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** Likewise downplayed, with [[GratuitousRussian how Russian often sounds in English-language movies]], but Parcher calls the "New Freedom" group "Novaya Svoboda" with the accent on "vay" in the first word. [[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable Actually, the first syllable in "novaya" is the stressed one]], which is something a guy allegedly familiar with Russian (if only by tracking Russian messages) would know.
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-->'''General''': You ever just know something, Doctor?
-->'''Nash''': Constantly.
-->'''Nash''': Constantly.
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-->'''General''': You ever just know something, Doctor?
-->'''Nash''': Constantly.Doctor?\\
'''Nash''': Constantly.
* BaitAndSwitch: Dr. Rosen and his suited mooks showing up and essentially kidnapping Nash during a lecture initially seems like the Russians making a move, until he wakes up in a mental hospital and Rosen tells him that Nash is talking to nobody.
-->'''Nash''': Constantly.
'''Nash''': Constantly.
* BaitAndSwitch: Dr. Rosen and his suited mooks showing up and essentially kidnapping Nash during a lecture initially seems like the Russians making a move, until he wakes up in a mental hospital and Rosen tells him that Nash is talking to nobody.
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** When John beckons loudly to Patcher following their rift, a puzzled Sol peers out of the door and curiously asks what the deal is as though he saw or heard nothing.
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** When John beckons loudly to Patcher Parcher following their rift, a puzzled Sol peers out of the door and curiously asks what the deal is as though he saw or heard nothing.
** A downplayed bit with [[BottomlessMagazines how movies typically work]], but Parcher fires far more rounds than a .45 could possibly hold during the car chase without reloading.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: Nash tries to quit working with Parcher after being involved in a car chase and a shootout, and Parcher coldly replies that he's keeping the Russians from finding out Nash is working with him. [[ImpliedDeathThreat And if he stops working with Parcher, Parcher will stop keeping the Russians from finding out.]]
* TheReveal: Two, actually.
** The first is when Dr. Rosen tells Nash that there's nobody sitting in the chair where he clearly sees Charles and points out to Alicia that records show Nash went to school alone.
** John has been hoarding his pills. It's then shown his delusional behavior has returned and he's started hallucinating.
* TheReveal: Two, actually.
** The first is when Dr. Rosen tells Nash that there's nobody sitting in the chair where he clearly sees Charles and points out to Alicia that records show Nash went to school alone.
** John has been hoarding his pills. It's then shown his delusional behavior has returned and he's started hallucinating.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The lonely piano theme during the car chase.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The lonely piano theme during the car chase. [[spoiler: Fitting, since he was never in danger.]]
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* VisualCalculus: John Nash would often visualize numbers lighting up from his POV when he was cracking codes. Though this visual symbolism also doubled to represent his schizophrenia.
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Among the other actors appearing in the film are Creator/AdamGoldberg and Creator/JoshLucas (two of Nash's fellow students at Princeton), Creator/JuddHirsch (Nash's Princeton mentor), and Creator/ChristopherPlummer as a psychiatrist.
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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.
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John and Alicia get married, and have a son. John is approached by a government secret agent, William Parcher (Harris) who wants to put John's mathematical skills to use. Parcher recruits John to start going through magazines and newspapers, looking for hidden messages from communist agents. Eventually John's life is threatened when enemy agents come after him.
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* NotWhatISignedOnFor: Nash says this word-for-word to Parcher, when what seemed like a low-risk job--comb through periodicals, looking for hidden messages--suddenly becomes a lot more dangerous after enemy agents start hunting Nash.
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%%* TheBigBoard: The windows, based on a real habit of Nash's.
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%%* ImaginaryFriend: 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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* OffscreenInertia: Used in-universe. [[spoiler:Nash realizes one of the people in his life is a hallucination because he's supposedly known them for years, but their daughter has never aged the entire time.]]
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* OffscreenInertia: Used in-universe. [[spoiler:Nash realizes one of the people in his life is a hallucination because he's supposedly known them for years, but their daughter niece has never aged the entire time.]]
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: Several, full of newspaper / magazine clippings.
