To be fair Wonder Woman was dressed as any male would be in a Gladiator film or TV Show, so not really sexualising her more than they would a male in a Gladiator film (going back to even Charlton Heston and further). If this was a Hercules film he would be dressed very similar as well.
Having said that, she was dressed liker a Male Gladiator, which often is the problem inaction films with female actors, they pretty much take the male style and give it to a woman (I get the Snyder dislike). Then again to me the way Wonder Woman was attired really made her seem more like Xena than Wonder Woman, though in time perhaps her attire will change somewhat.
Hayley Atwell as Agent Carter was much more of a step forward than what Wonder Woman was, that was a kick-ass woman dressed in a manner that was mostly down to earth (minus the lingerie wearing parts). Sure they went a bit heavy on the Male attitude parts, but given it was the mid 40's the way they had the men consider women to be wasn't far from the truth of the times. It was just overplayed, yeah we get it women can do more than what the men of the times thought they could, you don't have to tell us every episode.
Hell even in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D the women like Skye/Daisy, May, Simmons and Bobbi spend time looking beat up, Skye/Daisy spent most of last season looking bruised and battered (fat lip and all).
EDIT: Hahaha I waffled on a bit here, that wasn't all aimed at you FordFairlane, lots of in general stuff in it.
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FordFairlane (299)
8 years ago
I could not agree with you more about agent carter/Hayley atwell. She was attractive, but it wasn't what the character or the actress relied on to be interesting. They did over play the women are as good as men thing though. To steal a line from writers 'show, don't tell".
The agents of shield girls though are, in my opinion, way over the top. They all fall in to the same over sexualised cliche that Hollywood does so well. It can be somewhat forgiven here though as agents doesn't take itself too seriously, and no one is claiming the show is a 'feminist' breakthrough.
WW may need to dress like that based on the comic or indeed the cinematic history of the character and culture. But it's still over sexualisation of women and there for scant be considered a step in the right direction for feminism. It still gives the message only attractive women can see movies. I don't have anything against Wonder Woman, I don't think it was that great a movie. It was no better or worse than the man of steel or bvs in my opinion. I think that if they just said "this is a cool super hero movie" that would have been fine, when they started banging on about how great this 'feminist movie' was and how great it was for equality is where it started to irk me.
To this day I can only think of one honest to God female action hero that didn't relay on sex in any way. Ripley in aliens. That was 30 years ago and we still can't make a movie with a woman that isn't defined by her body?
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8 years ago
As I said I waffled on a bit there, however agree with the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D bit, which is kind of what I meant but didn't say as my thoughts ran away with me (why it starts with Hell even). Even though they are sexualised at least when they've been in a fight it looks like they've been in a fight, even though they are portrayed the way they are.
And yeah I don't get how WW passes the the Bechdel test, that thing is way to easy to pass it seems, also yeah I don't hate the film just what it supposedly represents. I even saw Chris Pine as stunt casting, in a hear look even Captain Kirk can accept a woman giving the orders way, maybe I'm a bit off on that but that's how I saw it as I watched.
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FordFairlane (299)
8 years ago
Oh don't worry about that, I tend to waffle and go off on tangents myself lol. So it's not just you.
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