The film A Beautiful Mind is based on the amazing life of Forbes Nash Jr., a brilliant mathematician and a Nobel Prize winner in economics. His unremitting pursuit and great achievements in game theory have become the focus of attention.
“A Beautiful Mind” from its release to the present, has been the word of mouth, including the Oscar for best director and best adapted screenplay.
As Horner’s second masterpiece after Titanic, the soundtrack of A Beautiful Mind is unique from the writing to the choice of tracks.
The score in the film, is to use the upheaval in Nash’s heart, to play the string, the subtle feeling is expressed;
At the same time, a music about beautiful thoughts is added, so that the scenes in the film, after the electric sound, appear more harmonious, both from the image, and can let people see the real side of the great mathematician, at the same time, can also express the word “mathematics”.
The film A Beautiful Mind
“A Beautiful Mind” won the “Best Original Vocal Award” for its outstanding compositional ability and control of the music, and won several international awards that year.
John Nash is a mathematician who takes life as a clue. While he is chasing the peak of mathematics, he also gains a good mood.
The director understood the wonderful side of the mathematicians, so he used a different narrative style to bring this particular world to the screen with light.
The whole film is not broken, but is in the process of looking for the protagonist thinking, such parallel development, looks very normal, in fact, very smart, but it can make people think.
With an equation, a beautiful but logical soul is presented to the audience, so that they can see a completely different digital world.
The film is roughly divided into three parts: the first part tells the story of John Nash’s life at Princeton, which gave him a chance to explore, which allowed him to concentrate on solving some mathematical problems.
He then recounts that at work, while teaching at MIT, he was also sent on a secret mission to the Wheeler Lab, when he also met a beautiful love affair, making romance and neuroticism accompany.
The third part tells the story of Nash’s family and friends care, Nash finally overcome his disease, with the “Game” theory, won the Nobel Prize, this part of the mystery is also uncovered, followed by a paragraph on the human society, Nash’s sentence is the end of the film.
“A Beautiful Mind” is Nash as the protagonist, through his perspective, to describe everything he has experienced, so that readers see Nash’s inner transformation, see his progress, see his understanding of the good mind.
Music deepens the theme of the movie A Beautiful Mind
“A Beautiful Mind” has a very structured score, with the plot of each story coming together well, so that the score can be more organized, and with three experiences of Nash, the melody of the entire film becomes more smooth.
Musical clues accompany the development of the plot, but the creator never ignores the prominence of the musical theme, but handles it just right.
The theme of the music of “mathematics” used by the hero when he reads is relatively strong; Then, in verse 2, the music of “Parcher” unfolds in parallel with the plot of the film.
In the third part, the main use of piano, strings and other instruments to express humanistic care, so as to make the classification and expression of emotions more prominent. The score both emphasizes the complexity of the plot and maintains its characteristic tension, allowing it to better represent the film’s theme.
The composer understood the importance of the concept of “mathematics” in the film, so in his work he focused on building a world of numbers and creating an atmosphere.
With fierce beats and short movements, they emphasize the way mathematicians think, they want to express a mathematician’s deep understanding of things, and it is because of their way of expression that this song is so beautiful.
In order to match the beautiful soul of the film, Horner used emotional strings in the performance, making the expression of the work more broad and beautiful, and highlighting the human side.
In this film, the director focuses on the good side of human beings and slowly reveals the lonely and confused side of Nash, who aspires to be a good mathematician.
The performance of the symphony orchestra makes this piece more distinctive, but also makes people feel the difficulty and complexity of a mathematical worker.
Using a symphony orchestra also had the benefit of creating a good atmosphere, and Horner’s knowledge of strings made it easy for him to apply it to the film.
When Nash searched for answers, he encountered many difficulties, such as the loneliness of having no one to tell him the answer, such as the helplessness of having no one to tell him the answer, such as the helplessness of having someone to care about him, such as he finally found his purpose, such as he finally found what he wanted, such as he finally found something that belongs to him.
The success of the film is largely due to the director’s proper arrangement of the plot, and he uses his own unique way of expression to show the legendary and suspenseful life of the protagonist.