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: Several, full of newspaper / magazine clippings. Alicia finds out that John has had a relapse when she goes into the shed and finds it covered with magazine clippings just like his office was.
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Charles' niece, as she never seems to age.]]
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Acknowledged. So, they hired mathematicians to do the work.
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* TheyreNotRealReveal: There are several major characters who are later revealed to be products of John Nash's schizophrenia:
** John's college roommate Charles, who's there despite John having been assigned to a one-man dorm room. He's the first character to be revealed to the audience as nonexistent, when John talks to Charles and a psychiatrist notices that there's nobody else in the room. It takes far longer for John to recognize the delusion, though, resulting in his infant son almost drowning in the bath because he thinks that Charles is watching the baby.
** Charles has a niece named Marcie, whom John realizes isn't real when he recognizes that she hasn't actually grown up all the times he's seen her. There are additional hints through the film as well, such as when she runs through a flock of pigeons that don't react to her.
** William Parcher, an agent from the Department of Defense who recruits John as a Pentagon codebreaker to uncover a Soviet spy ring. It's revealed that John hallucinated Parcher and his assignments when his wife discovers that his codebreaking "assignments" are disjointed ramblings and newspaper clippings.
** John's college roommate Charles, who's there despite John having been assigned to a one-man dorm room. He's the first character to be revealed to the audience as nonexistent, when John talks to Charles and a psychiatrist notices that there's nobody else in the room. It takes far longer for John to recognize the delusion, though, resulting in his infant son almost drowning in the bath because he thinks that Charles is watching the baby.
** Charles has a niece named Marcie, whom John realizes isn't real when he recognizes that she hasn't actually grown up all the times he's seen her. There are additional hints through the film as well, such as when she runs through a flock of pigeons that don't react to her.
** William Parcher, an agent from the Department of Defense who recruits John as a Pentagon codebreaker to uncover a Soviet spy ring. It's revealed that John hallucinated Parcher and his assignments when his wife discovers that his codebreaking "assignments" are disjointed ramblings and newspaper clippings.
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* InsufferableGenius: Deconstructed. In his youth, Nash is as arrogant as he is brilliant. His inability to connect with people and admit when he’s wrong exacerbates his mental illness.
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* OffscreenInertia: Used in-universe. [[spoiler:Nash realizes one of the people in his life is a hallucination because he's supposedly known them for years, but their daughter has never aged the entire time.]]
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* RaceLift: John's wife in real life was El Salvadoran, but she's white in the movie.
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* RaceLift: John's wife in real life was El Salvadoran, but she's white in the movie.
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* HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul: The marriage of John Nash and Alicia Larde is presented as a constant, stabilizing influence on Nash as he descends into schizophrenia, and the ending has him publicly dedicate his Nobel Prize to her in 1994. In reality, Nash and Larde divorced in 1963 and did not renew their relationship until 1994. They didn't remarry until 2001, the same year the movie came out.
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* AnAesop: There's a very small one in that director Ron Howard didn't want the audience to leave with the belief that you can just gut your way through mental illness, so he included a line in Nash's acceptance speech about "newer medications", where the real Nash never did resume medication and his life suffered for it. There is truth in this, as continued exploration has discovered medications that don't have side effects as severe as some early ones (especially those designed more to shut the patient down than to help them function in the world).
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* DoYouWantToCopulate:DoYouWantToCopulate: John tries this twice, first with a girl at his college (who slaps him after he delivers the line below) and Alicia, who finds it endearing.
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** There are small hints about Nash's increasing schizophrenia, like when Marcie is running through the flock of pigeons, none of them fly away from her.
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** Anyone noticed John is the ''only'' student at the university we spot Charles interacting with?
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** Anyone noticed John is the ''only'' student at the university we spot Charles interacting with? who ever interacts with Charles.
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* TheReveal: John has been hoarding his pills. And he's crazy and needs them. Also, he's been hallucinating.
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* TheReveal: John has been hoarding his pills. And It's then shown his delusional behavior has returned and he's crazy and needs them. Also, he's been started hallucinating.
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] by one of Nash's delusions, as they never seem to age.]]
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] by one of Nash's delusions, Charles' niece, as they she never seem seems to age.]]
