(Signage at the L’Enfant Plaza metro station, where other scenes were shot, remained in its 21 st century iconography.) Production staff measured, designed and printed signage to cover up the museum placards that would have been out of place in the 1980s. to keep shooting under wraps) started months in advance with a scouting trip to figure out where to position cameras and what modern-day features would need to be hidden. Plans to film “Magic Hour” (the code name the crew used while in D.C. While authentic Smithsonian artifacts, like Roy Lichtenstein’s Brushstroke sculpture and Henry, the historic 11-ton African bull elephant from the Natural History Museum’s rotunda, make appearances, no Smithsonian artifacts were used as props- WW1984’s Invisible Jet, a comic-book favorite, is not, sadly, in the Smithsonian collections.ĭiana and Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) outside the Hirshhorn in the Wonder Woman 1984 trailer. scouting out potential locations for filming, and the Hirshhorn’s architecture caught her eye as a “beautiful frame,” she says. Early on, Bonetto spent a few days in D.C. Jenkins wrote in that scene and its laugh lines at the suggestion of production designer Aline Bonetto, her collaborator from the first Wonder Woman movie. “It’s all art,” she explains, then adds, as he ponders a wastebin, “That’s just a trash can.” ![]() In the fun welcome-to-the-’80s sequence where Diana shows her boyfriend around D.C., he’s chuffed by the Metro, fanny packs and break-dancers performing in the Hirshhorn plaza. ![]() In Wonder Woman 1984, viewers will catch glimpses of the National Museum of Natural History and the Space Race exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum, where rockets and astronaut paraphernalia wow WWI pilot Steve Trevor (back from the dead thanks to the wish-crystal). After Smithsonian reviewed the script, detailed planning got underway. In early 2017, the Wonder Woman 1984 team reached out to the Smithsonian-which hosted the crews of other big-name films, like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and the second Night at the Museum. “Each and every one of museums has a huge place in my memory for being so grand and incredible,” she has said. often while growing up and spent her high school senior year in the area. When Minerva is asked to inspect a piece of citrine with mystical wish-granting properties, the ensuing chaos devolves into civilization-threatening anarchy.ĭirector Patty Jenkins, who also co-wrote the script, visited Washington, D.C. Though they share an employer, Minerva, played by Kristen Wiig, is in many way’s Price’s foil: meek, weak and malleable. ![]() It’s 1984, the Amazon now lives in the Watergate apartment complex overlooking the Potomac River and holds a day job at the Smithsonian as a cultural anthropologist and archaeologist. In the blockbuster released on Christmas Day, nearly seven decades have passed since Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot, fought off the Greek god Ares and Imperial Germany during World War I. WW84 was filmed at not one but three Smithsonian locations around the National Mall in Washington, D.C., so Smithsonian magazine delved into how the film crew orchestrated the tightly timed shoots, examined the backstory of what it was really like for women museum staff in the ’80s and whether any of the rocks and gems in the museum collections have anything approximate to the mystical powers of the film’s extraordinary crystal. The two represent the highest-octane representation of Smithsonian employees in years, but how closely do their lives and offices resemble what working at the Smithsonian was like 40 years ago? As one might suspect, not all that much. The warrior woman in the guise of the unflappable Diana Prince picks up papers dropped by her colleague, the gawky geologist Barbara Minerva. Early on in Wonder Woman 1984, the titular superhero crouches on the floor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
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