<![CDATA[My new hero]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Nikola Tesla

aurelie_ledoyen — 17 years ago(July 27, 2008 04:20 PM)

Every once in a while, you read about someone who truly inspires you. I picked up a book from the library called
Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives Of Eccentric Scientists And Madmen
and was enthralled by the section on Nikolas Tesla. It is not often that one hears about someone who was not only serial inventor in the engineering field, but also persued the arts, and most importantly (to me) only had humanitarian interests in mind when it came to his inventions and discoveries.
A true altruist, Tesla is an inspiration to me. He was concerned with global warming,and in providing a safe form of energy available to all. He saw the utility and logic behind women eventually becoming the dominant sex and in the world becoming vegetarian. Although I am just a waitress from Florida,I'd like to think that because of sharing many of his aforementioned views, which for him were ahead of his time, that I have something in common with Nikola Tesla.
Would you classify that as a launch problem or a design problem?-Real Genius

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We owe him greatly for many things.

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He also predicted that marriage would become harder and thus people would start marrying criminals. Just like in Hollywood right now.

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Now that I have seen Martin Scorscese's new hit film HUGO, about the father of fantasy cinema, Georges Melies, I am convinced Mr. Scorscese could nail a biopic of Nikola Tesla with the same multi-million-dollar panache!
Dejael

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Let's just hope that Nikola Tesla get the recognition he deserves and always has deserved. It's ironic how the greatest heroes in the world are often the ones that go unrecognized by most of the world. I just hope that the feature film will prove otherwise.

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If I were Ste5b4ven Spielberg, I would waste no time making an expensive, visual effects-laden biopic of Nikola Tesla, based on his biography "Nikola Tesla, Man Out of Time" by Margaret Chaney. It would be a blockbuster hit, especially since it's a true story. I don't see why no one has yet made a decent biography film of him. His story literally crackles with electricity!
Dejael

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Lolhe's my hero as well 🙂

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update: this man is still my hero. I just saw The Prestige again and saw the light bulb scene. I remembered reading about his idea of electricity running underground.
I know I'm just replying to myself..whatever.
..and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal..

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