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The real Nash criticized the Jewish involvement in communism. He was prone to alcoholism as a result of his schizophrenia, had a son out of wedlock--[[YourCheatingHeart with a woman he was cheating on Alicia with, no less]]--and was in general much more of an abrasive, InsufferableGenius than he is depicted as in the film.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The real Nash criticized the Jewish involvement in communism. He was prone to alcoholism as a result of his schizophrenia, had a son out of wedlock--[[YourCheatingHeart wedlock-- with a woman he was cheating on Alicia with, no less]]--and less--and was in general much more of an abrasive, InsufferableGenius than he is depicted as in the film.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The real Nash criticized the Jewish involvement in communism. He was prone to alcoholism as a result of his schizophrenia and had a son out of wedlock with a nurse. He also, according to unproven rumors, had numerous homosexual affairs.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The real Nash criticized the Jewish involvement in communism. He was prone to alcoholism as a result of his schizophrenia and schizophrenia, had a son out of wedlock wedlock--[[YourCheatingHeart with a nurse. He also, according to unproven rumors, had numerous homosexual affairs.woman he was cheating on Alicia with, no less]]--and was in general much more of an abrasive, InsufferableGenius than he is depicted as in the film.
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* HollywoodNerd: 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.
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* AdultFear: To be a genius, then have one's mind disabled?
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Gifted mathematician [[spoiler:who is also a paranoid schizophrenic.]]
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Gifted mathematician [[spoiler:who is also a paranoid schizophrenic.]] Also a {{Deconstruction}} as Dr. Rosen, the psychiatrist who treats him, speculates that the likely reason why John's illness has gone unnoticed for so long is because a certain level of eccentricity is seen as normal, even expected, among academics]].
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* AnswerCut: 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
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* AnswerCut: 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 backgroundbackground.
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* RedScare:
** Nash is brought to The Pentagon to solve a Russian code that has been found.
** 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.
** Nash is brought to The Pentagon to solve a Russian code that has been found.
** 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.
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* RedScare:
**RedScare: Nash is brought to The Pentagon to solve a Russian code that has been found.
** Nash'sfound. He then goes on to 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 [[spoiler:Which of course isn't real, it is part of his paranoid schizophrenia.]]
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** Nash's
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* HelplessWithLaughter: During a mutual personal crisis, Charles ends up launching John Nash's desk through a window and out into the courtyard below. The two are left staring at the wreckage of the desk for a few seconds; then, Charles remarks, "That Isaac Newton fella was right," prompting the two of them to break out in a fit of TensionCuttingLaughter that leaves both men collapsed on the floor, giggling helplessly.
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* HelplessWithLaughter: During a mutual personal crisis, Charles Herman ends up launching John Nash's desk through a window and out into the courtyard below. The two are left staring at the wreckage of the desk for a few seconds; then, Charles remarks, "That Isaac Newton fella was right," prompting the two of them to break out in a fit of TensionCuttingLaughter that leaves both men collapsed on the floor, giggling helplessly.
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* HelplessWithLaughter: During a mutual personal crisis, Charles ends up launching John Nash's desk through a window and out into the courtyard below. The two are left staring at the wreckage of the desk for a few seconds; then, William Charles remarks, "That Isaac Newton fella was right," prompting the two of them to break out in a fit of TensionCuttingLaughter that leaves both men collapsed on the floor, giggling helplessly.
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* HelplessWithLaughter: During a mutual personal crisis, William Parcher ends up launching John Nash's desk through a window and out into the courtyard below. The two are left staring at the wreckage of the desk for a few seconds; then, William remarks, "That Isaac Newton fella was right," prompting the two of them to break out in a fit of TensionCuttingLaughter that leaves both men collapsed on the floor, giggling helplessly.
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** All the technology during John’s work with Parcher is clearly way too advanced for the 1960s.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Russel Crowe's American accent tends to not only appear and disappear from scene to scene throughout the film, but at times he sounds like he's from different ''regions'' of the United States.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Russel Russell Crowe's American accent tends to not only appear and disappear from scene to scene throughout the film, but at times he sounds like he's from different ''regions'' ''different regions'' of the United States.
