52 Films by Women Vol 2. 34. WONDER WOMAN (Director: Patty Jenkins)
I have come late to the Wonder Woman party. By the time I caught up with the big screen version of the popular DC Comics series, on Thursday 13 July 2017, the film had already grossed 373 million dollars at the US box office, making it at the very least the highest grossing live action movie directed by a woman. Well, it is a superhero movie, you say. They have built-in audiences. Perhaps - but you remember Catwoman starring Halle Berry in the title role, directed by Pitof. No, you don’t because it tanked – as did Tank Girl and Aeon Flux . This is because filmmakers don’t know how to make female centred superhero movies that audiences believe in. The defining gesture that Diana ( Gal Gadot ) makes in the new Wonder Woman movie is the crossing of her arms in front of her face – a big ‘x’, a whacking great ‘no’. ‘No’ means ‘no’, people. This is a message that we can – and should – believe in. Wonder Woman has at least one scene that should become iconic. ...