No. 1 spot at the box office was promised to me 6,000 years ago
Gal Gadot is the reason I understood how people can fall in love with terrible people
There’s a scene in one of the DC movies where a german sniper is hiding ontop of a church in a french village
Ever the pillar of restraint and decorum, Wonder Woman takes down the entire fucking church to kill this one soldier.
It’s a scene so over the top with needless destruction of a beautiful historical landmark, and you wonder what the filmmakers were trying to say with it.
Hollywood is fully integrated into the military-industrial complex. Inflicting disproportional damage on the population of whoever the enemy is is how The Great US Empire wages war. So that is what the population at home is meant to support. So that is what is shown to the young, easy to influence generations.
I know. It is indeed a wonder when a film like Parasite slips under their radar, and they suddenly have to scramble to make sure the director doesn’t get too direct with their messaging in their next film
They make one movie with easy to digest anti-elite themes for every dozen that promotes competition between the working class, has libertarian undertones, or otherwise reinforces the status quo. How many Hollywood heroes promote the status quo vs challenge the status quo?
Also, Parasite is a South Korean movie, which makes it even weirder. SK is way deeper in late stage capitalism than the US if you can believe it. When Samsung alone accounts for 23% of their gdp, something’s wrong.
Indeed, Hollywood make the directors of the “Wochenschau” (june 1940 to March 1945) look like kindergartners and they learned from them too.
I mean, the easy answer is all Hollywood action movies contain gratuitous destruction for the sake of visual interest.
It was honestly my first thought as a kid: “Oh my god! That guy’s food stall was completely destroyed by that car! What will he do now? Is there anyone he can call to get it replaced?”
The simpler answer is to accept cinema violence is a childish thoughtless moment anyway, and we shouldn’t compare it too much to real life. But in Gadot’s case, I suppose gratuitous destruction fits very much with her home country’s philosophy.
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
But as I’m learning lately as I get settled in on Lemmy, some people here will take any opportunity to stretch things to their soapbox.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to defend myself against the accusation from a mod that I’m anti-socialist because I said the USSR wasn’t perfect.
This is pretty silly. Superhero movies constantly feature superheroes and supervillains causing mass property damage. Superman will be thrown through buildings. Cars will be used as throwing weapons, etc.
It’s a deliberate cinematic choice. Superheroes just flying in the sky punching each other doesn’t convey the power involved in these characters. No, if you want to portray superheroes in a way that actually feels real to people, you need to show them interacting with our ordinary world. You show them treating things we experience as solid, indestructible, and immobile as mere tissue paper.
This is just “show, don’t tell.” Sure, you could have some character verbally explain that “Superman has the strength of a million men!”, but if all you saw was Superman fighting in a cloud or an empty field, that wouldn’t really mean much. You can’t feel it. Watch Superman casually pick up a skyscraper, and suddenly your mind can actually grasp the scale of his power.
I hear you whilst defending superman in the sense that, he’s either chucked through a populated building against his will to highlight the monstrosity of his assailants, or he chucks buildings with the implication that they’re empty.
In this WW scene, it’s shown to be a populated church. It just rings odd for me w.r.t to these unwritten rules of hollywood destruction that Im hyperfixated on
Populated by a soldier, in a war zone. This wasn’t a puppy and kitten caretaker nunnery on cute orphans visiting day.
she’s an immortal goddess, who shouldn’t relish in the destruction of mortals who were handed a gun at a young age and pushed to a front line for a creed they likely don’t give two actual shits about
she’s an immortal goddess
Something she didn’t know at the time. Also, rather a lot of her training was in how to wage war.
One should not ever wonder what the writers of Wonder Woman movies were thinking.
If that one is what bothering you, consider yourself lucky and move on.
lmao the Flemish at the end caught me off guard 😂
“Edde da gezien?”
I thought it was hochdeutsch – “Hast du dass gesehen?”
If you enable the subtitles, it says Flemish.
Took another listen:
“Hebde da gezien”
“Wa is er gebeurd?”
“Hebde da gezien, wa zij gedaan heeft?”
It’s perfect dialect, which surprises me, but after this it seems to devolve into gibberish. I can’t make too much out of it, besides French being thrown in, which for our country is, again, spot on, since we are divided bilingually.
“Veld” also means “field”. it’s such a generic name to give a town, but plausible.
TIL Wonder Woman is part of the IDF
Kinda required if you are israeli as far as i understand
By your own admission, they threw rocks. Those are just youthful combatants, verified.
‘Future terrorists’ is I believe how they described unarmed kids.
Hoodlums!!!
/s
Why I don’t celebrity worship, because not only meeting one’s idols is a bad idea, but also the possibility of them betraying.
Explain please
Gal Gadot is a Zionist
I didn’t know. I just knew she was Israeli. Thanks
And fully supports their genocide.
That’s dark 🫠
What is the rope of truth holding on too?? Compel me now!!!
Truly an Evil Queen.
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I don’t watch Seinfeld because he’s an insufferable rich guy who hates the common man.
I had forgotten about this grossness
And she got a 4”-5”/100”
I watched it in the 90s before all this shit came out. He wasn’t even one of the funny characters, I watched it for elaine and George.
I just mean that Comedians in Cars getting Coffee thing. I watched it for the guests. But holy shit Jerry Seinfeld fucking hates people so much, and he does not hide it in that show.
Hard to hide it when you’re such a huge ass hole.
Real. He provides some kind of comedic contrast that enhances the brilliance of Elaine and George.
Not gonna let that antisemitic remark go. There are assholes and good guys in most groups (I ain’t looking in the nazis, someone else can do that shit if they want). If you think their belonging to an ethnic group is a possible sign of an issue, then you’re just a bigot.
Cause, what the actual fuck, dude?
Zionism is not an ethnic group.
FFS. Y’all look stupid playing ball for a fucking antisemite
Don’t forget AOC and Mamdani dude!
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Kind of a gross thing to say? Watch out for all known Jews except Bernie and Stewart?
Yeah, that was definitely a “one of the good ones” remark.
You’re just furthering the false equation of us with zionists.
Gotcha. Forgot what thread we were in.
No. You don’t get to be a shithead regardless of the thread. If someone says they hate, you believe them and shun them, not fucking nod your head.
Uh, AOC and Mamdani don’t fit that category whatsoever. What are you talking about.
Ah! You see the guy came back after you included AOC and Mamdani and said “no, I was being antisemitic” and you said “fair, cheers bud” instead of “Oh. What the fuck is wrong with you, dude?”
Is what I’m talking about
??? I didn’t agree or disagree, he was pointing out Jewish people only apparently, since this is a thread about an Israeli actress. I don’t know everyone’s religions or nationalities, I was just adding two other people since he said Bernie and Stewart are the only ones with morals.
🤔 🤔
not gonna make me hate wonder woman because she is not of jewish origin, but greek. the pantheon of gods in her mythos has nothing to at all in common with judaism
Gal Gadot is Israeli.
yes i know. the character she portrays is not
