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Rusting Car Bumper · 09-24-2002, 09:19 AM

Feynman is still virgin territory. Little Matt's portrayal was so-so and generally left lots of stuff undone.

He's the most interesting character in science in the past 100 years.

You have his goofy stories, the Challenger thing, the Manhattan project while his wife is dying.

You can't miss.

DC

[ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: DigitalChicken ]

Jack the Bodiless · 09-25-2002, 03:25 AM

In the "Engineer" category, I'd pay to see a good film about Sergei Korolev.

(Russian rocket specialist, mastermind behind the Soviet Union's space program, responsible for the USSR's early lead in what became the "space race")

David Bowden · 09-26-2002, 07:12 AM

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Originally posted by Copernic:
What scientist, engineer, mathematician, would you most like to see brought onto the big screen?

Wow, there are so many sci/math/engineer types who might be interesting enough to make a movie about, but I don't know enough about their lives to know for sure. I suppose it also depends on how much "hard science" one thinks it would take to make a biographical story into a proper "science/technology" movie.

Here are some "maybes":

Carl Sagan
Isaac Asimov (I'm perhaps stretching here, but he was a Chemistry prof, I believe, and certainly scientifically knowledgeable)
Isaac Newton
Pythagoras
Bacon
Galileo
Copernicus
da Vinci
Darwin
Aristotle (!)
R. Buckminster Fuller
Marvin Minsky, co-founder of MIT's AI institute
William James (focusing on his psychologist phase)
Albert Einstein
Pasteur
Arthur C. Clarke (another SF writer but one deeply literate in matters sci/tech)
Marie Curie (and her husband)

I'd pay to see a well-made movie concerned with any and all of those figures.

The Alan Turing idea gets a big thumbs-up from me, btw, as does the Lysenko-era idea. The A-bomb origins thing has been done to death but Feynman's worth encountering again.

-David

David Bowden · 09-26-2002, 07:23 AM

Oh, and along the lines of movies that aren't biographical, but which pay homage to science anyway, how about one where a bumbling creationist/IDer embarrasses himself academically when his pet theory is trashed beyond recognition by the establishment. His whole life, marriage, etc., falls apart due to his overall incompetence. He then has an epiphany of sorts. Subsequently he turns his life and career around.... as an atheist who practices real science.

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll reconsider complexity on a multicellular level.

-David

Arrowman · 09-26-2002, 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by Wyz_sub10:
Sick of crap movies that butcher science? Here's some good news:

That is fantastic news! Now all we need is for a TV producer to break with the police / lawyer / doctor formula, and produce a drama based in an IT department

Oh, come on.... we deal with human drama every day.....

sbaii · 09-26-2002, 04:24 PM

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Originally posted by David Bowden / wide-eyed wanderer:
Oh, and along the lines of movies that aren't biographical, but which pay homage to science anyway, how about one where a bumbling creationist/IDer embarrasses himself academically when his pet theory is trashed beyond recognition by the establishment. His whole life, marriage, etc., falls apart due to his overall incompetence. He then has an epiphany of sorts. Subsequently he turns his life and career around.... as an atheist who practices real science.

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll reconsider complexity on a multicellular level.

-David

I love it. Title it "Back to the Slime" or "Call of the Slime".

Wyz_sub10 · 09-27-2002, 06:52 AM

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Originally posted by DigitalChicken:
Feynman is still virgin territory. Little Matt's portrayal was so-so and generally left lots of stuff undone.
[ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: DigitalChicken ]

Is that the movie "Infinity"? I never saw it. What's the verdict?

Rusting Car Bumper · 09-28-2002, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Wyz_sub10:
Is that the movie "Infinity"? I never saw it. What's the verdict?

The verdict is "so-so"? It only covered the manhattan project and his wife dying.

He has a much richer story to tell all the way to the Challenger thing.

Some of his crazy stories would be a riot on screen if done well.

DC

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09-25-2002, 03:25 AM	#22
Jack the Bodiless Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: UK Posts: 5,815	In the "Engineer" category, I'd pay to see a good film about Sergei Korolev. (Russian rocket specialist, mastermind behind the Soviet Union's space program, responsible for the USSR's early lead in what became the "space race")

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David Bowden Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Everywhere I go. Yes, even there. Posts: 607	Oh, and along the lines of movies that aren't biographical, but which pay homage to science anyway, how about one where a bumbling creationist/IDer embarrasses himself academically when his pet theory is trashed beyond recognition by the establishment. His whole life, marriage, etc., falls apart due to his overall incompetence. He then has an epiphany of sorts. Subsequently he turns his life and career around.... as an atheist who practices real science. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll reconsider complexity on a multicellular level. -David

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