So we are finally getting some (early) footage for next year's Wonder Woman movie and …<\/p>\n
… well …<\/p>\n
The actiony bits look very actiony, and that's good.<\/p>\n
Gal Gadot looks pretty decent in the role, as expected.<\/p>\n
Chris Pine as Steve Trevor? Okay.<\/p>\n
A World War I setting? I'll be curious to hear the creative decisions behind that change.<\/p>\n
SOP DC Movie Universe desaturated colors? Um … okay.<\/p>\n
My biggest concern is that this carries on the fundamental change in WW's character since, oh, 2010-2011, when DC decided that Diana as an envoy for peace to Man's World with its violence an cruelty was just too un-actiony. That the tension between that philosophy and the violence that Wonder Woman was forced to commit was too difficult for folk to go with. That the idea of Wonder Woman as a proto-Xena was too difficult to resist.<\/p>\n
So, yes, this footage is full of WW punching people, sword fighting with people, committing violence upon people. While there's a bit from the director talking about "The good thing about Wonder Woman is how good and kind and loving she is, yet none of that negates any of her power," there's no sign of "good and kind and loving" in what we saw in that preview (or in the bits where she shows up in the bits we've seen of Batman vs. Supernan).<\/i> <\/p>\n
It all looks very grimdark and violent, and if that's the message, fine, but if that's not the message, then the message is not coming across.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n