The couple were in a taxi when the driver lost control, crashed into a guard rail and hit another car on Saturday afternoon on the New Jersey Turnpike, said police. Nash, 86, and his wife, Alicia, 82, were thrown from the taxi and pronounced dead at the scene, New Jersey State Police spokesman Sgt. Gregory Williams added, declining to comment on media reports that they were not wearing seat belts. Russell Crowe, who portrayed Nash in the Oscar-winning movie, said on Twitter that he was stunned by the deaths.
Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts," the Hollywood star wrote. The taxi driver was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries and the driver of the other vehicle was also treated in hospital, police said.
No charges had been filed, Williams added. The Pentagon hears word of it, and Nash is summoned to decode Soviet communications. Who knows what the Reds might have to say about redheads? In real life, Nash's defence-related work was undertaken for the Rand Corporation , not directly for the Pentagon.
A Beautiful Mind's representation of schizophrenia is affecting, but a lot of Nash's rough edges have been sanded off. As far as the film is concerned, his first and only relationship is a touching romance with an infinitely tolerant student, Alicia Jennifer Connelly.
The screenplay is based on Sylvia Nasar's biography of Nash , but details that Oscar voters might have found difficult are simply left out: intense relationships with other men which he and his wife both deny were sexual , an illegitimate son, and the darker side of his relationship with Alicia.
According to Nasar, Nash "wished to show everyone that he was the master of this gorgeous young woman, and that she was his slave. Nash seeing and conversing with life-like 'people' is not what most individuals who sufferfrom schizophrenia experience," Lamberti said. Instead, most schizophrenics are besieged by one or more voices that seem to come out of thin air.
Those who do have visual hallucinations tend to see things that are distorted, almost "cartoonish," not lifelike as they were in the film, Johnson said. The movie was on target when it came to delusions, which are typical for schizophrenics, experts say. Nash believed he was doing top-secret government work that could save the United States and that he was being followed by Russians. Doctors would call the former a grandiose delusion and the latter a paranoid delusion, Lamberti said.
Both types are common. While in a mental institution, Nash is treated with insulin coma therapy, in which patients are given insulin to induce a comatose state that lasts about 15 to 60 minutes. The results, as shown in the movie, are horrific. In the movie, Nash has hallucinations and delusions even when taking his medications. Soon, he was arrested and deported to the US.
We have to mention the visual hallucinations that play a huge role in A Beautiful Mind. The real Nash never saw any hallucinations, he only heard voices. For example, when he saw a red tie, he would think that the person wearing it was a Communist conspiracy member.
Despite popular opinion, John never worked for the Pentagon and he never tried to decipher encrypted messages from Russian and Japanese spies. But he thought that the world was preparing a conspiracy against the US, so he wrote personal letters to the US government. Without the boring details, John tried to convince the government that they had to use a completely different method of encryption and he even suggested one. The amazing fact is that this is the method that is used nowadays. His disease continued to get worse.
Aggressive treatment in psychological facilities was ineffective. John spoke in the third person, he kept calling his former colleagues in order to inform them about yet another crazy conspiracy theory, and he was afraid of something. When the situation got completely out of control, Nash was put into a clinic again. There, he had insulin shock therapy — this is when a person is put into a coma with insulin.
This trip was the last straw for Alicia. She divorced John and raised their son by herself. Unfortunately, when he was a teenager, their son was also diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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