"Superman saves the world. Supergirl saves herself."
Even though this get-together of several reviewers was posted after the video above, I'm pretty sure this is before Alan Ng and Chris Gore actually watched it at the theater.
The first part below is Stephanie of "My Nerdy Home" speaking in the group meeting. The very last paragraph is one of the male guests chiming in.
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FILM THREAT
https://youtu.be/LRmRJEe-MqA
VIDEO EXCERPTS: She's messy. She doesn't want to wear any makeup. "You don't have to save the world. You can just save yourself. And sometimes that's okay."
Pretty sure that's a line that Millie Alcock said in one of her interviews. It's all made so like young girls watching it can project themselves onto this character and feel better about themselves. Like, you can be messy. You're totally fine. You're fine just the way you are. There's no need for self-improvement.
You don't have to look up to a superhero and see this superhero as virtuous and amazing and beautiful and gorgeous and look up to that person and feel bad about yourself. Because that person is someone that is not attainable. It's not anything you're ever going to be.
[...] You can be messy and frumpy and not have to take care of yourself, not have to put any makeup on. And you know what? Just care about yourself, and that'll be enough. This is something that is attainable for you...
[...But...] why on earth wouldn't you want to improve yourself, if there was some room for improvement? Why wouldn't you want to be better than yourself, better than you actually are?
I think it just does a disservice to the character completely, and she's not really helping the marketing. [...] I don't want to see a movie about myself. I want to see something better than me.
[...] James Gun's been around and doing this for a long time. He's seen what does and what doesn't work. And he's seen this exact thing and this exact approach not work. It does not bring in the male audience, which is what it needs. I don't think the female audience is going to show up in droves for this kind of film, even when it's Supergirl [there are not enough nerds among them].
Supergirl is good, not nice ...https://youtu.be/LRmRJEe-MqA
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LRmRJEe-MqA