2014 was a great year for Hollywood, this year two movies were released, The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game.
While The Theory of Everything was based on one of the greatest scientists of our generation Stephen Hawking another movie The Imitation Game was based on a lesser-known but one of the greatest scientists of all time, Alan Turing.
Both movies got a lot of appreciation from all over the world
The Theory of Everything has an approval rating of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes while The Imitation Game got an impressive 90% rating
We will achievements, casts, and storylines of both movies one by one.
Let’s start with The Theory of Everything
Cast:
Star Case of the movie includes Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, and Emily Watson.
Budget and Earnings
The Theory of Everything earned 123 million dollars against the budget of 15 million
Inspiration of the Movie
The movie is based on the book written by Jane Hawking, ex-wife of Stephan Hawking.
Notable Awards and Nominations
Theory of Everything got 5 Oscar nominations
Redmayne won the best actor award, while other nominations for the movie were for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score.
Apart from this, Movies was nominated in 10 different categories in BAFTA Awards.
Overview of the Story.
The movie is based on one of the greatest scientists, Stephen Hawking, as we already know Stephen Hawking was a handicapped person and was only able to move his single cheek, by using a device he used to communicate.
Being in such a condition he managed to change our perceptions to see the Universe.
But the main motive of the movie is to show the world how personal life of Stephen was.
at age 21, Hawking was diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neuron disease that gradually, over decades, paralyzed him.
How he dealt with this shock at an early age, how his romantic life was, and how struggled in his entire life, all these important facts are shown in this movie.
If you are thinking that this movie will show how he conquered physics then you may be wrong, this movie is completely emotional
The Imitation Game
Cast:
The Star Cast of The Imitation Game is impressive
It includes Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley
Apart from them Matthew Goode and Allen Leech were also there
Inspiration of the Movie
This movie is based on the Legendary Computer Scientist, Alan Turing,
Alan was considered the father of theoretical computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, yes AI.
He died at the age of 41
His life and death were very tragic
Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment with DES, a procedure commonly referred to as chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as a suicide, but it has been noted that the known evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning. Following a public campaign in 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the government.
Budget and Earnings
The film earned a massive 233 million dollars against a budget of 14 million dollars
Notable Awards and Nominations.
This movie was able to beat Theory of Everything in terms of Oscar nominations, it got 8 Oscar nominations and won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Overview of the Movie.
This movie is the opposite of the Theory of everything storytelling, instead of focusing on Alan Turnig’s personal life, the movie focuses on the mission of Alan Turing in which he was given a task to create the machine to decrypt German messages in World War 2
This Movie did a great job of showing Turing’s smartness and hard work while creating the Machine that can decrypt German Signals.