I used to see John Nash all the time when I was at Princeton. Fascinating life. Still can’t believe Russell Crowe didn’t win best actor for this performance.
He should have! Many believed that since he had won for "Gladiator" the year before, they did not want to give him an Oscar two consecutive years... Even though they had done it for Tom Hanks previously... But you know, he lost to Denzel Washington for "Training Day", which was also a stellar performance, so I can't be too mad.
Nash Equations are based on human interactions in a competitive environment, I use them every day (millions of people do). They will be with us forever!
Just been watching your Harry Potter reactions I can’t believe how much comfortable you are finding it speaking English now, absolutely brilliant speaking you will do well. Love from uk to russia 🥹❤️
I was just discussing last night the contrast in this movie of Adams' "individual ambitions serve the common good" vs. Nash's Nobel price winning method of search for simultaneous benefit to the individual and the community, and when they didn't remember who was John Nash, I mentioned the name of the movie, everybody remembers it, every body loves it. Dasha, I have the theory that everybody is good at math, just not everybody knows it. I used to teach remedial math, and I used to have students in very precarious situations, like requiring passing that exam to get their High School diploma to get into college and after several failed attempts, or failing math at college. Every one who took class with me and passed on their very next attempt. The key was undoing the conviction that bad teachers put in them that math is hard and that they were not capable. Once their self-confidence was restored, the rest was easy. They were never bad at math, they just had a mental blocks placed in their heads by inadequate teachers. I have continued helping people here and there even after I left that job, I have not found one person to this day, who cannot do algebra, calculus and analytic geometry.
As someone who is 19 and has the math skills of a sixth grader, I have to respectfully disagree. I'm not challenging your experience or anything, just stating my belief that some people just aren't wired for numbers. Doesn't even have to be math-related. Give me a phone number and if I don't repeat it out loud and constantly between the time of hearing it and reaching a place where I can write it or save it, it's gone. The idea of being able to do advanced mathematics like calculus is laughable for me. If I had daily tutoring for the next 20 years, I'd never get there. Fortunately, I've never found myself in a position where algebra or analytic geometry became relevant in my life.
It's Jarvis/Vision from the MCU.....plus Karen, Spider-Man's Jarvis/suit voice/assistant from Spider-Man Homecoming, plus Zeus - though I'm not sure if youre that far in the MCU yet.
My brother and my mom said I was a beautiful mind.. just like this movie.. though I have no wife/love to rely on.. how can one convince those around him that he is not crazy?..? Nash did have a government job and was pursued by agents who feared his genius.. crazy could be argued as to how he became that way.
Important to note: not a true story. Nash has said the movie has no root in reality. He never had any visual hallucinations. They divorced decades before. He never took any medications. They gave him insulin induced seizures, which in fact CAUSED many of his issues. He was only let out because he acted compliant. Good movie. Complete butchering of his life.
The real John Nash was mostly homosexual, and had plenty of "intercourse" with anonymous strangers in rest-stops on the highway. This movie is a terrible misrepresentation of Nash, and his great genius was in his embedding theorem and his work on partial differential equations, not in the game theory nonsense which was pretty obvious and of no great consequence.
Dasha is a truly wonderful person, she's so empathetic, attentive, and bright that her reactions really embody what these beautiful films attempt to convey. It allows us to revisit the emotions we all felt upon first viewing. I feel so sorry for her that Russia is so often the antagonist in these Hollywood portrayals and I hope she knows she is greatly appreciated for her very own beautiful mind. ☺
She (and the movie) won the Oscar (Best Supporting Actress, Best Picture, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer) AND Best Director (Ron Howard) AND Best Screenplay
Might be the biggest snub in Oscar's history, but at least she won the Best Supporting Actress and the movie did win Best Picture. But it was Crowe's phenomenal performance that made the movie so good.
Knowing some people who had to deal with schizophrenia, I was glad I saw that movie 20 years ago, it helped me to better understand what they were going through.
One of my best friends is like this. Absolutely brilliant mathematician, he was diagnosed when he was 26. I think the whole "genius is borderline madness" trope is hokum but in his case it's true. He's also one of the kindest and most gentle people I've ever met.
for me, the best movie with Russel Crowe is "Master and Commander"with his imaginary roomate (Paul Bettany) as the doctor on his warship.(Bettany who is married in real life with Jennifer Connelly the Russel's wife in this movie).
This movie has a special place in my heart because I went to see this with the woman who’d become my wife on our first date. We watch it every year on our anniversary. Thanks for your reaction.
I first saw this movie when I was 14 and was in the middle of my own psychological crisis. I remember almost breaking down crying with how much I related and relate to what he goes through. Mental illness is a powerful thing that seizes control of your life and unfortunately the drugs to treat it can have their own problems.
