All Things Wonder Woman: An Open Discussion - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 25

[Micromind]

Yes.
Question is: is it a bad thing or just a fishy thing ?

They are indulging in dubious business practices, if you ask me.

 

[Dark Raven]

They are using similar font design and color scheme to market their movie. Is the marketing team trying to use popularity of WW movie to market their movie ?

They are indulging in dubious business practices, if you ask me.

Definitely mimicking the other movie. The background is immediately similar. But I don't know if WB are okay with that or if they just tolerate it because it reinforces their own movie in the public's minds and so is free publicity. I don't think WB should try to stop it. They could just consider it part of their Oscar campaign push to keep WW in people's minds so that everyone is talking about her in every month of the year until Justice League.

 

[Micromind]

Definitely mimicking the other movie. The background is immediately similar. But I don't know if WB are okay with that or if they just tolerate it because it reinforces their own movie in the public's minds and so is free publicity. I don't think WB should try to stop it. They could just consider it part of their Oscar campaign push to keep WW in people's minds so that everyone is talking about her in every month of the year until Justice League.

If WB decide to take some legal action against Annapurna Pictures, it will be a case of a mega Corporation taking on small time production company which mainly produces art-house, independent movies.

In short, it will ruin goodwill that WB has managed to acquire by making a successful WW movie, so they may just ignore it. Though, if it was Paramount pictures in place of WB, it would have sent those legal notices by now.

 

[Dark Raven]

If WB decide to take some legal action against Annapurna Pictures, it will be a case of a mega Corporation taking on small time production company which mainly produces art-house, independent movies.

In short, it will ruin goodwill that WB has managed to acquire by making a successful WW movie, so they may just ignore it. Though, if it was Paramount pictures in place of WB, it would have sent those legal notices by now.

Yes, that's true. But as I said, it's also further free publicity for WW so actually helps WB. Maybe Annapurna even obtained permission from WB to mimick their posters. I would imagine something like that would've had to have happened first before releasing them, otherwise it would probably fall under the law of passing off.

They're not all similar to the WW posters anyway:

 

[Black Narcissus]

Yes.
Question is: is it a bad thing or just a fishy thing ?

A good thing. It promotes both films. And that film cast and crew all loved WW film, so just let them be.

 

[Greens]

Let's be real, this movie is not promoting Wonder Woman. The promotion for that movie maxed out. It's not attracting new viewers through this

 

[The Shape]

"The true story of the women behind the man behind the woman" is such an awful tagline.

 

[Dark Raven]

"The true story of the women behind the man behind the woman" is such an awful tagline.

Sounds like they're forming a conga line.

 

[The Shape]

"The true story behind the women behind the man under the couch behind the plant next to the table near the man behind the woman."

 

[jaymes_e06]

"The true story behind the women behind the man under the couch behind the plant next to the table near the man behind the woman."

 

[UncleSam1776]

When I first saw this scene from the blooper reel I knew something was weird about it. After watching it a second time and pausing it, I now notice that Gal is only wearing the front part of the costume.

 

[terry78]

"The true story behind the women behind the man under the couch behind the plant next to the table near the man behind the woman."

The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain.

 

[Gee]

When I first saw this scene from the blooper reel I knew something was weird about it. After watching it a second time and pausing it, I now notice that Gal is only wearing the front part of the costume.

Spoiler

Possibly one of the re-shot/additional scenes when she had a bun in the oven.

 

[Greenlite]

Patty Jenkins Clears Up Confusion Over Wonder Woman’s No Man’s Land Scene
http://screenrant.com/wonder-woman-patty-jenkins-explains-no-mans-land/

Patty Jenkins is clearing up come of the confusion regarding the scene and Warner Bros. initial hesitancy. Here is what she said (take a look at the full interview here):

“I feel badly about this because it’s been reported that Warner Bros. was against it, which it was not, it was my own people in England. It was our own crew who were, at points, going, ‘Why are you doing this scene? She’s not even fighting anything,’ So Warmer Bros. was not unsupportive of the No Man’s Land scene. It was much more in-process that everybody was like, ‘What’s this scene for? There’s no one to fight.'”

“I kept saying it was only about her, it’s not about anybody else,”

 

[Dark Raven]

I thought she cleared that up a few weeks ago.

 

[Mrs. Wayne]

 

[TheFlamingCoco]

Patty Jenkins Clears Up Confusion Over Wonder Woman’s No Man’s Land Scene
http://screenrant.com/wonder-woman-patty-jenkins-explains-no-mans-land/

"A pivotal scene that doesn't involve a fight? That's not what we're here to do!"-cynical crewmembers

"No. But that's what I'M going to do"-Patty Jenkins

 

[Blitzkrieg]

http://www.comicbookandmoviereviews.com/2017/09/wonder-woman-is-most-googled-superhero.html

According to research carried out by Carphone Warehouse, one of the UK’s leading mobile phone retailers, Wonder Woman is the most searched for superhero on the internet. Which is no surprise, really, considering the amount of hype generated over the release of her feature length film.

Surprisingly enough, the data analysed also revealed that people generally search for Marvel characters as opposed to those published by DC Comics. Marvel received just over 9.3 million searches compared to DC with 9.1 million, keeping in mind that these searches were being carried out via the Google search engine between the months of July, 2016, and June, 2017.

