This article is written by Grand Duke Peter Pavlovsk of Habsburg
I've never liked Gayle Gado's version of Wonder Woman.
When Wonder Woman 1984 was released, I thought about it calmly and still couldn't convince myself to accept Gail Gado's version of Wonder Woman.
But if you were to ask me how the covered Wonder Woman was, I would tell you sensibly that she was the best in the current battle. This does not mean that Gale Gado is doing a good job and stands out from the crowd, but it only means that the grass chicken is too short, and it does not mean that the crane is good enough.
Well, today we talk about this topic, and still pretend to start a scene.
Once upon a time, in the distant Milky Way.
Linda Carter's version of Wonder Woman in 1975 is the almost perfect Wonder Woman that can be shaped in the era of grass stage stunts. She also represented the aesthetics of the american audience of that era, Linda Carter had a cute face of the "American Sweetheart", a petite figure (1 meter 73), a fat hip and a thin waist, and an affinity smile. Science and technology in 1975 have been relatively developed, although the film special effects have not kept up, but for the management of the body involved in the honest and today is not a generation difference, look at the time Arnold Schwarzenegger until, protein powder and other high-tech gadgets should have been born at that time.
But Wonder Woman is a popular superhero, she must conform to the aesthetic concepts of the people at the bottom, so the fat buttocks and white skin must exist, as for the combat effectiveness of this character, whether it is a flower shelf, that is not the object of consideration by the production team of that era.
The problem is that times are changing!
After the new millennium, filmmaker Joel Silver announced that a Wonder Woman movie would begin, and that Joss Whedon, creator of the famous TV series "Buffy the Ghost Slayer", would be the screenwriter, and mariah Carey, Sandra Bullock and Catherine Zeta-Jones would play this role, with Sandra Bullock having a higher chance of success. Later, Joss Whiden had a disagreement with the production company over the script, and later quit the screenwriting position.
That was 2001, 17 years before the current Wonder Woman movie was released. Let's pay attention to the three candidates, Maria Kelly, Sandra Bullock and Catherine Zeta-Jones, feel their charm, Maria Kelly is a blonde and white-skinned European aristocratic type, and the American red-necked chick image of Scarlett Johansson will be said later, Catherine Zeta-Jones's face is asian, black hair, white, and well-proportioned and tight, you can see her and Sean Connery's "The Trick of stealing the sky", which describes the beauty's figure quite well. Sandra Bullock was very energetic years ago, especially with Keanu Levi's "Life and Death Speed" as a little wild cat, the acting skills are fully affirmed at the same time, but the wild and soft cute and three-dimensional face is even more prominent. So sandra Bullock was thought to be the most likely person to win, but it was later rumored that wrestler Chaina and New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless were also considering it.
Chaina is a professional wrestler, Caucasian, WWE women's champion, you can imagine her figure. The kind of strength that can be beaten in the real world represents real strength and masculine aggression. Chaina is good-looking, her body is also hot, although she is strong and fit, but it is not ugly, after losing this contract, in 2004, she began to get involved in adult imaging, which is also very telling, if you are not beautiful, to shoot shame films is no one to buy.
As for Lucy Lawless, her style is hard to say, you can go to the wiki to see her photos.
Is it very similar to the future Captain Marvel? Right! It's really like the image of a peasant woman who can go directly to the field to farm.
These two players are not famous, but some casting ideas can be seen in the film, that is, two contradictions, that is, the contradiction between the exquisite goddess and the grounded character, and the contradiction between the real muscular body and the illusory beauty.
These two contradictions run through almost the entire history of the superhero movie industry.
