Intentional link between Ares' "armistice which cannot hold" and real Treaty of Versailles?
In the Wonder Woman movie, Ares makes a statement towards Diana, that he promotes an armistice which cannot hold. This sounds like an obvious reference to the real Armistice of Compiègne, a de-facto German surrender, and the imposed Treaty of Versailles. Supported by the fact that Ares turns out to be Sir Patrick Morgan, trying to negotiate an armistice. But at the end of the film, no further references are made. Is anything known if there was a reference planned in the film, or if more direct references were removed?
Versailles laid ground for demands of massive "reparations" by Germany, for up to 70 years into the future. A similar extortion by Germany against France in 1871 lasted only three years, with the sum a tiny fraction of post WW1 demands against Germany.
Speculation: It's notable that the film comes with heavy anti-German views (as opposed to Captain America), not towards the Nazis as classic supervillains, but in fact equating imperial Germany of WW1 to later Nazi Germany. The movie warms up the Belgian Atrocities propaganda, which was actually spread in WW1, and included mostly fabricated horror stories of mass rape, babies impaled with bayonets, cannibalism, arbitrary murders and the like, in occupied Belgium. Actual violent acts and war crimes, associated with guerilla, or franc tireur, warfare, were greatly exaggerated. Showing Belgian villagers enslaved (fleeing after a year of immobile trench battles?) and finally having a new poison gas tested on them, seems to directly build on this propaganda. This might be a reason why more obvious, critical references to Versailles were taken out.
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It's a little unclear what exactly you're asking here, but I think underneath this all I see the question as: "Is anything known if there was a reference (of the real Armistice of Compiègne) planned in the film, or if more direct references were removed?
As for references being removed we've heard directly from the director, Patty Jenkins: "Wonder Woman’ Doesn’t Have a Single Deleted Scene". So, there is no evidence of a reference being cut.
As for the statement Aries makes, it's likely the writers and director felt that was all the reference that was needed, any more reference to future conflicts would have likely diluted the current conflict of the movie.
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What happened between the armistice and Treaty of Versailles?
The Armistice did not end the First World War itself, but it was the agreement which stopped the fighting on the Western Front while the terms of the permanent peace were discussed. The Treaty of Versailles formally ended the War after more than half a year of negotiation.Why did the armistice and Treaty of Versailles happen?
It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the war.Was the armistice the Treaty of Versailles?
The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most controversial armistice treaties in history. The treaty's so-called \u201cwar guilt\u201d clause forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I. This meant a loss of territories, reduction in military forces, and reparation payments to Allied powers.What was the relationship between the Treaty of Versailles and German nationalism?
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