My favorite shot in all the Wonder Woman trailers might actually be when Diana charges into that room and immediately slams her shield down on some soldier and knocks him out.
(source: @hawkwoman)
The poor guy never stood a chance.
Fuck I never noticed how thoroughly she wrecked him. Like I don’t think he even realized what was happening.
Ive never watched Wonder Woman, but why is she sliding down that floor so smoothly
She has basically knee pads.
I think they stylized the way she moves to suggest flight and speed as second nature to her. I’m guessing they wanted to differentiate her movement from Superman’s, which can be explained in canon as the simple fact that her powers are different, come from a different source, as she’s been training her entire life. She’s a demigod, so her movement is…I think lighter is a good way to describe it? Whereas Superman is stomping around in direct defiance of all Earthly physical laws because he’s not human, Diana’s powers are almost angelic. She’s still a direct product of this earth and power found here. These powers are new to her in this film, but they’re rooted right here. She moves like she’s always sort of flying.
We really haven’t seen anyone else in the DCEU move like this, but that makes sense when you consider we have yet to meet any other Amazonian demigods.
The Kryptonians are brutal. Everything is heavy, hard, and booming.
Meanwhile, Diana flying:
Even when she’s coming to do violence her movement suggests that she’s moving in concert with the earth instead of in defiance of it. It has a more supernatural feel.
Anyway, have I mentioned lately how much I love that they put clear thought and design in how each character would move instead of the easier path of just handing Diana and Clark identical powers.
