Director Patty Jenkins advises Gal Gadot in making 'Wonder Woman'

Patty Jenkins has directed only two feature film. 'Monster' is considered one of the best movies of 2003, writes Christopher Campbell for FSR, and it netted Charlize Theron a Best Actress Oscar. The second is 'Wonder Woman'.

Forbes writes on Monday that "Yup, on today, its 95th day of release, the Gal Gadot/Chris Pine superhero adventure movie has cleared $409.1m domestic. That means, inflation notwithstanding, the film is the fifth-biggest superhero movie of all time in North America, behind only 'The Dark Knight Rises' ($448m), 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' ($459m), 'The Dark Knight' ($534m) and 'The Avengers' ($623m).."

'Wonder Woman' has out-grossed all but four male-driven comic book superhero movies. Yet, it is merely the eighth-biggest female-led blockbuster of all time in North America, behind 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' ($425 million), 'Finding Dory' ($486m), 'Beauty and the Beast' ($504m), 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' ($529m), 'Jurassic World' ($652m), 'Titanic' ($658m) and 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' ($937m).

Jenkins is interviewed, along with Lucy Davis who plays Etta Candy, in the film, by Laura Brounstein for Cosmopolitan. Front of mind is 'Titanic' director James Cameron who took it upon himself to mansplain why 'Wonder Woman' is not a feminist film. In fact, Cameron argued in an interview for The Guardian that the film represents a setback for women. Jenkins responded on Twitter:

"James Cameron’s inability to understand what Wonder Woman is, or stands for, to women all over the world is unsurprising as, though he is a great filmmaker, he is not a woman. Strong women are great…but if women have to always be hard, tough and troubled to be strong and we aren’t free to be multidimensional or celebrate an icon of women everywhere because she is attractive and loving, then we haven’t come very far, have we."

Jenkins was still basking in compliments from Hillary Clinton. As for Cameron, he did have an additional quote for The Guardian: “Being attracted to strong independent women has the downside that they’re strong independent women – they inherently don’t need you!” he says with a laugh.

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