Movie

[ac_energy]

My typist and I were on a trip to the theatre when suddenly a high pitched noise caught my attention. It was her. She pointed forward and upon the screen was a comericial for the new move The Prestige and there was I. Not specifically me but it was an actor dressed as me who had many of my inventions there

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[jean_moulin]

"I've been warned that most movies at horrid and historically inacurate so I am prepared to brace myself for the worst."

You have my utmost sympathies, Mssr Tesla. I understand completely what you are going through. If it makes you feel any better:



Where's the cunning? Where's the guile? More importantly, where are les femmes?!

[ac_energy]

More importantly, where are les femmes?!

There can be no hope placed in TV movies or Direct Current. I have viewed just a few clips of said movie but apparently Oskar Schindler was given more thought on his than yours.

and apparently you had even more women than him!

[jean_moulin]

You've viewed clips of this piece? I'm afraid I never have. (My typist won't let me. Something about her taking one look at the cover and laughing so hard she claims she looses weight.)

These clips wouldn't, perhaps, be on-line, would they?

By the by, I must say you seem disconcertingly knowledgeable about my... exploits. Where did you happen to learn so much?

Yes, it can be tricky to continue secret affiliations with two women at the same time. Who work together. For you. In a three-person company. (With two others on the side.)

Oh dear, what was that? Um, I think I have to go save a little France. Yes, that's definately the sound of a Republic being threatened by Fascists! Must dash!

[ac_energy]

Sadly I could find no clips of your movie online. My typist and I have observed them from her cousin's bootlegged copy. However this is some footage of you after your death. Perhaps you recognize these people. They are transferring your ashes to the Pantheon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2gk0ZAp8ak

There were also a number of sites that offered some information about you and your exploits. Most of them were in French but my typist used some sort of fish thing to translate it.

Apparently you are quite popular with the youth as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xREJq6Vkk6E

Yours,
N. Tesla

[jean_moulin]

Yes, I've heard a great deal about that day at the Pantheon. Mostly, I've heard about how cold it was. When not able to discreetly slip out a side door, I not only must meet with people from my past but hear them talk at leangth about the weather that day.

"Oh dear. Really? I'm so sorry to hear you suffered such intemperate temperatures. Certainly I would have offered you my scarf but I was just a little bit martyred at the time! No, I know that's no excuse. Please keep talking about how my dead body being played between the macinations of post-war evil and slightly-less-evil left you with an inconvenient case of the sniffles."

And now my typist would like some words of her own:

(Yes, I've seen that footage of the youth. But I'm afraid my auditory French is so poor that I've never been able to figure out if the title is deliberate or merely ironic. Oh, and props to your cousin and her bootlegged copy! Was it any good?)

[ac_energy]

((It was okay. I'm sure there was worse out there. JM just seemed a little tamed that's all but that's TV movies for you.))

[jean_moulin]

(Not all tv movies are like that, though. Have you ever seen "One Against the Wind" starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill? It was about Mary Lindel, a woman who ran an escape line out of France during WWII and was simply wonderful! A little paint-by-number in plotting and dialogue, but you could see a real commitment to keeping her commanding personality up-front and center in every scene.)