Thursday, March 28, 2013

Making movies based on female characters is hard...

...it's a nine letter word, starts with s, and rhymes with 'hexuality'.

Case in point, here's what a Wonder Woman television show would have looked like back in 1967...
...and yes, that is the same announcer as the classic Adam West Batman series.

Wrong direction, but a decent effort considering the time frame.

Then there was Linda Carter's win in 1975...
...which was also a product of the times, but worked on all levels.

Then there was the botched 2011 series...
...notice anything?

Pants.

Never mind the color, WW had pants.

She never did in the comics (back in my day)...except when she went all mod back in the sixties:
But now there' s a new image on the net -
Here's a costume that is faithful to the comics, is worn by someone with a striking resemblance to Diana, and looks like it would work on the screen...

...except the woman in the picture is Kimberly Kane.

A porn star.

And the pic is from a currently-in-production porn parody.

I saw The Avengers three times in the theatre. Every time, the one spot where there's an unintentional murmur/laugh was when Black Widow is talking to Loki. He's in the cell and her...umm...back is to the camera.

You know the scene I'm talking about. Everyone does.

It's okay for Hugh Jackman to run around onscreen looking like this...
and Chris Evans looking like this...
and no one has an issue with Superman's private area wrapped in red...
...but for some reason, a PG-13 film can't have Wonder Woman showing too much leg.

This is ridiculous. I'd like to think that with Nolan involved and a well-written script, there will one day be a Wonder Woman film, but my point is that we should be able to have good films made with talented female actors playing popular comic book heroes (and villains) without getting all bent out of shape over proper film-ratings and suggestive outfits.

The one obvious exception being Power Girl, but you get my drift...

I want a Wonder Woman film. A good one.

I also want a good Black Widow film, a good She-Hulk film, a good Bat-Woman, Huntress, Black Canary, Black Cat, Catwoman, Supergirl, Tigra, Mockingbird, Rogue, Shadowcat, Phoenix,Power Girl, (insert name here) film.

I know I'm not alone in this.

And before you mention it, I liked Elektra. Jennifer Garner did a great job. It was the writing/plot of the thing that hurt.

So get on it Hollywood! Or else there's going to be more and more nerds/geeks/dorks putting their money into the other film industry.

Just sayin'...

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