If you read our reviews of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, you know I didn’t lượt thích the movie. There were many problems with structure và pacing, & while the performances were generally good for what they were, I didn’t lượt thích most of the choices that Zack Snyder và his screenwriters made when it came khổng lồ way the characters were portrayed (e.g., Batman the homicidal maniac). On đứng đầu of introducing many new characters, the film tried khổng lồ set up an entire cinematic universe in just 2.5 hours. It’s a very difficult và unenviable task, & I just don’t think it works. (Regardless of the critical response, the movie made $424 million over the weekend.)
Still, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was a standout even if she is sort of a cipher in the film. By contrast, her male counterparts are a smug sociopath with a messiah complex (Superman) và a murderous psychopath with PTSD (Batman). Now you know why a relative blank slate with stilted line delivery is better by default than our title heroes.
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The thing is, Wonder Woman could have changed the entire ending of this movie if she wasn’t fighitng alongside a bunch of dumb meatheads. It underscores a major problem with this sausagefest movie’s views on women.
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The way Wonder Woman is semi-sidelined in this fight seems totally shortsighted on the part of her brothers in arms (and the screenwriters), but it’s par for the course if you’re a female character in Batman v Superman. For the most part they’re props that help move the plot along. Lois Lane is a constant damsel in distress. She’s pretty much helpless any time she gets into trouble, and always relies on hero for help rather than being able to vày anything herself.
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Part of the reason that Batman và Superman fight each other is because Lex Luthor has kidnapped Clark’s mom. Hero saves Lois Lane every time he hears her in trouble, but for some reason he doesn’t hear his own mom getting kidnapped by goons in SUVs. Keep in mind that this is the same anh kiệt who went into a murderous rage in Man of Steel when Zod threatened his mom and he heard her scream from halfway across the country. (Yeah, it’s silly.) Here’s another damsel in distress. In Batman v Superman, women typically have to be saved rather than vày any saving themselves.
So Wonder Woman shows up & her first act in full costume is to lớn save Batman from being burnt to lớn a crisp. She then proceeds to outclass the boys in the combat department. She’s so good at what she does that Max Landis will probably put out a đoạn clip calling her a Mary Sue this week. If siêu nhân gave Wonder Woman that spear, it seems lượt thích she would khuyến mãi the deathblow khổng lồ Doomsday in 15 seconds và do it lượt thích she’s Legolas in Lord of the Rings.
But no. She’s maybe the most heroic person in the movie, but she can’t be the person who saves the day. To be fair, Wonder Woman doesn’t have her name in the title, but still, you know what I’m getting at. Batman v Superman is a movie about men so obsessed with the glory of their blunt violence that they can’t even think straight for a second. Hero wants lớn hold his spear until the bitter kết thúc rather than let a girl hold it. Come to think of it, a man dumbly holding his spear is probably the best image I can think of to lớn represent this movie.
