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Whether the movie is good or great, Wonder Woman transcends it. Even if we have to take inspiration from fiction, because the world is so terrible, but in the end, we will have to do it ourselves, what she does, what she represents. And I speak from the heart, because I live in Manchester. “I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!” ― Charlie Chaplin

Well, you're the one who decided to get married!

Gone with the wind, anyone? (Old news to you guys I'm sure) http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

If only they'd cast RD jnr as WW.

But that doesn't mean we don't like you

We'll have to spike the coke zero.

A presentiment of doom, reminiscent of the Ride of Paul Revere (The British are coming!). It's preceded by: “Black and blue. God versus Man. Day versus Night. The red capes are coming. The red capes are coming.” – Lex Luthor

Correct. I believe the painting was specially commissioned for the movie, and that they turned it upside down.

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Men who wear big girls blouses also support this movie.

Miss Sloane is the reverse. 'Do you know the word “annihilate”? It means reduced to nothing.' Key word: earthquake.

I find it quite significant that the final third of WW is the part most negatively reviewed, because it is also the most familiar, in terms of super hero/heroine movie tropes. But two thirds of a near great movie, where the best of it ignores the usual machinery. It is the less familiar that is most thrilling. A fresh take on a genre at some risk of going stale. By sheer chance I've just been watching Chastain in Miss Sloane, a terrific movie which is more West Wing than Wonder Woman, but strikingly similar in its jaundiced, but largely accurate view of a world run by an establishment of vindictive old men. Chastaine/Sloane may not be Wonder Woman, but imagine if she had been! More bite, less action...

What forum is this?

I've had my own moments as well!

Steve's moment of madness...

We are Diana's kryptonite. But she does something wonderful with that weakness.

The problem is that they reduced it to melodrama. Who's you daddy?

Very few SH movies have handled the mythic particularly well. What made this movie thrilling was Diana's internal growth - you always wonder if she can withstand the bullets. What made it human was Steve Trevor's sacrifice. What made it epic was that a little girl turned out to be a goddess. Greater than Superman. And by the end perhaps more powerful. And more human. If they could only learn from this, what might we see?

Darn - I offered them Bolivia but all they said was 'Sorry, it's landlocked'.

I liked him in Dracula, but he couldnt seem to make up his mind then either.

Got any grapes?

Or as I frequently find myself saying to my all female team at work - 'Who are you calling a man?'

A duck walks into a bar, and says "Got any grapes?" The bartender says, "No, we don't have any grapes." A duck walks into a bar, and says "Got any grapes?" The bartender says, "I already told you, we don't have any grapes." A duck walks into a bar, and says "Got any grapes?" The bartender says,"HEY DUCK, WE DON'T HAVE ANY GRAPES" A duck walks into a bar, and says "Got any grapes?" The bartender says, "DUCK, WE DON'T HAVE ANY GRAPES, WE WILL NEVER HAVE GRAPES, AND IF YOU ASK ME THAT QUESTION ONE MORE TIME, I WILL NAIL YOUR ORANGE BEAK TO THE BAR!" A duck walks into a bar, and says "Got any nails?" The bartender says "No." "Got any grapes?"

A man walks into a bar with his alligator and asks: "Do you serve lawyers here?". The bartender says: "Yes, of course we do!" The man says, "OK, I'll have a beer for myself and a lawyer for my alligator."

Yes, I agree... Pity the book didn't sell, though, isn't it? If he relists it, maybe we could help?