Then I started doing detective work and figured out the Margaret Sanger piece-that was huge.Īnd it’s one of the best lines in the film. First I read everything I could that Marston actually wrote and I went to the Smithsonian where his letters are kept. And every year there’d be a new kind of trove of information. It took around four years, nights and weekends, to write. There wasn’t that much when I began looking. Then I went and tried to learn everything I could the Marstons. So what happened after that? Did you have your own research process? It talked about creation of the lie detector test, that he was a psychologist, that he had these these theories on human behavior and DiSC theory, the bondage controversy, and how he lived with Olive and Elizabeth. It’s a beautiful book about the whole history. No, it was a book by this guy Les Daniels. That wasn’t Jill Lepore’s Secret History of Wonder Woman, right? That wouldn’t have been out yet.
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In this Wonder Woman movie the Lasso of Truth and Bracelets of Submission signify exactly what you think they signify, no allusion necessary. Throughout, it creates narrative ties-Robinson calls it a "dialectic"-between the throuple’s experimentation with bondage Marston's development of his "DiSC" theory of personality (dominance, influence, submission, compliance) the public scrutiny of his work and personal life Elizabeth’s struggles to be recognized in academia and how all of those elements influenced Wonder Woman’s creation. In the movie, Robinson explores the ( possibly real) polyamourous relationship the three had before, during, and after Marston’s comic creation. But more than that, it’s the story of the two women-his wife, Elizabeth, and Olive Byrne, who lived with them for much of their lives-who helped inspire his iconic hero.
Instead, Professor Marston, as the title suggests, focuses on William Moulton Marston, the Harvard-educated psychologist who invented the polygraph and created Wonder Woman in the 1940s as way to indoctrinate young men with ideas of female dominance. Diana Prince doesn't speak of being created by Zeus, and Steve Trevor never crashes on Themyscira. Robinson's movie isn't the common Wonder Woman origin story. And yet, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women feels like it’s right on time.
In that time Robinson went from thinking she would never get her movie made to filming it during a hectic 25 days in October 2016, when her cast and crew thought America was about to elect its first female president. In that time Wonder Woman went from one of the few mainstream DC Comics characters not to have a standalone movie to being a bonafide box office powerhouse. It took writer/director Angela Robinson eight years to make her film about Wonder Woman’s origins.
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