This article containsWonder Womanspoilers.
There is a scene almost exactly midway through Patty Jenkins triumphantWonder Womanthat divides the picture.
Where the most thrilling moment is the grandeur before your eyes, and not in a fleeting post-credits sting.
Albeit, it is now being viewed through a modern and refreshingly feminist prism.
And the director explicitly talked about what makes the scene so differentand ultimately satisfyingfrom other superhero action sequences.
Its like, What is she going to do?
How many bullets can she block?
And I was saying its not about that.
Its not about action or fighting.
Its this rhythm, you know?
Like 2011sCaptain America: The First Avenger,Wonder Womanis a period piece.
LikeEternity, not everyone inWonder Womanwalks away from this historic catastrophe.
This becomes most visible in a London scene where spies follow Diana and Steve into an alleyway.
As Jenkins told me in March, I ended up being very SupermanmeetsCasablanca.
[Those] came up a lot, andIndiana Jones.
It was those three films where I was like, Its a classic film.
We are making a classic film.
She accomplished all of that, but she added one other element: She made it modern.
But for all its old-fashionedness,Wonder Womanis not antiquated or regressive.
It updates all of these ideas with a sense of 21st century femininity.
Is Patty Jenkins movie an old school melodrama and even romance in the context of a larger war story?
In that movies first act he states, I stick my neck out for nobody.
But it is her strength and conviction that can tip the balance, as opposed to Steve.
Steve dies a heros death, but Diana lives a superheros life.
Victory is to make the war simply stop.
Its a scene built to last.
