A Beautiful Mind - genius and madness

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Movie
German title A Beautiful Mind - genius and madness
Original title A beautiful mind
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 135 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Ron Howard
script Akiva Goldsman
production Brian Grazer
Ron Howard
music James Horner
camera Roger Deakins
cut Daniel P. Hanley
Mike Hill
occupation
John Forbes Nash Jr. (2006)
Russell Crowe, October 2005

A Beautiful Mind - genius and madness is an American movie director Ron Howard from the year 2001 . In the film the real life story of particular is game theory known mathematician John Forbes Nash outlined that on the eponymous biography A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar based.

action

The film begins with Nash's student days at Princeton , where he already enjoys the reputation of a math genius but leads an outsider existence. During this time he also met his wife at the chair. Since his studies he has suffered from a schizophrenic psychosis that leads him more and more into the delusion that he is deciphering the codes of Soviet agents on the secret mission of the American government . His roommate is also just a delusion, triggered by schizophrenia. Finally the collapse follows, Nash is admitted to the closed psychiatry . There he is treated with insulin, which puts him in an artificial coma and triggers shocks. When he comes home from the clinic, his wife takes care of him, but is pushed to the limits of her own stress. It was not until the 1990s that he celebrated a much-noticed comeback, largely recovered from his illness, which finally culminated in the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 1994.

Soundtracks

The music was composed and conducted by James Horner .

No. title
1. A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics
2. Playing a Game of 'Go!'
3. Looking for the Next Great Idea
4th Creating 'Governing Dynamics'
5. Cracking the Russian Codes
6th Nash Descends into Parcher's World
7th First drop-off, first kiss
8th. The Car Chase
9. Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World
10. Real or Imagined?
11. Of One Heart, of One Mind
12. Saying Goodbye to Those You So Love
13. Teaching Mathematics Again
14th The Prize of One's Life ... The Prize of One's Mind
15th All Love Can Be
16. Closing credits

implementation

In the movie

Nash is portrayed as an eccentric from the start, but his increasing delusions are initially very plausibly embedded in the plot, i.e. H. the viewer experiences Nash's perception as part of cinematic reality. Only later does the point of view change to the point of view of his fellow human beings, whereupon his office or a “computer center”, for example, is transformed into what it really is: a confused mess of papers created during the delusional phases of his illness. Nash's delusional characters (represented e.g. by Ed Harris) also appear as initially believable characters and only turn out to be fantasy figures in the course of the film. Even so, throughout the film there is evidence to the viewer that John Nash is going through a madness. For example, he mentioned to his maniac, FBI agent William Parcher, that the storage rooms, in which the computer center is supposed to be located, are empty according to the university briefing. Ultimately, the clearest indication that the delusional Marcee is not getting older is his key to recognizing his illness.

Differences from biography

The film has taken some artistic liberties in favor of the typical Hollywood dramaturgy.

  • In the film, the marriage between John Nash and his wife lasts at least until the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize is awarded. In real life, however, the couple divorced in 1963 and only remarried in the year the film was released. Nash's promiscuous gay escapades are also not mentioned in the film.
  • John Nash's older son from a pre-marriage relationship with Alicia Lardé is not mentioned in the film.
  • The paranoia that is part of the clinical picture is directed against Soviet agents in the film . However , according to Nash biographer Sylvia Nasar , his outbursts were anti-Semitic .
  • His trips to Paris, Geneva and London, which would have characterized him as cosmopolitan, are not mentioned in the film.
  • The victory of the mind over his illness, which he goes through in the film together with his wife, is inevitably brought to a head and is a motif of this film.

criticism

“It made sense that Hollywood became aware of the mad professor's suffering. Romanticized and ironed out, the changeful life of the probability theorist conceals several components of success: authenticity, heart, pain, thrill. You know what you have, especially if you play it safe with the director: Ron Howard showed u. a. in ' Apollo 13 ', what a strong material the heroes are made of. But it just became too much of a good thing. 'A Beautiful Mind' is now a bit of everything - love story, spy thriller, drama - and therefore nothing right, especially not the fantastic journey into the head of a disturbed genius. The fact that the game of confusion moves deeply in its best moments is thanks to the intense interaction between Oscar winner Russell Crowe as the number leader and Jennifer Connelly as his long-suffering wife Alicia. "

- TV movie

“Clever tricks of the script that involved Nash in a dangerous government mandate during the Cold War , as well as brilliant acting, grab the audience's attention. Of course, director Ron Howard thinks more about invoking pity and sentimentality than questioning disease and genius. "

- Lexicon of international film

“It's the simply great performances that make 'A Beautiful Mind' worth seeing. […] And the Australian Crowe really does masterfully manage to give this fragile, torn and vulnerable character a subtle and believable shape. With every moment you take the young, eccentric mathematician from him, who proves himself to be a spirit of visionary format in the field of abstract thinking, but appears in the real world, in interpersonal life as a clumsy, awkward and neurotic acting eccentric. "

- movie starts

Awards

Academy Awards 2002

Golden Globe Awards 2002

British Academy Film Awards 2002

Satellite Awards 2001

  • Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Connelly
  • Best film song: "All Love Can Be" - (interpreted by) Charlotte Church
  • further nominations:
    • Best Actor (Drama) : Russell Crowe
    • Best Supporting Actor (Drama): Ed Harris
    • Best Adapted Screenplay: Akiva Goldsman
    • Best Score: James Horner
    • Best film editing

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

In addition, the film has received numerous other nominations and prizes (see IMDb Awards).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for A Beautiful Mind - Genie und Wahnsinn . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ http://www.tvspielfilm.de/filmlexikon/?type=filmdetail&film_id=413635
  3. ↑ A Beautiful Mind - Genius and Madness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/36168-A-Beautiful-Mind.html
  5. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/awards