Spoilers for Wonder Woman 1984
Wonder Woman 1984 just hit theaters and HBO Max on Christmas Day. The film starts with an epic flashback of young Diana Prince on Themyscira partaking in an Olympic-type contest. I won’t reveal too much else if you haven’t seen the film. But, according to director Patty Jenkins, Warner Bros. wanted to cut the part with Hippolyta and Antiope from the film:
“It was the success of the first film, but it was also something else. I wouldn’t [have] jammed it in there because of the success of the film, because it actually made the movie too long,” Jenkins told JoBlo. “We have two openings in our movie, and we would talk about it with the studio all the time, and they would say, ‘You’ve got to cut the mall and the Eighties, or you’ve got to cut the Amazons.’ I was like, ‘We can’t, we can’t cut either.'”
Jenkins added why she felt that this scene was vital to the film:
“You do that thing where you’re like, wait, you have to remember all the people that haven’t seen the first Wonder Woman who watch this on a plane. And suddenly it’s like, oh, it’s super hard to understand who Diana is and what’s going on without touching base there,” Jenkins said. “I love the fact that you hear all of the ‘being a great hero takes your whole life’ [speech], you know? So there was this wisdom there that they were trying to tell her, which is not about being the strongest or the fastest, it’s about these complex observations you have to make during life in order to become a true hero. I love that she doesn’t understand that until that final speech.”
What’d you think of Wonder Woman 1984 and the opening scene?
Source: ComicBook
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