In the series of movies that DC put superheroes on the screen, there are several movies that are hard to call the best except "Wonder Woman." The excellence of "Wonder Woman" is largely attributable to the female director's narrative from a female perspective, and the addition of Gal Gadot's appearance to capture a large number of male audiences.
When "Wonder Woman" was released a few months later, a film about the creators of super heroines was released quietly-"Professor Marston and Wonder Woman", which not only unveiled "Wonder Woman" for the audience The secrets of the early comics creation went deep into the life and spiritual world of Professor William Morton Marston, the father of "Wonder Woman".
"Wonder Woman" scored 7.2 points, while "Professor Marston and Wonder Woman" reached 8 points.
When Wonder Woman was born, it was not as elegant and generous as we saw on the screen. It was even boycotted by the United States due to the investigation of the American Children's Research Association. People cheered and burned its cartoons around the campfire.
The reason is also very simple. The original "Wonder Woman" is full of bondage, spanking, torture, and homosexuality. On October 21, 2016, the United Nations appointed Wonder Woman as the UN Honorary Ambassador for Women's Rights. On December 12 of the same year, the United Nations announced that Wonder Woman would be dismissed over the weekend. Until now, the image of Wonder Woman is still controversial.
It was Professor Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman, who joined these content. Professor Marston is not only a cartoonist, but also invented the prototype of the polygraph and put forward the famous DISC theory in psychology.
DISC theory: Dominance, Inducement, Submission, and Compliance, which are now mostly used for personality testing.
The achievements of Professor Marston alone are beyond the reach of ordinary people. He has two wives, and the three can get along in harmony.
Oliver (first from left), Elizabeth (third from left) and Professor Marston (first from right)
The film begins with Professor Marston being questioned by the American Research Council, and recalls the process of creating the image of Wonder Woman during the questioning. Professor Marston and his wife Elizabeth teach psychology at Radcliffe College, where they conduct research on DISC theory and polygraph. His wife Elizabeth is a feminist with a forward-looking concept of sex.
In the class, they met the student Olive, and then became their research assistant.
The director used the DISC theory as a clue, and added a shot of Professor Marston writing Dominance .
Olive's aunt Sanger and mother Byrne were feminist leaders in the 1920s. They advocated the legalization of contraception and the right to vote for women. They believed that women were the absolute masters of their bodies, and the issue of fertility was about women's behavior. "Volunteer mothers" should not be forced.
The three came together because of the same concept and successfully developed the prototype of a polygraph. During the first half of the film about the relationship between the three people, the polygraph appeared as a signal three times to show the changes in the relationship between the three people.
In the first test of the polygraph, Olive expressed his love for Elizabeth. But Elizabeth refused, and Oliv left sadly.
The second time the polygraph appeared was Marston's test on Elizabeth. After Olive's departure, the polygraph expressed Elizabeth's true feelings. Here comes the second clue , Inducement
They found Olive and expressed their true thoughts and hoped that Olive could accept it. She, who loves Elizabeth deeply, of course accepted, and their feelings have been responded to by each other.
Olive's fiancé was dissatisfied with the Marstons' remarks and asked them to stop with Oliver in the classroom. In the depression of feelings, Olive conducted a third polygraph test. There is no doubt that Olive's love for Marston and Elizabeth is fully revealed.
The director narrated this seemingly unbelievable relationship through'The Role of Lie Detector Revealing True Feelings'. The three took a polygraph separately, and they all knew each other's intentions, showing the firmness of this triangular relationship.
The good times didn't last long. Because of this triangle relationship, the Marstons were expelled from the school, and Oliv also canceled the marriage contract with his fiancé. Marston, Elizabeth, and Olive have indeed started extraordinary lives: three people form a family, have multiple relationships, and have three children.
At the beginning of the marriage, Elizabeth was in a dominant position in the relationship between the three, and the director puts the third clue Compliance here .
Professor Marston found in the sex toy store that SM embodies his DISC theory, so he became interested in taking Olive and Elizabeth with him.
In the process of exploring sm, the original image of Wonder Woman came into being. This sexy lingerie is the costume of Wonder Woman, the invincible bracelet comes from Oliver's jewelry, and the mantra lasso is born from the polygraph and the rope used for binding.
Paper cannot contain fire, and their relationship was discovered by neighbors once again. Secular prejudice caused Elizabeth to drive Oliv away, meanwhile the comics of Wonder Woman were also banned, and Professor Marston suffered from cancer.
At the end of her life, Elizabeth also let go of her previous dominance because of her love for Olive, and under the guidance of Marston, she begged Olive and once again expressed her love for Olive. This scene is different from the previous polygraph. Yi's play formed a very interesting intertext, but this time Marston replaced the role of the polygraph, ending with Elizabeth and Oliver releasing their predecessors.
The director puts the final result Submission (submission) hoped by DISC theory on the screen, implying that Olive's submission to Elizabeth has changed from the beginning to their mutual respect.
"Professor Marston and Wonder Woman" tells the story of the father of Wonder Woman who put BDSM and LGBT on the screen at the same time. Wonder Woman is just a highly concentrated image of these ideas and feminism. It is precisely because of having these rich The image of'connotation' Wonder Woman has endured in the history of American comics.
To borrow the last lecture of Professor William Marston from the film. Wonder Woman is a fantasy with a love letter. She comes from a faraway place, where there is beauty, justice and respect. I wrote my book with my concept of women. The women I know are exactly the same as Wonder Woman, and now we can debate the length of his skirt. But the most important thing is the way women reform crime. She asks them to tell the truth. This is the truth he represents.
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