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Sounds like a good movie. Hopefully I'll be able to catch it on cable.
Isn't it interesting that this type of movie isn't warmly received by some in the U.S. but movies with violent murdering drug gangs or vigilantes, or flesh-eating zombies have no problem selling tickets?
But I guess the gangs and zombies are still god's creatures.
Also interesting that the lead who plays Darwin also played the idealistic naturalist who landed on the Galapagos in Master & Commander. I'm betting he's an actual Darwin aficionado, and brings his heartfelt beliefs to the part.
BTW, isn't it a terribly sad commentary on our societal norms that a person (Darwin) who is able to break out of the strictures of conservative but repressive Christian thuggo culture to demo true human insight and imagination is thereby forever demonized and slandered?
Well, I think, in the best Darwinian ways, that there may well be critical differences in our genetics after all; those who can and do seek challenges, like lions on the veldt, and thus embrace the quest for greater knowledge, versus those who, like sheep, prefer to be fenced in and tended. With no questioning needed nor appreciated. Nor tolerated.
Yes; NPR's covering an interview with Darwin's great great great grandson right now as I write this. He makes the point that Darwin was very concerned about the impact of his insightful ideas on the Church, of which he was a firm supporter. Being Christian was pretty much de-rigueur for upper crust society back in those days, with hints of damnation and torture firmly set in folks' innocent but easily scared minds from centuries of (successful) Churchy oppression.
He knew that his ideas had the very real potential to kill off the Godly concept in that some might interpret the ascent of man from "the lesser beasts" ('sic', and sad, but an anticipated product of man's historical arrogance) as proving There is no God.
Well, no God "required", at any case . His wife Emma, was a staunch believer in the afterlife, but not in God so much. Both she and Charles were both somewhat obsessed by their wishes to see each other and their children in some glorious and loving eternal afterlife.
It's also interesting, esp. to those with a near-pathological (and erroneous) dislike of the man (or more correctly, of the consequences of his ideas....), that he did most of his research and conclusions in the privacy of his own home, absent any modern technological tools and conveniences.
All the more elegant, I'd say. He was also not swayed by any "feeding frenzy" mentality that often pervades large modern laboratory or project centers of science.
Science is only human, after all. But this guy really arced past the usual constructs and limitations.
I'm really looking forward to this movie; a "must own". Along with Pearl Harbor, "O-Rance of Arabia" and High Noon! I'll probably organize a viewing session in our small town library for those children whose patho-parents strictly forbid it to be shown in school. Terror of alternate viewpoints, apparently, knows no boundaries, but does hold us back in so many ways.
I heard that the DVD is already out in Europe and it can be ordered through (not sure if the mods will allow me to give the link say due to advertising, but it's the UK site to one the large online distributors of books, DVDs, etc).
The film is excellent and focuses on his relationship with Annie his eldest daughter , let me all know what you think. I thought the acting was utterly superb and it was beautifully filmed.
Is that it?
People are looking to take notepad and take notes. Wow
But I'll see this movie for sure.
As they always say, "I like Darwin, but not Darwinists"
Also interesting that the lead who plays Darwin also played the idealistic naturalist who landed on the Galapagos in Master & Commander. I'm betting he's an actual Darwin aficionado, and brings his heartfelt beliefs to the part.
No need to be a predictionist on Paul Bettany, rifleman
Besides, I loved the master and commander movie, especially the Galapagos part. It sort of insinuates that they were in Galapagos much before Darwin, but it's only fiction after all. I own the entire Patrick O'Brien series. I'm glad someone made a movie off it
If Paul Bettany is in it, I wanna see it for sure. The guy can do some serious acting.
Also, a good choice of actor, he sort of looks like Darwin in his youth. Not so tall, I would say.
It's unfortunate Darwin's getting the 6 feet tall, blue eyes hunk treatment too
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