![]() ![]() And because truth is often stranger than fiction, the film doesn’t deviate very much from the vivid happenings. The film displays the life struggles of Murray and Minor, and how they find solace in building the OED. He even roped in Sean Penn to play opposite him – an inaugural pairing for the two. The veteran actor, after fending off numerous others who wanted to film the book, took over 20 years to develop the project. Sherman, fleshes out the period drama, with Mel Gibson leading the project. The thing is, as Murray later finds out, Minor is incarcerated in an asylum for murder.ĭirector Farhad Safinia ( Apocalypto), under the pseudonym of P.B. The Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short, is a compilation of over 210,000 entries of words that we use in the English language, and sometimes, judging by how erratic the language rules are, one might even think it drawn up by a madman.īased on a best-selling book by Simon Winchester, The Professor & The Madman is about how a talented editor (Sir James Murray) struggles to compile the volume, but finds assistance in the toughest details from an American surgeon William Chester Minor. When it comes to this book, almost all of us have read it to some degree, and even sought help from its pages at one time or another. ![]()
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