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| Year: | 2001 |
| Rating: | 8.0(125792) |
| Listed in: | Biography, Drama |
| Directed by: | Ron Howard |
| Actors: | Russell Crowe Ed Harris Christopher Plummer Paul Bettany Adam Goldberg Jennifer Connelly |
| "Wenn die Realität sich gegen Dich verschworen hat, ist nichts mehr sicher... (If reality has ganged up on you, nothing is safe anymore...)" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Ron Howard | |
| Actors | |
| Russell Crowe | as John Nash |
| Ed Harris | as Parcher |
| Christopher Plummer | as Dr. Rosen |
| Paul Bettany | as Charles |
| Adam Goldberg | as Sol |
| Josh Lucas | as Hansen |
| Anthony Rapp | as Bender |
| Jason Gray-Stanford | as Ainsley |
| Judd Hirsch | as Helinger |
| Austin Pendleton | as Thomas King |
| Victor Steinbach | as Professor Horner |
| Thomas F. Walsh | as Captain |
| Jesse Doran | as General |
| Kent Cassella | as Analyst |
| Patrick Blindauer | as MIT Student |
| John Blaylock | as Photographer |
| Roy Thinnes | as Governor |
| Anthony Easton | as Young Man |
| Rance Howard | as White-Haired Patient |
| Darius Stone | as Adjunct |
| Josh Pais | as Princeton Professor |
| Alex Toma | as Toby |
| Teagle F. Bougere | as Young Professor |
| David B. Allen | as John Nash Jr. - Teenager |
| Michael Esper | as John Nash Jr. - Young Man |
| Isadore Rosenfeld | as Pen Ceremony Professor |
| Tommy Allen | as Pen Ceremony Professor |
| Dave Bayer | as Pen Ceremony Professor |
| Brian Keith Lewis | as Pen Ceremony Professor |
| Tom McNutt | as Pen Ceremony Professor |
| Will Dunham | as Pen Ceremony Professor |
| Glenn Roberts | as Pen Ceremony Professor |
| Ed Jupp Jr. | as Pen Ceremony Professor |
| Christopher Stockton | as Princeton Student |
| Gregory Dress | as Princeton Student |
| Matt Samson | as Princeton Student |
| Stelio Savante | as Technician |
| Logan McCall | as Technician |
| Bob Broder | as Technician |
| Michael Abbott Jr. | as Princeton Library Tutor |
| Reggie Austin | as Pen Ceremony Professor |
| Lloyd Baskin | as Professor |
| Sean Bennett | as Student |
| Cade Bittner | as Harvard Student |
| James Thomas Bligh | as Nobel Prize Attendee |
| Rich Bryant | as College Student |
| Dan Chen | as Nobel Prize Ceremony Guest |
| Scott Addison Clay | as MIT Student |
| Sean Dillon | as MIT Student |
| Jonah Falcon | as Mental Patient |
| Fabrizio Fante | as Harvard Student |
| Scott Fernstrom | as Trent Humphres |
| Michael Fiore | as MIT Student |
| Mike Fitzgerald | as Princeton Student |
| Gregory Gordon | as Student |
| Evan Hart | as Princeton Student |
| Jason Horton | as Princeton Student |
| Ron Howard | as Man at Gouverners Ball |
| Dory Manzour | as Princeton Student |
| Charles McClelland | as Man at Nobel Ceremony |
| Jon M. McDonnell | as Bar Patron |
| Robert Myers | as Professor |
| Charles Pendelton | as Bartender |
| Reed Penney | as MIT Student |
| Michael C. Pierce | as Radio Operator |
| Mills Pierre | as Princeton Student |
| Sean Reid | as Harvard Student |
| Ned Stuart | as Professor |
| Dave Sweeney | as Campus Cop |
| Alessandro Tanaka | as Student Admirer |
| Douglas Taurel | as Princeton Student |
| John H. Tobin | as Shadow Figure |
| Jeffrey Christopher Todd | as Princeton Student |
| Erik Van Wyck | as Princeton Student |
| Warner Wolf | as Award Ceremony Bystander |
| Actresses | |
| Jennifer Connelly | as Alicia Nash |
| Vivien Cardone | as Marcee |
| Jillie Simon | as Bar Co-Ed |
| Tanya Clarke | as Becky |
| Cheryl Howard | as Harvard Administrator |
| Jane Jenkins | as Code-Red Nurse |
| Valentina Cardinalli | as Joyce |
| Eva Burkley | as Girl at Bar |
| Amy Walz | as Blond in Bar |
| Tracey Toomey | as Brunette |
| Jennifer Weedon | as Brunette |
| Yvonne Thomas | as Brunette |
| Holly Pitrago | as Brunette |
| Carla Occhiogrosso | as Princeton Student |
| Lyena Nomura | as Princeton Student |
| Kathleen Fellegara | as Insulin Treatment Nurse |
| Betsy Klompus | as Insulin Treatment Nurse |
| Fileena Bahris | as Student |
| Berly Ellis | as Princeton Tutor '78 |
| Susan Quigley | as Nobel Prize Attendee |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 26 March 2001 - July 2001 |
| Budget: | USD 60,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 92,887,746 USD (27 January 2002) UK - 7,514,412 GBP (21 April 2002) Italy - 9,548,885 EUR (17 March 2002) Russia - 8,830,234 RUR (31 March 2002) Spain - 11,887,461 EUR (31 October 2002) |
