The Professor and the Madman

This film (drama)Also known asThe Professor and the Madman，is aIreland, France, Iceland, USA, Mexico, BelgiumProducerwomen sex，At2019Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish，Current Douban rating7.6(For reference only)。

The film's story is based on true events. Under the leadership of Dr. James Murray (played by Mel Gibson), the editorial board is tasked with editing a new version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Given the technological capabilities of the time, it would take a century to complete the dictionary. Dr. James Murray innovatively adopted a method of public participation, allowing English speakers across the UK to contribute definitions by sending them to the editorial team via mail.During the process of collecting definitions, they discovered a doctor named W.C. Minor (played by Sean Penn) who independently contributed over 10,000 quotations, a workload that would be challenging for even professional linguists to achieve. When the editorial board decided to honor him, an astonishing fact was revealed: Dr. Minor was a military surgeon during the American Civil War, who, due to suffering from schizophrenia, had committed murder and was confined to a mental hospital, being considered a madman.A professor and a madman, the earliest English dictionary in human history was thus created by two vastly different individuals.