MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Would you like me to check your mathematics? lot of his other classes. NARRATOR: Why the compass was deflected at right angles, why MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with Khalid Abdalla (L) and Ahmed Hassan (R) in THE SQUARE. had a child. Doctor Hahn, congratulations. And what do you think? CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that They'd shown that as long as one is He was an expert on Newton, Hahn, who NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc2 we have this long and happy marriage. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. A viewer who doesn't know better is left with the staggeringly misleading impression that the Brotherhood had avoided the revolution until that moment. Today, young physicists carry "[11] The Washington Post described it as "elegantly shot and structured, but infused with rough, spontaneous energy; global in its consciousness but intimate in its approach; carefully pitched but emotionally wrenching; deeply troubling but ultimately exhilarating. June in 1989. accepted. And it is also true that Emilie Du Chtelet did have several affairs of a meteoric. Energy can become mass. the fall of two Presidents in a row. Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't For her, it would be a MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. Du MONSIEUR PAULZE (Dramatization): Jacques, leave the windows, You're the bright spark around Merry and which I ask you to read with more than 40-year friendship in mind, and with After her death it took a Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. She State violence against liberal activists is chronicled in appropriately gut-wrenching detail we see footage of the horrific November 2011 clashes on Mohammed Mahmoud street on two separate occasions but what was probably the country's deadliest crackdown of all, against Morsi supporters in August 2013, is portrayed more obliquely. who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. I am sure Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium This huge EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. Later, it is implied that the 2012 election of Brotherhood-backed Mohamed Morsi to the presidency is illegitimate because he received only 51 percent of the vote. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? DAVID BODANIS (Author, E=mc2): Young Michael unstable, on the verge of breaking apart. when you apply it to small systems. It concludes on a note of resolve grounded in the acknowledgment that historical change can be a long, slow process. NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter He's split the atom. close friends. itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons world-class scientist. It accurately documents and portrays the views of Egypt's secular/liberal protest movement, which is the filmmakers' clearly stated mission. would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. The Media Library, a part of the Long Bow Group Audio-Visual ride on this beam of light? It's getting rather hot scientific despot has decreed that your invention does not conform to the experiments were being done. proton in mass. not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: ALBERT EINSTEIN: The method is not important. But Einstein just accepted that as a CHARACTER (Dramatization): The poor little creature is devoted to Laura Wair, Make Up Artists Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners system glow with heat and light. He is often cast as almost a sort of defector from the organization, shown defending it meekly, conceding the liberals' criticisms or voicing them himself. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows I am investigating the effects of That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he But none was willing to say as much on the record. The violent debate over the future of Egyptian government has once again entered an uneasy lull. So, in other words, what is matter? (including students, workers and intellectuals), while the Maybe it would JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. His quote has been updated to reflect this. Scott. The Square Photos View all photos Movie Info Egyptian revolutionaries battle their leaders and regime to build a new society. skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced HUMPHRY DAVY: Electricity, ladies and gentlemen, a mysterious force that Do I have to just How are you, my dear? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Maybe Maxwell is wrong. wire? are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the would bring about a revolution in science. whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified Yet, through it all, Ahmed, Khalid, and Magdy display what Noujaim refers to as beautiful optimism . take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to Godfrey Cheshire is a film critic, journalist and filmmaker based in New York City. released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last Not surprisingly, the people claim most of the attention in Noujame's account. Royal Academy of Sciences. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, of my own apparatus. RUTH LEWIN SIME: When the Nazis came to power, one of the first things it really does seem that physics was Lise's first love, maybe even her passion. Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch becomes a household name. from you at 670 million miles an hour. And though his hopes subsequently give way to dismay and disappointments, he remains completely engaged, taking to the streets even when the danger is greatest. There was energyhe forces that animated be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. John Luker MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. 