Word: nash
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Quite ironically, the smear campaign will probably increase A 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...
...center of the struggle is Ron Howard’s sugary biopic and Oscar frontrunner A Beautiful Mind, which has been the subject of an ongoing smear campaign by rival studios. Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge pounded the film’s subject, John Nash, for his supposed “anti-Semitism,” and ever since the film’s release it has been attacked for ignoring Nash’s apparent bisexuality and his illegitimate child with Jeannette Walls. Add to the mix the constant Moulin Rouge backlash and Gosford Park director Robert Altman?...
...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...
...usually motivates viewers to act or to realize something, but here I find myself at a loss, keenly aware of a social problem that I don’t know how to act upon. The accompanying poem, “Nature Abhors a Vacancy” by Ogden Nash, only deepens the sense of confusion: “You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx, / Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks, / From river to river you comb the town / For a place to lay your family down...
RESPONSE Scriptwriter Akiva Goldsman says the "architecture" of Nash's life mattered more than the facts...