SO, some model we’ve never heard of is playing Wonder Woman in a film that neither needs nor deserves her and her kooky 50s assortment of tricks. We took to Twitter to gauge public opinion, and (as we suspected) everyone thought it was a dreadful idea.
Everybody knows Superman. Sometimes dismissed under the title of ‘The Big Blue Boy Scout’, he is the virtuous, infallible and virtually invincible symbol of American heroism; the superhero that begat all superheroes. Yet what’s often forgotten is that, despite possessing these traits, Superman is also something else – an alien, an ultimate example of the ‘other’. By focusing on the latter, director Zack Snyder lends interest to the former, providing a Superman whose otherworldliness serves only to make him more Earthly. It’s a strong starting point for the new franchise, but, as with the rest of mankind, this newly human Superman still has room for a little improvement.
Come ON, Superman, we all need saving from no-you-induced boredom.
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