Speaking of Wonder Woman, we have to mention her creator William Morton Marston. From his interesting experience, we can glimpse the origin of various settings about Wonder Woman. Marston is a Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University. In his early years, his research direction was the relationship between gender and emotion and temperament, and he conducted many experiments on gender with his wife. The final experimental conclusion is that women are more reliable, fair, and conscientious than men. , therefore more suitable than men to testify in court or serve as jurors.
What's more worth mentioning is that besides his wife, Marston also has a lover named Olive Byrne, whose mother happened to be Aiso Byrne, one of the pioneers of female birth control and feminist movement. . Surprisingly, Marston's wife didn't take it personally. On the contrary, she got on well with Olive. The three lived together and raised four children together.
It is from this background that when the anti-comic movement was launched in American society in the 1940s, Marston, as a consultant to DC, proposed a solution to the dilemma of the comics industry - to create a female character who is on his own. As a result, Wonder Woman was born, whose prototype is Marston's wife and lover, and in the writing of her partner cartoonist Harry Peter, this character has both Eleanor Roosevelt (the wife of US President Roosevelt) , Margaret Sanger (feminist pioneer, Esso Byrne's partner) and Betty Grable (Hollywood actress, famous for her jade legs).
In addition to Wonder Woman, Marston's other famous invention is the blood pressure polygraph (different from the early heart rate polygraph), so when he combined the two inventions into one, he became Wonder Woman The mantra noose in Xia's hands, and the bad guys bound by it have to reveal the mantra. At the same time, Wonder Woman had an interesting weakness at the beginning of her birth. When she was tied up, she would lose all abilities, and this actually came from Marston's youthful experience with BDSM (bonding, training, masochism, masochism, and masochism). abuse) enthusiasm. Of course, there are metaphors that encourage women to break free, and for Marston, who is inextricably linked to feminism, this imagery is not unintentional.
Wonder Woman has been given the image of a radical feminist vanguard since its birth, and at the time of World War II, the colors and patterns of her costumes also had strong patriotic elements. However, with the passage of time, in order to entertain and attract more male attention, Wonder Woman's hot pants have become shorter and shorter, and her bare shoulders, thighs and conspicuous breasts have not changed.
This animated version of "Wonder Woman" was made in 2009, so it still uses the old settings. For example, she was made of clay by Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazon, rather than the 2011 DC reboot comics (new 52). ) was later assumed to be the daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta.
In this film, the consciousness of feminism and female independence is very clear. For example, Hippolyta's hatred of Ares, the god of war, was that the latter forcibly impregnated her and gave birth to a son, or Wonder Woman's intense curiosity about the world beyond Paradise Island, or Colonel Steve's All kinds of women's teasing aroused the resentment of Amazon women and so on. This has never been shown in the male superhero movies I have seen before, which is quite fresh and interesting. In addition, although the painting style is a bit rough and simple, the action scenes are not ambiguous, quite tough and powerful, showing the sturdy skills of Wonder Woman.
Next summer, Gal Gadot's live-action version of "Wonder Woman" will be released, and the goddess's amazing glimpses in "Batman v Superman" have already made many fans dream of it. Even though the size of the upper circumference of the new Wonder Woman is insufficient, as the first female superhero to be passed on independently in the new century, her temperament and charm are still worth looking forward to.
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