People easily associate Theory of Everything movie to Stephen Hawking with the fact that it is based on the memoir of the same name written by Jane Hawking, the ex-wife of theoretical physicist. The film which stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, tells the story of hte couple when they were still students at Cambridge in the 1960s. The film has already made its debut in the United States and will be released in the United Kingdom in January next year.
With the fact that Theory of Everything depicts Stephen Hawking's life when he was still in his teenage years, it is easy to assume that this will be about the struggle of the famous scientists to become what he is today. However, according to Theory of Everything movie director James Marsh, it is not what it seems. More than just Hawking, Theory of Everything is more about Stephen and his wife. In an interview with the Verge, Marsh said that this film is "not a Stephen Hawking biopic."
"It's not a Stephen Hawking biopic. It's actually a portrait of a marriage with two people in it. It's one of those easy to make misunderstandings that the film isn't about his life and birth to now or his scientific career or his disabilities. It's about his relationship. That's really its focus. That's the terms under which you should try to understand it."
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Stephen Hawking has a great back story but Marsh insists that Jane's point of view in the Theory of Everything film is not to be ignored. The source material for the movie was primarily based on the point of view of Jane and that makes Marsh think that there is an equality between the characters.
"One person happens to be famous - a famous disabled person, a famous physicist - one is someone we don't know anything about. The film gives them both equal time because they're both equally strong characters.
It's about a relationship. That's the heart of the story. It's not a biography of Stephen by any means. It's a portrait of two characters in this relationship, and I think it's very well written on that level. Felicity has an equal role to play as Eddie does in the actual screen time that they have."