Luckily, director Zach Schneider and screenwriter David Schneider were lucky enough to write the film. S. Gauyer then took over the DC Universe project, and in 17 years Gayle Gado's version of Wonder Woman was identified, when Gail Gado's opponents were worth mentioning, namely El loti Yuan and Olga Coryranko. If you are not familiar with American dramas, you may not have heard of them, Élodie Yung (French: Élodie Yung, born February 22, 1981) is a French television and film actress, born in Paris, the mother is French, the father is Cambodian. He has starred in "Special Forces 2", and actually has Asian ancestry, not to mention the skin color. Olga Coryranko, a Ukrainian, is a Bond girl in 007 Quantum of Solace. The skin color is white, but the figure is well, and everyone who has seen "Quantum of Solitaire" understands it.
So the question is, where exactly is Galgado that I am not satisfied?
That goes back to those two contradictions.
The contradiction between the beautiful goddess and the grounded girl, and the contradiction between the real muscular body and the illusory beauty.
The 1975 version of Linda Carter is an example. She belongs to the shape of the grounded girl, the appearance of the girl next door, a sense of refinement can not be said, but very affinity, not very tall height, standing next to the European and American men with large waists and round waists, there is still a little petite, white skin and beautiful. The thighs are the real feeling of the neighbor girl, not so tight. Arm muscles can also be said not. This is the product of not considering the real combat effectiveness at all, and everything starts according to the aesthetics of the model.
It's been a long time, so I won't compare it. It can be seen that the film side wants to make changes, and it is an attempt to consider a regular wrestler before. Many people think that Galgador is the optimal solution found under this line of thinking. Better face, tall figure (175, actually a little taller than Linda Carter), the Israeli army has served in the military, even if it has actual combat experience, tight but not thick muscles, especially the pair of long legs. I admit that this is perhaps the tightest thigh in Hollywood, and the muscles that are stronger than her should be thick again.
The role was chosen by Wonder Woman director Michelle McLaren on December 4, 2013, but on April 15, 2015, the director was replaced by Patti Jenkins. It is rumored that Wonder Woman's compromise with feminism has reached the extreme, such as choosing Gail Gadot without a chest, but the film has changed the director, and it is unknown who did it, but it is certain that the role was determined by McLaren. But is Guy Ergadot doing well? After all, the scene was made by Jenkins.
This question should be considered by the times. From the perspective of opponents in the same period, Gayle Gadot's performance can beat her opponents, yes, it is said that Captain Marvel, who has a temperament against the sky and can directly go to the ground to farm. Gail Gadot can beat Captain Marvel in terms of temperament, acting skills, fluency, appearance, and figure. The only thing that could be lost was the character, Captain Marvel was much stronger than Wonder Woman at the script level, but that was on paper, and The character portrayed by Brie Larson would not satisfy fans.
So during the time when Gail Gadot's version of Wonder Woman was just born, we didn't hear any negative remarks. What else can you expect? This has already been won, and what nonsense.
Just like the last time we took stock of Christopher. As in Nolan's time, in the flower-filled era of The Dark Knight, negative speech was not allowed. But now, we can still discuss, in fact, the film is not so perfect.
Similarly, Gail Gadot's version of Wonder Woman isn't perfect, she's not wonder woman in my mind.
In the eyes of our orientals, the image of beating women is actually not unfamiliar, since the Shaw period, Hong Kong has constantly emerged to beat women, including Hu Huizhong, Yang Lizhen and other good-looking characters. There are also figures like Yuki Ōshima who are really hard at work. This kind of role has not withered to this day, and the mother Qimia in Jackie Chan's "Vanguard" can be sweet and salty.
Our Orientals' standard of performance for action film actresses is much higher than that of the West, because our horizons are broader than those of Westerners, and we have seen the real ability of what is a real hard bridge and hard horse. This kind of deep digging into kung fu action is unique to Hong Kong action movies, and Hollywood has learned more than once, such as Yuan Heping's "Thunderbolt Baby" has achieved good results in Hollywood.
