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A Beautiful Mind(Drama/Biography) (2001)© 2002 by Raymond WeschlerMajor CharactersJohnNash……………………………………………………………….RussellCroweOne of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the 20th century, whowon the Nobel Prize in 1994, studied and taught at PrincetonUniversity, and suffered from the mental disease of schizophreniafor most of his adult life (See note on schizophrenia below).Alicia…………………………………………………………….…………….JenniferConnellyJohn’s beautiful, intelligent and loving wife who stayed with himthrough decades of marriage, from the 1950s to after 2000, despite thedifficulties of living with a person with severe mental illness.Parcher……………………………………………………………..………….EdHarrisAn agent of the US government who convinces John to help breaksecret Soviet codes, in order to prevent a horrible nuclear attack on theUnited States (Note: Parcher is not really who he appears to be).Charles………………………………………………………………………….PaulBettanyJohn’s roommate at Princeton who studied English literature(Note: Like Parcher, John is not really who he appears to be).MartinHansen………………………………………………………………JoshLucasA brilliant math student at Princeton and colleague of John’swho later becomes head of the Princeton math department.Dr.
Rosen……………………………………………………………………….Christopher PlumberA psychiatrist in Boston who identifies John’s Schizophreniaand helps him and Alicia to live with the disease.Plot SummaryThis film is the true story of John Nash, one of the great geniuses of the 20thcentury, who was famous for both his theories in math, and for the fact thathe suffered from schizophrenia. The movie follows Nash’s amazing life fromthe time he arrives at Princeton University as a young, brilliant andnoticeably odd West Virginia math student, until his life as an old man whohas won the Nobel Prize.
Over the years, he becomes recognized as a uniqueintellect whose theories have greatly influenced not only mathematics, butvarious other academic areas from economics to biology. And as of thiswriting in 2002, Nash is still alive, and still teaches at Princeton.2The focus of this movie is on Nash’s struggle with the terrible illness ofschizophrenia, which began to effect him while a student at Princeton in theearly 1950s. Afterward, his brilliance led to a teaching and research position atthe prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the worldfamous university in Boston. There, Nash’s disease began to grow worse, butfortunately for him, it was also at MIT that he met Alicia, a brilliant mathstudent of her own. The two fell in love, and while Alicia did not discoverhis illness until after they married, once she realized how sick her husbandwas, she did all she could to take care of him, herself, and their new son.With great determination, John Nash was able to successfully fight back fromthe delusions that are a large part of schizophrenia, and while he never wasable to get rid of the disease completely, he became an honored member of thePrinceton community.
In some ways, his life is a truly fascinating window onthe still unclear relationship between genius and madness.A Brief Note on Schizophrenia : Many people used to think thatschizophrenia was a mental disease marked by “split personality,” whichexists when one person seems to have two or more completely differentpersonalities. In fact, most people who have this mental illness do not havethat condition, but they do suffer from such things as inability to thinkclearly, manage emotions, make decisions, or relate to others.
Most seriously,schizophrenics can suffer from hallucinations (“seeing things that don’t reallyexist”), as well as a fundamental and unpleasant change in how theyexperience basic emotions, incoming sensations and even themselves. Inshort, this is a terrible illness that can take away a person’s ability to lead anormal life, though fortunately, it has become more and more treatable.A Brief Note on the Language of Advanced Mathematics: Throughout thefilm, there is frequent reference to many of the abstract mathematical theoriesthat John Nash and his colleagues were working on, including in suchspecific areas as “equilibrium points, manifold embedding, Brouwer's fixedpoint theorem, Riemann's functional equation hypothesis” and otherbizarre topics that only the most sophisticated mathematicians could trulyunderstand.
In general, the glossary below chooses to ignore most of thatlanguage, since it is probably not worth your time as ESL students. Regardless,and like most people, I don’t what most of it means!….A Brief Note on Princeton and MIT:Most of the film centers around John’s life at two of the best Universities inthe United States. Princeton is located in the small town of Princeton, NewJersey, about an hour from New York City.
When John arrived as a youngstudent in the late 1940’s, Albert Einstein was still a professor there (He diedin 1955, having been at Princeton for nearly 20 years).3The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known by most as MIT, is perhapsthe most prestigious school of technology and applied sciences in the world(In the film, John taught for a few years at a defense department center at MITcalled the Wheeler Institute).
MIT is located just minutes from HarvardUniversity, in Boston, Massachusetts, which probably has more excellentuniversities than any city in the world.Some Words and Expressions that You May not KnowJohn Nash arrives at Princeton, meets his lesser geniusclassmates, and his curious roommate Charles.Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes….and built the A-bomb.A “code” is a secret set of symbols that only certain people canunderstand. The “A-bomb” is short for an atomic or nuclear bomb.The stated goal of the Soviets is global communism.If a goal is “stated,” it is officially announced. After World War 2, manyin the Western Capitalist countries feared that the Soviet Union wouldtry to take over the world by spreading their form of communism.To triumph , we need results. Publishable, applicable results.“To triumph” is to beat an opponent.
If results are “publishable,” theyare good enough to be printed in academic or scholarly journals, and ifthey are “applicable,” they have a practical use.Who among you will be the next Morse, Einstein….the vanguard of democracy, freedom and discovery?Morse was famous for having invented the “Morse code,” which was aseries of short sounds by which messages were sent through wire in the19th century. The “vanguard” of a social movement are the first peoplewho promote it, before it becomes popular.Today, we bequeath America’s future into your able hands.To “bequeath” property is to hand it legally downto the next generation, often in the form of a will.It’s not enough that he won the Carnegie scholarship.A “scholarship” is a gift of money that is given to allowpeople to study at a university or other educational institution.4It’s the first time the Carnegie Prize has been split and Hansen is all bent .If a prize is “split,” it is divided between two or more people(If a person is “bent out of shape,” they are angry or upset; “Bent”alone, which means twisted or curved, is no longer used for angry).Nielson, symbol cryptography.The study of codes and how to break them so they can be understood.Neil here broke a Jap code; Help rid the world of fascism.“Jap” is now considered a racist word for Japanese, though it wascommon up through the 1960s.
“To rid the world” of somethingis to help eliminate it (“Get rid of” is more common).The burden of genius…..so many supplicants and so little time.A “burden” is a great responsibility or problem that is carried.A “supplicant” is a person who has or begs with humility or respect.Nice is not Hansen’s strong suit.A person’s “strong suit” is the skill that they are good at(A funny way of saying that Hansen doesn’t know how to be nice).I imagine you’re getting quite used to miscalculation.A “miscalculation” is a mistake in solving a math or other problem.I’ve read your pre-prints on nazi ciphers and non-linear equations …A “pre-print” is a dated academic term for a paper before it has beenpublished.
“Nazi ciphers” were German code writers during WorldWar 2. A “non-liner equation” is a concept in advanced mathematics.…and I am supremely confident that there is not a singleseminal or innovative idea in either one of them.If an idea is “seminal,” it’s important and original. If an idea is“innovative,” it’s a new way of thinking that has not been done before.Enjoy your punch .A popular fruit drink at parties, which often contains alcohol.The prodigal roommate arrives!An educated word for a person who spends and wasteslots of money, and who was often spoiled as a child.Did you know that having a hangover is not having enoughwater in your body? It’s not enough to run your kreb cycles.A “hangover” is the horrible feeling people have the morningafter they have drunk too much alcohol.
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