Gal Gadot Cast as Wonder Woman!
POSTED BY: CrevanReaver
UPDATED: Monday, October 23, 2017 02:19
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
And what's so wrong with using a body builder, huh? I'm not intimidated, but apparently most of Hollyweird is...They'd rather their heroes be "Magically Emaciated Woman" There's ripped guys on screen all the time, but women?? No, can't have that. They all have to look like a cereal box _ Generically Delicious and ultimately unfulfilling.
And "acting skill can't be faked??" Seriously??? Have you HEARD of David Hasselhoff or Marge Helgenburger??? Open heart surgery can't be faked, but acting? Yeah it totally can, and for DECADES.
The general wisdom is that's is always easier to teach an actor to fight than teach a fighter to act.
As I said above, I have little faith in this in general - but I think its silly to get hung up on simple surface details like that. Good actors can lift weights (did you see Christian Bale before he did Batman Begins??), shitty actors ruin movies (do you really friggin WANT a Hasslehoff level performance, and if so - WHY? Seriously, WHY would that be ok, just to get some extra muscle?? Its not like WW's strength is actually proportional to her muscle mass here...)
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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I'm just sooooo fed up with body sterotypes for women. I kinda thought we were moving past all that for a spell, and it seems -especially with all this "gotta have washboard abs right after having a baby" absolute NONSENSE
that we've taken five steps backwards.
I don't want any more of this, especially because I have a daughter, but also because teen girls are sooo susceptible to this drivel that they kill themselves when someone notices they are ten pounds overweight. Is that silly to you and me? Yeah. But wiring in kids is completely different. Most don't have any emotional abilities WHATSOEVAH thank you Ipad-Pod-Phone 
or even an understanding of anything with the words "long term" they just can't deal, and we're not helping at ALL.
My kid and I are totally into How To Train Your Dragon if for no other reason than the whole cast of kids are flawed and it's all about saying "Work with what ya got" Now if we could only get the adults to accept themselves and their flaws and stop this ridiculous obsession with physical ideals we'll be one step closer to not being a species of complete SUCKITUDE.....
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You're operating under the assumption that she'll do no training for the film, which seems a bit.... premature at best. Keep in mind what Bale looked like before shooting each of his Bat-flicks:
6 months before shooting Batman Begins:
His role just prior to The Dark Knight:
And just before Dark Knight Rises:
Now.... granted, Bale probably damaged his body doing such massive fluctuations, possibly even shortening his lifespan... but people can work out and change a lot, especially when it's pretty much their only job for a couple months.
And you can't throw a rock in LA without hitting a personal trainer and a gym. I wager she'll be a bit more stout when she appears as Wonder Woman.
Personally, I am FAR more concerned at the notion of WW being brought to the screen by the director who brought us Sucker Punch...
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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OMG. I'm trying to eat dinner here 
That's horrifying.
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I agree that she seems way too skinny to be Wonder Woman. Though I find it interesting that you seem concerned about body image while you're attacking this woman's body. I don't think she's too skinny as a person I just don't picture Wonder Woman being that skinny. I don't particularly view Wonder Woman as ripped either. She's just toned in my mind.
In the end it doesn't really matter what I think. I'm not going to see this movie. Man of Steel was garbage IMO. It was almost laughable at times to me. Luckily everything I hear about this movie makes it sound like a dumpster fire. So, hopefully this will kill the DC movie universe for a while and they can reboot with someone who's willing to stick to the comics.
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Originally posted by Zeek:
I don't particularly view Wonder Woman as ripped either. She's just toned in my mind.
That's my problem in a nutshell. Hollyweird says that women are only allowed to come in "thin but toned and of appropriate height and cheekbones" these days, especially in movies. I'm tired of them picking these cardboard cutouts and presenting that as the only option over and over and over especially to kids. Yer damn right I'm sick of it and I AM gonna pick on their choice when their choice is harming kids. It is absolutely NOT SAFE for girls to want to look like that, AT ALL.
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She seems a little bit too young. Five years older, Wonder Woman was wise beyond her years but she also was old enough to have a past.
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Trouble with this film isn't the actress or the director. It's the character. It's just not that great a character from the word go.
She's simply derivative and dated and almost always was from the moment she was scribbled onto paper.
°...Well here I am.°
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Quote:Speculation about what the movie will do with Wonder Woman: Perhaps the movie script is based on the story from Injustice – Gods Among Us. Wonder Woman is a major supporting character in that Superman vs Batman story. She is more talk and less do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injustice:_Gods_Among_Us
Originally posted by THESOMNAMBULIST:
Trouble with this film isn't the actress or the director. It's the character. It's just not that great a character from the word go.
She's simply derivative and dated and almost always was from the moment she was scribbled onto paper.
Or the movie could be based on the much simpler Batman vs Superman story written by Greg Pak, Batman/Superman, a new series that began publication in June 2013. In the one issue I've seen, Wonder Woman is the invisible woman. If she comes to the party, I hope her costume has sleeves to hide the padding that gives the actress muscular arms.
Same as Wash, Batman dies with a big hole in his chest. Is it too spoiler to tell you that Batman won't remain dead for very long? It makes me optimistic that Wash somehow also lives.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Hi Second.
Well I wish them well with whatever they do with it. I still can't really equate Superman with Batman, but then I've never really been a comic book fan. So maybe this film is just not for me...
°...Well here I am.°
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