Давно слышала об этом фильме, но меня всегда отталкивала математика.
Но как и однажды режиссер Рон Ховард заставил посмотреть, полюбить и даже прочитать книги о профессоре Лэнгтоне, целиком связанные с религией, и в этот раз фильм поразил меня.
И он вообщем то, совсем не о математике. Удивительный фильм!

И снова насчет наград. Хоть и в год "Гладиатора" больше кроме него некому было давать, Расселл должен был выиграть либо за этот этот фильм, либо за "Нокдаун".
Но в истории Оскаров есть еще такое простое понятие как очередь, ахах.
Поэтому в год "Игр Разума" выиграл Дензел Вашингтон, к которому у меня конечно нет вопросов.
Замечательный актер, которого я для себя открыла с опозданием.
Позже напишу и о Тренировочном дне, и о других фильмах, которые я с ним недавно посмотрела.
И среди них, есть гораздо более интересные роли, на мой взгляд, за которые мне хотелось бы чтобы он взял награду.



Producer Brian Grazer won the rights to the project after John Nash and Alicia Nash chose him over competitor Scott Rudin; the Nashes had long resisted having a film made of their story.

John Nash visited the set, and Russell Crowe said later that he had been fascinated by the way he moved his hands, and he had tried to do the same thing in the movie.

The scene towards the end of the film where John Nash contemplates drinking tea is based on a true event when Russell Crowe met the real John Nash. He spent 15 minutes contemplating whether to drink tea or coffee.

читать дальшеSalma Hayek was originally considered for the part of Alicia Larde because Alicia Nash is from El Salvador.

While this film is inspired by the life of John Nash, there were elements from his life that were deliberately omitted:
1) he was married twice, both to the same woman (Alicia Nash); 2) in the past, he had several affairs with both men and women;
3) he was arrested by the police by scandal; 4) He fathered a child out-of-wedlock in his twenties;
5) he believed that through his mental illness the extra-terrestrials spoke him, giving his advanced knowledge by means of cosmic connection with them;
6) he tried to renounce to his American nationality some times, in the belief that the USA government pursued him; and
7) he made numerous anti-Semitic comments during his period of extreme mental illness, most of which equated Jews with world Communism.

According to a 2001 Entertainment Weekly article on this film, the filmmakers originally wanted to mention John Nash's homosexuality,
but they feared the film would make the wrong connection between homosexuality and schizophrenia, so they abandoned it.
This connection, according to the article, was based on several now-discredited psychological studies that first appeared in the late 1950s.

A love scene with Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly was cut from the film.

Jennifer Connelly, who plays Alicia Nash, married Paul Bettany, who plays Charles, shortly after the movie was released.

The equations seen on the classroom chalk boards are actual equations written by the real life John Nash.

In one scene, the imaginary roommate's niece runs through a field of birds. None of the birds move, proving she doesn't exist.

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