Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

Josette Frank: As you know, we are reviewing your handling of Wonder Woman... given the current controversy.
William Moulton Marston: You're gonna give her to someone else? She's a smash success because of me. I created her.
Josette Frank: Dr. Marston, Wonder Woman has drawn criticism... for being full of depictions of bondage... spanking, torture, homosexuality, and other sex perversions. Would you say that's a fair assessment of your work?
William Moulton Marston: I can see how people with a fairly limited understanding of my work... could arrive at these simplistic descriptions. They'd be wrong, of course.

Elizabeth Marston: Well, then, do it.
William Moulton Marston: You won't be jealous?
Elizabeth Marston: No, I don't experience sexual jealousy. Who am I to fight nature? I'm your wife, not your jailer.

Elizabeth Marston: Oh, and if you fuck my husband, I'll kill you.

Elizabeth Marston: Look, I feel sorry for you. No, really, I... I do, it's not your fault. It's, um, your beauty, it's like a... Well, it's like a handicap. It's like having three legs or something.
Olive Byrne: Mrs. Marston, I...
Elizabeth Marston: No, there's no need to be defensive. I'm just asking you the courtesy of please not fucking my husband. Can you do that for me?
Olive Byrne: Yes.
Elizabeth Marston: Thank you.

William Moulton Marston: How are you going to learn anything at all about life if you refuse to live it?

Olive Byrne: I do envy men's position in life, their physical strength, their entitlement. My aunt said, "A woman must not be told how to use her freedom... she must find out for herself."
William Moulton Marston: Your aunt, my dear, is quoting Margaret Sanger.
Olive Byrne: My aunt is Margaret Sanger.
Elizabeth Marston: The Margaret Sanger?

William Moulton Marston: Dominance, inducement, submission... and compliance. All human relationships break down into the interplay... between these categories of emotion. .....

Elizabeth Marston: Bill, her rhythmic breathing increases.
William Moulton Marston: Benussi already exhausted that avenue.
Elizabeth Marston: Her heart beats faster. Her systolic blood pressure would rise.
William Moulton Marston: Her systolic blood pressure. You could measure that. Oh, you could fucking measure that. You could measure that. Oh, my God. Ha-ha-ha. Think of it sooner...
Elizabeth Marston: Oh, my God. We did it!
Bill Marston: The link to the lie-detector test was there the whole time. It doesn't matter what you say or what you think. Your body will always betray you. Your heart pumps a record of the truth.

Elizabeth Marston: What is it that attracts you to her?
William Moulton Marston: She is beautiful... guileless, kind, pure of heart. And you are brilliant... ferocious, hilarious... and a grade-A bitch. Together, you are the perfect woman.

William Moulton Marston: If the nature of men is inherently violent and anarchistic... and the nature of women is inherently loving and nurturing... then shouldn't women be the ones to rule the world? Wouldn't that be a more reasonable choice?... But be warned, ladies. We men will not give up our power without a fight.

Charles Guyette: What did you have in mind?
William Moulton Marston: Hmm... Uh, something Greek?
Charles Guyette: How about an Amazon?
William Moulton Marston: That's fantastic.

Elizabeth Marston: Honey, this is pornography. Isn't this illegal?
William Moulton Marston: Yes, yes, but look closely.
Elizabeth Marston: I don't understand what we're supposed to be looking at.
William Moulton Marston: Okay. Dominance... inducement, submission... compliance. This imagery is a metaphor for DISC theory. These pictures communicate in an instant... what I've spent my entire career trying to explain. This is what we should be doing.
Elizabeth Marston: Sweetheart... this is pornography.

Elizabeth Marston: A comic book, Bill?
William Moulton Marston: Well, it's perfect. I'm going to inject my ideas right into the thumping heart of America. I mean, I'll get a real artist to draw it properly. She's an Amazon princess that lives on an island of all women.
Olive Byrne: Paradise Island.
Elizabeth Marston: And a man crash-lands on the island?
William Moulton Marston: Yeah, Steve Trevor, the spy.
Elizabeth Marston: And she wears a burlesque outfit.
William Moulton Marston: Well, it's athletic.
Olive Byrne: And silver bracelets.
William Moulton Marston: They deflect bullets.
Elizabeth Marston: And all her friends are sorority girls... who have spanking parties, and everybody fights Nazis... and rides in an invisible plane?
William Moulton Marston: Yes.

William Moulton Marston: What?
Elizabeth Marston: Bill. We love you truly, so much. But nobody... I say this with all the compassion and truth in my heart. Nobody will ever publish this.

William Moulton Marston: Mr. Gaines, please do not make the mistake... of lumping me into the cesspool of riffraff with whom you usually deal. I am a Harvard-trained doctor of psychology... with nearly 25 years' experience into the analysis of human emotion. I'm also the inventor of the lie detector.
M.C. Gaines: No shit.
William Moulton Marston: Suprema, the Wonder Woman will not be an ordinary comic book. But instead, the start of a powerful feminist movement. She will be carefully crafted, psychological propaganda... based on a lifetime of research into the human mind... inserted into a populist medium to further equal rights for women.

M.C. Gaines: Eh. Suprema, the Wonder Woman? It's too wordy. Why don't you just call her, uh, Wonder Woman?

Josette Frank: You don't even deny that these images are overtly sexual.
William Moulton Marston: An erotic component is necessary. How else is submission supposed to be pleasurable?

William Moulton Marston: I am teaching readers to submit to a loving authority. And that submission is pleasurable. Young boys must learn this... if they are to grow up respecting powerful women.
Josette Frank: What is powerful about a woman running around in a bathing suit?

William Moulton Marston: You need to submit to her.
Elizabeth Marston: I don't know what you're talking about.
William Moulton Marston: You cannot win every argument. You cannot dominate all the time. Get on your knees.

Elizabeth Marston: I thought I knew everything. I thought love wasn't enough. But it... It has to. It has to be enough because we cannot... We cannot live without you. I cannot live without you.

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