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Wonder Woman (2017)

Since they went with WWI I'm guessing she'll be fighting greek god bad guys.

Although she could always beat up Lenin.
 
On an island where everyone is a lesbian and no one is related by blood... There would be no exclusion zone for exploitation.

They all should be covered up like Victorians.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
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.
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There was a rumor going around a while back that Sean Bean would be playing Ares, but I according to Wikipedia nothing ever became of it. I would be surprised if Ares wasn't the primary villain, especially knowing that it's set in WWI.
Christopher said:
Well, that's the comfortable myth, sure, but there were evils on both sides. We allied with Stalin, remember, not to mention imprisoning our own Japanese-American citizens in concentration camps. Not to mention that both sides bombed each other's civilian populations into oblivion with equal brutality. The American wartime propaganda against the Japanese was as horrifically racist as any Nazi propaganda. Yes, Hitler had to be fought, but neither side's hands were clean.



And they did so after WWII as well, as I've been saying. Sure, WWI was the start of it, but it was the dress rehearsal for WWII. They're both really just one long, continuous process with a lull in the middle.
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I heard that before, that they were basically just one big war with a break in the middle. The History Channel miniseries The World Wars from a couple years back dealt a lot with how what happened in WWI influenced the major players in WWII.
 
JD said:
in WWI influenced the major players in WWII.
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Well yes, if the victors hadn't been such monumental bastards to Germany then the situation that led to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party in the Weimar Republic might not have happened.
 
I've been watching the second season of Daredevil and learned that the actress who plays Elektra, Elodie Yung, was in the running to play Wonder Woman. I think she would have been a good choice if Gal Gadot didn't get the role.

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Everything else outstanding, Elodie isn't very tall though which might be a factor. I saw a youtube panel of the Season 2 cast and she looked really small with the other cast. She was OK in DD but I don't know that she could project "amazon warrior" necessarily.
 
MarsWeeps said:
I've been watching the second season of Daredevil and learned that the actress who plays Elektra, Elodie Yung, was in the running to play Wonder Woman. I think she would have been a good choice if Gal Gadot didn't get the role.

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Mr. Adventure said:
Everything else outstanding, Elodie isn't very tall though which might be a factor. I saw a youtube panel of the Season 2 cast and she looked really small with the other cast. She was OK in DD but I don't know that she could project "amazon warrior" necessarily.
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Yeah, Elodie is pretty short at 5'5.
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Charlie Cox is 5'10, so he doesn't loom over her the way Cavil (6'1) or Affleck (6'4) would have, if she was cast as WW. Even Gadot has to wear 3" wedge heels to not seem to short by comparison. Same for ScarJo (5'2) and Jamie Alexander (5'9) when she's standing next to Hemsworth (6'3).
 
Wow, that makes me feel really short, I'm 5'6. I didn't realize Ben Affleck was that tall.

That video was the first time I've actually heard somebody say Gal Gadot's last name.
 
M.A.C.O. said:
Yeah, Elodie is pretty short at 5'5.
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I don't see the problem. We tend to use "Amazon" to mean "tall, statuesque woman," but it's hardly necessary to be big to be an effective fighter or a commanding presence. Heck, Sleepy Hollow's Nicole Beharie is 5'1", a foot shorter than her co-star Tom Mison, but she projects such incredible power and strength that I'd be afraid to get on her bad side. There are a lot of tiny kickass women in TV and movies today.

Besides, as I've mentioned elsewhere, the Amazons of myth were inspired by Central Asian horse-nomad cultures (which tended to have more gender equality than agrarian societies like Ancient Greece), and being small is an asset for a horseback warrior.
 
The magic of movies allows even a twig like Zoe Saldana to look tough. It's all in the presentation.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
Well apparently appearance doesn't mean anything at all in casting.
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Of course it means something, but it has to be weighed against talent, personality, chemistry with other actors, the box-office draw of a given actor, the availability of a given actor, the price demanded by their agent, and all the other considerations that go into a casting decision. After all, these are actors being cast, not models, so their look is not the one and only thing that matters.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
I guess DC had a missed opportunity to cast Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman as Superman and Batman.
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I think you missed the point. Things like height & weight can be 'massaged' a bit if the actor is good enough - especially when a character's strength is supernatural. For example, Hugh Jackman is a foot too tall to play Wolverine. I don't think you can hide the fact that a dwarf is a dwarf or a black guy is black tho.

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