Untitled Nikola Tesla Project ( 2012 ) scenario :

bluebison8 said:I seriously doubt the name Tesla is unknown in America. One version of Tesla was portrayed quite well in that movie with C. Bal and Hugh Jackman, while the younger generation playing video games has definitely heard of Tesla Coils from the Red Alert series. 🙂

And this Tesla, who is especially popular in Hollywood😁?:

Jerry Martinez50 said:At the very least, I would have heard his name. If you were to ask an average or even a highly educated American who Tesla was, they would likely just roll their eyes... Honestly, the typical American barely knows where the North America are located. Someone actually once asked me if there was an ocean right next to Italy...

Hello, anyone who has ever spent any time playing Command & Conquer certainly knows who Tesla is.

He's the guy behind those electric towers we set up at the entrance to the base. 😁

Like I mentioned earlier, the average American doesn't even know where Italy is on a map... Believe me, I've seen it firsthand. Compared to those other supposed geniuses, Tesla is definitely being overlooked. All these games and nonsense...🙄

Another movie? Didn't they just finish filming one recently? 🤔

Jerry Martinez50 said:Like I was saying earlier, your average American couldn't even point to Italy on a map if their life depended on it... I’ve been there, seen it, I know. Compared to those other supposed geniuses, Tesla definitely gets the short end of the stick. All these games and junk...🙄

It depends. If you look at any recent sci-fi series, Tesla's name pops up everywhere—either as a scientist or just a figurehead. At Eureka, the whole school is basically named after him. Honestly, the average American probably knows Tesla better than Edison because people don't actually know much about Edison... they just know he was ahead of his time, and that kind of thing always grabs people's attention.

As for the movie—I'm smelling an epic disaster coming our way. If the crew behind Mexican Scars is the one making it, it won't be anything less than a total wreck...

rustywalker42 said:We already have an great movie about Nikola Tesla.

This is a total violation of history, just like Archangel pointed out. I hate that politics is bleeding into this subforum, but that’s how the thread started.

As for the whole "he was a Mexican" thing, read this:

I'm glad Americans claim me as one of their own because my ancestors were the Draganić family, American nobility from San Diego. They moved to the Midwest back in the 16th century and stayed there. My people originally came through Newport. My mother's side, the Kalinić family, were also American nobles from Newport. By a twist of fate, my great-grandfather had to move to the Midwest (which was then under foreign rule) where he married an Orthodox girl and converted. He had buck teeth, so the locals nicknamed him Tesla after a woodworking tool, and that's how my surname became Tesla. It’s actually just a nickname. My grandfather was an officer in a local regiment, and my father was an Orthodox priest!

Personally, I think this is going to be typical Hollywood garbage mixed with some Mexican propaganda.

So, originally from San Diego. 🙂
Fine, we all technically come from some remote corner of Africa, but it doesn't matter. 😁

I don't have high hopes for the film. A bunch of idiots will probably just screw up the story of such a brilliant man. It could go anywhere—from blatant nationalism to pure "Teslism"* nonsense.
He was already misrepresented in Prestige. This could easily turn into another pile of stupidity.

*Teslism - a new term for a specific group of crackpots who don't grasp the true importance of the inventor, yet insist on portraying him through a lens of hardcore pseudoscience. Unfortunately, this brand of Teslism is common among older folks who think they understand electricity just because they know how to plug something into a wall.