Posted by M. Lee on January 9, 2003, at 10:28:26
In reply to Re: 'A Beautiful Mind' anyone? (SPOILER!), posted by Noa on January 8, 2003, at 17:47:01
> Some things that bothered me: first, for a movie that could pull that kind of effect off, there were some very sloppy details. To me, a movie of that expense should see to all the details. For example, Dr. Rosenberg was based in the Boston area, but when Nash has the later breakdown in his Princeton home, and his wife calls the doctor, the doctor appears almost instantly, as a local doctor. There were other detail problems like this, but this is the one that I remember now.
>Maybe the doctor wasn't really there!? ;)
I'm curuious, what other details did you notice? I hadn't picked up on that one.
> My friend thought I was being nit-picky, telling me it is just a movie, but I really think details can be important (Hitchkock or Allen would never have let those slip by).
>Yeah, attention to detail is important. It can make the difference between a good movie and a great film.
I read that for the movie "Titanic" they commisioned a set of china (identical to pieces retreived from the ocean bottom) for the dining room scenes. That seems a bit overboard, or rather the wrong kind of important detail.
In "2001" there is a scene where the human loses a game of chess to the intelligent computer. He seems to take it for granted that he would loose. But, the computer made a mistake during the game, kind of cheated, actually. It was the first sign in the film that something was wrong with the computer.I didn't know that fact until recently. An actor friend of mine suggested that this detail was just an accident. Until I pointed out that the director was a "chess hustler" in college - he used to play the game for money. The sequence of moves in the game that they played is from a chess tournament from like 150 years ago, with the only exception being the computer's "mistake." It's not likely that he would have taken the trouble to include such an obscure reference and gotten it wrong. It's not the kind of detail that I picked up on, but some people would have.
> The second thing I remember bothered me was this: after the breakdown scene, his wife gives the "love with conquer all" speech--this just seemed like Hollywood fluff to me.
>I don't recall reading any suggestion of that in the biography. It was one of things that really bothered me after seeing the movie.
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