Wonder Woman Movie Stance Essay

In the movie Wonder Woman (2009) directed by Lauren Montgomery, the audience is presented with the princess of the Amazons and embodiment of American pop culture feminism, Diana, Queen Hippolyta’s daughter in the DC comic.  She is depicted as being made of sand by her mother, and brought to life by the gods, particularly Hera, of the ancient Greek pantheon.  After Steve Trevor, a womanizing Air Force pilot who crash lands on Diana’s homeland of Themyscira, the Amazon queen holds an Olympic like contest to identify the Amazon most fit to escort Trevor to his homeland, the USA.  Hippolyta forbids Diana from participating, fearful that Diana will succumb to Trevor’s masculine charms and face ruin, as Hippolyta once did when the god of war, Ares, betrayed her.  After winning the competition, the Diana and the rest of the Amazons learn that Ares escaped his bonds with the help of Persephone, a traitor to her people, when she kills Alexa, her partner in guarding Ares that day, and is wreaking havoc upon the world. Artemis, the fiercest Amazon besides Diana, still blames Alexa for “allowing” herself to be murdered, stabbed in the back by her sister, Persephone. With Trevor by her side, Diana, now Wonder Woman, eventually dispatches Ares, saving the world from his unquenchable wrath and unholy influence.  Since Trevor is depicted as a womanizing “dog,” yet with Diana trusting him, the audience, and you, the writer, is faced with a question: is Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman’s sidekick and love interest, actually a feminist?  If so, how?  If not, why? Be sure to pick three key scenes to argue your main claim, such as the scene in the alley; the hospital scene, and another of your choice; say, the end scene when she prepares to battle her arch-enemy, Cheetah, and rebut a counter-argument for each claim.              Write a five paragraph, four to five-page essay in MLA format arguing your stance.  Think of yourself as a writer for an arts review section of a college magazine or newspaper, and that your audience is made up of students and faculty.  Print a copy to read aloud from and to write on with a pen for workshop! Make certain you include a Works Cited section that lists the film, and anything else you might quote within the text of your essay