I watched ‘Batman V’s Superman: Dawn of Justice’ recently. Quite frankly, it sucked. It seemed to have been written by someone with no feel for the history of the characters or understanding of their backstory. It’s depressing because superhero movies are storytelling at its most basic. They’re all about Gods and monsters. Basic battles between good and evil in their most simplistic humanized form.You’d think that an industry dedicated to telling stories, and spending millions of dollars to hire the best in the world to do that, would be able to deliver on those fundamentals. Apparently that’s too much to ask.
The one good thing in the movie was Wonder Woman. She only shows up in a cameo role, but still manages steals the show. Despite countless past disappointments, I’m still looking forward to her new movie, due out next year. They’ve just released a trailer for it and, amazingly, it actually looks pretty good. Gal Gadot seems like a great fit for the role. I don’t think we’ll get to see her beating up Batman, but I’ll happily buy a ticket to watch her pummel men of any variety.
In this comic book, the word “slave” is never used, but the plot is that a girl – wanted by the law for killing her sister’s rapist – essentially becomes Wonder Woman’s slave via an ancient ritual in which a person gives up their freedom to another in return for the absolute protection of the other. It’s absolutely: “what if superheroes were in our lifestyle?” As the representative of the ancient Amazon way, Wonder Woman honors the girl’s submission and assumes responsibility for her. Which means when Batman shows up to arrest the girl – because even though the deceased had it coming, we can’t murder people – Wonder Woman refuses to let him, because the girl now is hers, and as a “slave” cannot have legal responsibility for or for anything that may have happened before, , and ancient Amazon/Greek tradition outranks newfangled modern legal codes.
That’s fascinating. Thanks for the background information. I now want to go and track down this particular book to read. I picked it just for the obvious cover imagery, but sounds like a very relevant story.
-paltego