In his dying act, he grants to Queen Hippolyta her wish for a child – and animates the clay model she has made, thus creating Diana – and grants to the Amazons Themyscira. The war that ensues among the Gods leaves Zeus, the creator god in mortal peril, threatened by his son, Ares. (This is a big departure from Christianity, which sees physical love as an evil and Eve not as a saviour, but a transgressor.) That Zeus’s attempt to bring an end to strife through love should fail and that men become the oppressors of the Amazons, who in turn rise up against them, is a novel mythical element, and radical. But the Amazonian story differs because Zeus is a limited God, and creates the Amazons to bring love to the world, intending through love to tame the evil of corrupted men. Hence the Amazonian myth depicting man’s fall into crime and war is a version of Adam’s Fall. Rather than echoing the realities of human psychology, Judaeo-Christianity presents an idealised humanity that adherents are invited to aspire to. The myth that most closely correlates to the myth told by Hipolyta – the story of a benign creator god whose creations are corrupted by a malevolent lesser god – is something far closer to home: it’s the Judaeo-Christian conception of humanity.
So, evil doesn’t really fit easily into their pantheon in the way it does in the myth cycle in the movie. In fact, the Greek gods are all the things people are because they are the personifications of the different drives of humanity. In the Greek myths, the gods are spiteful, jealous, capricious, devious and vengeful. It is a mythical representation of the human condition echoed by several myth cycles – though not the Greek myths, which have an ambivalent view of the gods and their attitudes toward humanity. In the myth, mankind is created both good and noble by a benign creator, Zeus – but is corrupted by Ares, the evil god of war.
#WONDER WOMAN TV THEME MOVIE#
One of the main recurring themes in the movie is what happens when ideals meet reality.Ī set piece early in the movie explains the mythical origins of the Amazons to the young Princess Diana of Themyscira. Theme 1: The awakening to new consciousness of the idealistic individual. There’s a complex mixture here, but much of it is not to do with the story but the themes it explores. They never normally get me like that… but Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman did, and I’ve been trying to work out why. Okay, so it’s pretty slushy to admit to crying at watching a superhero movie.
SPOILER ALERT: This blog discusses plot points and scenes within the movie Wonder Woman.