June 2, 2017, - 4:28 pm
Wonder Woman: Long, Feminist, Anti-American, MultiCulti Bore With a Muslim Hero
Don’t let the alleged Lebanese boycott of Wonder Woman or the reason for the boycott–star and former Israeli soldier Gal Gadot–mislead you into thinking the new “Wonder Woman” movie is worthwhile. The flick, in theaters today, is a long, feminist, anti-American, multicultural bore. In fact, the Lebanese should love this film because one of the heroes is Muslim and Americans are painted as an ugly people.
I’m not surprised that mainstream (a/k/a liberal) movie critics are raving over this. They despise strong men and masculinity and so badly want female-driven superheroes to succeed. A female superhero movie has never been a hit, and this one is the first superhero movie directed by a woman. So, they doubly lie in their reviews to make you think it’s good. But it isn’t. Nope. At nearly 2.5 hours, this poorly-edited, clumsy clunker of a movie is even more overstuffed with dumbness and stupidity than Gabourey Sidibe.
More on that later. First, a little you must know about the origins of Wonder Woman–stuff of which most people are ignorant.
When I was a kid, I used to be a big fan of “Wonder Woman,” then starring the beautiful Lynda Carter. But a few years ago, I learned the history of Wonder Woman, and I’ve been debating getting rid of my deflector wrist cuffs. In fact, Wonder Woman was written by a far-left acolyte of Margaret Sanger and early feminism. It’s all about the evils of men and the greatness of lesbians and suffragettes. That patriotic, pro-American stuff that became attached to Wonder Woman was all Hollywood and marketing. WW creator William Moulton Marston once said that he wrote Wonder Woman story lines to show the evils of men–not mankind, but the male gender. “My whole strip is aimed at drawing the distinction in the minds of children and adults between love bonds and male bonds of cruelty and destruction.” Moulton’s only redeeming quality was that he was anti-Nazi. But that hardly made him a great American patriot. Not even close.
As detailed in the 2014 book, “The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Marston based Wonder Woman on Sanger and the feminists. And he also based his famous superhero on the two women in his life and their very liberal and quite depraved–even for today–living and sleeping arrangement at his home. Marston maintained a menage-a-trois with his wife and mistress. First, he cheated on his wife. Then, he told her his mistress was moving in and she could either accept that or leave. So, the three of them lived together, with the women occasionally having a lesbian relationship. Marston had children with both of them.
Yes, this is the guy who invented Wonder Woman and these are the sick women on whom he based the superhero Amazon. Given that, I had to laugh when I read a New York Post column by Maureen Callahan decrying Wonder Woman being “less American than ever.” Clearly, she’s ignorant on the topic. Wonder Woman was never American. She was just the embodiment of some warped, depraved weirdo who was simultaneously an ally of feminist abortionists and a misogynist. Somebody watched too many Lynda Carter reruns and fell for Hollywood’s manufactured patriotism stamped onto a comic character. (The Wonder Woman TV series, by the way, does NOT pass the test of time–if you watch them now, the episodes are downright cheesy. Fun fact: a struggling immigrant wannabe actor, named Richard Springthorpe, twice starred as silly characters on Wonder Woman in 1978 and 1979. He later became Rick Springfield.)
Callahan also claims that the new Wonder Woman movie forgoes the comic book heroine’s traditional fights against the Nazis–and instead takes place during World War I–because Hollywood doesn’t want to offend Europeans, specifically Germans. Not sure where she learned history, but in fact, World War I very closely mirrored World War II in terms of who was fighting whom and who were the good and bad guys. And she clearly didn’t see the movie. Germans are very much the villains in the movie. Male lead Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) repeatedly says the Germans are “the bad guys.” True, the movie takes place during World War I, but the Germans are very much the baddies onscreen. They’re so sinister that the only thing missing is the swastika. The Germans are developing a deadly chemical weapon in Turkey and are shown torturing people to death in testing it. A point of bad research and writing that I caught: the notebook of the creepy female scientist who develops the deadly gases, is written in the Sumerian and Osman languages. But, while the movie takes place during World War I (which ended in 1918), the Osman language was not invented until at least 1920, after the movie takes place. Blunder Woman. (Osman is a Turkish Muslim language created by a close relative of two Turkish sultans.)
The story: Wonder Woman is born Diana, princess of the Amazons (all women), and the movie begins by showing the young girl watching adult Amazons train to fight. All of the actresses playing these women have laughable accents that they go in and out of (I laughed repeatedly at Robin Wright’s). The young Diana alternates between an American accent and something that sounds like a lisp, and then, suddenly, when she grows up, she sounds Israeli. Again, more clumsiness for this movie.
