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Steve Trevor - Wonder Woman

- Wonder Woman movie novelization

“.. I love you.”

I made a joke about this last night, but honestly it deserves a whole post so I’m gonna make one, beware of major spoilers for Wonder Woman if you haven’t seen it yet 👍🏻

So one of the things I really appreciated is the fact that despite her good looks and short skirt, the effort that went into not sexualizing Diana. Like, it would be pretty easy, but in the end most of the sexualizing done so by the characters themselves was more centered around the conventions of the time period (i.e. Steve being awkward about sleeping next to her and the whole conversation about sex they had, Steve and Etta freaking out when she was ready to change in the middle of the store, pretty much them freaking out over her lack of clothing in general). Even all the characters fawning over her looks mostly just spoke of how beautiful she was, with the exception of the one soldier hitting on her in the streets.

Even with all that, she wasn’t devoid of sexuality either or completely sexually naive as it would be easy to do given she grew up outside the world of men. The movie actually constantly makes fun of that assumption actually, with the pool scene and again the fucking sex conversation on the boat. She’s in fact very frank about it and it’s refreshing honestly.

And then of course, there is the scene in Veld and while both me and my best friend agreed we wouldn’t have been opposed to seeing more of Steve and Diana, it was so, so nice to have that extremely intimate kiss and then cut it off. Like obviously we know they banged but instead of making it this big sexy thing, it was intimate and obviously not for our eyes, it was a moment for the characters to connect.

Listen I loved this movie a lot there were so many good things about it.

And another thing I love about Wonder Woman is that it gently introdces some familiar tropes and the quickly shuts them dowm in favor of sincere and meaningful characterisation. 

The four male supports are the prime examples:

1. First, you have Steve, the Het White Male and you’re thinking oh I bet he’s a dick, lets get ready for some mild seualisation if not actual sexism. But?? Steve Trevor is a Pure and Good Man who supports and respects Diana and is actualy relationship goals????

2. Then, you have Sameer, and at first you think, oh hell the North African Con Man trope, but it turns out he’s a talented linguist who dreams of being an actor. Beautiful

3. Next you have Charlie, the Alcoholic Scotsman. But it turns out he drinks because he is facing some pretty serious mental health issues, and all his friends support his recovery and care for his emotional wellbeing !!!

4. And then you have Chief, and you’re surprised becasue first of all this is a Native American Character played by a Native American. And then!! He isn’t the Medicine Man, or the Spiritual Guide but a man who had everything taken from him by white people and is just trying to make something for himself. Fucking pUre.

Wonder Woman fanart - the movie was SO GOOD! <3

Wonder Woman (2017) fan art by BossLogic

Some people think it was unrealistic that Steve fell in love with Diana after only a few days but idk I fell in love with her after five minutes so it was realistic enough for me.

I trained an hour a day and it was kind of fun for me because the novelty of it is that I get to be looked at like an object. She’s standing there like a man just, like, eating me up. —Chris Pine

The Amazons on the set of Wonder Woman (2017)

insp.

Motion to declare “Confusingly” to be this year’s “Harold, they’re lesbians.” (x)

Cause of death: Steve cupping Diana’s face in his hands and tearing up when he’s trying to explain how maybe humanity is not inherently good.

Some named Amazons in Wonder Woman (2017).

I wish the Themysciran scenes where longer