What do you guys think of Chris Pine as damsel in distress?
Was he able to pull it off? They've certainly given him the right haircut for it in this movie... so I guess he's half way there... ;)
Seriously though, did it play out that way in the movie? It's what it looked like in the trailer... haven't seen it yet...
Just the notion of this topic makes me dislike it even more than I already do. I winced when I read this. I winced.
shareI don't think there was a single minute in which Chris Pines' character needed to be saved.
shareYes there was...
Had to be rescued from the island by WW.
Had to have bullet blocked in the alley by WW.
WW had to provide cover for him in No Man's Land.
Diana helped him leave the island, but he wasn't exactly in danger on the island. The queen outright let them leave.
WW did not provide cover in No Man's Land for him. He was in the trenches along with the other soldiers. In fact, he and his team provided cover for her when she was getting pinned by machine gunfire.
I'll give you the alley scene. Even then, he still punched out one of the guys.
I think you're confusing "damsel" with "human being fighting in a war". Steve Trevor was a kickass character, but he was also a human being in the company of a demi-god, so yeah he got rescued. Strangely enough, they both helped each other survive, so no one was the damsel - no one just stood there waiting to be rescued.
interesting... so i guess there's some dispute over whether or not he was damseled...
so, did [spoiler]he sacrifice himself in this movie? i understand that he dies... did he die for wonderwoman or for another cause/motivation? or was he just killed?[/spoiler]
i havent seen the movie yet... i'll probably catch it when its on TV at some point... a bit tired of the genre to be honest... i am interested in the cultural discussion around this movie though...
If you really want to know:
[spoiler] Steve sacrificed himself willingly. He took a plane full of poisonous gas up into the sky and exploded it. Presumably, that was meant to save millions of people by taking the gas out of range, only killing him. I still don't follow that logic, but that's what happened.
Also, he was saved by Diana multiple times, but he could also fight pretty well on his own. [/spoiler]
If you're so curious about what happens, why don't you just go and see the movie to judge for yourself? Or look up a detailed synopsis?
I'm curious about what people think about what happens in the movie,i'm not that interested in the actual movie per se
i find most comicbook movies tedious... including the last nolan batman and nearlly all of the avenger/iron/xmen/superman ones that i've seen... they lack the authorial stamp of even large movies in the past and are generally pretty cookie cutter, like a cartoon versiom of the sandardised muscle action hero movies of the 80s... i think only batman vs superman had a few moments where you can actually feel the director trying to impart his sensibility and reach the audience in some way, but even that movie devolves into empty sepectacle and tripe...
He basically makes the same sacrifice as Batman does at the end of The Dark Knight Rises in somewhat analogous circumstances. It is assumed he dies because of the magnitude of the aerial hydrogen explosion seen from the ground and the fact that modern day Diana still believes he died. I guess it is possible that something else happened we don't know.
sharehe committed suicide
shareNo, he did not commit suicide. He took an action intended to save others. The action resulted in his death, which he understood. But the intent of the action wasn't to die. In matters of this kind, intent is everything. The same thing applies to the soldier who throws himself on a grenade. He isn't trying to die, he's trying to save his friends and comrades.
shareHe was more the lead of the movie than WW, standing around while he was doing his thing with his buddies.
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