CoreyII
Second Unit
- Joined
- May 15, 1999
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I just couldn't resist this thread. I've been collecting comic books since 1984, so here goes my 2 cents worth.
1.) You people do this everytime a post comes up about a potential super-hero film, you start naming off a bunch of well known actors or actress who you think can play the part. Haven't any of you learned by now that well known actors and actresses are not the best choice for comic book characters. Just look at how bad the Batman films and Daredevil are for an example. Then look at how much better Superman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men are. Now Blade is an exception to the rule because you're dealing with a relatively unknown comic book character. X-Men barely gets by in my book because and an uknnown actor was chosen to play Wolverine, but I still think the X-Men could have been casted much better. No one had ever heard of Christopher Reeve before Supes and Tobey Maguire wasn't all that famous before Spidey. The bottom line is, you need a relatively unknown actress to play Wonder Woman(Diana of Thymescera).
2.) For this movie to work they are going to need not only some one who is familiar with Greek culture and mythology but someone who is going to write a screenplay with Wonder Woman being a hero for everyone not just little girls. What I'm trying to say is the last thing I want to see on the silver screen is some Politically Correct superhero film that is trying to cram girl power down my throat, I got enough of the sh** from Joss Whedon. I don't mind a strong female hero, I just don't want to see Warner Bros. make a film were all the villains are men and you only see Wonder Woman beating up men. Women are just as capable of being dibolical and evil as men. The whole girl power angle was one of the problems I had with George Perez's run on the Wonder Woman comic back in the late eighties.
3.) The film needs to really address her Amazonian heritage and her audacity to come into another culture and assume that it can benefit from her Amazonian ways. Unlike her Justice League counterparts Superman, the Bat-Man, and the Flash, I've always found Wonder Woman to be somewhat concieted and arrogant.
She comes from a sheltered and pampered life off the island of Themyscera (or Themyscira) to the rest of the rest of the earth or what the Amazons call Patriarch's World and tells the world that we can benefit from the Amazons's way of lifestyle, a lifestyle that rejects an entire gender. Anyway I find these characteristics about her quite interesting and in the hands of the right screenwriter could be explored very well in a movie.
4.) Judging by Warner Bros. handling of the Bat-Man films and the Superman films after the first one I not expecting much from a Wonder Woman movie.
1.) You people do this everytime a post comes up about a potential super-hero film, you start naming off a bunch of well known actors or actress who you think can play the part. Haven't any of you learned by now that well known actors and actresses are not the best choice for comic book characters. Just look at how bad the Batman films and Daredevil are for an example. Then look at how much better Superman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men are. Now Blade is an exception to the rule because you're dealing with a relatively unknown comic book character. X-Men barely gets by in my book because and an uknnown actor was chosen to play Wolverine, but I still think the X-Men could have been casted much better. No one had ever heard of Christopher Reeve before Supes and Tobey Maguire wasn't all that famous before Spidey. The bottom line is, you need a relatively unknown actress to play Wonder Woman(Diana of Thymescera).
2.) For this movie to work they are going to need not only some one who is familiar with Greek culture and mythology but someone who is going to write a screenplay with Wonder Woman being a hero for everyone not just little girls. What I'm trying to say is the last thing I want to see on the silver screen is some Politically Correct superhero film that is trying to cram girl power down my throat, I got enough of the sh** from Joss Whedon. I don't mind a strong female hero, I just don't want to see Warner Bros. make a film were all the villains are men and you only see Wonder Woman beating up men. Women are just as capable of being dibolical and evil as men. The whole girl power angle was one of the problems I had with George Perez's run on the Wonder Woman comic back in the late eighties.
3.) The film needs to really address her Amazonian heritage and her audacity to come into another culture and assume that it can benefit from her Amazonian ways. Unlike her Justice League counterparts Superman, the Bat-Man, and the Flash, I've always found Wonder Woman to be somewhat concieted and arrogant.
She comes from a sheltered and pampered life off the island of Themyscera (or Themyscira) to the rest of the rest of the earth or what the Amazons call Patriarch's World and tells the world that we can benefit from the Amazons's way of lifestyle, a lifestyle that rejects an entire gender. Anyway I find these characteristics about her quite interesting and in the hands of the right screenwriter could be explored very well in a movie.
4.) Judging by Warner Bros. handling of the Bat-Man films and the Superman films after the first one I not expecting much from a Wonder Woman movie.
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