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Theoretical physicist/cosmologist Stephen Hawking's life and search for the beginning of time (1963-6).Theoretical physicist/cosmologist Stephen Hawking's life and search for the beginning of time (1963-6).Theoretical physicist/cosmologist Stephen Hawking's life and search for the beginning of time (1963-6).
- Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
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- TriviaBenedict Cumberbatch is the first actor ever to play Stephen Hawking on screen in this film. He is also good friends with Eddie Redmayne, who played Hawking in the biopic The Theory of Everything (2014).
- GoofsStephen Hawking, on his 21st Birthday, mentions the Beatles song "Please Please Me." This song was not released until the 11th January 1963, two days after Hawking's 21st Birthday.
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Stephen Hawking: We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hawking (2013)
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I have just seen this excellent film.
It begins with a character resembling Stephen Hawking slouching in a deep armchair. But, then he gets up and walks!!! This is the basis of the film. We are all familiar with Stephen Hawkign as he is today, but this film will now tell us the story of the man and his ideas before he became the the icon he is today.
I really enjoyed this film - both as portrait of a brave man and a brief description of the development of the big bang theory and some of it's underlying concepts.
Among the cast I especially enjoyed Michael Brandon as one of the two Bell Labs scientists who first discovered the sound of the creation of the universe. However, I do agree with several other comments here that the section about his German origin was confusing and unnecessary.
The film is very much aware of the fact that it will be compared with "A beautiful mind" - it even refers to the "beautiful" concept among scientists. In many ways I much prefer this portrait of a much more sympathetic beautiful mind.
It begins with a character resembling Stephen Hawking slouching in a deep armchair. But, then he gets up and walks!!! This is the basis of the film. We are all familiar with Stephen Hawkign as he is today, but this film will now tell us the story of the man and his ideas before he became the the icon he is today.
I really enjoyed this film - both as portrait of a brave man and a brief description of the development of the big bang theory and some of it's underlying concepts.
Among the cast I especially enjoyed Michael Brandon as one of the two Bell Labs scientists who first discovered the sound of the creation of the universe. However, I do agree with several other comments here that the section about his German origin was confusing and unnecessary.
The film is very much aware of the fact that it will be compared with "A beautiful mind" - it even refers to the "beautiful" concept among scientists. In many ways I much prefer this portrait of a much more sympathetic beautiful mind.
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