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Wonder Woman (2017)

I had my doubts about the casting, but i'm looking forward to this big screen treatment of a member of the Mount Rushmore of DC's top characters.
 
Not sure if those are the mounted archers Christopher is talking about. The Scythians are the usual "inspiration" for the Amazons, not the Mongols

Yeah, the Mongols were too far east to interact with the ancient Greeks, of course.

And I don't see "arms like woven cables" in that art, I see arms clad in heavy winter coats. And art can be exaggerated. Looking at photos of real-life archery champions proves that you don't need cartoonishly exaggerated muscles to be strong.
 
If you look at recent pictures of Gadot, you can see she looks strong!

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How much (muscle) weight do you think that she has gained for the part?

Because those are not the toothpick arms Gal had a year ago.
 
What on Earth are you talking about?

Yeah, jockeys and other horse-based athletics tend that way, but military archers of the era you're referring to? Are you really that oblivious to reality? They were thick, bulky, with arms like woven cables. Even putting brainpower aside, you just have to look at their depictions of art.
Based on this pic, I now demand that WW be stocky and overweight! And Asian!
 
The Middle East was long identified as Asia so Gal is Asian. Besides, it's all a facade to keep the white folks on that peninsula happy in the belief they are on a separate continent from Asia.
 
White people are so supercilious.

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I never truly believed that any "movie" Spider-Man could get in or out of his costume in less than three minutes.
 
Our first look at Paradise Island. This'll be good. I see that they took inspiration from China. When I think of exotic otherworldly locales, China is often what comes to mind.
 
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Our first look at Paradise Island. This'll be good. I see that they took inspiration from China. When I think of exotic otherworldly locales, China is often what comes to mind.

Although, to paraphrase a Facebook meme I recently saw, there are significantly more Chinese people in the world than there are Americans and Europeans combined, so if anything, they're the normal ones and we're the exotic ones.
 
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