Sadly we see little of her collections & scientific community interactions where she was well known. Basically near zero time was spent showing the arduous task of preparing a fossil. The film's emphasis with Charlotte Murchison was largely made up both the romantic and Charlotte was already an experienced fossil collector. Well known, she had buyers from Europe & America. She eventually gained enough money to buy a house.
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She found many important fossils, but like most women she was ignored as a professional in the male dominant science world. Still in poverty as Mary grew older one of her clients held an auction of fossils he had purchased from her to assist the family. Mary was 12 when her brother found the ichthyosaur skull, and Mary, later, the rest of the skeleton. Fossil hunting & selling was common in her community. It was a time when nearly half of children did not survive beyond age 5, and she too experienced most of her siblings early deaths. A sometimes dangerous search in which one landslide killed her dog.
If you want a film about an inspirational scientist then, well, you won't.īritish born in 1799 Anning's family home was next to the sea where she searched for fossils. Bottom line, if you want a beautifully filmed, well-acted, lesbian drama then this is a good choice. Others will not that's a matter of taste. It is beautifully shot, quietly introspective and slow-paced. I guess I'll have to wait until someone makes a film about Marie Curie. Mary Anning just doesn't get to be much at all.
Alan Turing got to be gay (with all the weight that came with that in his tragic story), but he also got to be cool and interesting in The Imitation Game. With the focus on adult themes, this clearly isn't going to be the case. However, I wanted a film that I, as a geoscience professional who frequently goes into schools, could show to my young niece and students as an inspiration for them to pursue careers in science. I was very excited about this film and I followed its development for years. One about a Victorian working-class woman is just perfect material for a biopic, and unfortunately this just isn't it.
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There aren't many biopics about scientists full stop (sadly), male or female. The way Anning overcame class struggle and the expectations of women at the time to become a success is an incredible story, especially as contemporary geoscience is still a largely male science (though it's changing at a glacial rate). It's not adding anything of substance or any new angles.
Gay relationships were frowned upon in Victorian times? It's not really news.
It's not an especially interesting story, one which has been done time and time again in other films. It is taking such strong liberties with it and that sits uncomfortably with me. A Victorian lesbian love story could be good, but this is a fictionalised one based upon a real woman whose love life we have virtually no information on. Of course, the film doesn't take this angle, instead preferring to falsely portray her as someone who was not taken seriously as a palaeontologist by not being given credit for her discoveries (she was). She was financially supported through her illness by the Society's Fellows and upon her death with a stained glass window in the church at Lyme Regis and a eulogy written by the Society's then-President, Henry de la Beche that provides no illusions that she was well-liked and respected. The Geological Society of London celebrated it's 100th anniversary of admitting women as Fellows, an honour Mary Anning sadly never received despite the respect she commanded among her male contemporaries as a skilled scientist.
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