Maybe...thought of that, but the lines look a little too regular and uniform.
Wonder Woman (2017)
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It's only called "Paradise" because no men are allowed.
Straight lines do happen in nature. It looks like some kind of stratified sedimentary rock, explaining the flat layers.
I work overnight, so I sleep during the day. This was a nice image to wake up to. Go Gadot! Amazons Unite!
That picture, although with a 'Xena colour scheme' (which I expected), is a live action version of the George Perez version of Wonder Woman from the mid-80's!
I'm looking forward to see what they do with this movie. I'm half expecting the story to tie into the Amazon/Greek mythology angle that DC did with George Perez and Co on Wonder Woman post "Crisis on Infinite Earths", but not sure they will. Still, something to anticipate anyway.
That picture, although with a 'Xena colour scheme' (which I expected), is a live action version of the George Perez version of Wonder Woman from the mid-80's!
I'm looking forward to see what they do with this movie. I'm half expecting the story to tie into the Amazon/Greek mythology angle that DC did with George Perez and Co on Wonder Woman post "Crisis on Infinite Earths", but not sure they will. Still, something to anticipate anyway.
I just hope they'll take more from George Perez than Brian Azzarello, especially in the depiction of the Amazons.
And with the story set in World War I, I'd be very surprised if Ares wasn't involved.
That WOULD tie in nicely, wouldn't it! Fingers crossed then!
Director Patty Jenkins confirms that Themiscyra will have a diverse set of characters. Which is great imo. I always liked the idea of Paradise Island being a sanctuary for all women, not just those from ancient Greece.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/03...ins-addresses-themysciran-diversity-question/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/03...ins-addresses-themysciran-diversity-question/
Diverse characters on Themiscyra, an island inhabited only by women. What else could it mean?
Multiethnicized lesbians.
It's a question of how they were gathered and when they were gathered, and if they were all gathered at the same time to be immortal lesbians.
Also gathered by which God?
If they were gathered by a God, after a thousand years of being a stable of sexual playthings to that oaf, a new diet of Vagina might seem like a good idea, alternatively if they were gathered by a Goddess, it's the only shop in town.
It's a question of how they were gathered and when they were gathered, and if they were all gathered at the same time to be immortal lesbians.
Also gathered by which God?
If they were gathered by a God, after a thousand years of being a stable of sexual playthings to that oaf, a new diet of Vagina might seem like a good idea, alternatively if they were gathered by a Goddess, it's the only shop in town.
That's actually one reason I'm particularly excited for the setting. What better war to use as your setting if your enemy is going to be War itself?
I'd say WWII made more sense for that. There was a widespread perception at the time that WWII was the ultimate war, and in some respects it was. It escalated the mass bombardment of civilian targets to a level never seen before or since. The development of nuclear weapons was the pinnacle of that, but it was the continuation of a practice that had been waged throughout the war. (Part of the reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets for the atom bombs is that most of Japan's other major cities had already been destroyed by conventional bombing.) The brutality and devastation of the war were so shocking to the world that it provoked new efforts to find a way to end war for good before it destroyed us, leading to the creation of the United Nations. And that fear of another all-out war probably saved our planet from destruction, since even in the height of the nuclear arms race, we still had a degree of restraint that we probably wouldn't have had before WWII.
WW1 was the Great War.
The War to End all Wars.
By the end of 1918, escalation above and beyond the first war was not only unthinkable but scientifically impossible.
(New psychology had to be invented to describe the next generation of assholes.)
Hitler was insane.
Stalin was a Monster
Hirohito had been literally told that he was a God since birth.
Not actually sure what Mussolini's deal was, but I feel like he was a nerd that would do anything to sit at the cool kids table for lunch.
I think that real point of picking WW1, is so that Diana, upon her return in Batman V Superman, can say that she's been Gone from man's world for a full century (wiggle, wiggle almost.).
The War to End all Wars.
By the end of 1918, escalation above and beyond the first war was not only unthinkable but scientifically impossible.
(New psychology had to be invented to describe the next generation of assholes.)
Hitler was insane.
Stalin was a Monster
Hirohito had been literally told that he was a God since birth.
Not actually sure what Mussolini's deal was, but I feel like he was a nerd that would do anything to sit at the cool kids table for lunch.
I think that real point of picking WW1, is so that Diana, upon her return in Batman V Superman, can say that she's been Gone from man's world for a full century (wiggle, wiggle almost.).
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It could be that after her experience in the first one, her hope in man deflated when they went and started the second, making her finally give up that we'd change.
Her reasoning is explained in Batman vs Superman.
This is all true. However, in WWII - and especially since then, which is what matters when you decide where to set a story - there were clearly defined villains to be fought against, and however horrific the particulars may have been, fighting Imperial Japan and especially the Nazis was a Good Thing. Hitler was a terrifying monster, the monster to end all monsters in the decades since, and the crimes of Japan are well known. "The Axis of ____" continues to be a shorthand phrase for power. That's what made WWII "The Good War" ever since, because however terrible it was and especially the effect it had on various civilian populations, it had to be fought because Hitler had to be taken down.
WWI is... much much less cleanly defined. Yeah there were clearly sides, but what made the goals of the German Empire and France really all that different? The whole thing grew into a monster of its own making because of the interlocking forces of nationalism and alliance-building and the simmering rivalry between the UK and Germany. The War itself is poorly understood today because it can't be summed up in simple emotional phrases and its the more likely to be seen as a pointless waste of human life. Even within the war itself there was widespread discontent - can you picture French divisions deciding to mutiny in WWII because they didn't see the point of the whole thing? Can you see British and Nazi soldiers arranging a Christmas truce because "on each end of the rifle we're the same"?
You're underestimating the effect that the Great War had on the collective psyche of the world. Nobody in the aftermath of WWII tried to write a Kellog-Briand Pact - perhaps because nobody thought it would work after the first failed, but it's still notable that after WWI, much of the world collectively decided to outlaw war itself. The United Nations was born out of the League of Nations, in an effort to relegitmize (and make more explicit) the state of affairs the existed before the First World War, when everybody thought that mass wars were a thing of the past because economies were too intricately linked.
Some of our richest anti-war poetry and songs comes from the battlefields and aftermath of WWI, and just look at the names usually given to the generation who fought in each war: "The Lost Generation" vs. "The Greatest Generation."
All of this in mind is why I think WWI thematically makes more sense for a hero whose enemy is the God of War himself (assuming Ares is the villain).
Not just warriors.