James Cameron Stands By What He Said Against Wonder Woman

Earlier last month, director James Cameron had fired shots at the Wonder Woman movie for being a misguided feminist icon, and it looks like he's not backing down from what he said.

Talking to THR, Cameron explains:

"I'll stand by that [calling Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman an ‘objectified icon']. I mean, she was Miss Israel, and she was wearing a kind of bustier costume that was very form-fitting. She's absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. To me, that's not breaking ground. They had Raquel Welch doing stuff like that in the '60s. It was all in a context of talking about why Sarah Connor — what Linda created in 1991 — was, if not ahead of its time, at least a breakthrough in its time. I don't think it was really ahead of its time because we're still not [giving women these types of roles]."

Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins had fired back at Cameron after his comments, and when it was also brought up in the interview, Cameron was ready to address it.

"Linda looked great [in the Terminator films]. She just wasn't treated as a sex object. There was nothing sexual about her character. It was about angst, it was about will, it was about determination. She was crazy, she was complicated. … She wasn't there to be liked or ogled, but she was central, and the audience loved her by the end of the film. So as much as I applaud Patty directing the film and Hollywood, uh, ‘letting' a woman direct a major action franchise, I didn't think there was anything groundbreaking in Wonder Woman."

Just for some perspective, this is what Jenkins said after Cameron's first comment:

Though Cameron had said harsh words about the movie, he still admits that Wonder Woman is a "good film" and he says that his first comments on WW may have been overly simplistic.

As of now, Cameron is working on a sixth Terminator movie, and it's said that that movie will have a young woman as the lead. Jenkins, on the other hand, will be working on the release of the Wonder Woman sequel with Gal Gadot returning as Diana.

We don't know how far this fight with Jenkins and Cameron is going to go, but at least the two seem to respect each other as directors.

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