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Fandom Friday
Jul. 28th, 2017 09:15 amThis post is being backdated because I forgot to post on Friday and I wanted to make a post about this lovely miniseries that Larry and I just watched.
Genius is a series about the life of Albert Einstein. It chronicles his life from his school days until his death in 1955. Geoffrey Rush played Einstein for most of the series with Johnny Flynn playing the school and university age man. I read in a few reviews over at IMDB that people were upset that the man was shown as something beside JUST a scientist. I thought that was the best part. He was a man who loved women and had relationships with many. Also he was an activist against the Hydrogen bomb and war. He appeared on Eleanor Roosevelt's tv show in 1950 to speak against the H-bomb. J. Edgar Hoover wanted him investigated and deported but he never could get enough dirt on him to do so. Einstein spoke out against anti-Semitism and though he was Jewish, he did not practice any religion that I know of.
The series made him seem like a real person and not just the man who was the model for the stereotypical absent minded professor. He was better with other people than with his own children and loved his first wife very much though he refused to give her credit for all her aid in ideas. He married his first cousin the second time. He was many things and the series tried to portray them as best as it could in 10 hours.
I lves you with a quote: I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Genius is a series about the life of Albert Einstein. It chronicles his life from his school days until his death in 1955. Geoffrey Rush played Einstein for most of the series with Johnny Flynn playing the school and university age man. I read in a few reviews over at IMDB that people were upset that the man was shown as something beside JUST a scientist. I thought that was the best part. He was a man who loved women and had relationships with many. Also he was an activist against the Hydrogen bomb and war. He appeared on Eleanor Roosevelt's tv show in 1950 to speak against the H-bomb. J. Edgar Hoover wanted him investigated and deported but he never could get enough dirt on him to do so. Einstein spoke out against anti-Semitism and though he was Jewish, he did not practice any religion that I know of.
The series made him seem like a real person and not just the man who was the model for the stereotypical absent minded professor. He was better with other people than with his own children and loved his first wife very much though he refused to give her credit for all her aid in ideas. He married his first cousin the second time. He was many things and the series tried to portray them as best as it could in 10 hours.
I lves you with a quote: I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
