Paul Morphy: A movie/film

It would be a good film if it successfully conveyed the conjectured cause of his abrupt and early retirement - TRAUMA.

His mother came from French/Creole "stock", and his father came from Spanish/Irish "stock". Therefore, his skin would have a little "colour" to it. As he did not have any American/African genes, it would be highly unlikely that master Paul would have an excessive amount of Melanin in his skin. A Latino complexion would have been more than likely, no ?

color tech could render in a proper melanin onto morphy which would contrast to that of his opponent sitting opposite him....we'll get a better idea.

The guy looks aware of what is about to reach him...

Probably so, though Morphy was primarily Irish/French.  Rumors of Paul's black ethnicity came about from James M'Cune Smith's little article on Morphy  which itself was conjecture and possibly an unconscious attempt to identify with a man people at that time were calling one of the few geniuses of that time.

That guy's John Jacob Lowenthal.

I think Terrence Howard would make a good Morphy.

Maybe Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Not a patzer anyway.

Yeah, there does not seem to be an overly excessive amount of Melanin in master Paul's pale-looking skin. He looks somewhat paler than the gentleman he is playing, the renowned Hungarian master, Herr Johannes Jacob lowentaal....( whom a younger 13 year-old Paul defeated )

I think this photograph was taken during a match in London, 1858. Perhaps Paul's pallid skin tone was due to the underwhelming amount of Ultra-violet radiation that can be found ( or not )  in the United Kingdom.

Or maybe it was the camera flash.

or,judging from the shadows in the picture, it could be the lighting coming in at 17 o'clock angle from where Morphy is sitting which lights up his face disproportionately ...either way I think color tech could render the proper color gradients...

During that time, but the photograph was staged and taken at a photographer's studio.

So you think Morphy's life isn't interesting at all..? o.0

Seems like that! There are so many episodes in chess history that could make a great film... I'd love to watch one about the McDonnell - La Bourdounnais matches.

An d the reasoning behind your thinking ?

Or , are you being deliberately contentious ?

Yes, why not Blackburne throwing Steinitz off the window?

ok, that figures, you don't know what you're talking about

So, a life is empty and meaningless if there is no sex and violence ?

Are you serious ?

He didn't have much drama to his life ?

You obviously have not read any of the Paul Morphy biographies, otherwise you would not make such spurious statements like " just played chess for a while ....."

Or are you employing irony ? If so, I doff my cap to you. You had me going there for a minute, you sly so and so.

In a Brothel.

There's considerable research that suggest that the typical white person in Louisiana is 1/16 black. But that research concerned the typical person in the late twentieth century, not Morphy's day.

See http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/30/us/suit-on-race-recalls-lines-drawn-under-slavery.html