Top ten movie inventors

Science wasn’t Boxwish’s strong suit at school, (instead we stared out the window and replayed our favourite films in our heads), but thankfully there are some folk out there with a talent for innovation and the movies are chock full of them. These often wild-haired brainboxes vary from those truly pushing the boundaries of possibility to others more content to create realistic, practical gadgets and yet we love them all. And joining this list of imaginative free-thinkers is Mark Bellison, the latest comic creation of Ricky Gervais (TV’s The Office and Extras) in new chucklefest The Invention of Lying.

And what is writer Mark’s great achievement? Only the ability to tell lies in an alternate reality where the art of the fib has yet to be discovered. Yes, it’s a world of total and brutal honesty with Mark alone capable of bending the truth. Sounds like quite the brainwave, and so to honour this hilarious new development, we’re remembering some of cinema’s other pioneering inventors.