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A Beautiful Mind: Russell Crowe
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The plot for the movie "A Beautiful Mind" "A Beautiful Mind" stars Russell Crowe who plays a mathematician suffering from schizophrenia. His slow decent into madness takes place at a time when he should be having the best years of his life. He attends graduate school, meets a girl, falls in love and has a baby. All of these things are taking place at a time when many people did not even know what schizophrenia was. Eventually, he winds up getting some of the help he needs (after an almost fatal incident with his son), and with the help of his wife, he overcomes this mental disease and wins a Nobel Prize.
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"A Beautiful Mind", based in part on the book by Sylvia Nasar, chronicles the rise, fall, and reawakening of the brilliant mathematician. Though Nash's genius and battle with schizophrenia (played by Oscar-winning Russell Crowe of "Gladiator") remains front-and-center, the Akiva Goldsman-penned ("Practical Magic") script ... focuses on wife Alicia (Jennifer Connelly of "Requiem for a Dream") and her uneasy support of Nash through decades of illness. Director Ron Howard ("How the Grinch Stole Christmas") also does a remarkable job of allowing the audience to fully experience the heightened delusional and paranoid state that Nash finds himself helplessly trapped in.
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Anyone who doesn't believe that life is ironic should rent Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001) for a double-feature night at the home cinema. Both films won Academy Awards for Best Picture, largely because of Russell Crowe's talents. Although the Australian won Best Actor for a strong performance as a Roman general who defied an empire, Crowe didn't win the second time — perhaps because Academy voters have always been reluctant to hand out back-to-back Oscars. Spencer Tracy won two in 1937 and 1938 for his performances in Captains Courageous and Boys Town, and Tom Hanks pulled off the modern repeat with Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994). But after watching Crowe in both films, many viewers will think that he should have joined that elite club.
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Robert speaks to film director Ron Howard about his new movie A Beautiful Mind. The film stars Russell Crowe as troubled math genius John Nash. Nash suffered from acute mental problems, but went on to pull himself together and ... win a Nobel Prize. Howard says there is no special camera angle or lighting that can show great intelligence and that the actor's eyes must signal interior brilliance. With Crowe he found that. Howard also says Nash's story offers hope, while showing the honest pain of mental illness.
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Once conducted inside Hollywood with discrete murmurs, Oscar campaigning has turned into a multimillion-dollar, shout-from-the-rooftops spectacle, and never with such obvious--and effective--calculation as for "A Beautiful Mind." Hardly the best-reviewed film of the year (among 2001's new films, "Shrek" topped Premiere magazine's critics' poll), "A Beautiful Mind" is ... the favorite to win best picture, best actor for Russell Crowe, best director for Ron Howard, best supporting actress for Jennifer Connelly and best adapted screenplay for Akiva Goldsman. If the Academy presented an award for best Oscar promotion, Universal would win that trophy, too. The movie owes as much of its Academy Award momentum to a carefully crafted public relations effort as to the film itself.
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Crowe is ... nearing a deal to star in Imagine Entertainment/Universal Pictures/DreamWorks' "Beautiful Mind" for director Ron Howard. That project is slated to start in March. Crowe would star in the true story about a mathematical genius with movie-star looks who suffered from schizophrenia but miraculously recovered and eventually received a Nobel Prize (HR 5/19).
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