In the recently published Wonder Woman 1984Princess Diana aka Wonder Woman is facing not just one, but two super villains: the media mogul Maxwell Lord and The Cheetah. In an interview with CBR, the film’s director Patty Jenkins explained how she said the “why?” behind creating a super villain.
“First of all, I love some of the bad guys I grew up with, even if they had a really interesting, fun and dynamic character. In this case, much like my desire to make monsters and talk about why people do the things who they do I liked the challenge of saying, “Okay, how does this person become a superhero? What is the battle of the journey to begin there? How does this person become a bad guy? What’s this?”
The chief architect of chaos in Wonder Woman 1984 is Maxwell Lord, played by Pedro Pascal, whose machinations also turn Barbara Minerva, played by Kristen Wiig, into The Cheetah. According to Jenkins, both characters’ descent into supervillain is being driven by a feeling of not being good enough.
“Especially Max, I loved that he’s so busy doing this thing justice, probably because of his own father or whatever, to tell his son, ‘I’m going to be a winner,’ and the son never took care of it. How, nobody cared! It’s on your own mind that you have to become that person in order to be worthy of love, you know? So check out this story and how far he’s willing to go and to see the story of Cheetah and Barbara how far she is willing to go just to feel appropriate. “
In the past, Patty Jenkins has spoken of her desire to make Wonder Woman 1984 into a film in which the main conflict is resolved through dialogue rather than punching. With that in mind, the filmmaker hopes that audiences will see Lord and the Cheetah not as irredeemable villains, but as normal, flawed people who took the wrong road to power.
“Hopefully the important subtext of the film is that we are all these people. We are all people. We all have our moments of knowing that we could choose not to do the heroic because there is a hole we are filling And when we face what we see in the modern world, we all have to deal with it, sacrifice and think about how to take care of one another on a global level. That was something that was really close to my heart about all of them these people. “
Reviews for Wonder Woman 1984 have been generally positive so far, with critics predicting the DCEU has another hit on its hands. Director and co-writer of Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman 1984 With Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal and Natasha Rothwell. The film is available now in theaters and on HBO Max. This message first appeared at CBR.com.
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