@@Hoganply The challenge for me is just watching everyone take for granted that they can function every day. They don't think twice about the fact that they can just go to work and enjoy the things they want to enjoy while for me personally it's just hard to get out of bed every day yet alone take care of myself. All I can say is you have to take whatever opportunity you can find to try and break that isolation even if it's just the chance to explain to someone what you go through.
@@jackcoleman1784 There are people out there that can relate to your struggle. It's not an easy thing to go through. I gave up on any real hope of romance or intimacy because of my mental illnesses, specifically because they can be so isolating. It didn't help that I was forced to take medications for years that had side effects worse than the symptoms they were supposed to suppress. Thankfully, my dad eventually took my arguments to heart and let me come off of the meds. Being unmedicated is a challenge, but it's better (for me) than the fog I was existing in when I was on them.
the problem with those psychotropic drugs is that they numb you. they numb your emotions, they numb your libido and they numb your mind which reduces your brain's ability to form the hallucinations. i understand why people don't like taking them. in a lot of ways they decrease your pleasures in life. but at the same time i also understand the need for these drugs. maybe one day they'll come up with medication without the side effects or even come up with a cure rather than a "treatment."
If you would like to see a very young Jennifer Connelly then please Watch the movie called "Labyrinth" which came out in 1986. The movie also stars David Bowie. I think Dasha might like the movie Labyrinth.
In real life his wife divorced him in 1963 so they were only married for 4 years, they stayed friends and he lived with her as a boarder to be close to his family. They remarried in 2001. But they gloss over all that in movie.
This movie won four Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly, Best Director, and Best Picture. ❤ It was nominated for an additional four awards: Best Original Score (RIP James Horner), Best Makeup, Best Film Editing, and Best Lead Actor for Russell Crowe. I honestly thought he was more deserving of the Oscar for this than he did for Gladiator. But that’s just my personal opinion. Lol
Russell Crowe was suppose to win the oscar for this as he had won sag, golden globe but when he won bafta, he was giving a speech where he was reciting a poem which got cut during the broadcast and when he found out, he confronted one of the producers afterwards in which he shoved him against a wall and started cursing him out. This is probably what cost him his second oscar in a row. The oscar went to Denzel Washington for Training Day.
Jennifer Connolly is brilliant, gorgeous, and funny. Ive loved her in eveything from The Rocketeer to the Incredible Hulk and even the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still ... just dont watch Requiem of a Dream 💔😭 I dont understand how people like that movie, its waaaay to fu#%ed up and depressing.
This is a hard movie for me to watch. It's well written, beautifully acted, and all-around spectacularly made, and this is not a knock against its quality. It's just that for me, a person with schizophrenia (among other things), the movie feels like it minimizes the disorder. Though to be fair, maybe I just feel jealous of people like Nash. I get to deal with the downsides of severe schizophrenia, but I didn't get the genius intellect or anything of the sort. In fact, I'm a real idiot when it comes to science and math. This movie is a depiction of "winning" with schizophrenia, when most people with the disorder actually lose.
@@nightfall902 Of course. The book is almost always more accurate/better. 😄 Most people with schizophrenia don't have both auditory and visual hallucinations. Auditory hallucinations are more common. "Hearing voices," and such. And I have no doubt that given the timeframe of the movie, Mr. Nash was institutionalized repeatedly and treated horribly there. Sadly, that happens even today to people with schizophrenia, despite how much more we understand the disorder. Tbh, I don't even want to imagine how unpleasant those periods of his life might have been. Thanks for the added context of the book though. I may have to add it to my reading list. ✌🤓
Math is just underlying patterns. Being good at math is like learning a foreign language. (Some people are good at that sort of thing.) "Beautiful MindS" indeed. Thank you Dasha for your beautiful reaction to this amazing movie.
Dasha’s passion for movies and understanding of the storylines comes out through her reactions. Love her ❤ It’s sad that mental illness can go undiagnosed and untreated for years.
One of my top films. So well directed (by Ron Howard), written, and filmed. Well acted all the way around, especially Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, who got a well-deserved Oscar for best actress and who is quite possibly the most beautiful woman ever on film (still is, she's hardly changed..) She met her husband on this movie, Paul Bettany (who plays the roommate, and played the doctor in "Master and Commander".) "Dark Water" starring her would be a great film for Halloween or anytime, more Hitchcock-type suspense than horror.
If you want to see more great movies based on true stories then you should watch "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992), "The Imitation Game" (2014), and "The Ghost and the Darkness" (1996).
