James Cameron Stands By His Wonder Woman Criticism

Last month , Cameron label Gadot ’s Diana Prince as “ an objectified image ” , and suggested that his “ troubled”Terminatorprotagonist Sarah Connor is a more progressive female protagonist . Disagreeing buff andjournalists struck back , as did Jenkins herself . TheWonder Womandirector posteda sizeable paragraphon Twitter , say , “ if charwoman have to always be problematic and troubled to be strong , and we are n’t free to be multidimensional or keep an icon of cleaning lady everywhere because she is attractive , then we have n’t come very far have we . ”

“ I ’ll stand by that [ calling Gal Gadot ’s Wonder Woman an ‘ objectified ikon ’ ] . I intend , she was Miss Israel , and she was wearing a kind of bustier costume that was very form - fitting . She ’s absolutely fall - dead gorgeous . To me , that ’s not break ground . They had Raquel Welch doing stuff like that in the ' 60s . It was all in a context of talking about why Sarah Connor — what Linda created in 1991 — was , if not ahead of its time , at least a breakthrough in its time . I do n’t conceive it was really beforehand of its time because we ’re still not [ giving women these types of roles ] . ”

THRmentioned Jenkins ’ statement about female part not make to be trouble to be strong , and Cameron had a response ready :

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“ Linda looked great [ in the Terminator cinema ] . She just was n’t treated as a sex object . There was nothing sexual about her character . It was about angst , it was about will , it was about determination . She was gaga , she was complicated . … She was n’t there to be liked or ogled , but she was central , and the audience have sex her by the end of the celluloid . So as much as I acclaim Patty directing the film and Hollywood , uh , ' letting ' a woman direct a major action franchise , I did n’t think there was anything groundbreaking in Wonder Woman . ”

This warfare of word does n’t sense like its over . And when Jenkins’Wonder Woman 2and Cameron ’s manifold projection ( particularly the Hamilton - starringTerminator 6 , which he ’s producing ) make it to the screen , you may be sure that their female characters will be shove under the microscope and dissected . For all the former update , keep it Screen Rant .