Chapter 1: Aftermath (no spoilers)
The afterthought is always written at the forefront.
The much-anticipated "Wonder Woman" has arrived. In order to cater to the mass market, a lot of humorous elements have been added, and the main story has been optimized. The preconceived Wonder Woman exclusive background music has exploded and added points to the fighting scene. Generally speaking, it is a good answer.
Director Patty Jenkins is extremely sophisticated in the composition of the film, successfully showing Diana's bravery and tenderness. Compared with the previous director Zach Schneider, who directed "Superman Iron Man" and "Batman v Superman", less A lot of obscure plots and religious mappings are used, and a lot of space is used to shape the love relationship between Diana and Steve.
Gal Gadot also successfully provoked the role of the 75-year-old Wonder Woman.
In "Batman Vs Superman" (hereinafter referred to as BVS), the shock of her image was established. In "Wonder Woman", her performance has not disappointed, showing her heroic side is not a bit sloppy, showing her tender side is even more pleasing.
It's just a pity that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. I didn't see more surprises in the movie.
Although the history of DC Comics is many years earlier than Marvel Comics, it has to be said that Marvel is the first to be the first to open up the movie market. Therefore, in order to cater to and absorb more audiences, DC tried to learn the structure and routines of some heroic movies of "predecessors" Marvel.
As far as this "Wonder Woman" is concerned, it can no longer be seen whether it is a DC or a Marvel movie. However, the previous "Superman Steel Man" and "BVS" still have a very obvious DC style.
The earlier Batman trilogy improved the adaptation of comics to a palace level (perhaps that period has passed away).
It can only be said that DC's "Wonder Woman" has chosen the safest narrative method, so that the film will not let people have a black question mark face from beginning to end.
But without the dark style that DC should have, I don't know if it's a good thing. I hope that Marvel and DC have their own standards and styles, and they have distinct personalities. This is the biggest gospel for the audience.
There are no easter eggs in the film. There are no other superheroes involved in the film except for the Wien Company. It is said that "Wonder Woman" will be made into a trilogy, so I believe there will be other superheroes joining.
I thought that this movie would pave the way for the future "Justice League" to continue to play forward-looking, but I didn't expect it to have anything to do with it. Therefore, if you want a better preview of "Justice League", I suggest you go to remedial "BVS", which is the forward-looking work of "Justice League".
But don't think that you really understand this "Wonder Woman". After all, Wonder Woman is a very important superhero in DC. She is 75 years old and the hidden eggs and story lines revealed in the film are still very exciting .
Next, I will slowly peel this onion for everyone to see how much dry goods are in it!
Chapter 2: Wonder Woman-Diana
Keywords: background
Diana's Wonder Woman debuted in DC Comics in 1941, representing women, equality, justice, and peace.
From the perspective of comic history, Wonder Woman was born on Paradise Island in 3000 BC, so Wonder Woman is now 5000 years old. She should be the oldest superhero on earth.
In order to increase understanding, Da Cong has made a Wonder Woman character relationship map here, and I hope it will be helpful to everyone.
In October 2016, Wonder Woman was also appointed as the honorary ambassador of the United Nations.
The female superhero who can achieve this position in reality is probably only Wonder Woman. (However, I resigned in December of the same year and only served for less than 2 months)
Here is a hyperlink to our report on Wonder Woman as the United Nations ambassador (you can see our forward-looking haha from the title):
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2016-10/19/c_129327940.htm
Keywords: Diana's life experience
The bedtime story of Diana as a child in the film introduces that Diana was born by her mother, who made a clay figurine, but later his mother Hippolyte admitted that it was just a bedtime story and was not true.
Diana is actually the illegitimate daughter of Hippolyte and Zeus. This setting is the setting after DC Comics NEW52.
This has to unfold the issue of the times in the DC comic universe. Because it has been a long time since the birth of DC comics, it has been influenced by the American comics era and has been divided into many DC comics eras.
The specific figure is divided into: the golden age, the silver age, the modern age, and the NEW52 era. (Note: There is actually a Bronze Age in American comics)
Back to "Wonder Woman", after the NEW52 era, Diana's life experience has a new explanation. She is actually the illegitimate daughter of Zeus and Hippoly, the king of the universe, so Diana is different from other Amazons. She is of a half-human and half-god bloodline.
According to the statements in the comics and the film, Diana's complete life experience should be summarized as follows:
In order to resist Ares’ invasion and protect the last holy land, Paradise Island, Hippolyte and Zeus gave birth to the illegitimate daughter Diana when Ares was the weakest. The gods themselves.
