Aug 6, 2010
Watch The Oxford Murders is a French/British/Belgium/Spanish 2008 thriller film directed by Álex de la Iglesia. It is adapted from the novel of the same name by the Argentine mathematician and writer Guillermo Martínez. The film stars Elijah Wood, John Hurt and Leonor Watling.
Wood on Watch The Oxford Murders Free plays Martin, an American student at the University of Oxford who wants Arthur Seldom (Hurt) as his thesis supervisor. He idolises Seldom and has learned all about him. He takes rooms in Oxford at the house of an old lady, Mrs. Eagleton (Anna Massey), who is an old friend of Seldom. Also in the house is the old lady’s daughter, Beth (Julie Cox), who is her full time caregiver — which she resents bitterly — and a musician by occupation.
In a public lecture on Watch The Oxford Murders Movie, Seldom quotes Wittgenstein’s Tractatus to deny the possibility of absolute truth. Hoping to impress his idol, Martin disputes this, asserting his faith in the absolute truth of mathematics: “I believe in the number pi.” Seldom humiliates him, ridiculing his arguments and making him look foolish in front of the audience. Disillusioned, Martin decides to abandon his studies and goes to his office to collect his belongings. There, he encounters his office-mate, a disillusioned mathematician Podorov (Burn Gorman), who also failed to become a student of Seldom’s.
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Martin on Watch The Oxford Murders Online then returns to his residence, where he finds Seldom arriving to visit Mrs. Eagleton. The two men enter the house together and find Martin’s landlady murdered. Seldom tells the police that he had received a note with his friend’s address marked as “the first of a series”. As Seldom is an authority on logical series, he argues that a serial killer is using murder as a way to challenge his intelligence. Martin and Seldom discuss how easily the murder of the old lady might have been overlooked, particularly as she already suffered from terminal cancer, and Martin suggests that the murderer is committing ‘imperceptible murders’.
Martin, Seldom and Lorna (Leonor Watling), a Spanish nurse with whom Martin has struck up a relationship, try to solve the mathematical clues as the murders continue. They have to contend with police suspicion, a rising body count and tensions between the three of them. There is a wide range of suspects, from the three principal characters to the mathematician and the old lady’s daughter. The solution lies in the mathematical concepts, but there are many twists along the way as Martin learns the truths behind reality.
Streaming Watch The Oxford Murders
Streaming Watch The Oxford Murders is a Spanish-French-British-Belgium production directed by Spanish Álex de la Iglesia. Before the confirmation of Elijah Wood in the film, the Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal had been considered for the role of the mathematics student. There were some weeks of speculation on who would play the lead. On 26 December 2006 Tornasol Films announced that Wood was cast in the lead role. The director Alex de la Iglesia commented that he convinced Wood to accept the role for the script. De la Iglesia also praised Wood: “I’m delighted to work with Elijah, who undoubtedly has the most powerful eyes in the industry and who is perfect for the part”.
British actor John Hurt was cast in the role of a professor of the university, who helps the young student in his quest to try to stop a series of murders. Actor Michael Caine had been considered for this role. De la Iglesia described daily in his blog the peculiar situations that happened during the production of the film. The film is his first foray outside his typical black comedy genre into more dramatic fare. Filming began on 22 January 2007 and finished on 24 March, with locations in Oxford and the Cast Courts of the Victoria and Albert Museum of London.
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