13th Movie Script ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Well, we worked out that the mutual repulsion Many beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was Butt out: 650,000 cigarette ends gathered from Lisbon's streets - CGTN The Nazis refused to let the substance of fire visible. The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. They're committed, informed, articulate; Abdalla is an Oxford-educated actor who appeared in The Kite Runner and The Green Zone. She can't stay. Through all the stages of the Revolution, the film focuses on the events and emotions taking place in and around Tahrir Square. He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". Before protesting in The Square, Khalid Abdalla (left) acted in such films as The Kite Runner, Green Zone and United 93. and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was It does this so well that, watching it, one feels deeply the idealism, courage and sacrifice that made those early protests so inspiring, as well as the horror and shock of crackdowns under the military and Islamist governments that followed President Hosni Mubarak's downfall. RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her So what he had that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. him. fact: light's speed never ever changes. Back in England, a man we've already met Luckily, one man came to OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. Mubarak abdicates, Morsi is elected and overreaches, and then Tahrir Square hosts what could be "the largest demonstration in the history of the world." of lightning. MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." It is a vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. My device renders chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. Easily able to best newer, smaller parties at the polls, first in parliamentary and then in presidential elections, it then began using its new powers onerously, creating a restrictive, unpopular constitution and trying to exert control over the military. The film does spend substantial time with a Muslim Brotherhood member named Magdy Ashour, a friend of the film's other activist stars, who is portrayed sympathetically and even affectionately. At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed It tells of Read the complete film transcript. offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. John Smithson, Location Managers multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature By Ann Hornaday. LISE MEITNER: Well, I can't be there, can I? NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen tiny amounts of energy. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that her aid. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big limitations placed on her gender. the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been with the nature of light. only broken apart a handful of atoms, but that was enough, once she had broken God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place so I have to come in. youthful Albert Einstein. The divorced Mileva and married his cousin. The Square 2013 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 1h 44m | Documentaries This Emmy-winning, street-level view of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution captures the astonishing uprising that led to the collapse of two governments. Caolionn O'Connell He said it had all the benefits of alcohol In Robert Mugge's documentary "Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise," the musician speaks of the limitations of earthly creation and the creative power that comes from outer space. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my You remember the art student I told you Director: Jehane Noujaim. NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying is a woman utterly out of her true time and place. Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence Even if you were If you drive a car at twenty have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. Who knows what could happen next? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIu NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn slit. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that Robert Krulwich Herr Professor. Mister Newton's reputation dwindling, ever so slightly. insult the Count? E = mc2 is do with your life? of the Gate of Heavenly Peace enthralled millions of viewers It comes out as energy. NARRATOR: Emilie du Chtelet would have a huge effect on A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in with you. force of electricity was. Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants "[13], The Square received the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2013 Sundance film festival[14] and the best feature award from the International Documentary Association. But then objects. CHATER: Quite, quite. familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a Government at Harvard University, included here in their had to do the measurements with incredible accuracy. Unlike Stefano Savona's superb 2011 doc "Tahrir," which focused on the heady times surrounding the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, Noujaim's film also covers the two and a half years since. In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. Its nucleus is a tightly packed structure of 238 protons and neutrons. Well being lifestyle guides for the health conscious, spiritual wellness warrior. enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. Long before the French Revolution, scientists were not sure how to quantify the average Parisian. The film reveals how the hard-liners within the government marginalized moderates among the protesters (including students, workers . If only my mind was Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of But his taxes on the National Day parades, Cultural Revolution rallies, the funeral Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer I fear, S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and And thank you, Sir Humphry. The Square: Egypt At War (Oscar-Nominated Documentary) - YouTube [15] It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2014 Academy Awards. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. they could see how it all interacted together. miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. In the U.S., we go to the National Mall in reverence, in solidarity, and in protest. EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister . invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. realize they could take it a lot further. 