A beautiful mind

Hi. Today we're going to talk about

a beautiful mind, the movie.

We're going to analyze it and talk about a lot of things in the movie

and we're gonna discuss about it.

So we have five topics which I'm gonna show you today.

We're gonna get into the movie. You know, what is this beautiful mind about

the plot?

Obviously a scene from the movie, we're gonna analyze it, the shots,

you know what is going on in this part of the movie.

And then we're gonna talk about camera shots in the movie.

And lastly, we are going to talk about the lighting and the color.

So

without further ado, let's get started.

So our first you know,

topic is,

you know, what is this movie about? What is beautiful mind?

A beautiful Mind is a true life story. This actually happened

is a true life story of the mathematician

John Nash. He won a Nobel Prize Award in

1994 but he really came out with his

theories and the most known game theory really back

in the day like decades ago before he won the award because of his own mental illness,

which you don't know, he has schizophrenia.

He couldn't really make a big, you know, success on his own career.

But later on in his elderly life, he

kind of moved forward and won the prize.

But yeah, that's really it.

And the movie is structured by Ron Howard and was authored by Akiva Goldsman.

So

is the one who plays John Nash. If you didn't see in the photo right there,

he plays it and he played it very, very well with other characters like uh you know,

Alicia Lord, who is played by

Jennifer Connelly and Harris by Charles,

which we're gonna come on to these characters.

And Paul Bethany,

a beautiful mind came out of the United States in

21st of December 2001 almost like 22 years ago.

But it made a really big success. 313 million

is a really much ink,

a lot of money for these kind of movies because

normally real life stories are not that much gross movies.

So it must have been a big success.

So we are moving on to our other topic, which is the plot.

So

yeah, the plot is really

much

a lot,

but I'm going to say it as little as I can

and gonna finish in a really little amount of time.

But, you know, I wish that you guys could watch it rather than me telling it because

it's a more watchable because when I explain, it's not gonna be really much

saying anything but the movie does really has a lot of effect.

So basically

John Nash comes to Printon University as a co

recipient for the car

scholarship of mathematics.

He is going to

write an article about a thesis or a statement about, you know, a rule in math.

He wants to come with an original idea

and comes with other mathematicians who is very,

very,

you know, rival towards him, especially Hansen,

which is a character that we're gonna see.

You know, throughout the movie, he is very,

very charming and wants to win this and kind of sees John as, you know, someone,

you know, he could beat really easily

and they all and they have a scene where they play chess and when Nash, you know,

was trying to win, he can't,

he just goes away and Hansen is kind of this bully,

but later on is very helping towards him

uh John.

So he comes with an idea, he's trying to think of something original,

but you know,

you can't find something out of nowhere and people are telling him to just like,

you know, you're the one of the last ones to do this.

So you need to start your thesis right now.

And

he goes to a bar with his friends and they're talking about how to approach a woman.

And it comes when they're trying to like talk about it.

He discovers game theory if you don't know,

just search game theory. It's very, very popular theory. He comes on to say

that, you know,

he argues with his friends on you can't approach the

woman like this because all of us think that,

you know, we can't get the beautiful one.

So we're gonna go to the ones that we think is OK for us because

we see each other as not as great of a level for the beautiful woman.

So

all of us are gonna go to a different type of woman

and beautiful blonde woman is going to be in the middle.

So the one who didn't went to any other woman

is going to be with the blonde woman because the blonde

woman is all alone and doesn't have any other option.

And he discovers then the game theory and decides

to write his statement and article on it.

He publishes the article

and

it's a big success. He gets an invitation to M I T

and starts working there and also gets invited

to Pentagon for Telecommunication and studies to telecommunication.

His life is going great and well he meets Alicia,

his wife.

He was, she's actually a student of his in M I T.

But Alicia comes up to him saying that, you know,

let's go on a date and they have a really great night

and they eventually get married. But at this timeline,

Nash's mental health gets really worse. In the beginning of the movie.

He meets someone in college called Charles and Charles has a niece called Marcy.

Mary Marcy.

It's up to you

but they talk, they get along very well and Josh is John's only friend

in the whole entire person.

University was he was trying to find an article and write an

article was only Charles and he gets along with Charles very well.

And after even like starting to teach in

M I T and do these telecommunication studies,

he still has con connection,

connection with Charles. So sorry.

Uh while this is happening, all these things happening in his life,

such a great time,

he meets someone called,

he meets Parcher.

Parcher works for the Cold War,

the Civil War that was coming happening at the time because

he lived in those times and was teaching at those times.

So he needs him

saying that he has a very secret job and

is trying to find these codes of the Soviet Union

that has been getting sent to USA.

So he tries to work on these, but it's a secret mission.

So he can't tell his wife, he can't tell his friends and he can't tell anyone.

He has hasn't even talked about Charles to this.

So he does this alone. But at that time, he gets a very a lot of fear. He marries Alicia

but is so scare for his

and her life about, you know that he's gonna get killed by the Soviet Union

and something is going bad happen and he

gets all terrified and petrified at some point,

you know, secret things happen between himself and Alicia is just, you know,

trying to understand what's going on because she's actually really much confused.

