of a |
105 mm gun. An entire 1969 Cadillac Eldorado was added onto the tank, with the |
rear section welded at the back and the fender welded to the front. [34] Post- |
production [ edit ] A "naked Ripper suit" incorporating a prosthetic penis was |
created for Booga and used in a filmed postcoital scene which was removed from |
the final version of the film at the studio's insistence. [11] Deborah |
Cartmell described the "postcoital scene" in the final version, which featured |
Booga fully clothed, as "carefully edited". [35] Against Talalay's wishes, the |
studio made several other edits to the film. The scene in which Kesslee |
tortures Tank Girl was cut heavily on the grounds that she appeared "too ugly" |
while being tortured. Also cut was a scene showing Tank Girl's bedroom, which |
was shown to be decorated with dozens of dildos , and a scene in which she |
places a condom on a banana before throwing it at a soldier. The role of Sub |
Girl was originally intended to be larger; at least two scenes featuring the |
character were cut from the film, including her appearance in the original |
ending. The studio cut the original ending, a live-action scene in which it |
begins to rain; the film was to have ended with Tank Girl burping. [11] |
Soundtrack [ edit ] Tank Girl – Original Soundtrack Soundtrack album by |
Various artists Released March 28, 1995 Recorded 1994 Genre Alternative rock |
Length 41 : 58 Label Warner Bros. Records Elektra Records Producer Various |
artists The film's soundtrack was assembled by Courtney Love ; [36] [37] |
Graeme Revell composed the original music. [14] Love's band Hole contributed |
the song "Drown Soda". Greg Graffin from Bad Religion was originally supposed |
to sing the duet of "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" with Joan Jett , but due |
to contractual restrictions he was replaced by Paul Westerberg from the |
Replacements . Devo recorded a new version of their song " Girl U Want " |
specifically for the film, as they were big fans of the comic. [38] "Girl U |
Want" plays in the film's opening sequence, featuring the singing of Jula Bell |
from Bulimia Banquet ; [39] this version with Bell is in the film but not on |
the soundtrack album. The soundtrack featured Björk's song " Army of Me " |
before it was released as a single. Because of the box-office failure of the |
film, both Björk and her label decided not to use footage from the film in the |
song's accompanying music video. [40] The song "Mockingbird Girl" by the |
Magnificent Bastards (a side project of Scott Weiland ) was recorded |
specifically for the album after Love approached Weiland asking if he would |
like to contribute a song. [41] The single's cover showed the torso and thighs |
of an animated character resembling Tank Girl and featured the tracks "Ripper |
Sole" and "Girl U Want" from the album. In the United States, it peaked at No. |
27 on the Mainstream Rock chart and No. 12 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. |
[42] The song "2¢" by Beowülf also appears in the film; Talalay lobbied |
Restless Records to have the song included on the soundtrack but was |
unsuccessful. Instead, she directed the music video for the song, which |
featured both animated and live-action footage from the film. [43] The |
soundtrack album was released on March 28, 1995, by Warner Bros. Records and |
Elektra Records . It peaked at number 72 on the Billboard 200 . [42] The next |
week, New York magazine wrote that the soundtrack was getting more attention |
than the film itself. [44] However, Ron Hancock of Tower Records stated that |
sales of the album were disappointing and attributed this to the financial |
failure of the film. [40] Owen Gleiberman spoke favorably of the soundtrack, |
[36] as did Laura Barcella writing in the book The End , describing it as a |
"who's who of '90s female rock." [37] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said |
the album was "much better than the film", awarding it three out of five |
stars. [45] No. Title Recording artist(s) Length 1\. "Ripper Sole" Stomp! 1:42 |
2\. " Army of Me " Björk 3:56 3\. " Girl U Want " Devo 3:51 4\. "Mockingbird |
Girl" The Magnificent Bastards 3:30 5\. " Shove " L7 3:11 6\. "Drown Soda" |
Hole 3:50 7\. "Bomb" Bush 3:23 8\. "Roads" Portishead 5:04 9\. " Let's Do It, |
Let's Fall in Love " Joan Jett and Paul Westerberg 2:23 10\. "Thief" Belly |
3:12 11\. "Aurora" Veruca Salt 4:03 12\. "Big Gun" Ice-T 3:54 Total length: |
41:58 Other songs in the film [ edit ] " B-A-B-Y " by Rachel Sweet [46] " Big |
Time Sensuality " by Björk [46] " Blank Generation " by Richard Hell and the |
Voidoids [46] " Disconnected " by Face to Face [47] "Shipwrecked" by Sky Cries |
Mary [46] " Theme from Shaft " by Isaac Hayes [11] "2¢" by Beowülf [46] "Wild, |
Wild, Thing" by Iggy Pop [46] Release [ edit ] Initial screening and box |
office [ edit ] Malcolm McDowell , who portrayed the film's main villain |
Kesslee, in 2011 Tank Girl premiered at the Mann Chinese Theatre on March 30, |
1995. Approximately 1,500 people attended the screening, including Talalay, |
Petty, Ice-T , McDowell, Watts, and several other actors from the film, as |
well as Rebecca De Mornay , Lauren Tom , Brendan Fraser and Jason Simmons . |
Men in W&P; costumes handed out bottles of mineral water, and girls dressed in |
Liquid Silver outfits gave out Astro Pops , candy cigarettes, and Tank Girl |
candy necklaces. About 400 people attended the official after-party at the |
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel . [48] The film opened in cinemas across the United |
States the following day. [2] Tank Girl opened in 1,341 theatres in the United |
States bringing in $2,018,183 in its first weekend [49] and $2,684,430 at the |
end of its first week of release. By the end of its second week, Tank Girl had |
made only $3,668,762. Its final gross in the United States was $4,064,495. [2] |
Internationally, the film added approximately $2,000,000 to that total, [3] |
against a production budget of $25 million. [2] Critical reception [ edit ] |
The film holds an approval ratings of 43% on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 46 |
reviews. The website's critical consensus reads: "While unconventional, Tank |
Girl isn't particularly clever or engaging, and none of the script's copious |
one-liners have any real zing." [50] On Metacritic the film has a weighted |
average score of 46 out of 100, based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating |
"mixed or average reviews". [4] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the |
film a grade B on scale of A to F. [51] Lamar Hafildason of the BBC gave the |
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