Oriental-style hitting women have different characteristics from Hollywood, and oriental-style hitting women are in their hands, and they are more like gymnasts to complete the action, rather than knocking down each other like wrestlers. This requires that there is no need for a little strong muscle, as long as you are thinner, you can see the sense of strength. And Hollywood is the standard of wrestlers, everything is based on the sense of strength, even if the actor does not have this innate condition, but also through the later stage to strengthen. This can be seen from previous Hollywood action actresses, such as the muscles of Linda Hamilton in "Terminator 2" and Sigourie Weaver in Alien. They may not be as strong as real wrestlers, but the muscles of their arms are all really practiced.
Compared to them, Gail Gadot's muscles have also been trained, but they are obviously inferior to those of the two predecessors. All she had were those tight thighs.
In addition, how to quantitatively express the advantages of oriental women? In fact, there are two points, one is designed, the movement design of the clouds and flowing water is like a dance, and the other is the speed, which has a sense of strength at the same time. This sense of power is achieved through film editing or sound effects, not the real sense of power of Hollywood wrestlers. Expressed through fast and sharp editing, this is a feature of the East.
Now the technical capabilities and the ability to do that. The biggest feature of the 17th edition of Wonder Woman is that the movement of the dance version is like a dance version. And different from the Eastern way to stand pile version of the flower fist embroidery leg action, Wonder Woman's superhero style through the stunt to produce a large range of activities of a lot of scenes, through the props to achieve similar to tarzan Tarzan parkour, the picture feeling and Hong Kong production ideas are similar, but the actual effect is very different, the same is high-speed, Hollywood's high-speed is so contrary to gravity.
It's cool, but it also gives a sense of distance enough.
Why emphasize the sense of distance, shouldn't superheroes defy gravity and not exist in our real world?
Maybe you're right, but this kind of whimsical action is good, but fake, you can't help but make people question, some people have the right not to like this fake.
Especially this kind of fake, Gail Gadot's performance is not very good.
This one put aside, let's see if there is any "real" one. A superhero style of play that fits our traditional tastes.
The answer is yes. And she is also wonder woman's opponent, but the era is a few years behind, not as eye-catching as the direct showdown of Captain Marvel.
She is the Black Widow in 2010's Iron Man 2, starring Scarlett Johansson. At the end of the film, she and Happy storm the enemy's lair together, Happy uses a lot of strength to get an enemy, and at the same time, the widow sister kills almost everyone through the melee battle of the clouds.
Looking back at that scene, that's what we wanted, both the fast and sharp hands of the Orient and the plump and graceful figure of Hollywood, that's the action scene we wanted.
Of course, Black Widow is also that highlight scene, and then there is no such skill in the Avengers, which is a problem of action design, not the actor's pot.
Actors have the responsibilities of actors. Captain Marvel Brie Larson was scolded a lot afterwards, including the fact that her hips were not upturned enough when she was wearing a tights. Various fitness instructors came out of Makopo, which was caused by the actor's insufficient squat practice.
Can't just let her be scolded, Gayle Gadot has a small chest and flat hips, which can be found in "Fast and Furious" for her swimsuit scenes, obviously. However, the film formulated a countermeasure based on this shortcoming, adding a skirt of hard armor to Gayle Gadot's shape to cover the hips. Does this count as a water stroke? No, there are still sharp-eyed Americans who have found this problem, and pointed out that although Gail Gadot has previously reported the news to shape the film's fitness, he does not seem to have gained weight, and the focus of exercise is mainly on the arms, and does not mean to mention the buttocks.
In the eyes of Westerners, this is a big problem, think of Kate Beckinsale's tights in the legend of the night, and similar to Anne Hathaway's Catwoman in Batman, especially Catwoman, the graceful model step, the further peach hip shape, the lethality of Europeans and Americans.
Westerners are good at this, but Gail Gadot's flat figure doesn't fit that.
Maybe this is the benefit of female directors, not to accommodate the basic tastes of men, not to compromise, which is very feminist.
