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New Movie Tells of the Man Who Created Wonder Woman

A new film tells the life story of the man who created the Wonder Woman comic book character.

Angela Robinson directed Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. The public got its first look at the movie a few weeks ago at the Toronto International Film Festival.

William Moulton Marston was a professor at Harvard University in the early part of the 20th century. He was also in love with two women at the same time -- his wife Elizabeth and a student, Olive¹ Byrne. She became his assistant and his lover².

The three lived together as a family.

Welsh actor Luke Evans plays Marston. He says he was surprised to find that the script³ was based on a true story.

“This man was a Harvard professor of psychology⁴ in the ‘20s, went on to invent the lie detector⁵ test, or the early forms of the polygraph, what became the polygraph, then fell in love with not just his wife but another woman who then shared their lives for the rest of his life. Had a wonderful family and then created ‘Wonder Woman.’ The same person did all of those things and it’s an extraordinary, extraordinary story -- one that most people have no knowledge or idea about. So it’s about time it was made.”

Australian actress Bella Heathcoate plays Olive Byrne.

“I mean, it’s great to tell the origin story about this character who’s a feminist⁶ icon⁷, created by a feminist, based on these two women who he loved. And the message is all about empowerment and equality.”

Robinson, who has directed several television shows, including True Blood, The L Word and How to Get Away With Murder, says the movie is a love story.

“There’s this really amazing love story at the center of what ‘Wonder Woman’ eventually came to be. So it was really exciting to kind of bring that to the screen and see where ‘Wonder Woman’ kind of truly began.”

William Marston died of skin cancer in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive stayed together and raised the children they had with Marston.

I’m Caty Weaver⁸.

Words in This Story

character - n. a person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show?

polygraph - n. a test that is done with a lie detector machine to see if someone is telling the truth?

feminist - n. a person who believes that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities?

icon - n. a widely known symbol?

amazing - adj. causing great surprise or wonder: causing amazement

1 olive   

n.橄榄，橄榄树，橄榄色；adj.黄绿色的，黄褐色的，橄榄色的

参考例句：

• Have you eaten a kind of fruit called olive?你吃过橄榄这种水果吗？
• She likes olive because It'symbolizes peace.她喜欢橄榄色因为它象征着和平。

2 lover   

n.情人，恋人；爱好者

参考例句：

• Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.情人眼里出西施。
• Mr.Smith was a lover of poetry.史密斯先生是一名诗歌爱好者。

3 script   

n.剧本，广播稿；文字体系；笔迹，手迹

参考例句：

• It's easy to identify his script.他的笔迹容易辨认。
• The script is massaged into final form.这篇稿子经过修改已定稿。

4 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

5 detector   

n.发觉者，探测器

参考例句：

• The detector is housed in a streamlined cylindrical container.探测器安装在流线型圆柱形容器内。
• Please walk through the metal detector.请走过金属检测器。

6 feminist   

adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的

参考例句：

• She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
• From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。

7 icon   

n.偶像，崇拜的对象，画像

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。

8 weaver   

n.织布工；编织者

参考例句：

• She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快，而且布的质量很好。
• The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。