Better late than never...
Patty Jenkins on Wonder Woman being similar to Superman and what both characters represent...
"If you look at the history of Wonder Woman, you look at the iconography, the images that have kept her alive – they're not dark. The thing I think is so important to always keep in mind about her is how positive and bright and shiny she is – very much in the same way that Superman has been. Staying true to the spirit of that seemed incredibly important to me. And it's the kind of superhero film I believe in anyway."
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/f...f-hero-w485183
“There’s been a fear that you needed to go harder in some direction to make Wonder Woman interesting, and I was always confused by it. She's pretty simple. She is like the parallel of Superman. She's good, she means well, she's kind, she's loving.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...530-story.html
"So I really wanted to focus on her being a universal character, her being a hero, and what her ambitions are. The same way Superman is not about being a man, Wonder Woman is not about being a woman. They're both about saving mankind. They're both about a bigger, bigger issue. So it's actually been great that so many people of both genders have a similar reaction, that one is not feeling more strange than the other."
http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-fra...reaction-to-w/
“I think the coolest opportunity with Wonder Woman is that she is the archetypal ideal of the greatest woman of all time. She’s not a certain kind of woman. She’s not any smaller than that, you know? She’s not a specific woman of only a certain kind. She’s the idealized universal woman, not unlike what Superman is to men. Superman is the great hero, you know? That’s who he is, that’s what he stands for. He stands for good and triumph and vulnerability and having a sense of humor but wanting to be great and all those things. Wonder Woman the one and only version of that for women.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYR...utu.be&t=6m18s
"She stands for an idealized version of a hero that, in this case, is from a point of view of a woman. What Superman is to boys, I feel that Wonder Woman is to girls. It's the clean superhero. You trust them, you like them, you wish you could be them, and you wish you could look like them. It's exactly that fantasy that struck me so hard as a little kid."
http://exclaim.ca/film/article/patty...er_woman_movie
"Even though Diana is a god and Clark Kent is an alien, that’s not the story those movies tell. They tell the story of an everyman. And a good everyman – an everyman with all the intentions that we have, anywhere we live. And definitely being not in the cities and not being in the most advanced places, I definitely am familiar with that everyman feeling of like, “I’m just a girl in Kansas. How can I change the world?” And that’s an important element of this kind of story’s universality to people and definitely something I’m grateful for."
http://uproxx.com/movies/patty-jenkins-wonder-woman/
Patty said many times that Superman - The Movie and the Superman character "inspired" her Wonder Woman...
"The alley scene was a direct homage. That was a ton of fun. But tone and character overall is the biggest indicator."
https://twitter.com/PattyJenks/statu...66417758552064
"I think that's exactly what has always made Superman capable of those kinds of arcs. You're not worried about Superman. You know he's going to end up being Superman, so you can have the confidence to have a good time and have him not understand how the revolving door works and things, and not know how to deal with man's world and this great sharp, savvy Lois Lane.
I thought that was important to apply that same kind of philosophy, and that part was easy for me because I do have so much respect and confidence in her that I had no problem having fun with what she doesn't know yet."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme.../#34318d6f4282
Even a modern Superman movie gets homaged as the dreamlike sequence of Ares tempting Diana to join him and wipe away mankind mirrors a similar scene with Zod and Clark in MoS: http://emmakillian.tumblr.com/post/1...der-woman-2017
The icing on the cake... https://twitter.com/Batmancanseeyou/...5313837834241/