A Beutifle Mind

[Stanislaw]

I am studying the movie in English. It is a brilliant piece of work. I heard there was a book. Has anyone seen the movie.

[imthefoolonthehill]

I haven't seen a beutiful mind.... is it new, or is that the british spelling?

heh... I have to mock you somehow... it builds up my dying self-esteem....LOL...

anyway... yeah A beautiful mind is a good movie... based on a real story, i'm told...

[Stanislaw]

Yeah it is based on the life of John Nash, an economist(?). Have you read the book, I am told it is quite different from the movie.

[imthefoolonthehill]

no... by the way... he wasn't much of an economic genius in my book... (going further and talking about his socialist economic views would violate the political rule)

[DumbLikeAPoet]

Originally posted by Stanislaw
Yeah it is based on the life of John Nash, an economist(?). Have you read the book, I am told it is quite different from the movie.

I own the book. It is different from the movie in a good number of ways. Unfortunatly I only read like 3/4 of it so......

Jonus

[Jay]

Jonus, would you recomend reading the book? That is if I'd be able to get hold of a copy... and have some time to read. Well, maybe during summer holidays maybe... and then a copy might be avaible here.

[DumbLikeAPoet]

Honestly no I wouldn't. I thought the whole book was a huge bore.

Jonus

[IWilKikU]

I hate when someone makes a great movie, so you run out and buy the book and it's rubbish. That happened to me with Forrest Gump.

[Stanislaw]

I think we have all had that expieriance. However the Jurassic Park books were infinitly better that Jurrasic Park the movie.

[nicholasburrus]

That happened to me with Forrest Gump. [/B][/QUOTE]

Good Piont

[IWilKikU]

Well, the usual case (as is with Jurassic Park) is that the book is infinately better than the movie. But Forest Gump and A Beautiful Mind are the rare exeption, where the movie is better.

[fayefaye]

If it's a book based on a movie, I watch the movie. If it's a movie based on a book, I read the book. everything's usually better in it's original form.

Oh, but if you think that just because they made a movie on it, the book must be good, you'd be wrong. The Shipping News and Charlotte Gray taught me that little lesson.

As for A Beautiful Mind, you're probably better off watching the movie. I haven't seen it, but John Forbes Nash won the Nobel Prize for ECONOMICS. which, as I've said before, isn't a science. But I thnk he was a mathematician.(?)

[DumbLikeAPoet]

I loved "The Shipping News" movie.

Jonus

[Stanislaw]

Yeah he used mathematics, and applied it to economics, at least that is what the movie said.

[fayefaye]

I didn't like the shipping news book. *yawn*

[fayefaye]

hey stan? what are you studying anyway? I mean general course or whatever?