Tesla (2020) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Nikola Tesla is the film’s central figure, an inventor whose work with alternating current, induction motors, Tesla coils, and wireless transmission drives the narrative. He works with Edison, partner...
Anne Morgan serves as the film’s narrator and Tesla’s closest personal observer. She explains his history, corrects the film’s imagined events, develops feelings for him, and discusses his ambitions d...
George Westinghouse is an inventor and businessman who buys Tesla’s patents and finances production of his alternating-current technology. He supports Tesla during the rivalry with Edison, but later t...
Thomas Edison is Tesla’s former employer and chief rival in the electrical-current contest. He dismisses Tesla’s alternating-current ideas, promotes direct current, and uses an electric-chair demonstr...
J.P. Morgan is a powerful financier and Anne Morgan’s father. He asks Anne whether Tesla is romantically interested in her, invests in Tesla’s Colorado invention by giving him a check, and later refus...
William Kemmler is the condemned prisoner used in Edison’s campaign against alternating current. After killing his wife, he is subjected to an electric-chair execution presented as evidence that Westi...
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Edison demonstrates the Westinghouse invention as a capital-punishment tool on William Kemmler, whose electric-chair execution is later botched.
The plot identifies Anne as the daughter of J.P. Morgan, and J.P. Morgan asks her whether Tesla is interested in romancing her.
Anne gets to know Tesla, discusses whether he may be interested in her, and later realizes that she has no future with him.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
The plot places Edison and J.P. Morgan within the same industrial world while contrasting Edison's business losses with Morgan's financing decisions.
Tesla's alternating-current demonstrations are presented alongside Edison's use of the technology in Kemmler's execution.
Edison uses the Westinghouse invention in Kemmler's capital-punishment demonstration, and the execution is described as botched.
J.P. Morgan invests in Tesla's invention by giving him a check, but later declines Tesla's request for more funding.
Westinghouse shares a rivalry challenge from Edison, who claims direct current is superior and alternating current is dangerous.
Westinghouse buys Tesla's patents and funds production, with Tesla receiving royalties for products installed in homes.
Tesla works for Edison in New York, but Edison rejects Tesla's support for alternating current and refuses to pay him for the invention.
A fragmented biographical portrait of Nikola Tesla's inventions, rivalries, emotional distance, financial reversals, and enduring legacy.
Directed by Michael Almereyda
Tesla (2020) · 5.8/10 · drama, history
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