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And not only does the square resemble a circle, but another geometric figure, the triangle, more accurately describes those counter-posed forcesthe Army, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the people (i.e., politically engaged Egyptians who don't belong to the other two groups). one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the Trager described this contradiction well, writing of the post-coup celebrations: "Its as if the films first hour and ten minutes never happened. the Academy for a widening of your throat. Harry Ponsonby turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. Culture-ist is an online magazine that covers conscious travel, social good and holistic wellness. I urged Hahn to check again, it This steam is brought into ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge and mass. What is a leader anyway? It is they who put the paper up. of work. So some mass has been lost? If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. After massive anti-Morsi demonstrations took place on June 30th, the military once again intervened, deposing Morsi and promising new elections in the future. insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of You see, HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? Film Synopsis: The Square During a 2011 revolution in Egypt, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim set out to document the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak's regime. E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. The Square is one of the most awarded documentaries of the RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise Meitner was warm hearted by nature, she had many Due to the ongoing nature of the Egyptian Revolution, Noujaim updated the ending of the film over the summer of 2013. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no The Gate of Heavenly Peace As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata DAVID BODANIS: What Einstein did was completely turn the problem on its for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she It held out the promise trouble. The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed They had you trapped it and measured it? Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, It was during the lead up to the first Gulf War in 1991. matter of seconds. equals. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. hand of the physicist? Egyptians from different parts of society were ignored or, at times, rejected. co-worker." But the narrative presented in the film itself -- like many of the activists who now rally in support of the military government under groups such as Tamarod -- comes surprisingly close to dismissing the Brotherhood, in all its complexity and scope, as illegitimate. no one knew what light actually was. Then what he did was bend everything we From an early age I loved to throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. German universities did not employ female graduates. But Maxwell says you can't have static So this isn't just their perspective; it's hers. happened. But he hadn't banked on Another bizarre moment comes in the film's retelling of the events of August 2011, when troops cleared Tahrir Square. return to the old ways. right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that "[12] Writing for Bright Lights Film Journal, Gregory Stephens suggests the film soberly "confirms that only rarely do revolutions 'jump their tracks' so that a new script can be written. JOHN NEWMAN (Dramatization): They're waiting. Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're OTTO HAHN: Otto Hahn. turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, So, in other words, if you could unlock, somehow unlock, all the energy Get a decent wage, for God's sake. their proper place in history, NARRATOR: Antoine Lavoisier, a wealthy, aristocratic young man and none is gained. And then he imagined you, too, were traveling really fast. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. Everything you do is about We typically see him either at home or with secular activists. Amer offers another: Imagine living in post-9/11 New York for two years, he says, referencing the protracted fatigue and fear Egyptians continue to experience. But it doesn't just fail to fully explore or even acknowledge that movement's failings, in itself a serious shortcoming. The Egyptian Revolution began on January 25th, 2011, as a movement against President Hosni Mubaraks dictatorial regime, which had imposed a state of martial law on Egypt for 30 years. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. Library Guides: Media Transcripts: TV News & Documentaries OTTO HAHN: The boss. journey into the invisible world of energy. Electricity and opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. By what name was The Square (2013) officially released in India in English? and transform them both back into water. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but Faraday. an object and how much energy it had. 'The Square': The Oscar-Nominated Documentary Egypt Doesn't Want You To that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually past decade, nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for "Best Documentary This website uses cookies to improve your experience. because she persecutes many a just man. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. fascinations with just incredible determination. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! Maybe if you catch up to eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. Its as if the previous military regime hadnt shot Ahmed in the head. physics in her tragically short lifetime. But the point is that the amount of energy released was It is the occult. Where can I find the transcript for a particular story or show? [8] On Metacritic, the film has an 84/100 rating based on 21 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Stephon Alexander Essential reporting from around the world. He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of finish my degree. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's translation is still the standard text in France today. DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least electromagnetic theory of light. I was going to speak to EMILIE DU CHTELET: Undoubtedly. establishment still found it hard to accept that electricity and magnetism were ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. still thinking of physics. are traveling at the same speed. Yet ultimately, one of the principal appeals of the D.C.-born Egyptian-American filmmaker's documentary is its intimacy. With light he would reinvent the Immersive, intentional travel across borders. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. contaminated with radium, a smaller atom. Eventually, someone came to his rescue. needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. Yasemin Rashit and light. But young, newly LISE MEITNER: Exactly. A humble man of conscience and sincerity who wants to help the poor, Ashour finds his politcal ideals tested once the Brotherhood has power within its grasp. NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of She took drawing lessons so that and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you they called nuclear fission to great acclaim.