Don't Worry Darling was made with a variety of different components, including influence from the classic horror film The Stepford Wives, real-life romance between director Olivia Wilde and star Harry Styles, and supposedly some very current references.
For a recent interview with Maggie Gyllenhaal, a fellow actress who has transitioned to directing, Wilde disclosed that she had a very specific source in mind for the character portrayed by Chris Pine. Jordan Peterson, who is considered a pseudo-intellectual idol by the incel movement, was the inspiration for that figure, she claimed.
When Gyllenhaal claimed to be unfamiliar with the term "incel," Wilde explained that it refers to "basically disenfranchised, mostly white men, who believe they are entitled to sex from women." (The term "incel" is a shortened version of "involuntarily celibate.")
"They believe that society has now robbed them — that the idea of feminism is working against nature, and that we must be put back into the correct place," Wilde continued.
"Well, they must be psyched," Gyllenhaal replied. "Things are going really well for them."
Frank, played by Chris Pine, appears to be doing well in the Don't Worry Darling trailers that have been published so far. Frank is the head of the so-called Victory Project and appears to be a significant authority figure in his society, which imitates the aesthetics and interpersonal dynamics of 1950s America, even though narrative elements are still being kept under wraps.
In addition to writing books like 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Peterson is a Canadian thinker. He garnered a sizable online following for his criticisms of transgender rights, gender pronouns, and related topics, especially among the disgruntled men Wilde described. Another impact on him, according to Wilde, is the fact that he frequently dons a suit at appearances, interviews, and his own YouTube videos.
"This guy Jordan Peterson is someone that legitimizes certain aspects of their movement because he's a former professor, he's an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real philosophy that should be taken seriously," she said. "But it was a dream to work with all these evolved men on this movie who understood what we were trying to say."
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