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''[[A Beautiful Mind]]'' is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars [[Russell Crowe]], along with Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and Paul Bettany.▼
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The story begins in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton University as he develops his "original idea" that will revolutionize the world of mathematics. Early in the movie, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes and hallucinations while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.
The film was well-received by critics, grossed over $300 million worldwide, and went on to win four [[Academy
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* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]
* [[Answer Cut]]: Sol tries to convince John to continue taking his medication, telling him there's other things besides work. John asks what. Camera cuts to a pacifier lying on a table while his son cries in the background.
* [[Award Bait Song]]
* [[The Big Board]]: The windows, based on a real habit of Nash's.
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** And he finally determines that his hallucinations aren't real after realizing {{spoiler|preteen Marcie hasn't aged in all the years he's known her.}}
* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: The college guys see a group of co-eds and all start talking about how they all want the blonde.
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Only to those familiar with Nash. However, the script was written under the (correct) assumption that most of the audience wouldn't know who he was.▼
* [[Foreshadowing]]: There are small hints about Nash's increasing schizophrenia, like when Marcee is running through the flock of pigeons, none of them fly away from her.
** All three hallucinatory characters are first heard before they're seen, as real schizophrenic delusions tend to be auditory before they become visual. In real life, Nash only heard the hallucinations, he didn't see them.
▲* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Only to those familiar with Nash. However, the script was written under the (correct) assumption that most of the audience wouldn't know who he was.
* [[Forgets to Eat]]: Nash. It's a bit of a trick though, and later in life he seems to have outgrown this problem without imaginary reminders.
{{quote|'''Charles''': When did you last eat? You know, ''food''.
* [[Good with Numbers]]
* [[Hallucinations]]: Nash suffered from these as his schizophrenia worsened.
* [[Hollywood Science]]: The Nash Equilibrium doesn't work out the way it's explained in the movie.▼
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: With Russell Crowe playing an intellectual, this is a given, especially near the end of the film as he ages and starts to wear glasses.
▲* [[Hollywood Science]]: The Nash Equilibrium doesn't work out the way it's explained in the movie.
* [[Imaginary Friend]]: Three of them.
** John has fun with it later, when he's visited by a ''real'' friend after realizing his problem. Said friend goes to sit down, and John warns him he's about to sit on "Harvey." The real friend has a moment of awkward panic before John starts laughing, admitting to the gag, and saying there's no point in being nuts if you can't have some fun with it.
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* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Several.
{{quote|'''Hansen:''' You scared?
'''Nash:''' Terrified. Mortified. Petrified. Stupefied ... by you.
** And:
{{quote|"Gentlemen, the great John Nash."}}
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* [[Red Scare]]: Nash is brought to The Pentagon to solve a Russian code that has been found.
** Also Nash's work reading through newspapers and magazines looking for patterns that will lead to finding a suitcase nuke that the Russians will use to blow up part of America. Which of course isn't real, it is part of his paranoid schizophrenia.
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: Several, full of newspaper / magazine clippings▼
* [[Rule of Perception]]: Until the audience ''sees'' that John isn't taking his meds, he acts like he is, right down to [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|having ED]]. Less than five seconds after his pill stash is revealed, he starts cracking another code.▼
* [[The Reveal]]: John has been hoarding his pills. And he's crazy and needs them.
** Also, [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|he's been hallucinating]].
▲* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: Several, full of newspaper / magazine clippings.
▲* [[Rule of Perception]]: Until the audience ''sees'' that John isn't taking his meds, he acts like he is, right down to [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|having ED]]. Less than five seconds after his pill stash is revealed, he starts cracking another code.
* [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder]]: Nash found that his anti-schizophrenia meds drained his energy and left him unable to accomplish anything, so he ditched the pills and battled his mental illness with cold logic.
* [[She's All Grown Up]]: {{spoiler|[[Averted Trope|Averted]] by one of Nash's delusions, as they never seem to age.}}
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* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: Nash plays Go with another genius at one point. When Nash loses, he has an emotional reaction that is easily mistaken for being a [[Sore Loser]]. However, it's actually the beginning of a revelation that will eventually land him a Nobel Prize.
** Nash really was known for his belief that Go is a flawed game, and even invented his own in which the first move and perfect play will guarantee victory, marketed as Hex.
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: John Nash from this film and in [[Real Life]].
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The lonely piano theme during the car chase.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: During a class that Nash teaches, he insists on keeping the windows shut despite the fact that it makes the room ''extremely'' hot, because a construction worker is jackhammering outside. "Your comfort takes a backseat to my being able to hear myself speak." Alicia, then one of his students, takes a third option: Opening the window, she gets the attention of the construction worker, explains the situation, and asks him very politely if he wouldn't mind continuing his work after class. Nash is suitably impressed.
* [[Windmill Crusader]]: Nash was hired by the US government in their struggle against terrorism. What neither Nash nor his closest superiors know
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: Acknowledged. So, they hired mathematicians to do the work.
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