The full package of beauty, brains, and brawn, she’s been a feminist icon since her star-spangled intro in 1941." ~ DC Comics
With the recent release of a new trailer we are over the moon to have Gal Gadot starring as Wonder Woman once more.
Our fervent hope is that the story telling stays true to how Wonder Woman was originally conceived by her creator. As with many Hollywood summer block busters the tendency to overload the film with all sorts of special effects is just too real.
William Moulton Marston, inventor of the polygraph (yes, the lie-detector!) wanted a hero to counteract what he called the 'blood-curdling masculinity' of other comics of the time. It was 1941, and among all the Nazi-busting, tank-crushing, musclebound warriors of comics.
Moulton, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and their life partner, Olive Byrne, collaborated in the final creation Wonder Woman.
Hollywood as both influencer and pulse of the masses would do well to keep Wonder Woman the iconic beacon of conscience she symbolized through all these years. Will they do so or will economics and patriarchy rule as usual? We shall see soon enough.
As Marston himself saw "great educational potential" in comic books with "a new kind of superhero, one who would conquer not with fists or firepower, but with love".
This can still be pure entertainment for us, much as we dearly hope for higher aspirations.
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| art by Mahala Urra |
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