And Still More on A Beautiful Mind

Thank you, JBB, for pointing out a very interesting LA Times article on Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the screenplay for A Beautiful Mind: A Beautiful Journey to Professional Nirvana. This article addresses why the film ignored so much of Nash's biography and created the interior life we see in the film.

From the article:

He says his script was written with "blatant disregard for fact--I threw biography out the window." He did that in order to uncover what was the more essential truth of Nash's illness, and of his life, he says. He took his script to the Nashes, "and they said they loved it." They told him "it was true to the spirit of our journey." Goldsman pauses. "I think it is true. It is not their journey, but it is true to the spirit of it."

Anyway, check it out.