In Greek mythology, Ares is the incarnation of the spirit of martial arts, has the title of God of War, and is the son of Zeus and Hera. He is the most hated among the gods, because he is bloodthirsty, bloody, and cruel.
At the same time, he is a very good strategist, so he has done a good job in inducing the dark side of mankind.
In the DC comics, Ares can be transformed into a human being and mixed into it, inducing the dark and cruel side of humans . When humans kill each other, they release the negative energy, and Ares can absorb these energy to strengthen himself. So when the world war broke out, Ares grew rapidly.
In order to resist his son Ares, Zeus and Hippolyte gave birth to Diana, and at the same time received separate blessings from the twelve gods of Olympus.
So when Diana was born:
Naturally possesses the strength of Hercules (Hercules),
With the wisdom bestowed by the goddess of wisdom Athena,
With the beauty of Aphrodite, the god of love,
The hunting goddess Alters bestows the ability to communicate with animals and the ability to strike accurately,
There are the speed granted by the god Hermes and so on.
Of course, there is also a complete set of equipment tailored for her by Vulcan Hevestos, which will be introduced in detail later.
Therefore, if you want to resist the rise of Ares in the future, you must train and strengthen Diana, and Diana has a natural sense of mission because of the blood of Zeus and the skills bestowed by the gods.
But at this time, Hippolyte was very maternal, and his daughter was eager. From the beginning, he didn't want Diana to charge into the battle as a victim, and didn't want her to become a weapon.
And Hippolyte's sister, Anniotti, of course also knew this secret. As a general, she naturally took the protection of Paradise Island as her first priority . Therefore, Diana was secretly trained with Hippolyte on his back, in case Ares really fights over, only Diana can withstand the destruction of Paradise Island.
In addition, we said earlier that if Diana’s bedtime story was fabricated by her mother when she was a child, is it the entanglement between Zeus and Ares, the contradiction between Ares and Hippolyte, Ares and Dai Is there also water in the grievances between Anna?
In the film, we saw that Diana’s mother Hippolyte was talking and stopping when she sent Diana away. There must be a lot of secrets hidden. Although I know that the comics have been optimized and simplified in the movie, we might as well deconstruct it in depth to make the role of Diana more three-dimensional!
According to the comic’s long-term story, many things actually happened before Diana was born.
In fact, the ultimate goal of Paradise Island and the Amazons is not to protect the so-called human beings, but that Paradise Island is the gate of time and space to the underworld.
The Amazons came to Paradise Island to guard Doom's Doorway. If the gate of the underworld is opened, let alone all human beings, the entire universe will suffer.
So the Amazons not only protect humans, but also the entire universe, OK?
In the early days of the guard, that is, before Diana, the Amazons insisted on their mission, but they were jealous of Ares, the god of war.
He used his instigation to induce divine power and let his brother Hercules attack the Paradise Island.
At that time, Hippolyte advocated peace and set up a splendid dinner to entertain Hercules, but Hercules calculated that he poisoned the food and drink, and then imprisoned the entire Amazons.
The sorrowful Hippolyte summoned the goddess Athena in prison for help, and Athena allowed them to be free on the condition that they would not be held accountable again.
Hippolyte agreed, but Hippolyte's sister Antiop refused to agree and prepared to send soldiers to retaliate, but Hercules had already left Paradise Island by this time.
So in the film Diana's mother said: "This is a gift from God".
A lot of revisions were made to the comics in the film, but from the storyline of the comics, you can see why Hippolyte’s sister Antiop hates Ares, because they have been different from Ares itself. Dai Tian's hatred.
In the days of Diana's girlhood, in the Golden Age version of DC, a Donna Troy was born, who looked exactly the same as Diana, and the purpose was to protect Diana's identity. This version was abandoned after NEW52 because it was really complicated.
All in all, from the perspective of the first "Wonder Woman", Diana's life experience is fairly simple and clear , and I don't know what the follow-up development will be.
In "BVS", Diana told Batman that she had fought for humans 100 years ago, and then disappeared for a hundred years.
So what happened to where Diana went in 100 years? Nothing is mentioned in this "Wonder Woman", but Diana can only vaguely feel that Diana is disappointed with humans.
In the comics, Diana returns to Paradise Island to unfold a series of complicated stories after eliminating Ares.
This involves several other comic characters, including Leopard Girl, Hermes, Donna Troy, Circe and so on. And Diana has a daughter furious. So in the next movie version of "Wonder Woman", I don't know if it will unfold like this.
Keywords: Wonder Woman's equipment
Before talking about equipment, we must introduce a god with the spirit of craftsman: Hevestos.
He is the god of fire and craftsman in Greek mythology. He is also the son of Zeus and Hera, the king of the universe, so he is also the half-brother of Diana.
