Friday, June 19, 2015

Brandon R. Brown's "Planck," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War by Brandon R. Brown.

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You might not think a biography of a staid Prussian physicist would be a candidate for a movie, but the story of Max Planck, full of amazing characters and extreme events, has all the elements one might want for historical drama. The narrative has definitely been called “cinematic.”

For Max Planck himself, I’d vote for the stony-faced intensity of Ben Kingsley. Kingsley has the gravitas and fiery eyes for the role. He even has the sharp facial angles for the brave and tragic professor from Berlin. For Planck’s younger friend Albert Einstein, I would try an offbeat angle and cast Mark...[read on]
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My Book, The Movie: Planck.

--Marshal Zeringue