A Beautiful Mind
“A Beautiful Mind” by Ron Howard is a drama film which is based on the life of John Nash. Nash is considered to be a genius and is a brilliant mathematician who suffers from schizophrenia. In the beginning of the movie John Nash starts his career off at Princeton University and he slowly moves into new positions. About halfway through the movie, John begins to realize that some of the people he has met are just illusions in his mind. Throughout the film, Ron Howard uses numerous film techniques to show the viewers a glimpse into the life of John Nash.
One of the most common film techniques that helps give the viewer a look into John Nash’s life is the angle of the camera. Camera angle helps the viewer get a better look at how John Nash is feeling. In the beginning of the movie, a girl named Alicia walks into John’s office and starts conversing with him. Alicia tries to tell John that she solved one of the problems that he put on the board, but John is positive that there was no way that she could’ve solved it because there was no solution. The angle of the camera is showing that something may be happening in the future between Alicia and John Nash….
Throughout the movie there are many instances where camera movement is a necessity such as when John Nash gets overwhelmed. Nash got an offer to go to the Pentagon and help break codes to locate an atom bomb. When he is looking at the wall, which is covered in numbers and the room began to spin. The camera movement in this scene shows that John Nash is overwhelmed with all of these numbers. In another instance John is surrounded by newspapers in his office. Certain letters began to “light up” and he began to cut portions out of the newspapers. Throughout most of this scene the room seemed to be spinning again. This type of camera movement helps us see the movements where John is overwhelmed or…
