Bowie does Tesla
Posted by Moonage | Filed under The World Of David Bowie
David Bowie has landed a new movie role, playing the inventor and electrical genius Nikola Tesla.
Bowie, 58, will star alongside Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine in forthcoming film The Prestige, according to movie industry magazine Variety.
I can so see Bowie in this role. Bowie always has a way of gravitating towards odd characters in his roles, as he does with his music, Tesla is no exception:
He was quite impractical in financial matters and an eccentric, driven by compulsions and a progressive germ phobia. But he had a way of intuitively sensing hidden scientific secrets and employing his inventive talent to prove his hypotheses. Tesla was a godsend to reporters who sought sensational copy but a problem to editors who were uncertain how seriously his futuristic prophecies should be regarded. Caustic criticism greeted his speculations concerning communication with other planets, his assertions that he could split the Earth like an apple, and his claim of having invented a death ray capable of destroying 10,000 airplanes at a distance of 250 miles (400 kilometres)
Sounds like a role Bowie can slip into quite naturally.
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4 Squawks to “Bowie does Tesla”
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mary everett Squawked:
November 22nd, 2005 at 1:10 amYes Tesla is definitly a Bowie role! David probably understands him perfectly.
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mary everett Squawked:
November 22nd, 2005 at 9:39 pmI have been giving it some more thought
and I have come to the conclusion that:
If Tesla had a lot more tallent he could
have been the David Bowie of his day. -
Moonage 
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November 22nd, 2005 at 10:01 pmIn a lot of ways, Tesla was the Bowie of his days. Everyone knew he was brilliant, if not a genius. However, his style was confrontational to the point of shocking. He often said things that were way over the top ( he could split the Earth in two ). It was very similar to Bowie’s early style of words not necessarily being all that important in context of the message. That’s why I said Bowie could slip into this role easily. The inverse, of course, is Tesla could have played Ziggy Stardust just as well.
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D Squawked:
October 17th, 2006 at 6:25 amTesla never said anything that was way over the top. He was a brilliant mind. Splitting the earth was not his fantasy. After all the man gave us electricity, wireless, etc. and unlike Edison (who was also a great scientist), Tesla’s motivation was not money but the wellbeing of human kind. He spoke great words, and besides all his weirdness, was a very very brilliant mind.
