The Professor and the Madman (2019) - Movie Review
This is about recording the evolution of meaning.
We do not have any slightest idea that Mel Gibson (Braveheart and Lethal Weapon movies) and Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, Mystic River, and MILK) would team up together to bring us the historical biopic movie that will teach us the value of Friendship and Love.
Professor James Murray was task to compile words and make it into the first edition of Oxford English Dictionary, he appeal the people in Great Britain, British Colonies and America, to help them send them the Words along with the quotation that they’ve found illustrating the word. Still they are struggling with some few words.
Until a Madman, Dr. William Chester Minor for help. A former American Army Surgeon, and yet a Patient of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, got the appeal and send the Professor 10,000 useful word entries.
The Professor and The Madman became friends and help each other to patiently gather Words for a new Dictionary worthy of the English Language.
We expect nothing less from Sean Penn, playing a sick War Veteran, which later diagnosed with Schizophrenia.
However, Mel Gibson made this movie a lot more publicity. Not only by his unequaled acting skills, but also by the issue arose when He and Director Farhad Safinia wanted to shot a scene on location in Oxford, England but instead it the was shot in College in Dublin, Ireland, because of the tight budget and behind schedule.
This is also the movie to answer the question, how the Dictionary was made, how did they compile all those words.
The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film, directed by Farhad Safinia (under the pseudonym PB Shemran), from a screenplay by Safinia, and Todd Komarnicki, based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester. It stars Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, and Steve Coogan.