Dr. James Murray (Mel Gibson) was invited by Oxford University Press to compile the Oxford English Dictionary. This is a huge project. It is impossible to collect and organize hundreds of thousands of words with the efforts of a few members of the editorial team. Dr. Murray, who came from a commoner, has pioneered the model of national participation, allowing all English speakers to work together. Collect term definitions and mail them to the editing team. Although there is support from the whole people, the compilation is still difficult. For more than 20 years, the editing team has received nearly 10,000 quotations from a doctor named Miner (Sean Penn)—a workload that has surpassed that of professional scholars. When the first volume of the dictionary was published, Dr. Murray came to thank him, only to find out that Dr. Miner was a military doctor during the American Civil War who was incarcerated in a mental hospital for manslaughter due to schizophrenia.
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