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Some viewers may wonder why Diana is at the Louvre in the first place — after all, couldn’t Bruce have shipped that photo anywhere? — but it’s actually in keeping with Wonder Woman’s day job in the comics. The film retains Diana’s museum interest from the 90s comics, in which she worked at Gateway City Museum of Antiquities rather than the Louvre. Interestingly, this is where she would meet Cassie Sandsmark, who would later go on to become the third Wonder Girl.
Opening narration DIANA:
“I used to want to save the world, this beautiful place.
But I knew so little then. It’s a land of magic and wonder, worth cherishing in every way.
But the closer you get, the more you see the great darkness simmering within.
And mankind? Mankind is another story altogether.
What one does when faced with the truth is more difficult than you think.
I learned this the hard way, a long long time ago.
And now, I will never be the same.”
In present-day Paris, Diana Prince receives a photographic plate from Wayne Enterprises (accompanied by a letter from Bruce Wayne) of herself and four men taken during World War I, prompting her to recall her past.
Zack Snyder whipped up a storm when he posted a picture of himself online dressed as a soldier with the caption “In the trenches with Wonder Woman." The prominent director and producer is known for making subtle cameos in his own films and fans were eager to spot where he would show up.
The mystery was eventually solved. It would seem that Snyder stands in the background of the antique photograph seen in both Wonder Woman and Batman v. Superman. Snyder managed to shoot two birds with one stone and make it onto two films from his one day on the set of Wonder Woman.
Alright, now let’s get into the actual contents of Scene 1. It starts with Diana’s narration. “I used to want to save the world, this beautiful place. But I knew so little then.” This is an intriguing opening because we usually assume our heroes will always want to save the world, but Diana’s phrasing implies that she no longer wants to save it. So right from the start, this is preparing us to hear the story of Diana becoming a hero and we can tell that it will be a sort of coming-of-age story where she starts out very pure of heart, wanting to save the world, but then she will realize her naivete and will learn some lessons that change her perspective on the world. If she does, in fact, end up backing off her desire to save the world, this would connect with how we saw her in Batman v Superman, and we’ll talk quite a bit about that later in the episode. And we should say, too, that it might just be the nature of how she tries to save the world has changed from the past to the present. Perhaps she used to want to save the world by simply saving it, but now she comes to realize that it’s not so simple -- people often have to choose to save themselves because they are often the causes of their own hardships. Maybe this is part of what Diana didn’t know at first, but she does come to know throughout the movie.
And as we’ll see, she always saw her land of the Amazons as beautiful, but she wasn’t initially impressed with Man’s world, calling it hideous. But she obviously came to see its beauty, because she now calls it beautiful. The beauty is also reinforced by the opening shot. We see the Earth from the perspective of out in space, and it is beautiful and eye-catching. They chose to show the texture of the clouds to really show how dynamic the planet is, and yet how fragile it is in the blackness of space.
It’s pretty fitting that the movie opens up on the world because we have a movie set during a world war, and the marketing for the movie played up the idea that Wonder Woman is a hero for the world. There was a TV spot, for example, that said Metropolis has Superman, Gotham has Batman, and now the world has Wonder Woman. This is also reinforced in the movie itself at the end when Steve Trevor tells her that she can save the world.
So we see the world and the camera pushes into the clouds. That leads us to a God’s Eye shot of Paris, France. We really like this God’s Eye view early on because the film will feature Greek gods and even Diana herself with have a direct connection as a demigod herself.
Wonder Woman is a 2017 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, produced by DC Films in association with RatPac Entertainment and Chinese company Tencent Pictures, and distributed by Warner Bros.
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Some viewers may wonder why Diana is at the Louvre in the first place — after all, couldn’t Bruce have shipped that photo anywhere? — but it’s actually in keeping with Wonder Woman’s day job in the comics. The film retains Diana’s museum interest from the 90s comics, in which she worked at Gateway City Museum of Antiquities rather than the Louvre. Interestingly, this is where she would meet Cassie Sandsmark, who would later go on to become the third Wonder Girl.
Opening narration DIANA:
“I used to want to save the world, this beautiful place.
But I knew so little then. It’s a land of magic and wonder, worth cherishing in every way.
But the closer you get, the more you see the great darkness simmering within.
And mankind? Mankind is another story altogether.
What one does when faced with the truth is more difficult than you think.
I learned this the hard way, a long long time ago.
And now, I will never be the same.”
In present-day Paris, Diana Prince receives a photographic plate from Wayne Enterprises (accompanied by a letter from Bruce Wayne) of herself and four men taken during World War I, prompting her to recall her past.
Zack Snyder whipped up a storm when he posted a picture of himself online dressed as a soldier with the caption “In the trenches with Wonder Woman." The prominent director and producer is known for making subtle cameos in his own films and fans were eager to spot where he would show up.
The mystery was eventually solved. It would seem that Snyder stands in the background of the antique photograph seen in both Wonder Woman and Batman v. Superman. Snyder managed to shoot two birds with one stone and make it onto two films from his one day on the set of Wonder Woman.
Alright, now let’s get into the actual contents of Scene 1. It starts with Diana’s narration. “I used to want to save the world, this beautiful place. But I knew so little then.” This is an intriguing opening because we usually assume our heroes will always want to save the world, but Diana’s phrasing implies that she no longer wants to save it. So right from the start, this is preparing us to hear the story of Diana becoming a hero and we can tell that it will be a sort of coming-of-age story where she starts out very pure of heart, wanting to save the world, but then she will realize her naivete and will learn some lessons that change her perspective on the world. If she does, in fact, end up backing off her desire to save the world, this would connect with how we saw her in Batman v Superman, and we’ll talk quite a bit about that later in the episode. And we should say, too, that it might just be the nature of how she tries to save the world has changed from the past to the present. Perhaps she used to want to save the world by simply saving it, but now she comes to realize that it’s not so simple -- people often have to choose to save themselves because they are often the causes of their own hardships. Maybe this is part of what Diana didn’t know at first, but she does come to know throughout the movie.
And as we’ll see, she always saw her land of the Amazons as beautiful, but she wasn’t initially impressed with Man’s world, calling it hideous. But she obviously came to see its beauty, because she now calls it beautiful. The beauty is also reinforced by the opening shot. We see the Earth from the perspective of out in space, and it is beautiful and eye-catching. They chose to show the texture of the clouds to really show how dynamic the planet is, and yet how fragile it is in the blackness of space.
It’s pretty fitting that the movie opens up on the world because we have a movie set during a world war, and the marketing for the movie played up the idea that Wonder Woman is a hero for the world. There was a TV spot, for example, that said Metropolis has Superman, Gotham has Batman, and now the world has Wonder Woman. This is also reinforced in the movie itself at the end when Steve Trevor tells her that she can save the world.
So we see the world and the camera pushes into the clouds. That leads us to a God’s Eye shot of Paris, France. We really like this God’s Eye view early on because the film will feature Greek gods and even Diana herself with have a direct connection as a demigod herself.
Wonder Woman is a 2017 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, produced by DC Films in association with RatPac Entertainment and Chinese company Tencent Pictures, and distributed by Warner Bros.
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