| Plot: | 'John Nash (V)' (qv) goes through a myriad of highs and lows from his time as a Mathematics student in graduate school at Princeton in the late 1940's to his Nobel Prize win for Economics in 1994. A brilliant but somewhat arrogant and antisocial man, Nash preferred to spend his time with his thoughts, which were primarily of seeing mathematical formula associated with everyday occurrences, than with people. Two people he did make a connection with were Charles, his roommate at Princeton, and Alicia Larde, one of his students when he was teaching at M.I.T. in the early 1950's. He and Alicia eventually marry. As time goes on, Nash lives more and more within himself which causes major problems in his life. But Alicia stands by her husband to his redemption to the Nobel Prize win. Nash learns that his graduate school colleagues, with whom he had a cordial but somewhat distant relationship, are closer friends than he imagined, although in his later life he really does miss Charles' company more than anything despite knowing that spending time with Charles is not in his or anyone's best interest. |
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"All Love Can Be" Music by James Horner Lyric by Will Jennings Performed by Charlotte Church Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Limited "Columba aspexit" Written by Hildegard von Bingen (as Hildegard of Bingen) Performed by Emma Kirkby, Gothic Voices Edited and Directed by Christopher Page Courtesy of Hyperion Records Limited, London, England "Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331" (uncredited) (First Movement - Andante grazioso) Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Unknown performer |
Goofs
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DATE: In 1951 John Nash drinks from a paper cup with the "recycled" symbol on it. The symbol didn't come into use until much later. DATE: The light switch on the wall in John Nash and Alicia Nash's house is of a modern design. DATE: In the 1950s, Alicia Nash is shown in her kitchen with a Tupperware Wonderlier covered bowl that wasn't available until the 1970s. DATE: In John Nash 's neighborhood during the 1950s, one of the houses has a modern-day plastic telephone box on the outside. DATE: The baby's pacifier shown on the floor is clearly a Nuk orthodontic pacifier. This brand (made by Gerber) was not made available in the US until well into the 1960s. DATE: A plastic laundry basket appears in a scene taking place in the 1950s. Continuity: SPOILER: When Alicia Nash gives John Nash his medicine, she places it on a piece of newspaper from where it disappears and reappears before he takes it. Continuity: When the pens are being placed on John Nash 's table, they switch from being perpendicular to Nash to being parallel. DATE: In 1994 when John Nash is talking to the man about the Nobel Prize nomination and they are drinking tea, yellow packets of Splenda are clearly visible on the table. Splenda was not available in the U.S. until 1998. Continuity: The way John Nash is holding his briefcase changes between shots during the pen presentation. Continuity: When John Nash says that perhaps he should return to the hospital, he takes Alicia Nash's hand twice between shots. Continuity: In Nash's first lecture, the formula on the chalkboard changes between shots. An "f" changes to "F" and a superscript "3" appears. DATE: The aerial view of the Pentagon includes the modern-day helicopter landing pad. Fact errors: There is no "ceremony of the pens" at Princeton University. BOOM: As John Nash is talking to Martin Hansen in his office, the reflection of the boom can be seen in the frame of the picture in the background Continuity: When Nash is talking to the man about the Nobel Prize nomination and they are drinking tea, the spoon in the man's hand disappears and reappears between shots. Continuity: SPOILER: When Alicia Nash puts the medicine on the newspaper it is flat, but in the next shot one of the tablets is standing upwards. Continuity: In the first classroom scene, the movable blackboard is in a different raised position between shots. Revealing mistakes: Since the first outdoor scene at Princeton was filmed in winter, but