Is any edition OK for this discussion? I just downloaded the 6th (and final during his lifetime) edition from Project Gutenberg.
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Originally Posted by chainring
... If you haven't seen it yet, check out the movie Creation.
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I want to see it, although I understand that the movie contains a bit of a woo-woo factor. In his review of the movie for
NewScientist, Rowan Hooper writes:
The problem with the film is the conceit of illustrating the impact of Annie's death on Darwin by having her materialise and interact with him in visions. It is unsubtle and irritating, and makes for a cartoon account of the writing of On the Origin of Species which seems to assume the audience will not be able to appreciate the anguish Darwin went through unless it is spelled out in gigantic, sentimental letters by a pretty ghost.
I put this more tactfully to Randal Keynes, Darwin's great-great-grandson, who wrote Annie's Box, an account of Darwin's family life and his relationship with Annie in particular, and who has a writing credit on this movie. "The film is based on the knowledge that Darwin lived with the memory of his daughter all his life," Keynes says. "He was a man of passion, and people have missed that... Putting the ghost in can be regarded as the film-producer's licence to tell the story."
You can find his entire review, along with my comment afterward ("A Supernatural Naturalist?"), at
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...the-movie.html.
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Originally Posted by ardeegee
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The author of that book is the aforementioned Randal Keynes.