History Film / Hanna

An offbeat 2011 action-thriller (with SpeculativeFiction elements) directed by Creator/JoeWright and starring Creator/SaoirseRonan, Creator/EricBana, Creator/CateBlanchett and Creator/TomHollander.

An Amazon-produced series adapted from the film premiered in February 2019.

Be warned: spoilers ahead.

* FightingInAPlayground: Erik's fight with Isaacs and his henchmen happens in a playground with Erik using the equipment to help take them out.

* {{CIA}}: It was involved in some shady stuff. [[spoiler:They had been genetically modifying fetuses to grow up to be efficient killing machines.]] It's not entirely clear whether this was a CIA operation or a Soviet/East German operation that the CIA took over when Communism fell.

* LiteralMetaphor: Done uninetntionally by Marissa. When her superior wants her to stand down, she refuses, saying "No, I am inches...". She doesn't realize how true that is.

Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl brought up in the frozen wastes of Finland with her father Erik ([[TheDanza Bana]]) who has been training her to be the perfect assassin. On a mission from her father, Hanna treks across Europe towards an uncertain goal while being pursued by a shadowy CIA operative (Blanchett). Hanna begins to uncover details of her past and about her true nature all the while poignantly coming to grips with a totally unfamiliar world and kicking more than the occasional ass.

An offbeat 2011 action-thriller (with SpeculativeFiction elements) starring Creator/SaoirseRonan, Creator/EricBana and Creator/CateBlanchett, reuniting Ronan with ''Film/{{Atonement}}'' director Creator/JoeWright.

* BerserkButton: Marissa not having children seems to be a sore spot for her. Also see MamaBear below.

* ImportantHaircut: Isaacs' bouncers, who are skinheads.

* MamaBear: Implied with [[spoiler:Marissa. She's not the biological mother, but it's touched on a few times that she may consider herself something of a mother to Hanna as Marissa had headed the project that created Hanna. Epitomized when she yells, "Don't you walk away from me, young lady!" at the end.]]

* MessyHair: Hanna lets her hair grow free.

* {{Expy}}: Hanna is what you'll likely get if you mixed [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]] with [[ComicBook/{{X 23}} Laura Kinney.]]

** The [[spoiler: arrow]] that Hanna grabs before the climax is very important.

An offbeat 2011 action-thriller (with SpeculativeFiction elements) starring Creator/SaoirseRonan, Eric Bana and Creator/CateBlanchett, reuniting Ronan with ''Film/{{Atonement}}'' director Creator/JoeWright.

The film boasts a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome soundtrack by ''The Chemical Brothers'']] and striking cinematography.

''Hanna'' has also gained some recent attention after it was revealed that its writer will also be working on the screenplay for the ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' movie.

!!Tropes Include:

* BrokenAce: Hanna becomes one by the end of the film.
* ActingUnnatural: The agent following Erik down the stairs.
* ActionDad: Erik Heller.
* ActionGirl: Hanna, naturally.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Hanna, arguably.
* {{Adorkable}}: Hanna, as well as Erik, to an extent.
* AirVentPassageway
* AllThereInTheManual: Isaacs' first name is Michael, and his henchmen are named Titch and Razor.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Invoked with Hanna. She [[spoiler: rejects the Spanish boy's kiss, but kisses a girl later on]]. Considering her upbringing, it's not likely that sexuality is something she understands very well.
** AmbiguouslyBi: Sophie seems to enjoy [[spoiler: Hanna's kiss]].
* AnimalMotifs: Goes hand in hand with FairyTaleMotifs. For example, Marissa is both TheBigBadWolf (obsessed with her teeth, [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood pursues a little girl]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext emerges from a wolf's maw]] in the climax) and the [[CunningLikeAFox Cunning Vixen]] ([[EvilRedhead red-headed]], crafty and mendacious).
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: by the end of the film, nearly everyone except Hanna is dead]].

* BadassFamily: Hanna and Erik, [[spoiler: although they're not actually blood-related]].

* BigBad: Marissa Wiegler is both the target of Erik and Hanna and the threat they face.

* BiTheWay: Sophie.

* BookEnds[=/=]MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler:"I just missed your heart," followed by a gunshot and a cut to the title]]
* BourgeoisBohemian: Sophie's parents, Rachel and Sebastian. Especially Rachel.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Sophie. [[HiddenDepths At first]].

