First of all, this is NOT a knock against the LGBT community.
They are making a movie about Mary Anning, a pioneer of natural science. She discovered fossils such as Plesiosaurs, Icthyosaurs, and Pterosaurs. She lived in a time where women weren't allowed to vote, or participate in the scientific community. She lived during the time when the concept of evolution and extinction was causing uproar in a deeply religious society. Other scientists used her discovery to boost their own fame. Gideon Mantell discovers the first dinosaur. Charles Darwin was making his trip on the HMS Beagle. Richard Owen was being a bastard (and coining dinosauria). People questioned the authenticity of her Plesiosaur skeleton. Despite being a women, she was able earn respect from the Geological Society.
Anning's discoveries became key pieces of evidence for extinction. Georges Cuvier had argued for the reality of extinction in the late 1790s based on his analysis of fossils of mammals such as mammoths. Nevertheless, until the early 1820s it was still believed by many scientifically literate people that just as new species did not appear, so existing ones did not become extinct—in part because they felt that extinction would imply that God's creation had been imperfect; any oddities found were explained away as belonging to animals still living somewhere in an unexplored region of the Earth. The bizarre nature of the fossils found by Anning, — some, such as the plesiosaur, so unlike any known living creature — struck a major blow against this idea.
So what is the movie going to be about?
https://deadline.com/2018/12/kate-w...ngs-speech-lady-macbeth-producers-1202520081/
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Personal Edit - The GIF that was removed was a GIF satirizing how men view same sex relationship between women works.
I'm not going to comment on the non-existent records of Mary Anning's personal life, but is that really what we're going for when you think about a story based on a woman who's life is really damn interesting without needing any embellishment? A story about a woman making her mark during a revolutionary period of science isn't interesting enough that we need a romance sub-plot? Hell, for all we know, her life's achievements are the sub-plot. I would feel the same way about it if it's about her romance with a man. There's just something about it that feels disingenuous. It feels like they just wanted to spice up the story by making it about a romance between 2 women, and not a story about someone rocking the fabric of society.
They are making a movie about Mary Anning, a pioneer of natural science. She discovered fossils such as Plesiosaurs, Icthyosaurs, and Pterosaurs. She lived in a time where women weren't allowed to vote, or participate in the scientific community. She lived during the time when the concept of evolution and extinction was causing uproar in a deeply religious society. Other scientists used her discovery to boost their own fame. Gideon Mantell discovers the first dinosaur. Charles Darwin was making his trip on the HMS Beagle. Richard Owen was being a bastard (and coining dinosauria). People questioned the authenticity of her Plesiosaur skeleton. Despite being a women, she was able earn respect from the Geological Society.
Anning's discoveries became key pieces of evidence for extinction. Georges Cuvier had argued for the reality of extinction in the late 1790s based on his analysis of fossils of mammals such as mammoths. Nevertheless, until the early 1820s it was still believed by many scientifically literate people that just as new species did not appear, so existing ones did not become extinct—in part because they felt that extinction would imply that God's creation had been imperfect; any oddities found were explained away as belonging to animals still living somewhere in an unexplored region of the Earth. The bizarre nature of the fossils found by Anning, — some, such as the plesiosaur, so unlike any known living creature — struck a major blow against this idea.
So what is the movie going to be about?
https://deadline.com/2018/12/kate-w...ngs-speech-lady-macbeth-producers-1202520081/
MOD EDIT: Inflammatory GIF removed
Personal Edit - The GIF that was removed was a GIF satirizing how men view same sex relationship between women works.
I'm not going to comment on the non-existent records of Mary Anning's personal life, but is that really what we're going for when you think about a story based on a woman who's life is really damn interesting without needing any embellishment? A story about a woman making her mark during a revolutionary period of science isn't interesting enough that we need a romance sub-plot? Hell, for all we know, her life's achievements are the sub-plot. I would feel the same way about it if it's about her romance with a man. There's just something about it that feels disingenuous. It feels like they just wanted to spice up the story by making it about a romance between 2 women, and not a story about someone rocking the fabric of society.
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