Dasha, there's my angel ... you always impress me. BTW, you DO realize that Nash's roommate, Charles, also plays JARVIS (Tony Stark's computer and Vision, his physical embodiment) from the Marvel MCU, right? Also, since this is a Ron Howard directed movie, you ALWAYS need to keep a lookout for members of his family. I spotted a few. For instance, Cheryl Howard (Ron's wife) plays the "Harvard Administrator", Rance Howard (his father) plays a "White-Haired Patient", Bryce Dallas Howard (his daughter) plays a "Harvard Student" (uncredited) and even Ron Howard plays a "Man at Governors' Ball" (uncredited). Dasha, the problem he was having with taking the pills was, as you saw, it changed him and made him not want to do anything. It also affected his sex drive ... and anything that required energy and thought.
Great movie. Other great Russell Crowe movies you should see is Virtuosity ,The Next Three Days. You should also Paul Bettany (The friend of Nash) movies (Which I think today is married to Jennifer Connely the actress who plays Nash Wife) in A Knight Tale and Firewall. Another movie like this is the Emporor Club.
Hey Dasha you picked up on how heartbreaking Nash's wife felt as she had to suffer with him and not undestanding what was going on. Alicia is an amazing woman and extremely patient. ------- Not many people would have been able to stand by John Nash for all those years. ----- Speaks to the power of true love. THe kind we all yearn for. ------ This is the type of love and chemistry I see behind my two favorite reactors. Keep up the amazing reactions.
I had a security clearance while in the service. Honestly classified was pretty boring most of the time. Mostly the information wasnt so much enlightening as the source or method involved. If somebody has a habit of wiping their nose in a specific manner it isnt "news" but somebody had to be there to see it so the source made it "classified"
Being on a psychotic break isn't a pleasant experience. Luckily, the medication works at least somewhat for most people. The critics of this movie point out that John fathered a child with a nurse but abandoned the family because he believed marrying a nurse was beneath him, and he never had a relationship with that son. There are many people living with schizophrenia who have thrived after being diagnosed with it, including Dr. Daniel Fisher, lawyer Elyn Saks, the late psychologist Dr. Fred Frese, and Eleanor Longden from the hearing voices movement. Don't believe everything you hear about schizophrenia because most of the information you're getting is wrong.
3:29 Nope, it is "Go" one of the most ancient tabletop games. Extremely complicated. My master is a Japanese buddhist monk, I never won a single gameagainst him.
Sexual dysfunction is one of the worst side-effects for psych meds. Take away the one thing that's guaranteed to make you feel better, if only for a little while. It makes you even more frustrated.
Was waiting for your switch on his 'mind' once you realized his schizophrenia. Appropriate that one of his hallucinations was VISION! Haha. Wish you would post your Breaking Bad reactions on TH-cam. Love to see those. Would watch each episode post. Jennifer Connelly won Best Actress, the movie won Best Picture and Ron Howard won Best Director Oscars for this classic (also won Best Screenplay). Crowe would've won another Best Actor Oscar (he won for Gladiator) if he didn't throw a phone at a concierge in a hotel. This performance was Crowe's best ever IMO. The saddest part of their story is that On May 23, 2015, Nash and his wife died in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike near Exit 8A in Monroe Township, NJ. After a visit to Norway, where Nash had received the Abel Prize, they had made arrangements to be picked up by a limo at Newark Airport. But because of a change in flight plans at the last minute they arrived five hours earlier, and decided to take a taxi instead. Their taxicab driver, Tarek Girgis, lost control of the vehicle and struck a guardrail. Both passengers were ejected from the car upon impact. State police revealed that it appeared neither passenger was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. At the time of their deaths, the Nashes were longtime residents of New Jersey
Dasha I love your reaction! I always loved this movie, learned I have addiction issues, my mother has schizoeffective disorder and hoarding issues so this hits home for me. I love how empathetic you are!
I love your heart so much. It must be painful for you when Russia is the bad guy in movies. The generalization. I loath the wickedness in all governments that works to make the people in their lands enemies of other people. Please know that you are not seen by us as anything but who you are - a wonderful person and one of our own. 💙 💙 💙 Great reaction to a great movie -
John Nash may have saved the human race from nuclear holocaust. I don't say this often because it's awkward, but I am a little like him myself, certainly not quite on his level but I'm one of those people who take naturally to math and algorithms and it's unusual for me to meet someone who I clearly understand is clearly smarter than me. (That has happened five times in my life.) This movie always hits me directly in the feels. I'm not schizophrenic, and I think Nash's madness may be the thing that pushed him past the boredom and laziness that has limited me into the exceptional greatness of his discoveries. When you are so different from other people it can sometimes seem like you must be mad even if you aren't hallucinating best friends. I think you are right that Nash's wife was the key to his success in dealing with his illness, and might be fair to say that she had an equal role in saving us from nuclear war. It is truly a rare movie that can capture such an esoteric state of being and make it accessible for people who don't live it every day.