* CampStraight: Isaacs' sexuality is pretty ambiguous.

** ChekhovsSkill: The [[spoiler: arrow]] that Hanna grabs before the climax is very important.
* ChildSoldier: Hanna puts all other child soldiers to shame.
* {{CIA}}: It was involved in some shady stuff. [[spoiler:They had been genetically modifying fetuses to grow up to be efficient killing machines.]]
** It's not entirely clear whether this was a CIA operation or a Soviet/East German operation that the CIA took over when Communism fell.
* ClimbingClimax
* ColorMotif: Blue and gray for Hanna, [[GreenEyedMonster green]] for Marissa, and pink for Sophie.

* CreepyChild: Hanna is incredibly sweet, innocent and soft-spoken...and will shoot a soldier in the face without hesitation.

* CreepyGood: Hanna, again.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath‎: Issacs and his henchman [[spoiler:hang Mr. Grimm by the ankles and use him for target practise with a makeshift bow]].

* CuteBruiser: Hanna through and through.
* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler:Marissa. Although it was the bullet to the heart that finished her off, slipping and falling down the slide (while having already lost a lot of blood from an arrow to the hip) played a significant role in her [[IncrediblyLamePun downfall]]]].

* TheDragon: Isaacs to Marissa.

* EmotionlessGirl: Hanna, [[spoiler:or so it seems for a while.]]
* EmotionsVsStoicism: One theme of the movie.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Isaac's mooks are [[http://oi60.tinypic.com/al1c0k.jpg Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice]].

* EvilIsHammy: Isaacs all the way.

* {{Expy}}: Hanna is what you'll likely get if you mixed [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]] with [[ComicBook/{{X 23}} Laura Kinny.]]
* FairyTaleMotifs: All over the place. For instance, Marissa Wiegler is equated with the Big Bad Wolf, coming out of the mouth of one at the Spreepark.

* FracturedFairyTale: An inevitable interpretation of the movie, thanks to the numerous fairy-tale {{Shout Out}}s.

* GenkiGirl: Sophie.

* GranolaGirl: Rachel seems to be this what with her lectures about not wearing make-up and her general hippie tendencies.
* {{Grimmification}}: Kind of. The movie can be interpreted as a [[FracturedFairyTale fractured modern fairy-tale]] that plays the horror in its sources for all its worth.
** Fittingly, Hanna owns a copy of Grimm's fables, and an abandoned Grimm-themed amusement park ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreepark Spreepark]]) is featured heavily in the third act, watched over by a man named Knepfler Grimm.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Hanna.
* HatesBeingTouched: Implied with Hanna, although it owes more to her training than to outright sensitivity.

* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler:Hanna, again!]]
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Marissa is killed with her own Walther [=PP=] by Hanna.]]
* IAmNotYourFather: It seemed to genuinely pain him to admit it.

* ImpromptuTracheotomy: "Can you lend me your pen?"

* IndyHatRoll: Hanna, as she escaped the CIA holding facility.

* LaserGuidedTykeBomb: [[spoiler:Hanna.]]

* LeParkour: A little bit in the shipping-container scene.

* LittleMissBadass: TheMovie.
* Literature/LittleRedRidingHood: The film is full of visual and verbal references, of varying levels of directness, to ''Grimm's Fairytales'' in general and this story in particular.

* MessyHair / WildHair: Hanna lets her hair grow free.

* NeatFreak: Marissa.
* NeckSnap: Hanna uses a rare from-the-front version to kill [[spoiler:the false Marissa.]]

* ObiWanMoment: [[spoiler: Eric, just before Marissa shoots him.]]
* OddFriendship: Hanna and Sophie. The quiet, stoic and socially awkward Hanna befriends the bratty and superficial
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Hanna's first kills. When the CIA surrounds Erik's cabin, we see three soldiers enter the cabin. Later, we see them on the floor, necks snapped, with Hanna perched innocently on the landing.

* TheOner: Uses a lot of long, wide shots. A particularly impressive one is the subway scene, going from a long walk to an expertly choreographed brawl with a handful of {{mooks}}.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Hanna's German accent varies in thickness.
** Which is funny considering that when she actually does speak German, her pronunciation sounds heavily off, as any native speaker will immediately recognize.
*** But it's worth noting that it's not entirely certain what Hanna's first language is supposed to be.
** Australian Creator/CateBlanchett dons a southern accent. It's not entirely convincing, although the character is implied to be German.

