History Film / RedSparrow

* DubNameChange: Dominika is not even remotely a Russian name[[note]]It's actually a Czech name[[/note]], and so in the Russian dub, she's renamed to Veronika (the closest existing equivalent). Vanya is a diminutive form of Ivan, and only a very close friend or a relative could possibly address a state official that way. However, with all other details in depicting Russia, names were the least of the concerns regarding reception.

''Red Sparrow'' is a 2018 {{spy|Fiction}} {{thriller}} film directed by Creator/FrancisLawrence, starring Creator/JenniferLawrence and Creator/JoelEdgerton in the lead roles. The screenplay was written by Justin Haythe, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the [[Literature/RedSparrow novel of same name]] by Jason Matthews.

* DubNameChange: Dominika is not even remotely a Russian name, and so in the Russian dub, she's renamed to Veronika (the closest existing equivalent). Vanya is a diminutive form of Ivan, and only a very close friend or a relative could possibly address a state official that way. However, with all other details in depicting Russia, names were the least of the concerns regarding reception.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: It's telling that the only two sex scenes in the film that not only aren't {{attempted rape}}s, but are actually passionate, are between Dominika and Nate. [[spoiler:Also, General Korchnoi overriding Matron when she blames Dominika for fighting off an AttemptedRape earlier proves to serve as {{foreshadowing}} of TheReveal that he's TheMole.]]

* ShamefulStrip: Their first day in State School 4, Dominika and a male cadet are brought to the front of the class and ordered to strip naked by Matron. Dominika refuses but her classmate complies. When that same classmate later tries and fails to rape her and she is then expected to service him in class as a lesson in doing what you don't want to for the sake of the mission, he tells her to take off her clothes. She [[{{Inverted}} inverts]] the trope, stripping off in a sexually ''dominant'' fashion, instantly killing his boner.

''Red Sparrow'' is a 2018 {{spy|Fiction}} {{thriller}} film directed by Francis Lawrence, starring Creator/JenniferLawrence and Creator/JoelEdgerton in the lead roles. The screenplay was written by Justin Haythe, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the [[Literature/RedSparrow novel of same name]] by Jason Matthews.

-->--'''Matron'''

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Seductive. Deceptive. Deadly.]]]]

* RealityEnsues: despite all the liberties the plot takes, it has quite a few.
** Dominika is a world-class famous ballerina ''and'' a relative to an open state official of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. Her "undercover" facade lasts less than an hour when she's sent to Budapest, and in the end she chooses to just drop it and use her real name. You'd wonder why they even bothered to make her a fake identity in the first place.
** All three times Dominika is actually able to injure someone in a fight, it's when the opponent does not expect her to strike. The moment her enemy faces her and is armed, it goes just as well as you'd expect, and she only survives because someone else cripples her opponent from behind.
** Dominika (possibly intentionally) tells Marta that she was an accomplice in a top-level black-ops political kill that nearly made her a collateral loss (in the movie, Ustinov is a generic oligarch, but in the book he is specifically mentioned as Putin's rival and a threat to him). Marta's corpse is found an hour later, and Dominika herself receives her first and only warning not to disclose any of that information to anyone.
** When Nate brings Dominika in for recruitment, the Americans are ''very'' skeptical about her motivation, and do not take Nate's opinion into account because he's clearly emotionally attached.
** In a deleted scene, Dominika visits her ballet mistress after the hospital, and promises that in a few months she'll be able to dance again. The latter is unmoved and coldly tells her than even if the multiple-fractured bone does heal this quickly, she will never recover completely, and won't dance at the level of the Bolshoy, let alone as prima.
** Note how ever since the Director realizes that he has a mole, he constantly presses both Zakharov and Egorov into action, with Zakharov offering direct approach and Egorov constantly dismissing it as potentially harmful, the Director becoming less and less pleased with each iteration. When evidence against Egorov finally arrives, it just solidifies what he was already suspecting.
** Dominika, when tortured, does not confess to betrayal, but that does not fool anyone: they know it was her, they just want details on how and why. It's only when Egorov realizes that he can use the trust of Americans to his advantage that Dominika is released and given a green light to proceed.

* ArtisticLicense - Beauty: Dominika bleaches her long medium brown hair blonde in a bathroom with a single box of dye: this process usually requires several boxes of dye and potentially a few days for color correction. Furthermore, in the following scene, implied to be taking place shortly after the makeover scene, Dominika gets in a chlorinated pool with her freshly bleached hair - an act that anyone who has bleached their hair knows is a major no-no as combining the two is likely to turn freshly bleached hair green.

* ArtisticLicense - Beauty: A number of female reviewers pointed out the scene where Dominika bleaches her long medium brown hair blonde in a bathroom with a single box of dye (a process that would usually require several boxes of dye and potentially a few days for color correction) as an indicator of how little the male director and screenwriter understand their female characters (or women in general).
** Further compounded by the following scene, implied to be taking place shortly after the makeover scene, where Dominika gets in a chlorinated pool with her freshly bleached hair - an act that anyone who has bleached their hair knows is a major no-no as combining the two is likely to turn freshly bleached hair green.

* ArtisticLicense - Beauty: A number of female reviewers pointed out the scene where Dominika bleaches her long medium brown hair blonde in a bathroom with a single box of dye (a process that would usually require several boxes of dye and potentially a few days for color correction) as an indicator of how little the male director and screenwriter understand women.

** Further compounded by the following scene, implied to be taking place shortly after the makeover scene, where Dominika gets in a chlorinated pool with her freshly bleached hair - an act that anyone who has bleached their hair knows is a major no-no as combining the two is likely to turn freshly bleached hair gree.