is supposed to take place in the fall, CGI leaves were put on the trees. But the shadow of the trees have no leaves on them. Continuity: When Alicia drinks a glass of water in the bathroom she empties the glass. Cut to the next shot she splashes the wall with a good amount of water and then throws the glass, breaking it. Continuity: When Alicia Nash is comforting John Nash after his delusional breakdown at Princeton, she holds her hand out, and Nash places his left hand in hers. Next scene, he places his hand in hers again. Continuity: When John Nash is giving his speech at the Nobel Ceremony, the embroidery on the handkerchief in his pocket is visible then not visible between shots. DATE: In the first scene in his dorm room at Princeton, set in 1947, John Nash listens to a recording by the early-music ensemble Gothic Voices featuring soprano Emma Kirkby. The recording, of Hildegard von Bingen's "Columba aspexit," was not made until 1981; in fact, Emma Kirkby was not even born until 1949. Fact errors: Drottning Silvia (The Queen of Sweden) is not blonde but has black hair and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is not shorter than her. Continuity: SPOILER: When John Nash arrives at MIT after having come from the pentagon he is wearing a topcoat though everyone complains about the air-conditioning is broken and it followed by a scene in which opening windows because of the heat facilitates the film's "meet cute". However this might not be a gratuitous error but a foreshadowing of Nash's mental disturbances. Continuity: As John Nash walks on the Harvard campus on his way to the math conference (shortly before being chased by Rosen and his men), he drops his bag behind him to hug his roommate and the young girl. During his conversations with them, the bag remains on the ground. Within one second, just before Nash walks off, the bag goes from being on the ground to being clutched to his chest. Revealing mistakes: In the section set in March 1994, we see the trees a healthy green. In New Jersey, trees are still bare in March. Revealing mistakes: After Helinger tells John Nash he will not receive any placement, the camera pulls back on John as he stands in the doorway. The actor's 'T' mark can be seen on the floor to the far right of the screen where John had previously been standing. FAIR: A number of facts in John Nash 's life were intentionally altered for dramatic and commercial reasons. CHAR: Alfred Nobel's name is misspelled as "Noble" on the rostrum. CHAR: Even if the audience at the Nobel Prize ceremony would give a laureate a standing ovation, the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and his family, who sit on stage to the right, would never, ever rise. CHAR: In the Pentagon scene, where Dr. John Nash discovers the codes are map coordinates, one of the coordinates he reads off is "67-46-90", presumably in degrees, minutes and seconds. But in the degree-minute-second coordinate system, seconds go up only to 59, not 90. CHAR: Contrary to what the Nobel representative claims, "the Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel" is not privately funded. It is financed by the Swedish state bank. (The five "genuine" Nobel prizes are funded by the legacy of Alfred Nobel.) Fact errors: John Nash didn't receive the Nobel prize alone, but with colleague Reinhard Selten and Hungarian-born János Harsányi. "Game Theory" was initiated by Hungarian-born John von Neumann and Austrian-born Oskar Morgenstern in 1944. Fact errors: Strictly speaking, John Nash didn't win the Nobel Prize because there isn't a prize for Economics or Mathematics. (Alfred Nobel who willed his estate to the Nobel foundation saw no need for a prize in mathematics.) In 1969 the Swedish Central Bank established the "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". This prize is presented in the same ceremony and is therefore often mistaken for a proper Nobel Prize. It is even often referred to as the "Nobel Prize in Economics" in daily conversation; the fictional character of President Jed Bartlet on "The West Wing" (1999) was also presented as a Nobel Prize winner (for economics) with the show also not making the real-world distinctions. Continuity: When Nash and Parcher are walking to the warehouse the wide shot so well lit shows the right side of the stairway they pass as lit from behind the left wall. On the tighter shot when they actually cross in front of that stairway there is no light on the wall at all. Then in the wide shot again the light is there. |
