![]() ![]() Lynda Carter‘s Wonder Woman was such a huge moment for Wonder Woman and her history in the world, and huge to me, because that‘s what I grew up watching. ”We won‘t be doing that today.” Where they‘re just on top of the world and you‘re watching them take care of everything. It‘s something that I love in so many superhero films. In addition, I was craving seeing Wonder Woman at the height of her powers and having a good time, saving the day with no stakes. So we immediately wanted to have a fun and engaging playful scene, which I‘m very excited to be with kids and watch them watch this scene. It‘s the heroes of tomorrow you‘re trying to inspire. So the immediate thing is, how do you do that and reach the audience that is most important to reach with that kind of message? Which is the youth audience. ”What are you doing?” What was most important to me about this scene, was when I thought about what we were going to do with the second film, I realized we wanted to say something much more serious and kind of important than we did with the first film. And the first scene where we see Wonder Woman as an adult in our film. The only thing we‘ve seen leading up to this is a flashback. It is the first scene in the film that happens to take place in current day. ![]() I am the director of Wonder Woman 1984.” ”We need the police here right now!” So this is a scene which we had so much fun doing. Gadot’s Wonder Woman is courageous and sincere the film is outrageous and outlandish – and yet nothing really lands, because, gender aside, it’s all been done before.Transcript ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ | Anatomy of a Scene Patty Jenkins narrates a sequence from her film. Marvel learnt long ago that puncturing the preposterousness with humour was the only way to help the medicine go down, and that what was heartfelt needed to be earned, not explained. Much like DC’s Superman, the more power a superhero possesses seems to have a direct correlation with the amount of personality they lack. But this sequel only highlights the problems we drowned out with our applause. The first Wonder Woman film was quite rightly heralded as a long overdue correction to the endless conga-line of male-led superhero films from both Marvel and DC. You’d think that might be mentioned in the subsequent Batman or Superman films, wouldn’t you?īut if you can forgive the outlandish plot – this is a Wonder Woman film, after all – what’s less easy to take is the tone, which constantly strives for Avengers: Endgame levels of emotion, without a great deal to back it up (lesson: having everything you can wish for isn’t a good thing. In order to save his failing oil company, Pascal’s Maxwell Lord comes into the possession of an ancient artefact that can grant wishes, and is soon granting everyone’s wish who wants one, in order to take what he wants from them in return. And when a powerful nemesis does arrive, it’s not from the skies, but the office just along from hers, as Kristen Wiig goes from ditzy to demonic after she acquires some of Wonder Woman’s powers as her own (tick!).īut perhaps what really made me think this is secretly a 1980s film in disguise is the absolute willingness to have an utterly batshit plot that disrupts the whole planet, but which seemingly gets forgotten just as quickly. The main baddie is not some superpowered threat from outer space or another dimension, but Pedro Pascal in an ill-fitting suit, who mostly just wants to make money (tick). She has zero – and I mean zero – sense of humour (tick). I know the release date has been pushed back somewhat, but I wasn’t aware it was several decades.Ĭase in point, we are pre- Justice League here, when Batman and the guy from the sea and the man who is super will team up with her, and so she is the sole hero in town (tick). Put another way: Wonder Woman 1984 doesn’t just seem to be set in the 1980s, it gives every impression to have travelled from there. I mention all this because watching Wonder Woman 1984, I couldn’t quite tell where the 1980s kitsch began (scrunchies, shoulders, all-pastel everything, naturally), and where the film itself ended.
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