There is a difference between actors and their roles that play in the movie or TV. Before, we often talk about the male short actors in real life who plays the strapping and superman images in the movie, such as Robert Downey Jr (iron man), Tobey Maguire(spider man) and Jack Nicholson(Batman). But this time 5′ 11″ Eddie Redmayne plays 5′ 7″ Stephen Hawking in the film “the theory of everything”. It makes our eyes.
Honestly, I know little about the real Hawking. His impression on me is one great scientist who found black holes and wrote “the brief theory of time”. His image in our eyes is one poor small man siting on wheel chair, beating words on a computer and voiced like a robot. The movie shows us a different Stephen from his school time in Cambridge. He was just as healthy and youthful as any other phd students in university at that time. Even Eddie Redmayne said in the visit that he didn’t ever know young Stephen is healthy and strong. He also ride bike and rowing boat.
Happy time is short, painful time comply along with him for his rest time. Gradually, he couldn’t walk by feet, pick up spoon, stuck in the stairs and even speak. All is unnormal. Through such hard times, he still get such big research. Of course, Film is artistic and it is actually an unconventional love story more than Physics and science. What I want to say is that Eddie Redmayne really made much effort on playing a vivid Stephen. It is not easy for a strong, tall and healthy actor to do as a crooked, difficult in daily life scientist. Eddie Redmayne deserved to win the award of best actor in Oscar.