Welcome to the not-old-better show. I'm Paul Vogel-Sang and this is episode

number 399. As part of our Movies for Adults Interview and Review series. I saw the film

Current War and want to give you my review and comments about the film. We're listening

to some of the music from the film now. Now historically this is a

thrilling story. Three brilliant visionaries Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and

Nikolai Tesla set off to change the world in a charged battle for

the future of electricity in the current war, which is an epic story about the cutthroat competition that literally

lit up the modern world. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Thomas Edison, the celebrity, who's on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan

with his radical new DC-based technology.

On the eve of the Triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse,

who believes he and his partner, the Upstart Genius Nikolai Tesla, have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify

America with a C-based current. As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power the nation, they spark one of the first and

greatest corporate feuds in American history, establishing for future Titans of Industry the need to break all the rules.

Of course this was all going on in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

The Introduction Electricity offered these two competing systems of electric

power transmission, a powerful and individual backed system.

The competitors get embroiled in a nasty confrontation as each of them fights to ensure his system

would become the industry standard.

Now in the book of the same name, author Adam Klein gives a fascinating account of a commercial and

technological feud that involved a public debate over the safety of electricity, an aggressive and deceitful propaganda campaign, and the introduction

of the electric chair.

The current war, the movie, is badly told in my opinion and was an interesting surprising given the story.

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