We had a family member that had Psychosis and his Hallucinations were unbelievable, 🤔 Ok that came out wrong, of course they were, but not to him, he would talk to people that weren't there and he would see people that weren't there, and if you tried to convince him otherwise he would get very upset to the point of violence, and he would also have to get shock treatments. But when his meds were working he was the sweetest man you would ever want to meet, with a great personality and also was intelligent and funny. you should check out the movie "Rain Man"
Dasha, how do you rrrrrroll your R’s so easy and so strongly? I know it’s related to Russian accent but still, sometimes I wonder if you’re exaggerating abit for fun in the intros 😃
Sadly, John and Alicia Nash died tragically when they were in a taxi on the way to the airport, the driver lost control of the car and they were both ejected from the taxi and died instantly. SO SAD...
i have a difficulty with the idea of someone for everyone, or, soulmates, mainly because of some people committing suicide. Thus, what for those people? A person who commits suicide had a soulmate, once dead, what does that soulmate do since his/her partner is now dead or what of children who die of lukemia?
I'm a grown ass man and ninjas still cut onions somewhere near me when I watch this one. But my favorite Russel Crowe movie is Cinderella man. It is an emotional rollercoaster. Makes this movie look like a mud puddle
I have to say you really talk a lot - I don't think you're quiet for more than 3 seconds at the most. At times it can be good to just listen and not feeling obliged to comment everything you see on the screen. Just saying!
His madness and his genius spawn from the same source... a hyperactive mind, firing faster than he can handle. To treat the madness, they have to slow his mind down.
i found the person that truly connects we me. and we both knew. almost literally the moment we saw each other.... but.....she was already married and with children....so here i am alone....
I grew up in NJ and still live there to this day. One of my friends went to Princeton for college. I went there a few times and I met Dr Nash. And yes he did ask someone he knew to be sure I was real.
Love your reaction young lady. All the actors were great, not a false note by anyone. Mutual love and fellowship can work miracles to help bring out the best in everyone for everyone, giving proof to Nash’s beautiful theory/mathematical truth. Indeed, “the best result will come when”everyone does what’s best for themselves…. AND the group. It’s the only way we all”win.”
Wonderful movie, the only bad thing about it is that it romanticizes mental illness and also deviates a bit from the true story, but it’s a great film, love it.
I used to see John Nash all the time when I was at Princeton. Fascinating life. Still can’t believe Russell Crowe didn’t win best actor for this performance.
He should have! Many believed that since he had won for "Gladiator" the year before, they did not want to give him an Oscar two consecutive years... Even though they had done it for Tom Hanks previously... But you know, he lost to Denzel Washington for "Training Day", which was also a stellar performance, so I can't be too mad.
Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Picture.
Nash Equations are based on human interactions in a competitive environment, I use them every day (millions of people do). They will be with us forever!
He and his twice married wife died in a car accident after he returned from being awarded a prize. Crazy being awarded something leads to your death.
Hair looks great. 👍🏼
1917 (2019) 😊
Just been watching your Harry Potter reactions I can’t believe how much comfortable you are finding it speaking English now, absolutely brilliant speaking you will do well. Love from uk to russia 🥹❤️
I haven't seen this movie in a long time but I need to watch it again. My husband is a very smart man.
I love this movie! It gives me hope for true love :D
I was just discussing last night the contrast in this movie of Adams' "individual ambitions serve the common good" vs. Nash's Nobel price winning method of search for simultaneous benefit to the individual and the community, and when they didn't remember who was John Nash, I mentioned the name of the movie, everybody remembers it, every body loves it.
Dasha, I have the theory that everybody is good at math, just not everybody knows it.
I used to teach remedial math, and I used to have students in very precarious situations, like requiring passing that exam to get their High School diploma to get into college and after several failed attempts, or failing math at college. Every one who took class with me and passed on their very next attempt. The key was undoing the conviction that bad teachers put in them that math is hard and that they were not capable. Once their self-confidence was restored, the rest was easy. They were never bad at math, they just had a mental blocks placed in their heads by inadequate teachers. I have continued helping people here and there even after I left that job, I have not found one person to this day, who cannot do algebra, calculus and analytic geometry.
As someone who is 19 and has the math skills of a sixth grader, I have to respectfully disagree. I'm not challenging your experience or anything, just stating my belief that some people just aren't wired for numbers. Doesn't even have to be math-related. Give me a phone number and if I don't repeat it out loud and constantly between the time of hearing it and reaching a place where I can write it or save it, it's gone. The idea of being able to do advanced mathematics like calculus is laughable for me. If I had daily tutoring for the next 20 years, I'd never get there. Fortunately, I've never found myself in a position where algebra or analytic geometry became relevant in my life.
mmmm Jennifer Connelly ❤! Now you gotta watch Labyrinth!... and then you can watch Pan's Labyrinth! Two very different movies
It's Jarvis/Vision from the MCU.....plus Karen, Spider-Man's Jarvis/suit voice/assistant from Spider-Man Homecoming, plus Zeus - though I'm not sure if youre that far in the MCU yet.
