a beautiful mind
A Beautiful Mind, by Ron Howard (2001)
When we talk about Russel Crowe, we always have in
mind the invincible Maximus in the middle of the Colosseum, grappling with a
handful of gladiators. Yet, a year after Ridley Scott's Gladiator , it's
another role he plays in Ron Howard's Outstanding Man, a 2001 Oscar-winning
film. Here, no warlike values or bloody battles: Russel Crowe embodies the
illustrious mathematician John Nash, born in 1928 and still alive.
The film begins in the 50s, at the entrance of
John Nash in a prestigious school. We notice immediately this character who
detonates among all the other sophisticated students. Nash is an exceptionally
gifted, but at the expense of his relationships with others: unsteady gait,
fleeing look, both curious and clumsy with girls, "[ he] only looks at the
whole world ." He is obsessed with his research and for example spends
hours observing pigeons to determine an algorithm capable of defining their
movement. He wants to find the idea that will propel him to the fore, but he
does not succeed and begins to sink into depression. His roommate, Charles,
invites him to open up to the world and not to stay locked in the library.
Thus, trying to find the best way to approach a beautiful blonde in a bar, he
develops his "Theory of games", which has upset the doctrines of the
economist Adam Smith.
He is now recognized among his peers as a
brilliant mathematician, and here he is summoned to the Pentagon during the
Cold War to decipher Soviet codes hidden in magazines and newspapers.Parallel
to his activity, he marries one of his students, Alicia, to whom he says
nothing of his work classified "defense secret". But the Russians
want to get rid of this embarrassing mathematician. He is now spied on,
followed and tracked. While he was giving a lecture, he was forcibly taken away
by a man, psychiatrist Rosen, who reveals to him his paranoid schizophrenia.
There has never been a roommate named Charles, there has never been a Soviet
conspiracy and there have never been any hidden codes in the newspapers, except
in Pr Nash's head.
We enter here in the second part of the film and
we totally leave the light atmosphere of the university era. Psychiatrist Rosen
tries to get his wife to understand Nash's illness: " Imagine that you
suddenly learn, that the people, the places, the most important moments for
you, are neither past nor dead, but worse, imagine they never existed . We are
now following the evolution of Nash with his illness. Like him, we no longer
distinguish real and imaginary and we witness, helpless, the dangerous
consequences for those around him. It's a real descent into hell for this
mathematician who can not even reason - his only reason to live. He will never
be able to completely get rid of his hallucinations, but will be able to
cohabit with them and regain control of his mind. He will win the Nobel Prize
in 1994.
This film is quite surprising, carried by a
haunting soundtrack that gives the film an almost fantastic atmosphere. Russel
Crowe is amazing and unexpected. It was hard to imagine this actor interpreting
a schizophrenic mathematician. He manages admirably to recreate the psychic
disorder of the character with a simple look. The film clearly shows the
evolution of the disease and the different stages that the hero must go through
to overcome his illness, and that is what makes him an exceptional man .
In 1947, studying mathematics at Princeton
University, John Forbes Nash Jr., a brilliant student, developed his economic
theory of games. For him, fluctuations in the financial markets can be
calculated very precisely.
In the early fifties, his work and teaching at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology did not go unnoticed and a representative
of the Department of Defense, William Parcher, came to him to offer to help
secretly the United States. John's mission is to decipher in the press the
secret messages of Russian spies, supposed to prepare a nuclear attack on the
American territory. He quickly devotes all his time, at the expense of his life
as a couple with Alicia.
This job is not without risks: enemy agents
monitor his every move. But nobody believes it.
John Forbes Nash Jr is a brilliant but asocial
mathematician. He agrees to work in secret cryptography but his work becomes an
obsession.
Casting: main actorsAn exceptional man
Russell CroweJohn Nash
Ed HarrisParcher
Jennifer ConnellyAlicia Nash
Christopher PlummerDr. Rosen
Paul BettanyCharles
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The American mathematician John Nash, winner of
the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994 and who inspired the film An Exceptional
Man with Russell Crowe in 2001, died in a car crash on Saturday in the United
States. He was 86 years old.
His wife Alicia, whom he married in 1957, also
died in a road accident that occurred on a highway in New Jersey (eastern USA),
the police said. Both were ejected from the taxi in which they were and whose
driver lost control.
John Nash was known for his mathematical work on
game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, earning
him the distinction of being awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.
In private life, this genius mathematician
suffered from paranoid schizophrenia since the end of the 1950s, a mental
illness that would force him to undergo many stays in psychiatric hospitals
throughout his life, while continuing his research and his works.
His life and his difficulties had inspired a book,
A Beautiful Mind, adapted to the cinema (under the French title A man of
exception) in 2001 by the director Ron Howard, with the Australian actor
Russell Crowe in the role of John Nash. The film won four Oscars in 2002 (Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly
as Alicia Nash), and John Nash and his wife Alicia attended the Oscars.
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