Stephen Hawking Wife
Jane Hawking, Stephen Hawking's first wife, has reported that an acclaimed film about their 30-year marriage inaccurately depicted their relationship.
Stephen Hawking Wife - Despite Hawking's appeals to producers to remain true to her book, inaccuracies were required to keep the running time to a minimum, according to her memoir Traveling to Infinity, which was used as a source for James Marsh's The Theory of Everything (2014).
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"I knew any mistakes in the film would be immortalized, and they have," she said.
Hawking said at the Henley Literature Festival, "I found it really annoying and I didn't want it to happen." Never put your faith in something you see on TV.”
The Theory of Everything followed the couple's life together from their first meeting in 1962 until he left her for a career 30 years later. Hawking's widow has criticized the film for compressing events and characters, as well as the circumstances of Hawking's first meeting (in St Albans, not Cambridge; Jane was a schoolgirl rather than a student).
Hawking was enraged by what she saw as a dismissal of the practical difficulties she faced in caring for her husband and three small children while attending physics conferences around the world.
"The movie is just a slice of our lives in Cambridge," she said. “Our many foreign trips were completely ignored – for example, our honeymoon was spent in upstate New York at Cornell University for a physics conference.
“I'm sorry to say that none of these long journeys are portrayed in The Theory of All, which involves all of the planning, packing, shipping, and travelling for a family with a chronically ill member, as well as day-to-day care.
I demanded a hurried fast-forward version – even only loading all of our suitcases, wheelchairs, and passengers into the car to represent this pivotal moment in our lives – but was told that this was not possible due to time constraints.”
When the film was first released, Hawking expressed concerns about "the sacrifices that one has to make for the film industry" and the fact that "I didn't seem to have any friends or connections at all." She did, however, praise the performers and call the film "beautiful."
Others were irritated by the adaptation's overt dismissal of Jane's role in Stephen's life and work. Michelle Dean was dissatisfied with the film, arguing that it did not sufficiently explore Jane's reasons for foregoing much of her early academic goals in order to support her husband. She also chastised them for maintaining a "orderly" relationship.
“However, rather than delving into the interesting texture of a marriage, The Theory of All is hell-bent on retaining the cliché: it tells you that Jane Hawking politely and gratefully parted ways with him when it became obvious that their love for each other had become a casualty of the strain. The end of their relationship is depicted in the film as a short, tear-filled, mutually respectful discussion.
“Of course, none of that took place. Jane's story is about a long-distance breakup that culminates in a shouting brawl while on vacation.”
