With “Wonder Woman” blazing a trail at theatres across the United States, the female superhero is being hailed as a powerful new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.<\/p>\n
The film, starring Israeli actress, Gal Gadot, smashed box office records on its opening weekend, raking in more than $103 million in the United States – a record for a movie directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins.<\/p>\n
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The film broke the previous record for a movie directed by a woman held by Sam Taylor-Johnson for “Fifty Shades of Grey”.<\/p>\n
Online debates ahead of the film’s release about the Amazonian superhero’s lack of armpit hair and the furor surrounding her selection last year as a U.N. honorary ambassador, have only served to boost box office takings.<\/p>\n
But it is above all the depiction of the sword-wielding, lasso-tossing character as an empowered woman that accounts for the film’s triumph, said Melissa Silverstein, founder of the Women and Hollywood blog and co-founder of the women-focused Athena Film Festival.<\/p>\n
“It’s almost an exclamation point on what women have been saying for a long time – in the industry, outside the industry; that our stories matter, we are the heroes of the stories, we can kick butt as well as anyone else and we’re equal,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cWonder Woman\u201d was first imagined in 1941 as an icon of female empowerment – even appearing on the inaugural cover of the flagship feminist publication, Ms. magazine, three decades later.<\/p>\n
But her modern portrayal has been criticised for shifting to a sexualised buxom character, typically clad in a red, white and blue body suit.<\/p>\n
The United Nations dumped Wonder Woman less than two months after naming her as an ambassador for women’s and girls’ empowerment amid criticism that her pin-up image sent the wrong message.<\/p>\n
Silverstein said the blockbuster should herald a new era in a Hollywood film industry skewed in favour of male characters and filmmakers.<\/p>\n
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