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I'd love to see that, and hope that it'll be released in Germany! (It's a small production, I think.)I also heard they are making a film about William Moulton Marston (creator of Wonder Woman). I'd probably be more excited to see that, lol.
I liked the Wonder Woman-movie well enough: it certainly ended WB's streak of mediocre (and less-than-mediocre) DC film adaptations, and was a breath of fresh air.
Even if by no means a perfect film (if there is such a thing), it was a game changer by finally granting deserved commercial and critical success to a female superhero film, dispelling the myth that the protagonist's gender (instead of abominable scripts and direction) was responsible for flops of the past.
There's a few nitpicks here, though: (**** SPOILERS, obviously ********)
For one, its plot strays WAYYYYYYY too close to "Captain America". Don't believe me? Tell me which film I sum up here:
The protagonist is an idealist whose virtues mark them as extraordinary. They want to join the World War to defend the Good Cause, but are at first kept from doing so by their own nation. Fighting against the Germans, they are joined by a multi-national ragtag band, and find that the true enemy operates independently from the German government. In the end, there is a plane loaded with deadly weapons, and one of the protagonists sacrifices his own life by deliberately crashing it, to the horror of their love interest who receives some loving parting words. Also, the main villain is more closely akin to the protagonist than the hero/ine knows, drawing their powers from the same origin. Also, the villain killed their father (figure).
Secondly, for a film that wants to make a point about war making monsters of us all, it was damn black-and-white in its portrayal of evil Germans vs. good Brits. How much more effective would the film have been if Diana found that the English were using Doctor Poison's notebook to create poison gas of their own, unleashing it upon the war zone (which would be closer to what actually happened in WW1, too)? The way it was filmed, the whole point about evil lurking within man was weakened considerably, as it was essentially just the Germans who were portrayed as dastardly villains attacking civilians.
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