The Wasted Potential of Wonder Woman 1984 | Leah Libresco Sargeant
1 . 27 . 21 Superheroes are aspirational figures. They’re faster and stronger than the rest of us, and although their powers put them beyond certain limits (like gravity), they’re firmly bound by a moral code. The best sequence in the first Wonder Woman movie came when Diana Prince (Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot) climbed out of a World War I trench to run across no-man’s-land. Her golden bracers deflected bullets as she sprinted through the mud, mustering her strength in defense of the innocent. In her second film, the recent Wonder Woman 1984, Diana isn’t facing down an enemy po...
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