The movies Erin Brockovich (2000) and Flash of Genius (2008) can both be easily compared to as modern day story of “David and Goliath.” In Erin Brockovich, a legal assistant almost single-handedly brings down a California Power Company accused of polluting a city's water supply and in Flash of Genius; Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. Both characters represent the little people taking on the mighty corporations in a fight for the little people of epic proportions.
Erin Brockovich, who ends up working for a law firm to make money for her family, discovers that a big time California Power Company is secretly trying to hide the fact from citizens are getting sick from polluted ground water from the Power Plant. Together Brockovich and the firm seek legit compensation from the Power Company to pay medical expenses and help people to move away from the affected area.
The Character, Robert Kearns, is a one man army attacking the Detroit Car Companies for supposedly stealing his intermitted windshield wiper design. He seeks to be recognized as the original creator at the cost of friends, family and his mental health. Where the Brockovich story was about the good of the many, the Kearns story is more about the good of the one. 
No comments:
Post a Comment