Hevestos was so ugly that even his own mother despised him, and once again he was thrown into a cripple while climbing a mountain.
The gods laughed at him for it. From then on, Hevestos was inspiring to be a worker with ingenuity!
The gods originally lived in the comfortable Mount Olympus, but Hevestos felt that there was no place for him, so he decided to start a craftsmanship at Mount Etna next door and open an artisan shop.
The effort pays off. Many gods come to him to build their own equipment, such as Apollo's suncar, such as Eros's golden and silver arrows, such as Zeus's Aegis and so on.
Of course, there are also Wonder Woman's mantra lasso, shield, and wing boots. All come from Hevestos quality assurance.
Mantra Lasso:
This was made by Hevestos using the gold belt of the earth goddess Gaia as the raw material, and those bound by the lasso can only tell the truth.
But for Wonder Woman, if the mantra lasso traps her, she will become weak and powerless . This setting is very similar to Superman becoming weak and weak if he encounters Kryptonite green ore.
Sword and Shield of the Godslayer:
In the comics, the Godslayers and the shields were all customized by Hippolyte who specifically asked Hevestos.
The sword of the godslayer has to be the most powerful warrior.
In other words, how much you have the ability to control this sword, how much effect this sword can provide you with. However, the ability of the sword of the godslayer is integrated into Diana's blood in the film, in order to simplify the complex plot.
The swords and shields of "Wonder Woman" are not the swords and shields used in "BVS".
What is certain is that the sword used by Wonder Woman in "BVS" is the sword of Athena. Why can I get this sword? I think I will introduce it in the future "Wonder Woman" series.
The shield is not the same shield. The shield used by Diana in "Wonder Woman" should be just an ordinary shield used by the Amazons, but it is also collected from the special metal material of Paradise Island. indestructible.
The shield used by Wonder Woman in "BVS" looks more like a specially made by Hevestos. The material used is made of precious metal left over from the Aegis, and it is a god-level shield of the same level as Aegis.
Power bracelet:
For Amazon's aunts, bracelets are their fixed accessories. In the comics of different eras, the evolution of the bracelet has different interpretations, just like the costume of Wonder Woman.
The bracelet not only has a defensive effect, but also has its own meaning. In the early Amazons, they used to be slaves with handcuffs and chains tied to their hands. After they were finally free, the handcuffs became defensive bracelets, which meant that imprisonment became defense and freedom. It has also become one of the symbols of the Amazons.
In the version after NEW52, the magic bracelet has extremely high protection, such as blocking bullets, but in Diana's hand, the magic bracelet also has the function of transmitting power.
Because Diana is the daughter of Zeus and Hippolyte, she naturally has supernatural powers.
Therefore, in the martial arts competition in the film, her inadvertent action allowed her to release a huge shock wave through the bracelet of supernatural power. It also gradually revealed the difference between Diana and the general Amazons.
In the comics, after Diana was released from her supernatural power, Hippolyte specially asked Hevestos to create Diana's exclusive supernatural power bracelet. The material also came from Zeus's sheepskin shield, which is precious!
This god-level bracelet combined with Diana's natural divine power, skill and influence have been greatly upgraded, and the shock wave released is even greater.
In the final battle against Ares in the film, it actually revealed another skill of the Divine Power Bracelet, which can connect with the power of Zeus's Thunder.
When Ares gathered the thunder and lightning to hit Diana, Diana's bracelet absorbed these powers very well, and borrowed the power of Zeus to double the attack, and directly knocked Ares KO.
Keywords: love
Another very important representative of Wonder Woman is love.
According to an interview with Wonder Woman comics author Gray Luca, Wonder Woman is bisexual (OMG).
It is not unreasonable to think about it carefully. Paradise Island has lived for thousands of years, and it is Guliang every day. It is normal to have homosexuality on the island!
Love is an important way to happiness. If there is no love in Paradise Island, happiness is not complete. Therefore, it is not excessive to have a romantic same-sex love story on Paradise Island.
Of course, if Diana is just gay, the storyline will be weakened.
So when Diana met the pilot Steve for the first time in the film, she said: Are you a man?
This sentence actually reflects that Diana's desire for the opposite sex has been completely opened. There is something surging like a flood!
Let’s say it’s bigger, inserting some characters into the comic hero film to run through LGBTQ, advocating the universal values of the United States, is also the mainstream value of Hollywood movies.
According to the film Wonder Woman’s first love is Steve, and it is precisely because of Steve’s death that she instantly matures and grows up. At the same time, she understands that although human beings have a dark side, they also have a bright side. The balance between the two will be an important issue for her in the future.
