this logo is an amazing development for Wonder Woman - and some of you might be
like what are you talking about Grace it's just a logo so what it takes place
in 1984 well when you see what I've uncovered you are gonna be as blown away
as I am and I can't wait to share my findings with you so your enthusiasm for
Wonder Woman - can go back up to an 11 like it has for me because you know we
were questioning a little bit after the casting of Kristen Wiig and you know
then doing something in the past we wanted something after Justice League so
she could keep powering up right but I think this is gonna be worth it oh boy
but the reason I have such a strong beginning to this video so positive is
that there's a little bit of a negative to get out of the way at first and
that's that when they tease this logo on Friday it wasn't just patty Jenkins but
it was also Geoff Johns how is he still involved in this movie I mean I know he
and patty Jenkins became very close making the first one but we're talking
about a guy who did such a bad job with Justice League he got fired along with
John burg from handling the DC EU at large and while he might say that Green
Lantern wasn't his fault how does he explain the sneak peeks we've been
getting of the streaming shows that he's in charge of right like it's a lot of
overwhelming negative evidence but he does have some positive evidence on his
side his brilliant Batman earth 1 volume 1 & 2 so it means he kept it going it
wasn't just you know lightning in a bottle and it really is one of the best
Batman stories ever told it's a nice world story you know how I like those
but just it's one of the best Batman stories period and in fact if he is
behind any of the genius that I see brewing with this 1984 choice well then
I will this will be as good as his Batman earth 1 so Geoff Johns I guess
we'll have to settle for being wildly uneven but anyway on Friday he and patty
Jenkins teased this logo for Wonder Woman and everyone said oh right
1984 we have our year and I was shocked shocked that no one thought to ask why
1984 that really boggled my mind I actually have a theory as
nobody asked it but I did I didn't ask that question and in my search for an
answer I decided as I said this is a brilliant
absolutely off the charts brilliant choice all right so why didn't nobody
ask it well I suspect it's not just because this is a comic book movie but
because it's a DC EU comic book movie and no one nobody you know gives them
the credit that I think that they deserve you know particularly the first
wonder one a very sophisticated movie so it makes sense that it would continue on
that sophisticated path oh I don't know he contribute the Disney princess stuff
we're not I'm not quite sure who contributed all the World War 1 stuff so
maybe it was Jeff Jones and patty Jenkins
but anyway it's very frustrating to me because and also maybe I think also the
speed might have been an issue everyone was like oh my god the logos up quick
cover it that no one again paused to think what well I took a couple of days
thought about it and I the first thing that struck me was the blatant reference
in the design of the logo to George Orwell's 1984
one of the defining works of the pop culture idea of a dystopian future that
is huge right it's a whole lot of the group over the individual right the
government spying on the people and censoring the people cats and dogs
living together you get the idea but this logo oh this is so good
it also mimics one of the most famous commercials of all time also based on
George Orwell's 1984 apples 1984 Superbowl commercial which was again
also based on Orwell's novel I'm getting ahead of my notes here I'm so excited
and who famously saved the day there some of you might already be putting the
pieces together but it was a woman UK athlete Anya major and of course
Diana had large ties to the UK and Europe overall I love that they've made
her a european-based hero it works with golga dots accent you know and you
already have Batman and Superman in the United States it makes total sense that
Wonder Woman would be European based now operating out of the Louvre which is so
cool so the correlation there and to do something that's more than just a comic
book movie one again it's coming together beautifully
now 1984 is in fact the year that the Apple Computer first hit stores a
milestone in technology the advancements of technology so Wonder Woman too might
not only be dealing with the Cold War but rapidly changing technology as well
and its reach with the government and also society more
alright so 1984 was also the first year that a woman walked in space oh my god
first for Russia in fact and then the United States the exact same year and it
was also the first year that a woman piloted a Boeing 747 and of course
Wonder Woman is famous for flying either herself or her invisible plane however
on a more serious note and I would love it if the DC EU goes here not just
because of Diana's compassion and willingness to face the horrors of man
