Movie:A Beautiful Mind

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Posted: 7/7/2002 12:05:49 AM EDT

Just watched this movie and I thought it was excellent. However I noticed at the end it said something about him still walking around princeton. Now was this movie completely fiction and they just put that in there at the end to show that they "lived happily ever after" or was this a true story?

Posted: 7/7/2002 12:18:05 AM EDT

[#1]

I just researched it and it turned out to be true.

Posted: 7/7/2002 10:34:50 AM EDT

[#2]

VERY good movie!!

Posted: 7/7/2002 10:41:15 AM EDT

[#3]

Very good movie!

True story as well. I can't believe Crowe lost to Washington over best actor...

Posted: 7/7/2002 10:42:24 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Very good movie!

True story as well. I can't believe Crowe lost to Washington over best actor...

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That was probably a race thing.

Posted: 7/7/2002 10:44:16 AM EDT

[#5]

My work pard said it was a good movie also. But when I read the back of the video box and look at the title, it sure don't sound like a movie I would like.

I'll have to give it a try now. Thanks guys.

Posted: 7/7/2002 10:50:11 AM EDT

[#6]

It wasn't what I thought.
I guess I really didn't know what it was about when I rented it but I thought it mostly sucked.

Posted: 7/7/2002 10:54:37 AM EDT

[#7]

I thought it was a great movie. Although they altered the story line some what, it's a true story.

Posted: 7/7/2002 11:02:01 AM EDT

[#8]

I thought it was pretty good, but I wished the whole secret government thing had been true, it would have been more interesting...

Posted: 7/7/2002 4:07:52 PM EDT

[#9]

this has some info on Nash Equilibrium
[url]http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~sbraynov/e-commerce/lectures/lecture20_pdf.pdf[/url]

we learned a little about it in my E-Commerce class. Then when I saw the movie and he started describing it in the bar I realized that I knew a little about who the movie was about

Posted: 7/20/2002 6:29:48 AM EDT

[#10]

in typical Hollywood fashion, they left out some aspects of his life that are fact:

1. Alicia and Dr. Nash divorced after three years of Nash's schizophrenia.

2. Nash's son (John jr.) eventually developed the same disease Dr. Nash had.

3. They remarried in the spring of 2001 after being divorced for 38 years.

i too enjoyed the movie, actually got a bit emotional (just a bit), and decided to read more about the person, his wife and his Game Theory. very interesting.

two thumbs up and a toe.

ALICIA and JOHN

[img]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/peopleevents/images/p_anash1.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/nash.jpg[/img]

Posted: 7/20/2002 7:34:03 PM EDT

[#11]

I bought the awards edition which had a second DVD with more extras, Mr. Nash accepting the Nobel and interviews. Pretty cool.

I heard that something schiz's can do to help themselves is carry a walkman and listen to music. Keeps the mind busy and doesn't let the voices have center stage. Works for me too! [>:/]

Posted: 7/21/2002 2:02:51 PM EDT

[#12]

I just got the DVD and enjoyed it very much.

You actually get to believe the Soviet bomb plot and get the rug pulled out from under you sort of like Nash did.

In reality, Nash does not remember what the actual topic of his dilusions was, so the bomb plot is made up.

Got this from the "bonus" DVD mentioned above.

Also, I never noticed that when the little girl was dancing around the pigions in the park, they never flew. Another clue that she was not real - part of his dilusion - like the fact that she never got older.

Here's a fact-filled review of the film that I found in another post (some strange stuff):
[url]www.sierratimes.com/02/01/17/rockyd.htm[/url]

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