Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0006765, Sun, 8 Sep 2002 14:53:17 -0700

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Fw: A Beautiful Mind versus Despair (fwd)
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From: "Galya Diment" <galya@u.washington.edu>
To: "Don Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: A Beautiful Mind versus Despair (fwd)


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> From Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
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> If you have not seen _A Beautiful Mind_ yet, please do not read this
> message since I do not want to give anything away.
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> I am a latecomer to _A Beautiful Mind_, having just watched it last month,
> but it did occur to me that, in terms of portraying schizophrenic
> delusions, Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman did successfully what Fassbinder
> and Stoppard failed to achieve in _Despair_. There were similar ways,
> available to them, I am sure, not to let the viewer know right away that
> Felix looks nothing like Hermann and, therefore, to stay much closer to
> the effect of the book.
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> Galya Diment.
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