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...Beautiful Mind’s chances of nabbing the top prizes. Universal chief Stacy Snider’s expert response to the campaign has molded the issue into an attack on Nash himself, which will naturally make the hearts of Oscar voters melt with sentiment for the aging mathematician. It has moved far beyond the movie, which itself is a rather boring, clichéd piece of film-flam. Howard embraced practically every heart-tugging Hollywood tradition to make a film not only lacking historical accuracy, but more importantly lacking conviction and ingenuity. The performances were dry and predictable...
...original. Yes, there is a “Best Original Screenplay” category, but the Academy really isn’t too big on original thought. Give us Frodo. Give us three standard relationship stories, but with a tragic twist to them. Make one about schizophrenic mathematician John Nash. Give another one of them a midlife crisis. Make one of them a smitten William Shakespeare. Then, put them on the Titanic. Or, borrow something else that is already favorably positioned in the American consciousness. Who doesn’t love Lord of the Rings...
Despite all the shortcomings of the Academy Awards, 40 million of us will still tune in Sunday night. After all, there’s something special about the possibility that a gladiator-turned-mathematician might take home Hollywood’s greatest prize—so special that I’ll be glad to stay awake through every last musical number...
...Beautiful Mind CRITICISM Where to begin? In the grand tradition of sanitized biopics, the film about genius mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. omits his illegitimate child and his alleged liaisons with men, as well as his divorce from and remarriage to Alicia Nash, who helps him battle schizophrenia. RESPONSE Scriptwriter Akiva Goldsman says the 'architecture' of Nash's life mattered more...
...often advised to learn to play Go, a game of strategy that serves as a social icebreaker and offers insights into Japanese culture. Invented 4,000 years ago in China, Go has won new prominence through a scene in the movie A Beautiful Mind. The main character, a brilliant mathematician played by Russell Crowe, tries to conquer Go--and loses. Played with black and white stones, Go looks like a giant game of checkers, but its aficionados say it is more complicated than chess. Although players try to capture opponents' stones, the larger aim is to gain as much territory...