Therefore, in the process of solving the world’s mathematical problems, the protagonist adopts a musical melody with great changes in rhythm. When the answer is about to be revealed, he stops the beating of the music and lets the heavy rhythm express something more profound.
In the pursuit of scientific truth, the protagonist will experience fear, reflection, doubt, loneliness, and all kinds of emotional fluctuations, but if there is a short soundtrack, it will make his emotional fluctuations more intense, and it will also add some strong rhythm to make the development of the story more smooth.
The plot development of the film has a certain suspense color, which makes the music think about it more mysterious feeling.
In the process of gradual progress of the two, the main line of the film gradually became clear, for the audience, the theme of the film and the music began to interweave in their brains, adding a lot of luster to the entire film.
The story reaches its climax when Nash asks a visionary question, and this time, his score becomes more relevant to the plot, especially when his answer to the world’s most complex question, while still a student, turns the story upside down.
In the game’s narrative, he does not use too elaborate photography, but the main line is a student courting a woman, which Nash interprets very well.
In mathematics, he uses variation, but in Nash’s mathematics, he uses two different styles, his own and his in the film.
In the bar, he played a classical piece, while in his meditation, he played a piece full of mathematics, and in just three minutes, he changed the tune twice.
First, when Nash described his work, he drew a complete picture with a clear picture reminiscent of a real-life mathematician, and it was a remarkable picture.
As the sound of jazz dwindled in the clamorous crowd, it soon attracted a piece with a mathematical theme, the faint piano music sounded, and the beat of the piece grew stronger and stronger as it appeared, a piece full of inspiration and a complete piece.
The film’s setting, the narration of the main character, and the background music make people think, but finally return to reality, Nash summarizes his own research results, but also comments on Adam Smith, “the father of modern economics” research results, pointing out his shortcomings.
At this moment, he seemed to realize something, and immediately walked back to his desk, making the melody of “Mathematics” more rhythmic, as if to announce that all problems would be solved, and Nash would finally come out of the darkness and see the light.
The director has laid a series of fofofows for this moment, and the use of long shots and close-ups is to show Nash’s efforts in math. He stands on the windowsill watching the snowflake scene, and the director has a good crossover with the protagonist’s complicated thoughts, and the picture is more deeply rendered by the music.
When Nash was sick, it showed more of a human light. Although Alicia suffered from the disease, neither she nor Nash’s friends gave up on Nash and always provided him with academic help.
Since Nash stopped busy work, his life has become very different from the previous life, Nash put himself in a normal world, allowing himself enough time to think, to observe.
The main melody of the piece is to put the emphasis on the last bend. Nash has been delirious by the disease, even his own son almost killed.
So the doctors let him recuperate in a hospital. Out of concern for Nash, Alicia agreed, but Nash did not want to go back into that cold room.
As Alicia descends the stairs, the director turns the camera on Nash, this time using an oboe tune, a bleak and sad piece, to convey Nash’s helplessness to the full.
He sat in an armchair, looked up at the roof, and now and then got up and walked up and down the room with a handkerchief over his mouth and nose. At that point, Nash was the most helpless, and he felt that his life was like that of a child without autonomy, and that it was better to stay at home than to be sent to the hospital.
Nash was now calm and thinking about life. He felt that his life had come to an end, but he had not yet found the cause of his death.
The double barrel is a perfect interpretation of the main character’s real life and psychology, the melody is slow and melancholy, the melody seems to emerge from a movie, Nash’s camera constantly changing, as the music renders, clearer and clearer, like a conversation between a destiny and Nash.
Instead of taking Nash to the hospital, Alicia smiled at him and came out of the room with a gentle smile on her face, which Nash found friendly;
Alicia had a great relationship with her, two people who understood each other, two people who had been together through the hardest times, and both felt cared for by the other.
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Nash and Alicia two people attended a grand ceremony, slowly left from the stage, the family was happy, so that the audience once again realized the theme of this film, that is, the glory of the hardships, after all, still have to return to ordinary days.
The use of strings in the film is indeed very good, in expressing suspense, enthusiasm, tension and other emotions, it shows a wide and accurate performance.
The singing is the most wonderful part of the film, that pure angel voice, just like the protagonist Nash, full of power, full of God’s care.