And one day he gets really, really mad

and,

you know,

Alicia goes through his studies in M I T

and realizes that his husband has schizophrenia

and that, you know,

Charles

Marcy

departure, they're all just his hallucinations and his visions.

So,

you know,

she gets very, very scared. She doesn't know what to do because she is pregnant

from this man and she's completely confused on what's gonna happen.

He goes,

John goes immediately sane insane

and gets to his psych ward.

They meet a doctor there and he says that he needs to get very heavy medication

and he does, he comes to home and Alicia takes care of him, but

he stops taking this medication after some while and still goes on his missions.

He starts to see parts of Charles and Mary

again.

And at some time,

Alicia realizes what's going on

and

one day

John leaves his child on a bathtub

with Charles, but Charles is not there, Charles is just hall hallucination.

So Alicia comes up running

and realizes that he was almost killing their

baby. So from this,

he just she just yells at him saying, what are you doing? Charles is not here?

He's not real.

He's trying,

she's trying to show him what's going on but he's still hesitant to not believe it.

Parter comes up saying, what are you doing?

You're insane and all that stuff and starts

literally just coming up to his face screaming at him

and he's trying to fight Parter at that point,

but Parter is not there

and accidentally trying to save Alicia and the baby, he

just a little scores

them over

and they fell. So he hurts his wife and his head.

And when Alicia realizes that there's no point of helping

Nash, he just leaves her,

she just leaves him

and you know, while she's going with her car, you know, ready to just leave him.

John realizes what's going on.

He thinks about Marcy, the niece of Charles,

he thinks about her going nonstop because

he has been working at M I T and this

job of this mission, the secret mission for years now

years.

And Marley has never grown once.

And that's the to turning point of

Nash's visions and his realization of that

none of this, none of this is real.

So he, you know, stops the car says to Alicia,

I know what's going on.

The girl is not growing up, what is going on. This is not real. None of this is real.

So he starts to get medication.

He goes back to Princeton and what you see Holson is there

and he's actually is in the head of the ma mathematics part.

And

Alicia asked him to study in the library in Princeton and he agrees.

But for some, a lot of reasons, uh years

and decades probably he tries to get away from his

visions and tried to beat them off and even goes to

and fight in the middle of Princeton with a lot of students there,

you know, fighting with Parcher, but Parcher is not there.

So people think he's going crazy. But after years he gets over it

one day he starts to teach students at the libraries, showing them what is going on,

what is happening.

And he is allowed to teach again. And in 94

a Nobel Prize award, he wins,

he wins it. He becomes a teacher in Princeton.

He has a child, his child is growing up.

He's at Harvard, you know, he's living his life and

he,

when his speech comes up, he dedicates everything to Alicia because

she was always with him and supported him and that's how the movie finishes.

So this is the plot.

But I know I'm speaking right now here,

but I think you should watch the movie even though I told everything.

So we are gonna go on.

So

Charles Mary

and Marcy and Parter. Parter is

the guy with a cap. He has a hat. Charles is

the one holding Marcy's hand and Marcy is a little girl,

this is where,

you know,

Nash abandons them after realizing what's going on

and they just stare at him from far

and this is Alicia Nash on the date night.

Now we have a scene from the movie.

I'm very sorry to say this, but I can't show you the movie for some reason

out of copyright. It's not letting me

mega watch. I'm so sorry,

but I can give you the URL but

you know, you can watch yourself.

So now we are going to, you know, do an analyze

on it, you know what's going on.

So the scene analyzes the scene we watch included three types,

medium close up and deok

shots.

This scene is a very,

very dark scene and it is a turning point for

Nash on his hallucinations on his schizophrenia and realizes that,

you know what he's seeing is not real.

So there are very dark colored shots here,

there's a very deep focus towards him

of him trying to understand his feelings and what is going on.

So what they're trying to point to the viewer is that, you know, you have to look at

Nash's crow's eyes to understand what's going on to look

at his face deeply that he's horrified of what he's realizing

and also medium shots, you know,

Alicia and the fight he has and there's an entire

angle a little when he pushes Alicia and the baby,

which shows that, you know, he's actually getting out of his mind and literally,

you know, does anything for these hallucinate hallucinations that he's seeing.

So,

and

we're gonna look at the plot for a little bit of what's going on here.

A turning point for Nash.

The scene that we just watched represents a

turning point in the realization of Nash's illness

as we talked about it. He realizes in this scene

that Marci Marcy never grown up, she never grown up. It has been years,

she hasn't grown

one bit. Charles never changed. And parture is the same part.

So he comes to realize that, you know, none of it is real

and that Alicia and everyone who was very worried about him were right all along.

So now we're gonna go and move on and to our shots,

camera shots in the movie,

there is high, low and

high and low angle and medium shots,

medium shots are mostly used on Nash to show his mean to show how he feels and how,

you know, tense he gets when things go bad

as we see on the scene just that we've watched,

you know, you can see how tense he feels and how bad he feels and what's going on.

