Wonder Woman is a comic book character with extraordinary significance in American society, she represents the power of women, and the rights of women.
Although the original intention was not exactly the same when it was first created, but later after various publicity, setting changes, trends, times and progress, today's Wonder Woman has become inseparable from the word feminism.
Of course, the feminism here refers to true feminism rather than pastoral feminism, which is the kind of meaning that requires women to obtain their due rights, oppose gender discrimination, and advocate gender equality.
The hero who made Wonder Woman this symbol is the protagonist today, the original Wonder Woman Linda Carter.
Linda was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1951, her father was British, and her mother was from Latin America, so Linda was a mixed-race with English, Mexican, Spanish and French ancestry.
When Linda was 5 years old, she first appeared on stage, and there was not much entertainment in the fifties and sixties, and Linda slowly developed an interest in training music during that time.
When she was 16 years old, she also joined a band, but because she was still young at the time, and some of the places where the band performed were only allowed to adults, she had to always "drill through the back door".
I have to say that Linda really loves the music performance career, and she has to perform in the band during this period, while also taking care of school affairs.
In college, as the band grew to fame and often had to run around, Linda was forced to choose between two choices.
In the end, she chose to drop out of school and move forward to her own music performance career.
Judging from the results alone, this choice was correct, and Linda, who followed the band everywhere, visited many American casinos, and had some of her own connections, and she began to become a little famous.
Therefore, in 1972, she participated in the beauty pageant in Arizona, won the championship and then defeated the misses of all states in the United States, successfully represented the United States in the Miss World campaign, and finally won the top 15 results.
It was also at this time that capital began to gradually notice this mixed-race girl.
Warner Bros. originally planned to shoot the "Wonder Woman" episode, so it first filmed a pilot episode, when the Amazon princess was not Linda, but an actor named Cathy Lee Crosby, and the series was modified very much.
However, the results of this pilot episode were very average, and the follow-up plan was shelved for a while, but fortunately Warner and american radio and television still believed that the series had potential, and the reason why the problem was that there was still room for improvement.
Therefore, they increased their participation in the production, rigor, and changed the cast.
At that time, Linda was not Warner's only choice, another fierce rival was the debut but popular actress named Joanna, most people think that Joanna's chances of getting this role are far greater than Linda's.
At the same time, Linda's band was in financial trouble, and Linda was even prepared for the worst, if the role was really taken away by Joanna, then she would go back to her hometown.
Fortunately, in the end, Linda won, just like the last time she chose to drop out of school, and heaven took care of the girl again.
In order to play the role, Linda looked at Wonder Woman's comics and the meaning of the female hero, and interestingly, the capital white man at this time said something very special to her.
One of the producers on the crew said to her, "Do you know how many women will be jealous of you for playing this role?" You're going to act well, but you can't make other people jealous, you know? ”
Will playing a role that speaks up for women's rights be jealous of other women?
Of course, if Linda plays wonder woman's "benchmark image" well, it will definitely make a large number of women realize the importance of gender equality, then naturally some people will be jealous of her, after all, she is the person who leads the trend of female equal rights.
But on the contrary, if Linda only plays a passable role, then everyone will not criticize her, but they will not praise her, and they will not envy her.
However, in this way, Wonder Woman really becomes an ordinary TV character without any symbols.
Linda certainly understood what he meant, but from her past experience, she knew she wasn't such a submissive person, and she said:
"How can they be jealous of me, after all, the person who oppresses them is not me, and I want women to be me or become my friends." 」
After the success of the Wonder Woman episode, what happened to Linda reinforced her sense of speaking up for women.
She received many letters from male fans, and many of them thought of her as her own X object.
In response, she publicly commented:
"I don't want to be an X-object to anybody except my husband, I never thought about putting pictures of my body in men's bathrooms, I don't know what it means for them to do that, I hate people who look at me and think about those things, I know what they're thinking, and they also write to tell me they're afraid I don't know." 」
"Wonder Woman symbolizes the extraordinary possibilities in our lives, and although they may not have been discovered in this day and age (referring to affirmative action), I think Wonder Woman is an important gift for women."
But while Linda spoke for women, it didn't have much effect, because in the last century, American society was an absolutely male-dominated circle.
Although women's awareness of affirmative action has emerged as early as the late 1960s, it has not achieved any substantial effect, on the contrary, white men can really "do whatever they want".
For example, the most popular actor at that time, Maran Bailongdu, when shooting the film, temporarily added a rape scene with the director but did not tell the heroine Maria, at the beginning, he even "came to the truth", and Ren Maria did not let her go no matter how she cried.
In the end, the director and Bai Longdu not only did not receive any punishment, but because of this movie to earn a full pocket, Maria is also famous, but not because of his acting skills, but was named Star, for which Maria almost broke down emotionally, and even ran to commit suicide, fortunately saved.
In this environment, Linda's Wonder Woman certainly has a positive effect on gender equality, but it cannot stand the huge power of white men in the United States and has never been able to change the situation.
After the "Wonder Woman" episode, Linda also got a lot of opportunities to see her in various fields such as movies, TV series, and music.
Although she was no longer active later, her Wonder Woman did influence a generation in the United States.
Times have changed, and now she sees Gayle Gadot's Wonder Woman, and she is constantly encouraging her.
When she played this role, she couldn't complete that task because of the times, but Gail Gadot is completely different at this time.
Probably she looked at the Middle Eastern girl in front of her, and she also hoped that she could do what she couldn't do in the first place.