* OrbitalShot: There's one in a scene where Hanna is running through some large, wide, circular tunnels.

* PapaWolf: Erik.
* PhoneTraceRace
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Guess who.
* PosthumousCharacter: Johanna Zadek, Hanna's mother.
* PostModernism: One interpretation.
* PrecociousCrush: Sophie's little brother Miles has one on Hanna.

* PurityPersonified: Hanna.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Isaac's goons dress like neo-nazi skinheads. But they're actually S.H.A.R.P. skinheads.
* TheQuietOne: Hanna in social situations.
* RaisedByWolves:
** Erik might have taught Hanna to be a brutal fighter, drilled the encyclopedia and several languages into her, but basic human interaction is a bit beyond her.
** Hanna's time with Sophie's family particularly emphasizes this, her FirstKiss being an excellent example.

* RedOniBlueOni: Sophie and Hanna, {{lampshaded}} in that Sophie wears pink and Hanna wears blue in many of their scenes together.

* RevealingCoverup
* RevengeBeforeReason: Marissa. She even states explicitly that she wants to be the last person Erik sees.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Sophie and Hanna.

* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: "Saoirse Ronan is about to shoot you with an arrow".

* SheCleansUpNicely: [[http://s-ronan.com/photos/albums/Photos/MovieProductions/2011-Hanna/MovieCaptures/590.jpg Hanna]].

* ShrinkingViolet: Hanna to the extreme, due to having no human contact her whole life except for Erik.

'''Hanna:''' (''Deadpan'') [[spoiler:Three bullets.]]\\
'''Sebastian:''' *SpitTake*

* StepfordSmiler: Marissa.

* TheStoic: Hanna.

* TeenGenius: Hanna.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Hanna and Sophie.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: If you watch the trailers closely, you can discern a lot.

* TrainingMontage: There is one at the beginning.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: And ''how''.

* TykeBomb: Hanna, obviously.

* UnkemptBeauty: [[http://photos.imageevent.com/afap/wallpapers/movies/hannamovie//Hanna%20-%20Saoirse%20Ronan-1.jpg Hanna]].

* [[spoiler: [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To Sophie And Her Family?]]]]: We do get to see [[FaceOnAMilkCarton missing posters for them]]. The script outright shows that they survived - [[spoiler: Hanna sends a postcard to Sophie at the end, so that's something, at least.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Hanna's mother, Johanna.
* YouShallNotPass: Near the end, Eric distracts the bad guys to gain time for Hanna to escape.

* BiTheWay: Sophie, or at least she'll try it as the cool thing to do.

* InformedAbility: Isaacs is introduced as a super BadAss killer even [[LadyOfWar Marissa]] respects, but we see him only kill a defenseless old Moroccan guy, threaten a defenseless family and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking whistle ominously]]; as soon as he's squared off against a skilled opponent (Erik) he goes down much easier than his own goons just did.

** Australian CateBlanchett dons a southern accent. It's not entirely convincing, although the character is implied to be German.

* SceneryPorn: There are beautiful shots of a frozen lake in Finland and the deserts of Morocco. There's also the decaying amusement park in Germany.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Saoirse Ronan is about to shoot you with an arrow.

* HollywoodAtlas: Not only are both interrogation and biological research handled in the same facility, but it also takes only several minutes to get from one section to another.

* BigBad: Marissa Wiegler is both the target of Erik and Hanna and the .

* FairyTaleMotifs: All over the place, from the

* BadassNormal: Erik.

* BigBad: Marissa Wiegler.

* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Moroccan facility.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler: Hanna.]]

* EvilRedhead: Marissa.

* FairyTaleMotifs

* HeroicNeutral: Hanna.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Hanna.

* MessyHair: Hanna lets her hair grow free.
** WildHair

* MotorMouth: Sophie can't stop talking.
* MuggleBestFriend: Sophie.

* NoSocialSkills: Hanna never learned them.

* OddFriendship: Hanna and Sophie.

* BadassAdorable: Hanna is cute as a button, and she'll floor you with no trouble at all.