1. Wonder Woman (3.8 million searches) – DC Comics
2. Spider-man (2.8 million searches) – Marvel
3. Deadpool (2.4 million searches) – Marvel
4. Batman (2.3 million searches) – DC Comics
5. The Flash (2.1 million searches) – DC Comics
6. Captain America (1.2 million searches) – Marvel
7. Iron Man (1.1 million searches) – Marvel
8. Thor (990,000 searches) – Marvel
9. Superman (960,000 searches) – DC Comics
10. Wolverine (900,000 searches) – Marvel

 

[AulaMagna]

"A pivotal scene that doesn't involve a fight? That's not what we're here to do!"-cynical crewmembers

"No. But that's what I'M going to do"-Patty Jenkins

Clever

 

[Greenlite]

"A pivotal scene that doesn't involve a fight? That's not what we're here to do!"-cynical crewmembers

"No. But that's what I'M going to do"-Patty Jenkins

Haha

Jenkins climbs up a ladder

Geoff Johns:"Patty!"

Jenkins blocks the bazooka and rotten tomatoes from critics, charges forward, as the cynical crew members follow.

While Rupert's score plays at the background

 

[Greenlite]

http://www.comicbookandmoviereviews.com/2017/09/wonder-woman-is-most-googled-superhero.html

1. Wonder Woman (3.8 million searches) – DC Comics
2. Spider-man (2.8 million searches) – Marvel
3. Deadpool (2.4 million searches) – Marvel
4. Batman (2.3 million searches) – DC Comics
5. The Flash (2.1 million searches) – DC Comics
6. Captain America (1.2 million searches) – Marvel
7. Iron Man (1.1 million searches) – Marvel
8. Thor (990,000 searches) – Marvel
9. Superman (960,000 searches) – DC Comics
10. Wolverine (900,000 searches) – Marvel

Man Flash did well with just the TV show.

Poor Superman, herolee not doing his homework.

 

[moviefreak]

I enjoyed the success of Wonder Woman --financial and critical. I voted that it will make around 810-820m world wide with about 300m domestic. The success is all down to both Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot. I had a higher confidence in Jenkins when she was hired that a LOT of people didn't have. A lot of people also apparently didn't bothered to watch or were aware of Jenkins' debut feature film 'Monster' that won Charlize Theron an Oscar. That film showed Jenkins' skills as writer-director, and that was the main argument I made in the case of my high confidence in Jenkins. I reasoned that even if the film did not turned out as good as 'Monster' it should be competently made and enjoyable.

But some people have this blinder on about the previous DCEU films ignoring the very fact that it was Zack & Deborah Snyder who were instrumental in getting Wonder Woman her first big screen debut when previously WB had very little or almost no interest at all in her. They're also ignoring the reports about multiple writers that the production team had to trim down and the MacLaren stuffs. I have to applaud the production team for their decision to bring in Jenkins after MacLaren's departure.

If Wonder Woman didn't make the BvS debut, she would probably made her debut much later down the road and with a different actress cast by a different director, i.e. no Jenkins and Gadot. The alternative scenario may have turned out fine but I suspect that it will not be the same thing as the current Wonder Woman, may have preformed just fine at box office like a normal DC film. Definitely not a run at the box office that Jenkins' Wonder Woman is having.

The true test of Jenkins' skill#s will be in the sequel, Wonder Woman 2 as that's likely to have the majority of her own writing. Geoff John should only be used as a consultant in all things DC comics and comic related story aspect.

 

[Bwahaha!]

My theater count for WW = 6 times, three of them in IMAX. My fav was the glorious and impossibly HUGE IMAX screen at universal studios--I think it's the largest screen in LA. I enjoy this movie more with each new viewing, which is rare for me. (that also happened with MOS but not BvS or SS).

As I'm rewatching the digital version of WW at home, I'm noticing little things I missed. Like Hippolyta explaining that Zeus left a weapon on the island strong enough to kill a god. She never says it was a sword. When young Diana later asks to see the god-killer, Hippolyta takes her to the tower where the gifts of the gods are housed. Diana calls the sword: god-killer. The queen never does.

I think H knew her daughter with Zeus was the weapon all along. And just as she lied about D being sculpted from clay...she deceives D by showing her the gifts and letting her daughter assume the sword is the god-killer. Maybe. I don't know. Just a hunch.

 

[Micromind]

My theater count for WW = 6 times, three of them in IMAX. My fav was the glorious and impossibly HUGE IMAX screen at universal studios--I think it's the largest screen in LA. I enjoy this movie more with each new viewing, which is rare for me. (that also happened with MOS but not BvS or SS).

As I'm rewatching the digital version of WW at home, I'm noticing little things I missed. Like Hippolyta explaining that Zeus left a weapon on the island strong enough to kill a god. She never says it was a sword. When young Diana later asks to see the god-killer, Hippolyta takes her to the tower where the gifts of the gods are housed. Diana calls the sword: god-killer. The queen never does.

I think H knew her daughter with Zeus was the weapon all along. And just as she lied about D being sculpted from clay...she deceives D by showing her the gifts and letting her daughter assume the sword is the god-killer. Maybe. I don't know. Just a hunch.

Diana should have tied Hippolyta with the lasso of truth and asked some tough questions !

 

[Greenlite]

Diana should have tied Hippolyta with the lasso of truth and asked some tough questions !

It might work if H identifies herself as a male =P