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Post by fauxmaha on Feb 11, 2015 14:28:16 GMT -5
Ran across this today. It is a poster of "The Theory of Everything" (the Stephen Hawking movie) for the BAFTA Awards. Somehow this just struck me as amazing.  |
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Post by TKennedy on Feb 11, 2015 14:45:04 GMT -5
Really cool. Kind of an art deco feel. That would make a great headstock inlay.
The movie was good too but like Argo and The Imitation Game, some liberties were taken with the true story. When we see movies like that my wife and I can hardly wait to get home and go online to read what actually happened.
It's too bad they didn't focus on his scientific achievements more but he has had such an interesting personal life I guess that was better fodder for the masses. It was still a great movie and superbly acted.
I read an interview with someone involved with The Imitation Game about inaccuracies and he said "It's art. You wouldn't look at Van Gough to see what water lilies actually looked like."
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Post by Marshall on Feb 11, 2015 15:10:46 GMT -5
I'm looking for the Big Dipper, but I don't see it. Am I missing something?
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Post by Russell Letson on Feb 11, 2015 15:31:39 GMT -5
About inaccuracies in The Imitation Game: If the Wikipedia summary of them is accurate, then the customary violence has been done to events and characters in order to produce "drama." I quite liked the movie--Cumberbatch is, as usual, riveting--but even without "fact checking" I spotted elements that struck me as more Hollywood than history, particularly the theme of the misunderstood solitary genius in conflict with boneheaded authority figures. And while Cumberbatch does a terrific autistic-spectrum portrait, that characterization would seem to have little to do with the actual Turing. And much of the movie's "drama" hangs on that, along with his then-secret homosexuality. So the screenwriter's water-lilies defense sounds to me like a justification for tarting up--for lack of faith in the real story or for caving in to the demands of the people who green-light productions.
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Post by majorminor on Feb 11, 2015 16:06:13 GMT -5
I'm looking for the Big Dipper, but I don't see it. Am I missing something? Compare the cast shadow to the real characters. |
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Post by millring on Feb 11, 2015 16:18:17 GMT -5
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Post by RickW on Feb 11, 2015 20:12:23 GMT -5
Brilliant little poster.
Will definitely see the movie. Truth is, no one would make a movie like this unless it had a plot that pulled at the heartstrings. People are marginally interested in the science, if they're interested at all.
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Post by Lonnie on Feb 11, 2015 21:22:48 GMT -5
Wonderful poster... must see the movie.
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Post by Marshall on Feb 11, 2015 23:44:56 GMT -5
I'm looking for the Big Dipper, but I don't see it. Am I missing something? Compare the cast shadow to the real characters. There aren't even any stars in the shadow. Duh ? |
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Post by aquaduct on Feb 12, 2015 7:54:03 GMT -5
From the title of this thread I thought you were talking about me. Imagine the disappointment.
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