The two actors are married in real life.
My brother and my mom said I was a beautiful mind.. just like this movie.. though I have no wife/love to rely on.. how can one convince those around him that he is not crazy?..? Nash did have a government job and was pursued by agents who feared his genius.. crazy could be argued as to how he became that way.
beautiful reaction to a beautiful movie
Wonderful, Dasha. 😊
Did you get a shorter haircut?? Looks extra cute today!
When are you going to finish the Pirates of the carribean franchise, and the hunger games franchise?
You def should watch “Cinderella Man” another inspirational true story starring Russell Crowe
My dad didn’t like this movie, since it’s psychological thriller.
Important to note: not a true story. Nash has said the movie has no root in reality. He never had any visual hallucinations. They divorced decades before. He never took any medications. They gave him insulin induced seizures, which in fact CAUSED many of his issues. He was only let out because he acted compliant. Good movie. Complete butchering of his life.
The real John Nash was mostly homosexual, and had plenty of "intercourse" with anonymous strangers in rest-stops on the highway. This movie is a terrible misrepresentation of Nash, and his great genius was in his embedding theorem and his work on partial differential equations, not in the game theory nonsense which was pretty obvious and of no great consequence.
Dasha is a truly wonderful person, she's so empathetic, attentive, and bright that her reactions really embody what these beautiful films attempt to convey. It allows us to revisit the emotions we all felt upon first viewing. I feel so sorry for her that Russia is so often the antagonist in these Hollywood portrayals and I hope she knows she is greatly appreciated for her very own beautiful mind. ☺
She should watch the tv show The Americans. The Russian spies are the protagonists of that show.
@@ronnix23also loosely based on a real story, just like this movie
Jennifer Connelly is my all time favorite actress! She brought her A game in this performance!
She (and the movie) won the Oscar (Best Supporting Actress, Best Picture, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer) AND Best Director (Ron Howard) AND Best Screenplay
Ain't just whistling Dixie...
She's my favorite as well!
Agreed 😊
Might be the biggest snub in Oscar's history, but at least she won the Best Supporting Actress and the movie did win Best Picture. But it was Crowe's phenomenal performance that made the movie so good.
@@MoMoMyPup10 Given that the award went to Denzal Washington's performance in Training Day, I don't think the 'snub' as you put it was that bad.
Knowing some people who had to deal with schizophrenia, I was glad I saw that movie 20 years ago, it helped me to better understand what they were going through.
One of my best friends is like this. Absolutely brilliant mathematician, he was diagnosed when he was 26. I think the whole "genius is borderline madness" trope is hokum but in his case it's true. He's also one of the kindest and most gentle people I've ever met.
It is an excellent instructional tool for would-be clinicians.
Great Reaction Dasha! Jennifer Connerly won the Oscar for her role in this. Great movie.
for me, the best movie with Russel Crowe is "Master and Commander"with his imaginary roomate (Paul Bettany) as the doctor on his warship.(Bettany who is married in real life with Jennifer Connelly the Russel's wife in this movie).
This movie has a special place in my heart because I went to see this with the woman who’d become my wife on our first date. We watch it every year on our anniversary.
Thanks for your reaction.
Dasha I notice a new hair cut here. Looks great. Great reaction as usual.
15:54 dasha is a true romantic.
true romantics are the best.
I first saw this movie when I was 14 and was in the middle of my own psychological crisis. I remember almost breaking down crying with how much I related and relate to what he goes through. Mental illness is a powerful thing that seizes control of your life and unfortunately the drugs to treat it can have their own problems.
I hate how isolating it can feel sometimes identifying with something so debilitating whilst everyone else is so oblivious.
@@Hoganply The challenge for me is just watching everyone take for granted that they can function every day. They don't think twice about the fact that they can just go to work and enjoy the things they want to enjoy while for me personally it's just hard to get out of bed every day yet alone take care of myself. All I can say is you have to take whatever opportunity you can find to try and break that isolation even if it's just the chance to explain to someone what you go through.
@@jackcoleman1784 There are people out there that can relate to your struggle. It's not an easy thing to go through. I gave up on any real hope of romance or intimacy because of my mental illnesses, specifically because they can be so isolating. It didn't help that I was forced to take medications for years that had side effects worse than the symptoms they were supposed to suppress. Thankfully, my dad eventually took my arguments to heart and let me come off of the meds. Being unmedicated is a challenge, but it's better (for me) than the fog I was existing in when I was on them.
the problem with those psychotropic drugs is that they numb you. they numb your emotions, they numb your libido and they numb your mind which reduces your brain's ability to form the hallucinations. i understand why people don't like taking them. in a lot of ways they decrease your pleasures in life.
but at the same time i also understand the need for these drugs. maybe one day they'll come up with medication without the side effects or even come up with a cure rather than a "treatment."