Quotes
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Nash: In competitive behavior someone always loses. Charles: Well, my niece knows that, John, and she's about this high. Nash: See if I derive an equilibrium where prevalence is a non-singular event where nobody loses, can you imagine the effect that would have on conflict scenarios, arm negotiations... Charles: When did you last eat? Nash: ...currency exchange? Charles: When did you last eat? You know, food. Nash: You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that? Charles: Yes. But pizza - now, pizza I have enormous respect for. And of course beer. [leaves] Nash: [throws stuff down and follows] I have respect for beer. I have respect for beer! Hansen: Cowards, all of you. Come on. Whoever wins, Sol does his laundry for the semester. Sol: Does that seem unfair to anybody? Bender: No, not at all. Nash: Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity. Charles: That Isaac Newton fellow was right. Nash: He was on to something. Charles: Clever boy. Charles: So what's your story? You the poor kid that never got to go to Exeter or Andover? Nash: Despite my privileged upbringing, I'm actually quite well-balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders. Nash: There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. Hansen: So how about it, Nash? You scared? Nash: Terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied... by you. Charles: Nothing's ever for sure, John. That's the only sure thing I do know. Nash: I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You are the only reason I am... you are all my reasons. Nash: What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career - the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found. I am only here tonight because of you [looking at and speaking to Alicia] You are the only reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you. [applause from audience] Charles: Her husband was too drunk to know he was too drunk to drive. Nash: [to Charles] The prodigal roommate revealed. "Saw my name on the lecture slate." YOU LYING SON OF A BITCH! Dr. Rosen: Who are you talking to? Tell me who you see. Nash: How do you say "Charles Herman" in Russian? Alicia: I need to believe, that something extraordinary is possible. Dr. Rosen: You can't reason your way out of this! Nash: Why not? Why can't I? Dr. Rosen: Because your mind is where the problem is in the first place! Bender: Go With God! Sol: Come back a man! Bender: Fortune favors the brave! [from deleted scene] Nash: Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart. Nash: Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter. Nash: Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data. Alicia: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance. Alicia: How big is the universe? Nash: Infinite. Alicia: How do you know? Nash: I know because all the data indicates it's infinite. Alicia: But it hasn't been proven yet. Nash: No. Alicia: You haven't seen it. Nash: No. Alicia: How do you know for sure? Nash: I don't, I just believe it. Alicia: It's the same with love I guess. Alicia: I was wondering Professor Nash, if I could take you to dinner? [he hesitates] You do eat don't you? Alicia: You want to know what's real? This... [putting her hand on his heart and his hand on her face]... this is real. Alicia: [about the stars] I once tried to count them all. I, actually, made it to 4,348. Nash: You are exceptionally odd. Alicia: I bet you're very popular with the girls. Nash: I don't exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the sex. Nash: She never gets old! Marcee can't be real; she never gets old! Nash: If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no on likes to be second choice. