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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?...
...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...
...right time of the year. Memento hit the U.S. last March, far too early in the Oscar calendar for it to remain in the minds of fickle voters. Especially since, as Rule 3 suggests, remembering it would have made their heads hurt. With the 60 Minutes feature on Nash last Sunday—a mere two days before Oscar ballots were due—A Beautiful Mind is getting just the right amount of attention at the right time. The publicity it has received has only pushed the other nominees further and further from the public consciousness...
...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...