After setting the original Wonder Woman during the sober period of World War I, Patty Jenkins made a left turn for the sequence, Wonder Woman 1984, putting the action in the loud and greedy era of the 1980s.
Speaking during the Warner Bros. panel for the film during the Deadline’s Contenders Film award season event, the director explains that the playful aspect of the 80s scene was important to offset the film’s more serious message about the pursuit of absolute power in our modern world.
“We wanted to talk about something a little more serious than we did in the first film, which is [about] the crisis that our world faces, ”said Jenkins, who participated in the panel with star Gal Gadot,“ How do you use a superhero to inspire and reach the people of tomorrow, the children of tomorrow and the youth of the world to save our world? I mean, if we’re not doing this with our superhero movies, what are we doing? But because it is a more serious matter, I wanted it to be a more enjoyable ride – visually. And so, I loved the idea of the 80s. He neutralized the seriousness of our message with something fun and delicious. “
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At the same time, she said, the 1980s offer a window into today’s world. “We were celebrating excess wealth, power and money for no reason – having everything just because we wanted to,” she says. “Not because we won it, not because of hard work, not because of any of those other things. And, of course, I grew up watching the Lynda Carter TV show, so I felt like a wonderful home for Wonder Woman. “
For Gadot, the film was also a chance to repay fans of the first Wonder Woman.
“I never really realized the impact it had on people around the world,” she says. “This is the biggest film and the most ambitious film I’ve ever worked on. And since we had the script and the vision, we just made sure that everyone gave one thousand percent for eight months to make sure that we could give the best movie we can to these incredible fans. “
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