but also because it will continue to differentiate the DC movies from the
Marvel ones not make them better but make them different it's something like
a darker more sophisticated and real-world approach exists in the comics
that's the difference to see that continue in the movies it's I think it
has would just make me so happy all right so this is so good at 1984 well
that's tragic obviously but it's just so such an amazing opportunity if they
don't do this they're stupid so in 1984 this is the year that the US government
officially addressed and in the eyes of many finally acknowledged the AIDS
epidemic with a historic press conference in 1984 and considering what
Wonder Woman means to the LGBT community it would be a game-changer to introduce
an LGBT individual to Wonder Woman's inner circle at this time and how aids
either impacts that individual directly or those around them and therefore Diana
that would be I mean think about when she was looking around at the horrors of
World War one this this is amazing it's it's in line with what they do with the
first film and it's just spectacular also in 1984 they was also when crack
cocaine was introduced to the United States I can't believe how this all
lines up what a year and I think that everybody now large
knows that it was a condoned effort on the part of the US government to
sacrifice urban communities in an effort to fight communism abroad another
game-changing tragedy the wonder woman would be smack in the middle of Wow
all right now in comics moving over from history well the comic the history of
comics in 1985 crisis on Infinite Earths began one of the biggest crossover
events in DC history and Geoff Johns is a big fan of this story writing its
follow-up and DC you know was trying to get its house reorganized with this
story and it decided because of poor sales for Wonder Woman to make to make
both her and Steve Trevor earth-2 characters so that Wonder Woman could be
reinvented by George Perez who did so spectacularly there for 1984 was the
character's last year before a sort of rebirth
so that could be explored as well now there's one other thing that we need to
touch on here it's a long shot but I think that it's worked so well with the
1984 choice that it would be irresponsible of me not to put it on
your radar all right so the big villain in Orwell's 1984 is Big Brother and of
course if you're a DC fan you're thinking brother I now that character
largely has to do with Batman but brother I did become a big enemy of
Wonder Woman and the Amazons overall and one of the biggest moves that brother I
made was to broadcast footage of Wonder Woman's murder of Maxwell Lord remember
how I always get upset they took the neck snapping away from Wonder Woman and
gave it to Superman and it didn't even work giving it to him but she you know
killed Maxwell Lord he's basically the purple man he could control people just
by talking to them and or I think it might be mind control but he basically
he controls people and he was controlling Superman she's like how can
I stop you and Maxwell or it's like you'd have to kill me and she called his
bluff but you know brother I broadcast that
footage across the world heard in her image with not only you know the world
but you know also the Justice League and it was successful you know obviously
only for a while now Pedro Pascal I could see him playing Maxwell Lord but I
still think it's more likely that he's playing Deimos one of the sons of Ares
who in the comics had a hand in Korea the tension of the cold war between the
Russia between the Soviets in the United States I think brother I is likely too
big a concept for a standalone Wonder Woman movie and again Maxwell Lord is
too similar to the purple man but I didn't stop them from getting rid of
Steve Trevor in a very similar way to how Steve Rogers punched out right so
maybe they could do it and brother I could be a great thing to tease even
just tease in this movie for something that could maybe come along down the
line it would work it would be very much long lines of the world-building that
you see in the MCU and it would make sense so again I just wanted to put it
on your radar so you would be ready so how do you feel about the 1984 choice
now it's so freakin amazing again the first Wonder Woman certainly was this
sophisticated and I'm furious I continue to be so furious about this that that
movie was not given any credit for that sophistication and they and everybody
still isn't giving this you know this wonder what these Wonder Woman movies
the credit because how could you miss the George Orwell connection I mean
again you have to do a lot of research to get this other stuff but it to me
it's just the logo just screams 1984 and that Apple commercial and so the fact
that this was missed by pretty much everybody who covered it I'm you know
they continued not to give the DCEO and at least the Wonder Woman movies the
credit that they deserve alright so share your thoughts down
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