His wife, Elizabeth helped to create Wonder Woman. He was a psychologist who believed that women could be as strong and powerful as men. William Moulton Marston created her and her first publication was in 1941. She is the first and most famous female superheroes. Wonder Woman is a superhero, who appears in DC Comics.
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Jason Johnson is a professor of Politics and Journalism at Morgan State University, a Political Contributor at MSNBC and SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio. It’s a shame that Wonder Woman 1984 had bright moments but only scratched the surface of what it could have been.ĭr.
What wasn’t tolerable was turning a great character movie into a textbook case for Sequel Slump.Īmerica needs heroes, Hollywood needs hits and we all need a distraction while sheltering in place. However, on a scale of movie fails it was tolerable. Was it racially obnoxious that wishing for an end to Middle East violence, apartheid and domestic abuse was lumped in with selfish jerks who just wished for more money? Yes.
Is that a very Wonder Woman type solution? Definitely. Wonder Woman saves the day by convincing Maxwell Lord and the world that giving up their ‘selfish’ wishes and leaning into their best selves. The problem is, whatever beauty that could be drawn out of Diana’s relationship with Steve Trevor is sullied by the fact that she’s having sex with the spirit of her dead boyfriend who’s inhabiting another man’s body without consent. How did they know those were magic candles? That’s like blaming a kid for wishing for a PS5 instead of a cure for cancer when they blow out birthday candles. (Photo: DC Comics)įor those who argue that it was ‘sexist’ that Diana wished for a man, Steve Trevor, instead of World peace from that leftover amber set piece from Jurassic Park, just remember she didn’t know her wishes would be granted, she was just lonely. Minerva (including saving her from a mugger) because we’re supposed to believe that Wonder Woman doesn’t date women. This is why you feel cheated as a viewer when the writers pretend that she didn’t have the perfect rom-com date with Dr. While she’s been in our world for a century to an immortal Amazon, she has the weariness of a college student whose internship has dragged on too long. In 1984, Diana Prince is a woman out of time. Wonder Woman is like a mixture of Steve Rogers and Iyanla Vanzant in red boots if Black Amazonians had speaking roles. Wonder Woman doesn’t solve problems by outsmarting you like Batman or snapping the bad guy’s neck like Superman in Man of Steel, (although technically she does in the comics) she wins by living up to her mission, which is to show the “World of Men” there is a better, higher way to live. Wonder Woman 1984 would have done better to just focus on Diana Prince/Wonder Woman because her character and Gal Gadot’s acting were the only standout parts of the film. The cool DC hero stuff like the invisible jet was reduced to a Criss Angel parlor trick that made no sense Wonder Woman barely uses her boomerang tiara and the magic Lasso of Truth seems to defy physics and not in a good way. Either way, the film obviously wasn’t too proud of the final result because Cheetah and Wonder Woman’s final battle takes place almost entirely in the dark and underwater.
When Barbara Minerva evolves from fur coats in July to full Cheetah, I can’t tell if it’s cosplay for a furry Pokémon Onlyfans site or a beta test for a live-action Thundercats movie.
Wonder Woman 1984’s major action scenes all fail to deliver her pursuit of Maxwell Lord in an Egyptian caravan looks like a pre-production storyboard for the car chase scene in the Matrix Reloaded. Wonder Woman outraces bad reviews in “Wonder Woman 1984” (2020)