Wonder Woman has existed in DC comics for the past 75+ years, has been in numerous TV shows and comics, but has never gotten a movie. Now in 2017, for the first time, we see Wonder Woman on the big screen with her film. Some viewers have said that it was surprisingly much better than the previous DC movie that appeared before it—Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad.
Wonder Woman starts off with the young Princess Diana living the shielded island of Themyscira. The movie shows the scale in which World War I affected the rest of the world, even extending its influences to the isolated island homeworld of the Amazons. The movie shows that the impact of the Great War is immense and engulfs the whole world in warfare. Within the first 30 minutes of the movie, tension builds up when German Soldiers outside the island were searching for our other protagonist Steve Trevor, a British spy. Both characters show a sort of innocence in the start of the movie, Diana not knowing anything about the outside world and trying to help everyone while Trevor adjusts to Diana’s view on man and humankind and learns about Greek Gods and their involvement with the real world. Throughout the movie, we see the progression of Diana and Trevor’s perspective of the world. Compared to the very beginning, their views become drastically different towards the climax of the film.
Visually, Wonder Woman is awesome. Fight and action scenes are well-choreographed and show the trench battles and village fights of World War I in many different areas around Europe. All the action shows off Wonder Woman’s demigod blood. Slo-mo scenes have bullet effects that show off Diana’s bracelets and swordplay. The music is great as well, returning to a great theme from Batman v Superman: Wonder Woman’s Wrath. The sounds of World War I also express the fear and gruesomeness of it. Overall, Wonder Woman is excellent with pacing and character development. Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor are both likable and relatable characters. It provides a great origin story for Princess Diana and viewers are excited to see her with the rest of the Justice League in November.
Princess Diana’s origin is often adjusted and tweaked, and the amount of change that her character sees is what separates her from other DC Superheros. There are a few aspects and key things about her character however that has remained since her original creation. Diana is still a princess, daughter of Queen Hippolyta, and was molded from clay. She comes from an isolated; all female island is known as Themyscira, given to the Amazons by the Greek gods. They were meant to have relations and send signs of peace to our society, but the race separated themselves from the war and bloodshed and created a far more rich society than our own. She becomes the hero we know her as, Wonder Woman, upon winning a tournament to return the crash landed Captain Steve Trevor to his home. Her story separates her from her fellow heroes due to the lack of tragedy in her back story, but her story tells one of a woman who is coming-of-age and chooses to leave behind everything she’s ever known to help the world that may not accept her.
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