There are several comics about the love between Wonder Woman and Superman. Yes, Superman not only loves mortal girls, but also has some affection for Wonder Woman.
However, in the story of Diana and Superman being ambiguous or kissing each other, it is usually Superman’s true girlfriend Louis who died or the story did not have Louis at that time, so as not to have an extra plot saying that Wonder Woman is a junior, which makes People laughed.
It is worth mentioning that, before the official set the tone, the love between Wonder Woman and Superman was just a fantasizing YY.
Because the audience was curious about these two superheroes having superhero powers, and the two of them are immortal. Why are they not a pair when they are so close to each other?
So in the DC Comics Gaiden and extended plot, you will see the love between Wonder Woman and Superman.
After talking about Superman, the love between Batman and Wonder Woman is more mainstream.
The beginning of the film is the original photo of her in World War I that Batman sent to Diana. Explaining that the incident occurred after "BVS", Batman officially communicated with Diana.
In the end, Diana replied to the e-mail to indicate that she had accepted Batman's gift, and at the end Diana put on the armor of Wonder Woman and jumped towards Paris. Does it mean that she has taken the lead on the European battlefield as a member of the Justice League? !
Therefore, it can be concluded that because of the long-term battle between Batman and Wonder Woman, their friendship has risen to love. In the comics, they tried to fall in love. But in the end, they didn't cultivate the right fruit, but then again, what right fruit do they need to cultivate? Give birth to a baby?
Chapter 3: Diana's Mother Hippolyte
Keywords: Amazons and Paradise Island
In ancient Greek legends, there was indeed an ethnic group of women warriors who lived in some towns near Greece . The way they reproduced was to reproduce descendants with the neighboring Gajars, while the Gajars were All men group.
In order to allow their respective ethnic groups to have a new reproduction, they chose a time to mate, and then the boys belonged to the Jiagar ethnic group and the girls belonged to the Amazon ethnic group.
Of course, this Greek myth is just one of the inspirations for making up the background of "Wonder Woman". In DC Comics, they live on the isolated paradise island.
This reminds me of the daughter country of Journey to the West. There is not a single man in the whole group, all of them are daughters. This makes everyone think of a problem of reproducing offspring. The daughter country of Journey to the West is to drink water that can be pregnant to reproduce offspring.
In the film, the Amazons seem to have no such need. They can live forever, so the population does not need a metabolism.
Diana is also the only woman who grew up in the Amazon. Other Amazons are adults, which shows that Amazons do not need to reproduce.
The Paradise Island is an island of gods built by the gods of Olympia to protect the human world.
In the film, when Diana's mother Hippoly read the bedtime story to Diana, she introduced that Paradise Island was built to protect and avoid Ares.
But she later denied that this was just a bedtime story, so according to the setting of DC Comics, there is another reason for the existence of Paradise Island. It is the gate that guards the underworld that we mentioned earlier.
Keywords: Hippolyte
There is indeed a goddess named Hippolyte in Greek mythology, but I will not start here. Here we will learn more about Hippolyte (Mother of Diana) in DC.
According to the reasoning of the DC universe comics timeline, Hippolyte's background should be like this:
In the history of DC, the Amazons were exterminated by Greek men instigated by Ares.
Knowing that the goddesses who had been annihilated were filled with grief and indignation, the goddesses gathered together, including Venus, Athena, Atimis, etc., and they gathered the souls of the Amazons, and then put their souls together. Being placed under the Aegean Sea, these souls slowly merged with the soil, and finally became new Amazons.
The first person to appear in the new Amazons was Hippolyte . She naturally became the queen of the Amazons, and the second Amazonian formed was Hippoly's sister Antiop.
The gods in the heavens are very happy to see the women of these Amazons, and give them physical strength, wisdom, beauty, and immortality.
At that time, the Amazons were still being hunted down by Ares's comrades, so the gods also gave them a paradise island, allowing the Amazons to live there for a long time. And guarding the gate of the underworld.
Then there was Diana, with the plot in the film.
In the DC comics of the golden age, Hippolyte is actually one of the very important characters in the Wonder Woman series. Next, let everyone know about Hippolyte in the golden age.
During Diana's departure, many stories actually happened on Paradise Island.
In the Golden Age version, after Hippolyte had a daughter, maternal love exploded, violating the mission of the gods. And in order to protect Diana, he copied a copy of Diana's playmate, Donna Troy.
Sure enough, Donna Troy played a role in protecting the real Diana. The angel in black once wanted to catch Diana, but mistaken Donna Troy for Diana. And it led to Donna's life of many tragedies.
Later, Hippolyte relied on the Flash to return to the past, changed history, and saved Donna Troy.