John Nash and his wife died in a traffic accident in 2015.
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I want to point out I “liked” your comment only to point out that you are correct. Sad sad story.
@@petergoss821 yeah, that's one of those comments that it feels "wrong" to like.
@@petergoss821Yes, it was heartbreaking to hear.
If you would like to see a very young Jennifer Connelly then please Watch the movie called "Labyrinth" which came out in 1986. The movie also stars David Bowie. I think Dasha might like the movie Labyrinth.
"You have no power over me!"
Jennifer Connelly Stunningly beautiful and an amazing actress.
She cut her hair, it's nice. Sweet Dasha, with a heart as big as the world 💔 I wish everyone could be like her 😊
In real life his wife divorced him in 1963 so they were only married for 4 years, they stayed friends and he lived with her as a boarder to be close to his family. They remarried in 2001. But they gloss over all that in movie.
I went to school with the guy who plays Martin in the movie, its always cool seeing him in films, he was a definite standout in Drama class for sure.
👏 Where was this? So cool. 👍
@@johnmguzman7491 Gig Harbor High in Washington State.He was one year ahead of me.Lived about 5 miles away.
This movie won four Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly, Best Director, and Best Picture. ❤
It was nominated for an additional four awards: Best Original Score (RIP James Horner), Best Makeup, Best Film Editing, and Best Lead Actor for Russell Crowe.
I honestly thought he was more deserving of the Oscar for this than he did for Gladiator. But that’s just my personal opinion. Lol
Russell Crowe was suppose to win the oscar for this as he had won sag, golden globe but when he won bafta, he was giving a speech where he was reciting a poem which got cut during the broadcast and when he found out, he confronted one of the producers afterwards in which he shoved him against a wall and started cursing him out.
This is probably what cost him his second oscar in a row. The oscar went to Denzel Washington for Training Day.
This is such a fantastic movie! Great choice!
Hey Dasha, love your new haircut. 😍
Jennifer Connolly is brilliant, gorgeous, and funny. Ive loved her in eveything from The Rocketeer to the Incredible Hulk and even the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still ... just dont watch Requiem of a Dream 💔😭 I dont understand how people like that movie, its waaaay to fu#%ed up and depressing.
Psychiatric "treatment" in those days (and probably even today) was little more than torture ...
This is a hard movie for me to watch. It's well written, beautifully acted, and all-around spectacularly made, and this is not a knock against its quality. It's just that for me, a person with schizophrenia (among other things), the movie feels like it minimizes the disorder. Though to be fair, maybe I just feel jealous of people like Nash. I get to deal with the downsides of severe schizophrenia, but I didn't get the genius intellect or anything of the sort. In fact, I'm a real idiot when it comes to science and math. This movie is a depiction of "winning" with schizophrenia, when most people with the disorder actually lose.
@@nightfall902 Of course. The book is almost always more accurate/better. 😄 Most people with schizophrenia don't have both auditory and visual hallucinations. Auditory hallucinations are more common. "Hearing voices," and such. And I have no doubt that given the timeframe of the movie, Mr. Nash was institutionalized repeatedly and treated horribly there. Sadly, that happens even today to people with schizophrenia, despite how much more we understand the disorder. Tbh, I don't even want to imagine how unpleasant those periods of his life might have been. Thanks for the added context of the book though. I may have to add it to my reading list. ✌🤓
34:15 ☺️🥲❤
Jennifer Connely is still hot actress
You cut your hair short? It looks good
Math is just underlying patterns.
Being good at math is like learning a foreign language. (Some people are good at that sort of thing.)
"Beautiful MindS" indeed. Thank you Dasha for your beautiful reaction to this amazing movie.
Keep up the great work Dasha!
Jennifer Connelly is one of the few actresses whose stunning beauty doesn't override her acting ability.
Like the haircut btw
Dasha’s passion for movies and understanding of the storylines comes out through her reactions. Love her ❤ It’s sad that mental illness can go undiagnosed and untreated for years.
Sleepy Hugo!!! 😍
One of my top films. So well directed (by Ron Howard), written, and filmed. Well acted all the way around, especially Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, who got a well-deserved Oscar for best actress and who is quite possibly the most beautiful woman ever on film (still is, she's hardly changed..) She met her husband on this movie, Paul Bettany (who plays the roommate, and played the doctor in "Master and Commander".) "Dark Water" starring her would be a great film for Halloween or anytime, more Hitchcock-type suspense than horror.
Yep, she still looks great in Top Gun Maverick at 50 plus.
If you want to see more great movies based on true stories then you should watch "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992), "The Imitation Game" (2014), and "The Ghost and the Darkness" (1996).