In the first of many scenes of unrealistic male helplessness and female super-strength, Steve Trevor crashes his plane in the ocean off the island where the Amazons live. He can’t extract himself from the wreckage. So Diana leaps in and frees him, saving him. Next, she and the other Amazon women save him from the Germans who come ashore. And later, Diana repeatedly saves a bunch of male boobs, including Trevor from a series of near-death mishaps. It’s tough to watch so much male ineptitude that looks like it was cast and filmed by the non-glorious Glorias (Steinem and Allred). I know this movie is superhero science fiction, but, daaaamn, is it unbelievable. Chris Pine must have mentally chopped his testicles off to play this role. I mean, what the heck happened to them? He definitely tore up his man card. On top of that, he looks so tiny, puny, girlie, and effiminate in this movie, it’s painful to watch. He definitely assumes the role of damsel in distress.
Diana leaves the Amazons forever to come to the UK to help Trevor fight the Germans, whom she believes are the embodiment of the evil god Aries and are working with Aries. Trevor is an American who is assigned to the British to spy on the Germans during World War I. And in order to fight the Germans, Trevor and Wonder Woman, of course, need their band of “heroic” multicultural brothers. There’s a Muslim, Sameer (French Moroccan Muslim actor Said Taghmaoui), who wears his fez through the film. There’s also an American Indian (“the Chief”) in full regalia–braids, leather and bead choker, etc. (How many American Indians who joined the American Expeditionary Forces to fight in WWI, dressed like that? Zero.) And there’s a silly Scotsman in a kilt who seems to shriek inaudible Scottish nonsense non-stop.
I believe the Indian is inserted into this movie merely so anti-American crap can be uttered. An example: Wonder Woman and the others are sitting around a campfire plotting their battle against the Germans. The Indian: “The last time we went to war, my people had everything taken from them.” Wonder Woman: “Who took everything from your people?” The Indian: “His people [pointing to American Steve Trevor].” Hey, maybe this movie should’ve been released on Thanksgiving weekend–ya know, just to pile on against America.
Trevor and Diana and the multiculti guys spend most of the rest of the movie engaging in non-stop fighting and action to stop the Germans and the evil scientist from releasing the poisonous chemical weapons and killing millions of innocent civilians. And the movie is filled with such scintillating dialogue as this from Steve Trevor: “Well, maybe people aren’t always good.” Ya think?
Believe me, I’m making it sound way better than it actually is. The movie is just plain stupid.
I’ve rarely been so bored and looked at my phone repeatedly to calculate how much longer it would be ’til the movie ended. Chick director Patty Jenkins has the same conceitedness afflicting most of superhero movie directors these days. She thinks her bloated crap is too important to cut and makes us slog through it, instead of her making many necessary edits. This thing is almost an hour too long. The movie is so lengthy, so repetitive, and has so much unexciting action. And, again, it’s just not believable–despite the desperation of the feminists to want us to think so (that men are weak and not needed).
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A brief word on Gal Gadot, the Israeli former soldier who plays Wonder Woman/Diana, and the alleged Arab boycott of her movie. Is there really a boycott? Allegedly, the government of Lebanon–which is dominated by the terrorist group Hezbollah–has banned the film. But, in fact, one Beirut theater is showing it, and posters and billboards have been up for weeks, advertising it–despite the fact that the Lebanese know it stars an Israeli. I guarantee you, the movie is going to run in Lebanon this weekend, and it will be packed with a ton of overheated, repressed Muslim men who pant over this beautiful Jewish Israeli woman but would never admit it to their fellow Arabs and Muslims.
The thing is–while she does not shy away from mentioning her career as an Israeli soldier–Gal Gadot [pronounced, “Gahl Gah-Doat”] is something of an Israeli leftist peacenik. She proudly served as a humanitarian ambassador for the anti-Israel United Nations, which then summarily dumped her. And even after she was cast as Wonder Woman and didn’t need to worry about a paycheck, she gladly starred in and promoted the horribly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, preposterous “Triple 9” (read my review – it is one of the most blatantly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel movies I’ve ever seen). She and her Wonder Woman should hardly be a cause celebre for the pro-Israel crowd. This is the kind of stuff that should please the Muslims and, yes, Christian Arabs, who hate her. But they never fall in love with useful idiots. They hate them just as much as all other Jews.
Going to see this movie is not a badge of Zionism or support for Israel. It’s just a sign that you have 2.5 hours of your life and ten-bucks-plus that you have nothing else to do with. How sad for you.
TWO MARXES
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I’m sure everyone that reads this never knew any of the sleazy details of William Moulton Marston – including me.
CharlesMartel on June 2, 2017 at 6:58 pm