Biopics about white men and their intellectual quests are practically a subgenre. Oppenheimer. The Theory of Everything. The Imitation Game. In Origin, Ava DuVernay flips the script, creating a biopic about a Black woman’s intellectual journey – a story rarely seen in movies. “I see these films about intellectual quests, men on a mission to uncover a big idea or to persuade people about a big idea, and I just thought, ‘Why not us? Why not her?’” DuVernay said, sipping on a hot chocolate, her fave, to warm up after a walk on a rainy day in New York. The...