kyopo:wonder-trev:terapsina:annerbhp:tchallasams:annerbhp:diana-prince:Would you like to buy an ice
kyopo:wonder-trev:terapsina:annerbhp:tchallasams:annerbhp:diana-prince:Would you like to buy an ice cream?Okay, so it’s even the small things. The way she eats the ice cream. She just eats it. No coy lick or self-conscious taste. There’s no male gaze here. No oral/sexual pleasure of the viewer. Just she eats the ice cream and it’s the kind of sloppy big bite of someone who is not self-conscious of eating, who hasn’t been trained from birth to think about how she looks as she does everything, even eating. Hasn’t spent her life being told that her purpose is in being attractive, even as she does a vital daily thing like eating. Doesn’t have a voice in her head saying, oh but ice cream, it’s kind of fatty, and what will people think. She’s just, wow, this thing is delicious, I think it’s great, the person who makes it deserves to be told how great their skill is. How great their actions that have lead to this product are. Even in this she demonstrates valuing people by their actions and abilities and choices and who they are, not what they look like. Fuck. This is agency. And the fact that is so rare and startling and obvious to me, the fact that Diana Prince eating ice cream moves me so much is So Terrible and makes me despair for our civilization and (nearly) all media produced before this. And during the shot when she takes the first bite, Steve is reaching his arm out to pay the ice cream seller. That movement is much bigger and more eye-catching than Diana eating the ice cream. This scene normalizes females eating on screen (which shouldn’t have fucking been a problem in the first place), through both subverting the erotic eating trope and allowing women to eat and enjoy whatever they want without feeling self-conscious. Kudos to Patty Jenkins.Yes! Excellent point! And even more, Steve isn’t looking at Diana as she eats. A big part of the male gaze is that the default POV of films is generally that of the straight, white, male viewer. And generally Steve would be the stand in for that default gaze, but he doesn’t even look at her! He doesn’t buy it for her so he can watch. And he doesn’t even pull some Nice Guy bullshit like, I did something nice for you now do something nice for me, even as a vague joke or subtext. He isn’t trying to get anything out it. He just thinks she’s probably never had it and might enjoy it. It’s about her enjoyment, not his. Despite everything trying to tell us that women feed appetites but aren’t meant to have any of their own. Apparently I am never going to get over Diana Prince eating ice cream. Yes, all this. But I’d like to mention that IN ADDITION to that, there’s also the overt humor of the moment that could have been gross too but wasn’t.The ice cream seller offers her the ice cream but Diana is not familiar with the concept of ‘goods for money’ so they could have made a big joke about it with Steve basically giving her an immediate ‘lesson’ about how she can’t just TAKE the ice cream and how you’re supposed to pay for it.That’s basically how introducing a character from an Utopian society to a capitalist world always works. And that’s always the joke ‘oh look how silly and uneducated this person is, doesn’t even know they have to pay for stuff!’.But here though Diana does take the ice cream without planning to pay (because yes, she doesn’t know that she’s supposed to) Steve doesn’t make it into a ‘big deal’, he just reaches over and pays.And so the scene flawlessly skips over any need to publicly shame or embarrass Diana and we can just focus on how adorable Diana is when eating ice cream for the first time in her life.And I really truly appreciate that a lot.Reblogging this already amazing meta post with additional amazing comments I found in the notes section (credits at the end of each comment)the framing on that shot is kind of extraordinary, she is having an earnest and important-to-her conversation with someone just off-screen, a service-worker alleged-non-person whom society ignores, but goddamn does DIANA see them, YOU SHOULD BE VERY PROUD, the camera doesn’t overcome the societal bias, Diana might as well be talking to an imaginary person as far as the camera is concerned, the shot framing is as deliberate as fuck, with the camera refusing to give dignity to the ice-cream seller, the dignity that Diana is insistent that he deserves, in order to underline the unexpectedness of this thing she’s doing, …and yet in doing so it reinforces the thing too?, I honestly can’t decide if I love or hate that framing, but damn but it is deliberate, with a very clear thing it’s trying to communicate, via @disheveledcurlsI just love that her instinct is to tell the ice cream vendor that they should be PROUD. She’s been taught to value excellence in what you do and to be proud of yourself for being great at something. I just… I just love this bit. via @emberfineOk, sit down children. We need to talk about that smile in the last gif because it’s a great example of Steve Trevor basically being perfect. All through the movie, as she’s encountering and adjusting to a completely new society, he helps and guides without ever being sarcastic or superior about it. Think about the baby, or him pulling her cloak around her in the London streets, or when she crashes the generals’ meeting. Each time he is right there for her, a little exasperated and a little amused but always teaching without judgment.You can tell he thinks her reaction to the ice cream is over the top, but he doesn’t belittle her over it. That smile says “you are a dork but I kinda really love it.” And then he VALIDATES her by echoing her praise to the ice cream guy.Anyway Steve Trevor is perfection and I will never not be emotional about these two. via @no-man-an-islandCan I lift this moment up as yet another example of how great Diana (and her creators) is (are)?Diana was raised as a princess. She is literally a god, but she takes a moment to acknowledge the good work of the ice cream seller. He did something wonderful, and she told him to be proud. She lifted him up. She acknowledged his worth as the world scrambled by in preparation for war. And she was so very sincere!And look at Steve. He sees how wonderful she is. Diana makes everyone happy. via @theunsaidandthereadAlso i nearly teared up at how highly she valued this man’s skill. Its so common to ignore the actual skill and talent of street food sellers, particularly low cost food. But the way she said “you should be Very Proud” just… idk hearing that said to that man in a society that doesn’t value low wage workers touched me in a way that i didn’t think it would. via @kaylapocalypseI love all of this, but also: Diana has never had processed food before. This is probably the most decadent thing she’s ever had. It’s sweet and creamy, which are both in short supply in a culture with ancient Greece’s technology. Love the Amazons, but a warrior culture doesn’t tend to lead to the development of ice cream. She’s totally geeking out over ice cream because that shit tastes fucking amazing to her, even if it’s not even that good. She’s so pure and I love her because she’s just so enthusiastic and honest about everything. @temporal-tessellationI watched this in the theater and at this scene I heard three girls behind me whispering in shock: “She’s…she’s just eating? And he’s just being nice?” “WAIT he’s not demanding anything from her for feeding her? Is this heaven?” “Oh my God, I never thought I would see a movie that showed girls as people.” And my guy friend next to me is going: “They didn’t sexualize Wonder Woman, they didn’t do that to her, they didn’t demean her, THIS IS WHAT I FOUGHT THE WAR FOR”( my friend Nick is a Navy veteran) Every woman in that theater walked out with so much power and confidence and honestly I’ll never be over this movie via @once-and-future–emrysHell to the YEAH I came here just to add the note about the ice cream seller! -- source link