tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650928693565504625.post8605164453092094202..comments2024-03-23T07:11:39.729-07:00Comments on Odin's Ravens: Wonder Woman: Finally, a DC Hero with HeartDan Hagenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16577238849397958248noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650928693565504625.post-53413963349733287732017-06-10T04:13:53.933-07:002017-06-10T04:13:53.933-07:00Sounds like a film I'll see with my (nearly) 1...Sounds like a film I'll see with my (nearly) 16 year old daughter. Sounds great. Thanks. PS... I was a huge Tarzan freak in the late 50s early 60s, when they ran on our local affiliate in Buffalo NY... but only the Weissmuller era — Johnny ruined me for other Tarzans ... not to mention his jungle call. Note — my first home in SoCal was in Sherman Oaks, one little berg over from Tarzana, CA... named because it was where much of the Tarzan feature serial was filmed. The police dept. emblem on the squad care doors with a chimp holding a man's hand. Or so the story goes.<br />PHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10153892226953290768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650928693565504625.post-4775214642713884442017-06-08T04:20:02.193-07:002017-06-08T04:20:02.193-07:00Mitchell Brown said, "What I find interesting...Mitchell Brown said, "What I find interesting is the reaction of conservative/alt-right types to this film (Wonder Woman). Before it came out, many selt-styled conservative commentators were expecting it to fail: as they argued, 'liberals' weren't ready for a female hero who fights because we're wusses who can't handle seeing a woman fight and get hit. Also a female director can't 'get' superheroes and action movies, etc. <br />"Now that the film is out and a big success by any measure, they're trying to focus on anything other than the message of the film: she's not American enough, a woman-only screening in Dallas is unfair to men, Gadot's Israeli heritage is upsetting anti-Israel liberals, pointing to some online grumbling about Diana's shaved armpits in a trailer and unironically noting how 'snowflake' liberals can't enjoy anything without getting political about it, etc. <br />"In essence, they're trying to co-opt the movie and the hero as an endorsement for their side' while refusing to directly acknowledge the theme of the film — which seems as weird to me as them embracing Reeve's Superman as an endorsement for U.S. intervention in foreign conflicts, but what do I know. I'm just a snowflake, after all. <br />"I mean, it's almost as if they're desperate to direct attention anywhere except on how the film throws the futility of their cynical, fear-mongering, me-first attitude right in their faces."Dan Hagenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16577238849397958248noreply@blogger.com