Robinson gives one of his finest performances as the Good Doctor. He had enough clout with the studio to make it happen. Perhaps it was because Robinson was tired of the stereotype, and wanted to branch out and really show his acting ability. He’d become famous for his work in gangster and crime movies. One has to wonder what Warner Brothers was thinking when they picked Edward G. Is it any wonder, then, that the best movies about science and scientists tend to be biographies? Not something that makes for a good movie. And if they showed real science, not only would most of the audience not understand it, the “process” of Science is long, tedious, and filled with failure. Most likely, this lack of respect is simply because if they showed a real scientist, they’d look just like someone in any other field of employment (and behave similarly, no doubt). Or the Screen Scientist is just in the plot to provide exposition so the other characters (and the audience) can know what’s going on. If they aren’t the stereotypical Mad Scientist creating wacky gadgets or Tampering In God’s Domain, they’re the Absent-Minded Professor who is socially awkward and treated as Comic Relief. Science and scientists rarely get proper treatment by Hollywood.
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