Dasha, there's my angel ... you always impress me.
BTW, you DO realize that Nash's roommate, Charles, also plays JARVIS (Tony Stark's computer and Vision, his physical embodiment) from the Marvel MCU, right? Also, since this is a Ron Howard directed movie, you ALWAYS need to keep a lookout for members of his family. I spotted a few.
For instance, Cheryl Howard (Ron's wife) plays the "Harvard Administrator", Rance Howard (his father) plays a "White-Haired Patient", Bryce Dallas Howard (his daughter) plays a "Harvard Student" (uncredited) and even Ron Howard plays a "Man at Governors' Ball" (uncredited).
Dasha, the problem he was having with taking the pills was, as you saw, it changed him and made him not want to do anything. It also affected his sex drive ... and anything that required energy and thought.
Great movie. Other great Russell Crowe movies you should see is Virtuosity ,The Next Three Days. You should also Paul Bettany (The friend of Nash) movies (Which I think today is married to Jennifer Connely the actress who plays Nash Wife) in A Knight Tale and Firewall. Another movie like this is the Emporor Club.
Those students making fun of him? Totally owned, the guy wins a Nobel prize HAH!
Also, mental health problems suck.
Hey Dasha you picked up on how heartbreaking Nash's wife felt as she had to suffer with him and not undestanding what was going on. Alicia is an amazing woman and extremely patient. ------- Not many people would have been able to stand by John Nash for all those years. ----- Speaks to the power of true love. THe kind we all yearn for. ------ This is the type of love and chemistry I see behind my two favorite reactors. Keep up the amazing reactions.
I had a security clearance while in the service. Honestly classified was pretty boring most of the time. Mostly the information wasnt so much enlightening as the source or method involved. If somebody has a habit of wiping their nose in a specific manner it isnt "news" but somebody had to be there to see it so the source made it "classified"
A beautiful mind l reminds me of the movie Mr Holland's Opus, you should watch that, another great movie
6:44 #actorwasinTVseries "Taxi," "Numbers." ...Hirsch.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Being on a psychotic break isn't a pleasant experience. Luckily, the medication works at least somewhat for most people. The critics of this movie point out that John fathered a child with a nurse but abandoned the family because he believed marrying a nurse was beneath him, and he never had a relationship with that son. There are many people living with schizophrenia who have thrived after being diagnosed with it, including Dr. Daniel Fisher, lawyer Elyn Saks, the late psychologist Dr. Fred Frese, and Eleanor Longden from the hearing voices movement. Don't believe everything you hear about schizophrenia because most of the information you're getting is wrong.
2:10 #movieactorisin "AKnight's Tale."-Ernie Moore Jr.
5:26 - yes of course: Master And Commander, reuniting Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany.
I remember watching this movie for the first time and having a hard time focusing on the story every time Jennifer Connelly was on the screen lol
3:29 Nope, it is "Go" one of the most ancient tabletop games. Extremely complicated. My master is a Japanese buddhist monk, I never won a single gameagainst him.
Someday Dasha will win a Nobel Prize for her unlocking the way pigeons move.
Sexual dysfunction is one of the worst side-effects for psych meds. Take away the one thing that's guaranteed to make you feel better, if only for a little while. It makes you even more frustrated.
Was waiting for your switch on his 'mind' once you realized his schizophrenia. Appropriate that one of his hallucinations was VISION! Haha. Wish you would post your Breaking Bad reactions on TH-cam. Love to see those. Would watch each episode post. Jennifer Connelly won Best Actress, the movie won Best Picture and Ron Howard won Best Director Oscars for this classic (also won Best Screenplay). Crowe would've won another Best Actor Oscar (he won for Gladiator) if he didn't throw a phone at a concierge in a hotel. This performance was Crowe's best ever IMO. The saddest part of their story is that On May 23, 2015, Nash and his wife died in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike near Exit 8A in Monroe Township, NJ. After a visit to Norway, where Nash had received the Abel Prize, they had made arrangements to be picked up by a limo at Newark Airport. But because of a change in flight plans at the last minute they arrived five hours earlier, and decided to take a taxi instead. Their taxicab driver, Tarek Girgis, lost control of the vehicle and struck a guardrail. Both passengers were ejected from the car upon impact. State police revealed that it appeared neither passenger was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. At the time of their deaths, the Nashes were longtime residents of New Jersey
Dasha I love your reaction! I always loved this movie, learned I have addiction issues, my mother has schizoeffective disorder and hoarding issues so this hits home for me. I love how empathetic you are!
