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John writing on the window just seems to fit him and his personality so well you don’t notice how awkward this actually is, but being John Nash it is probably the least of his different qualities. After Nash’s slight breakdown and breaking through a window, which does look very painful and genuine, with his head Charles feels he needs to relax and join him at the bar. There is where John discovers his original idea. After his first attempt and failure at trying for the blonde, even using the “fluid exchange” line, he finds a flaw in the game theory. This is what Nash was waiting for and had yearned for so long to accomplish.
As a teacher he doesn’t communicate very well with his students and feels since his i
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The introduction to “big brother” starts the bulk of his madness and the seriousness of his disease. Dropping off a package, being picked up by William Parcher, played by Ed Harris, aka “Big Brother” is the start to the most remarkable delusion maybe in the history of mankind. They are, of course, very important and put a closure to the tale of the schizophrenic genius who persevered through illness and accomplished his life long dreams.
Crowe’s movements as Nash, especially after the visit to the hospital, are exceptionally appropriate and done very well. The affect it has and the impact it plays in the movie is very important and does exactly what it intends to do but looking at it from a realist point of view, could he have really imagined around 30-50 people, two major code breaking labs, going through a car chase/gun fight, and an on going friendship with Charles and his niece? Even if in real life he heard voices and such, was it necessary to over encumber the hallucinations of his illness? In real life he didn’t imagine people, he heard voices but for movie purposes and story the inclusion of images is greatly needed but so many, maybe not. Even something as subtle as the lights can be appreciated but the use of the “Blair Witch Project” type zoom during this scene can take away from the total experience of it, if you happen to notice or seen that movie.
The winning of the Nobel Prize and giving of the pens to him are more of a “nail in the coffin” for the story in the movie at least. As an older teacher back at Princeton he is not so anti-social and even puts in a little humor with the “Do you see him?”, which is more amusing after seeing everything that has transpired. Being a code breaker now by going through magazines and cutting/pasting, then dropping off the packages in a secluded spot sets up one of the most dramatic scenes throughout the movie. During this part of the movie you can kind of feel the chemistry between the two but at this time of it, it doesn’t seem as intense as in later in the movie. This actually does capture you more than the flashing lights of a Christmas tree so it is more than flickering lights.
After the troubles and tribulations he realizes more and tries to solve this problem with his mind on his own.
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