![]() So when dorky new co-worker Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) reaches out to her for companionship she responds in kind. Since the death of Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) she’s become something of a loner with few friends. ![]() Diana is fully integrated into society, working hard in her job at the Smithsonian, while as Woman Woman she’s routinely low-key saving the day, preventing a car crash here, stopping a robbery there.ĭiana’s fine, but she’s not happy. Hair is big, clothes are bright, commodities are fetishized, women are objectified, and everyone is after a get-rich-quick scheme. Outside the glorious flashback set piece we find fully grown Diana (Gal Gadot) in the midst of the consumerist 1980s. ![]() Landing almost concurrently in cinemas and on VOD this Christmas is a different outcome to the one director Patty Jenkins and her cast and crew would have expected when they were filming back in 2018, yet it’s arrival in 2020 marks something of a shining light in a dismal year. The first superhero movie to be released during the pandemic, Wonder Woman 1984 has had to overcome obstacles of its own – primarily its release date and platform. It’s an electric opening which sees a stadium full of women cheering the acrobatics of the island’s finest as they shoot, dive, leap, swing, and ride their way through a complex course to well-earned victory. “Greatness is not what you think,” Robin Wright’s warrior leader Antiope tells the young Diana Prince (Lilly Aspell) at the start of Wonder Woman 1984 during a sequence depicting something akin to the Themysciran Olympic Games.
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