35:13 love like that does exist. ❤
I love your heart so much. It must be painful for you when Russia is the bad guy in movies. The generalization. I loath the wickedness in all governments that works to make the people in their lands enemies of other people. Please know that you are not seen by us as anything but who you are - a wonderful person and one of our own. 💙 💙 💙
Great reaction to a great movie -
John Nash may have saved the human race from nuclear holocaust. I don't say this often because it's awkward, but I am a little like him myself, certainly not quite on his level but I'm one of those people who take naturally to math and algorithms and it's unusual for me to meet someone who I clearly understand is clearly smarter than me. (That has happened five times in my life.) This movie always hits me directly in the feels. I'm not schizophrenic, and I think Nash's madness may be the thing that pushed him past the boredom and laziness that has limited me into the exceptional greatness of his discoveries. When you are so different from other people it can sometimes seem like you must be mad even if you aren't hallucinating best friends. I think you are right that Nash's wife was the key to his success in dealing with his illness, and might be fair to say that she had an equal role in saving us from nuclear war. It is truly a rare movie that can capture such an esoteric state of being and make it accessible for people who don't live it every day.
We had a family member that had Psychosis and his Hallucinations were unbelievable, 🤔 Ok that came out wrong, of course they were, but not to him, he would talk to people that weren't there and he would see people that weren't there, and if you tried to convince him otherwise he would get very upset to the point of violence, and he would also have to get shock treatments. But when his meds were working he was the sweetest man you would ever want to meet, with a great personality and also was intelligent and funny. you should check out the movie "Rain Man"
Amazing reacting to an even more amazing good movie. I still get all choked up during the scenes with the pens and when he thanks is beautiful wife.
Dasha, how do you rrrrrroll your R’s so easy and so strongly? I know it’s related to Russian accent but still, sometimes I wonder if you’re exaggerating abit for fun in the intros 😃
Sadly, John and Alicia Nash died tragically when they were in a taxi on the way to the airport, the driver lost control of the car and they were both ejected from the taxi and died instantly. SO SAD...
i have a difficulty with the idea of someone for everyone, or, soulmates, mainly because of some people committing suicide. Thus, what for those people? A person who commits suicide had a soulmate, once dead, what does that soulmate do since his/her partner is now dead
or what of children who die of lukemia?
His roommate, guy in black and the little girl r only in his mind. They r not real ppl, except in John’s mind.
I'm a grown ass man and ninjas still cut onions somewhere near me when I watch this one. But my favorite Russel Crowe movie is Cinderella man. It is an emotional rollercoaster. Makes this movie look like a mud puddle
If you haven't seen The Imitation Game, def watch it. Similar to this but tragic.
You usually find them when you STOP looking. 👍
i'm one of those who are abnormally good at maths.....
but i suffer certain deficits in other areas.....honestly i dont know if i would trade it.
I love your new haircut
I was also going to comment on this.🙂
Best part of the review 3.02 "Pigeons move like..."
I have to say you really talk a lot - I don't think you're quiet for more than 3 seconds at the most. At times it can be good to just listen and not feeling obliged to comment everything you see on the screen. Just saying!
His madness and his genius spawn from the same source... a hyperactive mind, firing faster than he can handle.
To treat the madness, they have to slow his mind down.
i found the person that truly connects we me.
and we both knew. almost literally the moment we saw each other....
but.....she was already married and with children....so here i am alone....
Dasha, some of the things John see’s in his mind, which looks like advanced thought, is part of his psychosis.
The pen scene always gets me. Jennifer Connelly is one of the most beautiful women to every grace our screens. Dasha your hair cut looks great.
16:30 "it's very dangerous to be a good mathematican." 🙂
I grew up in NJ and still live there to this day. One of my friends went to Princeton for college. I went there a few times and I met Dr Nash. And yes he did ask someone he knew to be sure I was real.
Love your reaction young lady. All the actors were great, not a false note by anyone. Mutual love and fellowship can work miracles to help bring out the best in everyone for everyone, giving proof to Nash’s beautiful theory/mathematical truth. Indeed, “the best result will come when”everyone does what’s best for themselves…. AND the group. It’s the only way we all”win.”
Wonderful movie, the only bad thing about it is that it romanticizes mental illness and also deviates a bit from the true story, but it’s a great film, love it.
How do you go about reacting movies, or can we request? I have quite a list.
I think you would love Cinderella Man, which is also a true story.
Great reaction!
The real John and Alicia died in a car accident. They were being driven from an airport by taxi when the accident happened.
Beautiful person watches a beautiful mind
dasha, u are soo sweet!!😊🙂🥺😌🙏🙏👍🤞✌🤙❤💛
“How did he get the hottest girl ever??” Neither Nash nor his wife were anywhere near as attractive as Crowe and Connelly.
I just found out that they both passed in a taxi crash in 2015...
It seems so unworthy of an ending for two absolutely remarkable people.
John Nash and his wife Alicia died together in a car accident in 2015.
12:01 "How did he end up getting the hottest girl ever?" We real-life geeks and nerds want to know the answer to that question too! 😆