Huh. This was unexpected news for the day… when discussing his new film The Oxford Murders, Hurt (who I always think of as The Elephant Man… oh, he’s great in a pre-Boston Legal authored film by David E. Kelley called From The Hip) draws on the growing popularity of math-related viewing material as a reason for signing on.
The film follows other digit-wrangling dramas such as 21, which saw Kevin Spacey play a mathematics professor; the TV series Numbers, which features a crime-solving maths genius; and, of course, the computational conundrums of The Da Vinci Code.
(urgh, PLEASE don’t mention the Da Holy-Hades-What-ARE-you-doing -to-art-and-history Code…)
“I think there is something that has brought maths to the fore,” Hurt says in an interview with BBC World Service’s On Screen programme.
“I think probably because we live in a world with so many lies, and so much lack of truth, that it has become quite sexy to think of the one thing we have which is the only language that is truthful.
“There’s no way of disproving that two plus two equals four, and therefore, take that to the ultimate, much more complicated areas, and you’re dealing with something which is truthful.”
Hmm, truth in modern cinema. That’d be a good trend to encourage… although after Da Vinci, I have my doubts… what’d you think?
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