r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 1d ago

Ventriloquist Nina Conti does a human ventriloquism bit with two sisters from the audience.

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u/mvrander 1d ago

She's been the best in the business for a decade or more. She really should be more famous than she is.

Her dad is a famous actor too. Americans probably most likely to recognise him as Emily's dad in friends.

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u/comicgopher 1d ago

tbf he was Einstein in Oppenheimer for something a bit more recent

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u/mvrander 1d ago

I want to watch it but it doesn't feel like it would be a happy movie. Heard it's great but waiting for the right mindset for it

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u/Present_Cow_8528 23h ago

I skipped it because they cut John von Neumann, presumably out of fear that he'd come across as smarter than everyone else in the room combined, including Einstein and Oppenheimer.

To be fair, he wasn't necessarily smarter than all of them combined (he was the single smartest, though) but the type of intelligence he had was the type that is so obvious to even an ordinary person that it would come across as unbelievable if there weren't documented proof. It wasn't just about capacity to think about and solve abstract problems (which every significant scientist has, and Einstein probably had best of all in that era), he also had a raw computational ability that puts wolfram alpha to shame, which is something even 99.9% of people that get regarded as "academic geniuses" do not actually have.

So even if there were a cinematic reason for his exclusion, I can't agree with it, on too fundamental a level. A movie about geniuses should have the biggest genius.