It took a bizarrely long time for Wonder Woman to get the big screen treatment, especially since her origin story is so good and she's probably the most famous female super hero.
It's not a perfect film - I couldn't help wonder what might've happened had a German washed up on that beach, and the movie feels built around sequences rather than a cohesive whole.
But the sequences are amazing - Amazons training, Wonder Woman going into no man's land, the death of Steve Trevor (though couldn't he have flown out into the ocean or something?).
Gal Gadot's acting is limited but she's a movie star - she looks like a goddess, can do the acting, and is likeable. Chris Pine is perfectly suited for this sort of role - I think he's better as a support star.
Danny Huston camps it up as a villain. Robin Wright and Connie Nielsen are perfect as islanders; ditto Elena Anaya as a mysterious doctor and Lucy Davis as a fellow spy (bringing some much needed warmth and levity to the film). There's even a cute little gang including Said Taghmaoui, Ewen Bemner, and Eugene Brave Rock.
I was surprised it was in World War One, not Two, but it is a bit fresher that way. It was very entertaining.
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The character's been around since the 1940s. If they had made the movie then, who would have played the title role? Yvonne de Carlo? Gene Tierney? Maria Montez? Dorothy Lamour? Phyllis Coates?
What a brilliant, brilliant question... hmmm... Tierney and Montez don't look at home in a brawl. De Carlo could do it. Maybe Lamour -
she looks like she could fight! Haven't seen enough of Coates.
Ida Lupino and Katherine Hepburn were both warrior types - but I'm sure both would've refused to do the film in the 1940s.
Great question, really made me think! :) What do you think?
Seems like they would need an athlete. Maybe Esther Williams? She lacks the necessary edge, but might look good in the outfit:
http://cimg.tvgcdn.net/i/2013/06/06/ee8cd51d-441a-40f8-aac1-72c1cfae092a/3dd40b830a99964961625f4597136b15/130606esther-williams1.jpg
Incidentally, William Moulton Marston, the character's main creator, actually worked at Universal in the early talkie era as a consulting psychologist and co-wrote a book on filmmaking, the text of which is online:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001437720
that's brilliant, thank you!
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