ugly truth

i'm 3 blogs overdue so i hope you're ready for this.

i was also 6 comments behind but i did that first, to get the thought process going a little bit and it helped me think of things to say in these blogs...

in "a beautiful mind," did they portray john nash as a likable character in order to make him more appealing to audiences and to assure that viewers would sympathize with him throughout the story, or was it simply a decision made based upon which version of the story would sell more tickets? from all the research that everyone has done on this movie, it sounds like the john nash in "a beautiful mind" is nothing like the real-life john nash. maybe they thought basing it on a true story would attract more attention while they were promoting the movie and get more people to watch it. would it still have won best picture if they had depicted a more realistic john nash? would they still have gotten russell crowe and jennifer connelly to play the leading roles? imagine if the previews for this movie had shown russell crowe crawling into bed with a college student, then doing his homework for him afterwards to keep him from telling other people about it and then going home and beating his wife, all the while hearing voices that no one else can hear. box office disaster. they altered the story to fulfill viewer's expectations of a film, and to assure successful sales for themselves.