In 2017, the first "Wonder Woman" directed by a female director and won a domestic box office of 600 million, Wonder Woman played by Gal Gadot, with her character charm and movie reputation, made this female superhero become popular in the eyes of the public. focus.
Now three years later, Patty Jenkins continues to direct the sequel, "Wonder Woman 1984."
This is also the only superhero movie to appear on the market in 2020. In this turbulent year, it may be a good choice to bid farewell to the end of the year with this saving icon.
make a wish
If you had a chance to make your wish come true, what wish would you wish for?
This is probably the main line of "Wonder Woman 1984".
Diana, 66 years later, does not seem to have changed at all from half a century ago. She lives a life that is almost the same as that of ordinary people.
However, even for such a woman with natural power, she still has long-lasting regrets in her heart.
Steve - the man who told her "I save today, you save the world" .
And by chance, the wishing stone fulfilled Diana's wish and brought her love back to her side. This is also one of the suspense in the trailer for this work, the mystery of Steve's return.
The fulfillment of a wish comes with a price, and Diana's power begins to wane, and she chooses to accept the price.
At this moment, the humanity in Diana's divinity is flowing. She is no longer the invincible Wonder Woman, but a girl who longs for her beloved to return to her side.
Steve is Diana's greatest love and pain, and in this 1984 world, he and Diana are also extremely interesting.
In the last movie, Steve led Diana to explore the human world, but now, this identity has been replaced, and it also provides a lot of laughs for some of the scenes.
Wondersteve is so damn good, a woman as strong as a god shouted "Even once, just once, I hope to get what I want", even if they finally BE but they have also HE...
There's a little sugar (knife) spot in this game: there's a photo at Diana's house with the watch Steve gave her. The time stagnant on the dial is the same as the end of the previous work, which is nine o'clock. It is estimated that it is the moment when Steve's life ends.
Lies and Wishes
"Wonder Woman 1984" has an extremely grand opening. In the splendid and bustling Paradise Island Arena, various competitions are going on in an orderly manner. Little Diana seems extremely out of place among a group of tall women. .
In the subsequent episodes, she was trained for taking shortcuts, bringing out the point of view that "there are no shortcuts to success", which is also reflected in the second half of the movie.
Since one of the themes is set on "Truth and Lies", Diana's other prop, the Lasso of Mantra, has a more dazzling performance.
The noose symbolizes the truth, the material is unbreakable, and the person bound can only tell the truth.
Of course, the scene seen in the trailer also appeared. Diana tied the lightning to the distance through the mantra lasso, which had a great visual impact.
From the design of these movements, it is easy to see that this is a reference to circus-like performances, where light movements and powerful strength coexist in Diana's body.
In my opinion, "Cost and Wish" is actually a thematic projection of "Truth and Lies".
Wishes are made by paying a price, but these are not real wishes because the wisher did not make any effort to do so.
So here, "wish" has been equated with "lie".
The final battle of the movie is Diana against the human desires, these desires - or "lies" that have caused disaster in the world, and Diana uses the mantra of "truth" to fight these desires.
This is the concretization of lies and truth, desire and price, and a speculative image presentation of "equivalent exchange".
How much will you pay for your wish to come true?
Diana said goodbye to Steve again, and her mind grew even more.
villain in the background
In DCEU's Wonder Woman Origin, in order to prevent Ares, the god of war, from destroying the human world, Diana chose to leave Paradise Island with Air Force Captain Steve to save the world.
It has been 66 years since the world of the previous "Wonder Woman", and this "Wonder Woman 1984" will set the time point in 1984.
This is an extremely prosperous and beautiful era. The movie restores the background of the era very well. Those familiar cultural symbols that were full of the 1980s are almost all reproduced in the movie.
Or exaggerated or retro clothing, punk teenagers and white-collar elites, bustling buildings and endless traffic... All these seem to bring people back to the era when dreams and novelties coexisted.
In the context of this era, two villains, Barbara, the leopard girl, and Max were also constructed.
The leopard girl Barbara adopts the archeologist setting of the comics. She and Diana are colleagues at the Washington Museum of Natural History. Although they are highly knowledgeable, they are inconspicuous in the crowd and are cowardly and timid.
In her eyes, Diana was like the sun, why wasn't she envious? However, it is this kind of envy that leads to the imbalance and blackening of the heart.
The movie lays out the villain's character arc in detail, and outlines the character's transformation in detail, and the villain is no longer the same one-size-fits-all.
Likewise, another villain, Max, shows this character growth at the end of the film.
Injustice and miserable childhood made Max a paranoid villain, and finally, his feelings for his son brought him back to the soft side of human nature.
Of course, this rhythm setting also has weaknesses, and placing it in the final game will make the audience feel that this is a whitewashing of the villain. If there is a little more foreshadowing, it may be better to intersperse the memories in the middle clips, so that the audience will be more able to appreciate the completion of this incompleteness.
When it comes to these two villains, it can be combined with the background of the 1980s - women's equality and the oil crisis. The emergence of "Leopard Girls" means the awakening of women, and the oil crisis marks another villain, Max, who controls Oil was his ambition.
Golden Eagle Armor and Easter Eggs
This set of eye-catching equipment that made a big splash on the posters appeared in the comic "The Kingdom of Heaven", and only the most powerful warriors can wear it.
In the decisive battle, Max transmitted human desires to the Leopard Girl, and the armor used the exact same method to block the Leopard Girl's attack for Diana.
The film also buried an easter egg at the end, that is, the appearance of the first owner of the armor.
She also starred in the 1975 drama "Wonder Woman" as Linda Carter!
two lives
At the end of the film, Diana in a coat is standing in the snow, with people coming and going behind her, the Christmas tree shining behind her, and peace has returned to her side.
If you compare carefully, you will find that at the end of the previous work "Wonder Woman", there is also a similar scene, Diana in a battle uniform is standing in the ruins of the war, and the sun is slowly rising behind her.
Two lenses, two lives.
Looking back at the whole film, "Wonder Woman 1984" is more like a re-deconstructed "Aladdin" story.
The contradiction between ideal and reality, individual and group, because the female hero is wrapped in the body, these themes appear to be more healing and touching.
2020 is coming to an end. As mentioned at the beginning, if you bid farewell to this year with a movie, perhaps "Wonder Woman 1984" is a good choice. When chaos is over, peace and calm will always return. ▌
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