Astrophysicist Andy Howell takes a look at the science and history of THE CURRENT WAR, featuring cast interviews with Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon and Nicolas Hoult, and lab demos of the film
The movie is missing... A LOT. XD
They only executed a horse in that movie and decided that the audience don't deserve to know how Edison paid some kids to steal people's pets so he can execute them as well.
Perhaps if you tell Edison that you prefer Tesla he will kill your pets. Too soon?
But what I didn't liked was how Tesla was turned into a fool who never invented anything but only had "ideas in his head" in this movie...
These are so fun, but I hate it seems so infrequent and locked to recent releases. I would LOVE to see a full review of Contact, 2001/2010, Blade Runner, Interstellar, Gravity, and alot more. Right now it's all just waiting for the next big sci-fi release.
This video felt a bit off.
The "wat is AC" stuff I think underestimates your audience a fair bit - and for those who don't yet know what AC is, I think they'd need a longer and more thorough explanation. The science demonstration bits in this video all seem pretty tame.
~and you just don't really go into depths with what scientific accuracies the film had (or didn't have). You mention that it takes a few liberties, but what are these? Are there any scientific inaccuracies? What are they? What impressed you? That's the stuff I'm expecting from SvC - not "look a hotdog gets warm".
So let's just Glos over where Edison lifter a good handful of his ideas for patents....his famous assistant Nicholas Tesla, untill he got fed up at left Edison to make his own success.
Tesla was the genius and Edison the manipulative showman.
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They only executed a horse in that movie and decided that the audience don't deserve to know how Edison paid some kids to steal people's pets so he can execute them as well.
Perhaps if you tell Edison that you prefer Tesla he will kill your pets. Too soon?
But what I didn't liked was how Tesla was turned into a fool who never invented anything but only had "ideas in his head" in this movie...
How could I missed it that badly? (
The "wat is AC" stuff I think underestimates your audience a fair bit - and for those who don't yet know what AC is, I think they'd need a longer and more thorough explanation. The science demonstration bits in this video all seem pretty tame.
~and you just don't really go into depths with what scientific accuracies the film had (or didn't have). You mention that it takes a few liberties, but what are these? Are there any scientific inaccuracies? What are they? What impressed you? That's the stuff I'm expecting from SvC - not "look a hotdog gets warm".
Tesla was the genius and Edison the manipulative showman.
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