But throughout the movie, he also feels, you know,

a little bit more

weird

and we tend to see how he feels. So the medium angle

is mostly for, you know, to see how he feels or the other characters and how they feel

high and low angle. So I'm just gonna show it

high angle, low angle is used to show hope

we have one scene

that I can't show right now.

But

in the slow angle.

One of the scenes that, you know, it has a very,

very powerful low angle shot

is where he fights with

Parer and looks up, you know, to the camera,

not for the camera but like the shot where he looks up and sees, you know,

other people staring at him and laughing at him

and

you know, trying to fight that vision, he's trying to fight and what's going on.

He's trying to, you know,

fight it through his visions of parts and everything that's going on.

He's trying to fight it. He's looking up for hope.

You know, that's what he's trying to show.

If you watch a movie, you'll see it.

But

I'm just explaining right now.

The

high angle shots

are used to give the show scene, show freedom.

I'm gonna show you the shot right now

of the picture I put inside on this flight.

But basically on that scene that I just show you the shot of

is basically to show on, you know,

what is going on?

It shows freedom

and what kind of freedoms shall we? So Charles and

Nash are in the room,

Nash is so hung up on

what he's trying to find his thesis and what's he's

what he's gonna do because he needs a scholarship.

Charles is trying to say to just, you know, relax a little bit and all of a sudden,

you know, he starts to scream saying it's like, ok, ok,

like he's trying to boost Nash.

And at some point they push together his,

his desk and it goes off to window

and

the desk is completely ruined and they start to laugh and look at it from high up.

So it's a freedom showing that, you know,

Josh, Josh, I'm so sorry John is trying to show

on why he's doing this and how tense he is and throw the desk,

looking at him is showing the freedom that is going on.

He they're trying to replicate how, you know, by throwing a desk,

he's throwing all his

work and all his, you know, things that he'd done that.

No sense of right now doing is gonna make him good about it.

So yeah, if I can show you right now, I will show you

the picture. Yeah, they're now looking at it and also

Nash hit his head and is bleeding but they're looking at it like, you know,

they just got their feed out of it.

We're gonna go to lightning lighting and color.

So the lighting and color are very, very

different here

and there's a lot of switched up switch ups on color.

What am I exactly talking about?

The colors are very much a golden hour

integration a little bit bluish throughout the movie

in the beginning. There's a hope for

uh Nash and he tries to show people that he go, he's gonna win it.

So there is a really great vibe and a very great scenery

throughout the film.

It goes a little bit blue and gray because

of its schizophrenia and the hallucinations that he's seeing,

it's not going great. It's going bad.

It's going really, really bad,

especially the scene that we watched just before shows on how, you know

how he's going a little bit more tender and everything is starting to go bad.

Like there's a scene where he's a psych ward

and it's just all blue, all gray

and it's a little bit more darker, the lightning too.

But on a date night with Alicia, it's such a yellow scene.

It's yellow, it's gives golden hour in the face.

It just shows how happy it is and how the scene is supposed to be a good scene.

These lightnings lightings tend to show

how we should feel as

the person who is watching it,

you know, is it good or bad?

And we, you know,

the lighting is not really much a big thing on the movie because of the coloring.

It just kind of goes into the background,

but mostly it's a normal lightning lighting,

but throughout where it goes to bluish and grayish,

the lighting goes a little bit more darker.

It kind of gives this melancholic lighting

and I'm gonna show you now

the examples,

this scene in particular has a very, very yellow

lighting. This shows where he finds the thesis, his discovery of the game theory.

That's a blonde woman that I was talking about in the beginning

where this is how he finds it.

And it's a bar. It's a really relaxing. It's a very happy moment.

And when the scene actually gets into an end,

we can see that John finding his finally the statement,

he just goes into a big amount of happiness.

And now

the other scene

where he's looking

through his window

also, he's kind of hopeless towards it,

but it also has some hope on what's gonna go on.

He's trying to find something but it sure that he's gonna find about it. So

it's in the middle.

Now we have the

one where

it's grayish and bluish,

it just, you know,

shows that,

you know,

it's bad. This is where everything is not real

is, you know,

Soviet mission is not real. He's making up things in his mind

and they're really not real. They're not true. And

she finds out because this was secret and her, her finding out is a really,

really bad point for John

and this scene just shows particular that it's not gonna be good.

The ending of it is not gonna be good

because this is where his mission stops and because he doesn't know what's going on,

it's a really quite bad.

See,

so, you know,

because see like us who watches it does not know

what's going on because we don't know if it's schizophrenic,

it's actual or real or not.

Because the first time I watched it, I did not know specifically what was going on.

But Alicia knowing made me feel tense, made me feel bad because why

he should, she shouldn't have done that.

So

this scene where gray blue parts come up tries to show that, you know,

this is not gonna have a good ending

and this is really bad for the main character's plot

or the main plot of the movie.

And it's really what tends to show

and

that was basically it.

We discussed everything about it. We discussed, uh, all of the things that I listed

throughout these topics. Thank you for listening and watching.

I hope I gave you a lot of information about the movie.

If you haven't watched it, please watch it. It's a very brill brilliant movie

and

yeah, you know, have fun watching it.

So.

Bye.

A beautiful mind

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