After talking about styling, talking about performance, as mentioned above, the action scenes of Wonder Woman do not satisfy me. It feels too industrial to shoot, and Gail Gadot's action scenes and those around him seem to be separated, and there is a feeling of flower fist embroidery legs. I had this feeling at the premiere three years ago, when I was sprayed by a crowd that I was too picky. Revisited today, this feeling is more and more intense, others really fight the scene to the flesh, the sense of power is real and exciting, the action of "Wonder Woman" feels industrial heavy, and many actions seem to have been processed. Later the tidbits gave me the answer that Gayle Gadot was pregnant while filming Wonder Woman. It's unclear if filming stopped early on, but in November 2016, when filming at the Louvre, Gale Gadot was five months pregnant; the crew put a green cloth on her belly to make corrections during post-production.
It seems that the actors should not be blamed. But although the finished product performs well, it does have traces of flower fist embroidery legs, which is a real hammer.
It is not easy to maintain such tight thighs at 5 months of pregnancy.
Gayle Gadot's performance in Dawn of Justice and Wonder Woman has been well received, and whether there is an element of this episode or not, I think there is.
It's true that it's dedicated, but it doesn't represent her level of acting.
Gail Gadot's acting skills are okay in the small circle of female superheroes, able to beat Captain Marvel!
But what about other characters? Like Black Widow?
This involves a standard question, a superhero's acting skills, where is the upper limit? The closer to the upper limit means the better, so who is the better person than him? What did he do right?
For example, Black Widow, his emotional entanglement with the Hulk and Hawkeye, and the hesitation and determination of finally sacrificing himself.
Black Widow's indie film has not yet been released, and it's all based on the minutiae of various supporting roles, and Scarlett Johansson's character depth is significantly stronger than Gail Gadot's.
You have your own indie movie.
Moreover, at the level of the script, the proportion of female characters is not high, and they get fewer scenes.
"Iron Man", which also has independent films, Robert Downey Jr. has a role in internal struggle in each one, and at the same time accompanied by a physical crisis, making Iron Man the most complex character in the entire Avengers. Let's get a feel for Robert Downey Jr. acting.
If that's the upper limit, build a coordinate bar, feel Gail Gadot, Wonder Woman, at the level of the script, is written for her to turn, is to write about struggle, is written about psychological growth.
So how well did she behave? Maybe better than Captain Marvel? What about the post-sea Amber Hurd? Compared to Catwoman Anne Hathaway?
In my personal opinion, Gail Gadot's acting performance is medium to low, passing line press. Acceptable, but not worthy of praise.
To be honest, she did not act well, and the reason why she looked ok was entirely because of the background of her opponents. But at the same time, her opponents are a little small, only a Captain Marvel, the appearance is still far inferior to her, if you stretch the battle line to the entire superhero field, you can be much stronger than her. Think of the same DC camp clown two mouths, the role of the clown is really no waves, no growth, no inner story curve, Heath Ledger's treatment of him is hidden, since this role has no ups and downs except for evil, then let this evil full of release, thus forming a curve.
Harley Quinn's performance in Suicide Squad can't be quantified, and one character saved an entire movie. Marg Robbie's treatment of the character is god-level. Because of this, she was able to take the lead in the spin-off works as a producer, which led to "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn"
The above ones are called acting. Gail Gadot's performance can only be called a coincidence, and it still needs to be worked on.
Wonder Woman 1984 has been released and I'll go see it, after all, it's the biggest superhero movie of the year. This time Gail Gadot is not pregnant, hope that the action scene can have something new, the current trailer reveals the content to see, melee is still a variety of slow motion, the signs of industrial processing are heavier than the previous one, The Mantra Lasso can even hook lightning in this part to carry out the Ape Tarzan-style horizontal swing, it seems that the Black Widow melee style is impossible, but the imaginative shape is also good-looking, as long as the action design is exquisite enough, as long as the villain IQ is online, as long as the plot is ups and downs, if there is still a little depth, it is better.
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