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[grimorie]

So, I accidentally watched Wonder Woman again because I found Collider Videos commentary video and I decided to fire-up iTunes and watch it the same time as they watch.

And, I got caught up the same way the Collider crew got caught up. Also, this really is a movie that gets so much better on rewatch. I loved it the first time but it just keeps getting better the more I rewatch it.

Here's the thing too-- I've watched the movie a lot, its the first time I realized that Diana lost her very beautiful shield between the moments she left Veld and when she stormed out of the castle to go back to Veld.

The score is another thing I appreciate the more I hear it, Rupert Willams Gregson did a beautiful making a whole score for the movie, building off from Hans Zimmerman's 'Is She With You?' from BvS.

(BTW, in Justice League I noticed they didn't use the 'Amazons of Themyscira' music in the Themyscira scenes, which... I don't even know why they're not using something that's already been made, the kind of haunting horn that builds, it could've added to the mystery and menace when the Amazons are gathered around the Mother Box.)

One of the other things I appreciate how Patty Jenkins films this movie is how she's so good with scale. I don't know how to describe it, since BvS and Justice League also had big locations and yet I can feel the scale and depth of the places Diana visits. 

It’s just honestly breathtaking. 

Also, now I’m wondering-- I wonder if the gods (’cause I don’t believe it was just Zeus) didn’t so much create Themyscira as separate it from the main land, and thus essentially ‘creating’ a new island? 

I wonder how much gray hairs Hippolyta would have had if the Amazons were allowed to have signs of age because it certainly seemed like Diana didn’t stop getting into trouble even when she got older. Heck, she got into a lot more after she left the island. 

I love how the movie quickly established that Diana is headstrong and sometimes recklessly leaping before looking. wee!tiny!Diana leaping off the balcony and almost hitting the balcony below hers? I think Hippolyta has had quite a few heart attacks since then. 

Another thing on rewatch I didn’t notice before was the look of trepidation in Hippolyta’s eyes the moment Steve mentioned the ‘War to end all Wars’ because she knows from that second the time for Diana to leave Themyscira is drawing close. 

Even after thousands of years, Hippolyta and most of the Amazons still seemed so battle scarred, even though they’ve been preparing themselves for battle. They’re not exactly jumping up to volunteer to accompany Diana. How terrible they’re conditions must have been before they freed themselves.

I also want to know where does the Amazons and Atlantean war fall in the timeline? 

I love how actively heroic Diana is, and even her moment of doubt, of questioning, she is still making an active decision. 

Clark faced a similar moment after the bomb went off, and humanity disappointed him but for his moment BvS failed him. He didn’t do anything, he was kept in this indecisive limbo, acting like a disappointed god judging on high and leaving. He didn’t, or wasn’t allowed to be angry nor disappointed. He was kept in the same emotional tenor he was in from the start of BvS. We weren’t given his point of view. We were given _Bruce’s _point of view but not Clark’s. The emotional journey we were pulled into was Bruce’s emotional journey. 

And this is where Patty Jenkins’ singular focus on _Diana’s _point of view comes in. All through the movie we are following her emotional journey and at no time were Diana’s choices indecisive. Everything she believes in and does, right or wrong she does with conviction and decisiveness. 

When humanity disappointed her, when people didn’t live up to the pedastal she put mankind on, we know without a shadow of a doubt that Diana was disappointed and angry at people. 

Diana questioning her beliefs was crucial to her character, and then Diana seeing the puzzle pieces of the blackhawk (or wonder boys) still fighting, and Steve sacrificing himself to save the world were building blocks that helped her regain her love for humanity. 

She took each piece she learned from all the people she met and interacted a long the way and made it into the armor that help her fend of Ares. 

Comments

[monanotlisa]

Really good meta. Oh, Diana.

[grimorie]

Thank you! And, yes, oh Diana.