![]() ![]() Gibson, along with director Farhad Safinia ( Apocalypto), wanted to shoot further scenes at Oxford University after filming had wrapped in 2016, to add authenticity (Trinity College Dublin filled in for Oxford otherwise). ![]() ![]() There is further backstory to explain why the film has reached cinemas under something of a cloud. ![]() This is an intriguing cinematic curiosity, elusive in tone, compelling at times, yet riddled with flaws. Twenty-two years later, the film has now reached us, with Gibson himself and Sean Penn in the lead roles. Lexicography was indeed made sufficiently cool for Mel Gibson to buy the film rights in 1998. Renamed The Professor and the Madman for US publication, Winchester’s book became a bestseller. Despite serious mental illness, Minor was a vital contributor to Murray’s gargantuan task of creating the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), an endeavour that began in 1879. The non-fiction work told the bizarre and oddly uplifting Victorian-era tale of the autodidactic linguist and scholar Sir James Murray and his relationship with William Chester Minor, a retired American army surgeon incarcerated at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. When the British author Simon Winchester published the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne in 1998, the idea was, according to his editor, to ‘ make lexicography cool’. ![]()
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