In the film Edison the Man, Edison was portrayed a man who worked as a loving man who loved his family and would spend time with them and his wife, even though it was not true in real life. But he was portrayed a man who did love to invent and worked on his lab most of the time. He would start off as a man with a couple coins in his pocket and build a whole house and lab with the inventions he had.
In the film it shows that Edison invented his inventions in a matter of no time, when in reality it tooks years for him to complete his inventions. Edison was portrayed in the fim as if he came upon his inventions by accident. When in the film, the janitor i think messes up one of the inventions and Edison uses it to invent the phonograph and again when he was looking for a filament and would humorously use the one of the workers beards. But Edison would actually work on his experiments through his knowledge and theories.
