Bill Nye opens up about his past as a hero of children's television and discusses his efforts to promote climate science and rational thinking in the trailer for the new documentary, Bill Nye: Science Guy.
In the first half of the clip, Nye talks about studying under Carl Sagan and how the famed astronomer helped him develop his beloved PBS show, Bill Nye the Science Guy. "He said, 'Kids resonate to science' and I really embraced that." While The Science Guy ended in 1998, Nye remains an influential and recognizable figure,...
In the first half of the clip, Nye talks about studying under Carl Sagan and how the famed astronomer helped him develop his beloved PBS show, Bill Nye the Science Guy. "He said, 'Kids resonate to science' and I really embraced that." While The Science Guy ended in 1998, Nye remains an influential and recognizable figure,...
- 9/28/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Bill Nye: Science Guy offers an intimate, behind the bow tie look at the eccentric and flawed star of the public television series he co-created with James McKenna and Erren Gottlieb. Directed by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg, the documentary shows us a man quite literally struggling to come back in an anti-science environment. McKenna and Gottlieb, once burned by Nye’s attempt to launch a pilot with a different set of producers, posit the theory that his fatal flaw is he misses the limelight. Nye at least is working through his insecurities — having left him single and unable to achieve intimacy in his relationships — with a therapist as he transitions, to quote friend Neil deGrasse Tyson, from “Bill Nye: The Science Guy to Bill Nye: Science Statesman.”
It isn’t all doom and gloom as the documentary injects Nye’s humor throughout. He takes on Ken Ham...
It isn’t all doom and gloom as the documentary injects Nye’s humor throughout. He takes on Ken Ham...
- 5/19/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
For the legions of elementary and middle school students who spent hours in science labs or living rooms watching “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” the goofy, bow-tied host at the show’s center might as well be a superhero. With his labcoat and legendary “inertia is a property of matter” earworm, he even has a cape and his own theme song. Two decades after the show left the airwaves, the state of the national scientific discourse has been Nye’s bat-signal, luring him back into the public eye.
As a result, “Bill Nye: Science Guy,” the latest from “The Immortalists” duo David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg, isn’t as much about the man himself as it is the world that he feels still needs him. The main thrust of Alvarado and Sussberg’s documentary centers on the grey area of the current scientific landscape that Nye currently occupies. Verging on...
As a result, “Bill Nye: Science Guy,” the latest from “The Immortalists” duo David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg, isn’t as much about the man himself as it is the world that he feels still needs him. The main thrust of Alvarado and Sussberg’s documentary centers on the grey area of the current scientific landscape that Nye currently occupies. Verging on...
- 3/13/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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