Movie Trivia – A Beautiful Mind
Memorable Movie Quotes
Dr. Rosen: Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?
Nash: There’s no point in being nuts if you can’t have a little fun.
Trivia
The equations seen on the classroom chalk boards are actual equations written by the real-life John Nash.
The film was shot in sequence in order to help Russell Crowe develop a consistently progressive manner of behavior.
John and Alicia Nash were killed in a car accident on May 23, 2015, when the driver of a taxi they were riding in lost control of the car and collided with a guard rail and a second car on the New Jersey Turnpike. The New York Times said that although the two drivers suffered only minor injures, the Nashes were “ejected from the cab and pronounced dead at the scene.” John was 86 and Alicia was 82.
To create the “golden” look of the campus scenes early in the film, the filmmakers took a low-contrast stock (Fuji F-400 8582) and exposed it to a colored light before loading it into the camera for shooting.
The Nobel Prize ceremony was filmed in Prudential Hall at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, NJ. The filming for that one scene, including set up, make up, etc, took over 8 hours. However, the scene in the lobby afterwards was filmed at another location.
Goofs
The aerial view of the Pentagon includes the modern-day helicopter landing pad.
In 1951 Nash drinks from a paper cup with the “recycled” symbol on it.
In the first scene in his dorm room at Princeton in 1947, Nash listens to a recording by the early-music ensemble Gothic Voices featuring soprano Emma Kirkby. The recording, of Hildegard von Bingen’s “Columba aspexit,” was not made until 1981; in fact, Emma Kirkby was not even born until 1949.
Even if the audience at the Nobel Prize ceremony would give a laureate a standing ovation, the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and his family, who sit on stage to the right, would never, ever rise.
There is no “ceremony of the pens” at Princeton University.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget: $58,000,000
Gross: $170,742,341
Filming Locations
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Manhattan College – Manhattan College Parkway, Riverdale, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA (Harvard scenes)
Belleville, New Jersey, USA
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Fairleigh Dickinson University – 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, New Jersey, USA
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Bronx Community College – University Avenue at West 181 Street, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA (MIT scenes)
East Orange, New Jersey, USA
Fordham University – 441 E. Fordham Road. Rose Hill, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
New York City, New York, USA
Yonkers, New York, USA