{"id":5993,"date":"2017-06-26T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5993"},"modified":"2019-04-02T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:39:50","slug":"wonder-woman-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5993","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Woman (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I finally saw Wonder Woman<\/a> on Father\u2019s Day. Which I suppose is a little weird[1]? But we hadn\u2019t seen it yet, and my dad was down (even though he had<\/em> seen it, which is its own kind of cool), so, like that. I cannot decide if it fulfills its hype. I mean, obviously it\u2019s very good. It\u2019s better, probably, than its current series of DC movies deserves for it to be.\u00a0 That\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying at all.<\/p>\n

But like, is it uniquely<\/em> good? It\u2019s on track to have the biggest box office of the summer[2]. And it\u2019s the first superhero movie with a female lead. Those are both big deals, although obviously the latter is the bigger. Anyway, there are these immortal Amazon women, sworn to defend mankind from the depredations of the god of war. And once they learn of a new war outside their realm, Diana goes forth to fulfill that destiny. Or, I think more accurately, she goes forth to decide whether mankind deserves her intended defense. Also, there\u2019s a lot of cool comic book action in which a person who will one day probably be called Wonder Woman kicks some serious ass.<\/p>\n

Is that a thing we\u2019ve never seen before? A hero, on her journey to greatness? In a way, obviously we have. Some heroes journey from a state of selfishness, others from a state of innocence, and still others are just born that way, but they all start somewhere and face a first challenge, whether of the physical, spiritual, or moral variety. Or, let\u2019s be honest, usually more than one of these. In another way, that\u2019s probably me being a bit broad of scope, or just finding a way to not give any more spoilers than I already have done. But my real point is one I already made.<\/p>\n

It literally is a thing we\u2019ve never seen before. Although there have been female superheroes, none of them have scored a cinematic lead before, and that\u2019s a big deal. It doesn\u2019t make the movie uniquely good, but it makes the movie unique; the good news is, it was in fact also really good! Because what we need is a theatrical landscape in which it doesn\u2019t strike me as weird, even for the few seconds it took me to decide to go with that instinct instead of immediately quelling it as was my initial reaction to myself, that both my father and I would want to celebrate his day by seeing a movie about a lady superhero. I mean, that\u2019s dumb, right? It\u2019s a comic book action movie, what about this is even the slightest bit strange?<\/p>\n

(I still think I\u2019d rather not have had the thought and had to figure out a different way to come at this, all things considered.)<\/p>\n

[1] Bear with me, I\u2019ll get back to it.
\n[2] Final outcome subject to change, but that\u2019s the trend I\u2019m seeing right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally saw Wonder Woman on Father\u2019s Day. Which I suppose is a little weird[1]? But we hadn\u2019t seen it yet, and my dad was down (even though he had seen it, which is its own kind of cool), so, like that. I cannot decide if it fulfills its hype. I mean, obviously it\u2019s very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,1231,22],"class_list":["post-5993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action","tag-dc","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6567,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions\/6567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}