When Hippolyte returned to Paradise Island, she found that she had neglected management and that Paradise Island was no longer the former Paradise Island, but the factionalism was extremely fierce, and she had been emptied.
At this time, her sister Antiop was standing on her own hill on another island near Paradise Island. At this time, Hippolyte had the ability to predict dreams. She dreamed that her daughter Diana would die while she was a Wonder Woman.
So began to strongly oppose Diana who returned to Paradise Island to go out again. And tried to urge other people to become Wonder Woman to replace Diana to die.
Of course Diana was angry when she knew that she left Paradise Island to become Wonder Woman. Hippolyte’s dream came true. Diana died in a certain mission and her soul became one of the new Greek gods. She took over the position of Ares God of War, but as a goddess, she could only respond to requests without interfering.
While the position of the mortal Wonder Woman is vacant, Hippolyte can only replace Diana as a Wonder Woman.
Diana in the God Realm sympathized with the suffering of mankind and broke the rules of the gods and took the initiative to help mankind again. So Diana was turned into the mortal world by the gods again, and became a Wonder Woman.
Chapter 4: Steve Trevor
In the movie, Wonder Woman and Steve staged a humorous scene after another.
In the comics, there are also a lot of jokes between them. The relationship between the two of them is different in the DC comics of different eras.
In the golden age, the encounter between Diana and Steve is the same as the plot of the movie.
Afterwards, a martial arts contest was held on Paradise Island, preparing to elect an ambassador to escort Steve back to the world. Diana fell in love with Steve at first sight, so without her mother's knowledge, she secretly participated in the game and won. Get the chance to escort Steve back to the world.
In the escort process, because the comic story is set in World War II, and the country escorting Steve back is the United States. So Wonder Woman is a stealth fighter with one more car.
Stealth fighter is one of the most important vehicles for Wonder Woman. I don't know if the series will appear in the future.
In the comics, after Diana escorted Steve back to the United States, Diana took off her shirt and put on mortal clothes and became Steve’s personal secretary, but Steve had no idea that Diana beside him was magical Heroine. This routine is very similar to Superman wearing glasses and becoming a newspaper reporter.
In the Silver Age version, Steve and Diana also gave birth to a daughter named Furious. It also has a heavier role.
After NEW52, there is still an important secret between Steve's mother and Paradise Island.
Everyone knows that Steve is a spy and air force pilot. At the end of the movie, when Diana mourned Steve, there was a photo of Steve and the plane when he was young. It shows that Steve was a pilot when he was very young.
That's because Steve's mother is also a pilot and a flight tester.
Steve's mother went missing during a flight test and fell on Paradise Island. In the mortal world, Steve thought his mother crashed and died, so in order to fulfill his mother's last wish, he grew up and inspired to be a pilot.
And Steve's mother, who fell on the Paradise Island, was rescued by Hippolyte. In the following days, Steve's mother and the Amazonian aunts forged a deep friendship.
And helped the Amazons to resist the attacks of Ares's comrades. Unfortunately, Steve's mother died in a resistance.
And Steve's mother's name is exactly: Diana Rockwell Trevor.
Later, Hippolyte had a daughter. In memory of Steve's mother, Diana Trevor, he named his daughter: Diana.
So in DC Comics, Wonder Woman's costume is very similar to the American flag, and it is also a paradise island to commemorate Steve's mother. Because the test plane that Steve's mother crashed on Paradise Island was printed with the American flag.
Chapter 5: Write at the end
In fact, there are many wonderful stories in the comic version of Wonder Woman, and the stories of Wonder Woman in each DC era are different. Dah Cong now only selects the plots that are more related to the movie to organize. Perhaps these clues can serve as clues for everyone to reconstruct Wonder Woman.
But as DC's most important female superhero character, Wonder Woman has a very complicated story line and branch line, and has different interpretations in different eras, involving many other superheroes. Even if I am a fan of DC Comics, I can't explain it all in a film review.
Therefore, the extended stories and clues explained in it are all processed and inferred. Don't rush for some small wrong details.
Because it is impossible for me to restore all the comic stories of Wonder Woman from 1941 to the present without errors. I can only say that my finishing can give everyone a general understanding of the other side of Wonder Woman. So that everyone has more imagination.
In addition, my information is all sorted out according to the DC comics I read and the official information manual. Nothing involved plagiarizing anyone's film reviews. If there are similar statements, everyone may have read the same official document.
In addition, in order to welcome the "Justice League" coming in November, Dah Cong has begun to organize the story line of the DC universe comics, hoping to deconstruct "Justice League" in the simplest way for everyone, so that everyone can see more stories behind DC movies.
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