Monday, April 28, 2014
Hollywood Films
Are Hollywood Films Realistic? No, but they have realistic factors in them. Hollywood Films are the short versions to every story, certain parts within them hold truth whereas some of it is false. We can learn many things from Hollywood films but they are not accurate or realistic.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Blog Assignment #1
The topic for this
research paper is the portrayal of human minds in film. My main focus for this
paper is the movie A Beautiful Mind and exactly how Schizophrenia is presented
in the movie. My thesis statement is: Based on several popular and
scholarly sources, I will argue that the portrayal of schizophrenia in "A
Beautiful Mind" is inaccurate as it distorts some of the symptoms, treatments
and outcomes of the actual illness in the interest of creating an uplifting
Hollywood story.
My first article used was The Man behind a Beautiful Mind by: Nasar, Sylvia, It is a journalistic view of John Nash's real life not how it was displayed in A Beautiful Mind. I found the source on Ebsco Host database. This article is relevant to my paper because it proves how inaccurate the movie A Beautiful Mind is in portraying schizophrenia and John Nash's life. This article fit good with my paper as it set out to reach all the points my paper will such as proving the movie "A Beautiful Mind" to indeed not be a realistic reflection of the illness schizophrenia and John Nash's actual life.
My next article used is A Beautiful Mind[film] by: Anthony David. It is another journalistic view of the movie. I found the source on the academic database Jstor. Both articles in some way proved that the movie "A Beautiful Mind" displayed John Nash to live in a fictional world. Understanding that details had to change in order to make the film worth watching yet stating how it distorted many aspects of Nash’s life and the illness he was diagnosed with.
My first article used was The Man behind a Beautiful Mind by: Nasar, Sylvia, It is a journalistic view of John Nash's real life not how it was displayed in A Beautiful Mind. I found the source on Ebsco Host database. This article is relevant to my paper because it proves how inaccurate the movie A Beautiful Mind is in portraying schizophrenia and John Nash's life. This article fit good with my paper as it set out to reach all the points my paper will such as proving the movie "A Beautiful Mind" to indeed not be a realistic reflection of the illness schizophrenia and John Nash's actual life.
My next article used is A Beautiful Mind[film] by: Anthony David. It is another journalistic view of the movie. I found the source on the academic database Jstor. Both articles in some way proved that the movie "A Beautiful Mind" displayed John Nash to live in a fictional world. Understanding that details had to change in order to make the film worth watching yet stating how it distorted many aspects of Nash’s life and the illness he was diagnosed with.
The Man Behind a
Beautiful Mind (cover story)
By: Sylvia Naylor
Newsweek[serial
online]. March 11, 2002;139(10):52.
A Beautiful Mind [Film] by Ron Howard
Review by: Anthony
David
BMJ: British Medical
Journal, Vol. 324, No. 7335
(Feb. 23, 2002), p. 491
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