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the only way to win. It's the only way we all get laid. [showing Charles one of his window equations] Nash: This is a group playing touch football. This is a flock of pigeons fighting over bread crumbs. And this is a woman chasing a man who stole her purse. Charles: John, you watched a mugging. That's weird. Charles: When's the last time you ate? You know... food. Charles: It's not my problem and it's not your problem. It's their problem. Your answers are not on that wall. They're out there, where you've *been* working. Nash: You wanted to see if I was crazy and would screw everything up if I actually won. [Hansen is concerned about John still having hallucinations] Nash: They are my past. Everyone is haunted by their past. Alicia: God must be a painter. Why else would we have so many colors? Hansen: Nash. Who's winning - you, or you? Charles: [offering Nash a flask of whiskey] Listen. If we can't break the ice, how 'bout we drown it? Nash: Classes will dull your mind. Nash: It looks like you won after all. Hansen: No. They were wrong, John. No one wins. Nash: I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive. Nash: [to Thomas King] I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites; like my appetite for patterns; perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream. Charles: The prodigal roommate arrives. Charles: Is my roommate a dick? Charles: I arrived last night. Right in time for English Department cocktails. The cock was mine. The tail belonged to a lovely young thing with a passion for D.H. Lawrence. Nash: Well, Martin Hansen. It is Martin, isn't it? Hansen: Why yes, John, it is. Nash: I assume you've gotten quite used to miscalculation. I read your pre-prints. Both of 'em. One on Nazi scientists and the other one on, uh... non-linear equations, and I'm extremely confident that there's not one seminal or innovative idea in either one of them... Enjoy your punch. Nash: You once said that God must be a painter because he gave us so many colors. Alicia: I didn't think you were listening... Nash: I was listening. Alicia: It's called "life," John. Activities available; just add meaning. Parcher: Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury of those on the sidelines, Mr. Nash. Nash: There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun. [John meets Charles' niece] Nash: She's so small. Charles: Well, she's young, John. That's how they come. Dr. Rosen: Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be? John Nash: Hello, Martin. Martin Hansen: Jesus Christ. John Nash: No. I don't have that one. My savior complex takes a different form. John Nash: And then, on the way home, Charles was there again. Sometimes I miss talking to him. Maybe Rosen is right. Maybe I have to think about going back to the hospital. Alicia Nash: Maybe try again tomorrow. General: You ever... just *know* something, Dr. Nash? Nash: Constantly. MIT Student: Can we open up the window, Professor? It's hot in here. John Nash: Your comfort comes second to my ability to hear my own voice. Nash: This class will be a waste of your - and what is infinitely worse - my time. Charles: Mathematics... mathematics is never going to lead you to higher truth and you know why? Because it's boring! Dr. Rosen: My name is Rosen, Dr. Rosen. I am a psychiatrist. Alicia: What you don't know... is if I want to marry you. Bender: What did the doctor say? Sol: Is he sick? Alicia: I don't know. I want to see what John's been working on. Sol: Alicia, you know you can't go in his office. Bender: You know it's classified, Alicia. [Alicia keeps going] Bender: Stop! [as Bender tries to stop her, she turns around and slaps him] Nash: I will not buy you gentlemen beer. Bender: Oh, we're not here for beer, my friend. [first lines] Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes... and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians... like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom, and discovery? Today, we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen. Sol: Alicia, John's always been a little... weird. Bender: Hey, look, you made the cover of Fortune... again... Nash: Good morning, eager young minds Nash: I find you attractive. Your aggressive moves toward me... indicate that you feel the same way. But still, ritual requires that we continue with a number of platonic activities... before we have sex. I am proceeding with these activities, but in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible. [pause] Nash: Are you gonna slap me now? Parcher: Man is capable of as much atrocity as he has imagination. |
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