| Tesla in "The Prestige" |
 Tesla in "The Prestige"
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Apr. 18th, 2008 @ 05:00 am 
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I was watching The Prestige tonight, when I started looking up more info on Nikola Tesla (as you do).
As I pulled up the Wikipedia page with the image on the right, the scene with the shot on the left played, with David Bowie in the role of Tesla.
Until now, I had no real appreciation just how closely they'd made Bowie look and dress like Tesla. But I think this side-by-side shows what a meticulous job they did.
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| From: | ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zannah |
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April 18th, 2008 01:48 pm (UTC) |
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That's funny, I just watched the Prestige on Wednesday night!
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April 18th, 2008 01:58 pm (UTC) |
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There should be more movies where David Bowie plays Tesla.
All right, it's "just a movie" -- but the presentation in this film of Science As Shamanism really bugged me. We know Tesla was crazy-smart, but he probably wasn't as smart as he thought, and much of his success was the same sort of smart-kid bluster that many software types get away with today. Science isn't magic, and Tesla wasn't a wizard, and it's arguably damaging to promote the mad-scientist archetype for historical scientists. (Though it is disquieting to find oneself, inescapably, one of Edison's men. As we say, The Meatball Is Watching.)
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