The Professor and the Madman

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

The film is based on a true story, where Dr. James Murray (played by Mel Gibson) leads a committee to edit a new version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Given the technological and human resources of the time, it would take a century to complete the dictionary. Dr. James Murray innovatively adopted a crowdsourcing approach, allowing all English speakers across Britain to contribute definitions by sending them via mail to the editing team. During the collection of definitions, they discovered that a doctor named W.C. Minor (played by Sean Penn) had independently contributed over ten thousand quotations, a task that would be daunting even for a professional linguist. When the committee decided to honor him, an astonishing fact emerged: Dr. Minor was a military surgeon during the American Civil War who had been imprisoned for murder due to schizophrenia, and he was regarded as a madman. A professor and a madman, the earliest English dictionary in human history was thus born from the hands of two vastly different individuals.