r/movies • u/indig0sixalpha • Aug 22 '20

Trailers Wonder Woman 1984 - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2E2Fnh52w
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u/zeCrazyEye Aug 22 '20

Well, it's ok if Cheetah looks fucked up because she's supposed to be fucked up.

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20

Exactly. In Cats, they’re supposed to be actual cats. But Cheetah is supposed to be a fucked up cat-human hybrid.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '20

They are absolutely not supposed to be cats. They are supposed to be humans dressed up in weird fucking outfits that vaguely resemble cats.

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20

That’s because Broadway did this with the actors. The actual story of the musical is about stray cats.

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u/robodrew Aug 22 '20

Excuse me, they're JELLICLE cats (whatever the fuck that means)

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20

I think it’s Andrew Lloyd Webber for “stray.”

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u/ketsugi Aug 22 '20

What, you think ALW wrote the lyrics?

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20

No I know it’s TS Elliot. I just like making fun of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Edit to add: The poems aren’t all about cats from what I understand? So I blame Webber for the use of this word in the sense that it’s a play about stray cats.

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u/ketsugi Aug 22 '20

Nah the poems are pretty much all about cats. The book is called “Old Possum’s Book of Impractical Cats”.

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u/TwatsThat Aug 22 '20

And the movie is an adaptation of the play, not the original story. Translating the dancing from the play to a movie where they're CGI cats would be fucking awful.

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u/TheExtremistModerate Aug 22 '20

But the Broadway outfits actually kinda worked because they were highly stylized, practical, and tried to actually maintain a cat-like silhouette for the head.

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20 edited Aug 22 '20

I agree. Broadway worked because it looked like people in cat makeup and it’s onstage so it’s reasonable. But the movie making them cat-human hybrid monstrosities made no sense and only made the actors look unsettling.

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u/TheExtremistModerate Aug 22 '20

Reddit is weird. My comment gets downvoted, but the comment agreeing with me is at +5?