Historical Inaccuracies in Film and Television That Broke the Suspension of Disbelief

Nash’s Relationship in “A Beautiful Mind”

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The film “A Beautiful Mind” was based on a true story and stars Russell Crowe as John Nash, a mathematician with schizophrenia who made contributions to subjects like geometry and game theory during his life. But the movie fails to mention the full extend of his personal relationships, instead showing a steady marriage with one wife, when in reality, he had relations with other men, including one that cost him his job in 1954. And the film didn’t show that Nash threw his wife, Alicia, to the ground during a work picnic or that the two of them got divorced in the early 1960s.

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