No Good Will Hunting – A distortion by Hollywood and in that sense magnified and projected to the world by the sheer magnitude and power of the USA is that more often then not the screenplay and actors are much more important then the real thing.
Good Will Hunting is a fine example: “Pitts was a homeless runaway. He’d been hanging around the University of Chicago, working a menial job and sneaking into Russell’s lectures, where he met a young medical student named Jerome Lettvin. It was Lettvin who introduced the two men. The moment they spoke, they realized they shared a hero in common: Gottfried Leibniz. The 17th-century philosopher had attempted to create an alphabet of human thought, each letter of which represented a concept and could be combined and manipulated according to a set of logical rules to compute all knowledge—a vision that promised to transform the imperfect outside world into the rational sanctuary of a library.:…
In case this does not persuade you then when walking the 72 stone steps before the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art one will encounter the statue of Rocky the fictional character played by Stallone. Philadelphia had real time boxer legends such as Joe Frazier who actually did work in a slaughter house where he routinely punched sides of beef stored in a refrigerated room. That scene later inspired Sylvester Stallone for his 1976 film, “Rocky.”…On those stairs they should have had the statue of Frazier who was a world champion for 3 years not of a fictional character. It could have made all the difference needed. They chose the fictional character instead of the real thing on the stairs leading to the Philadelphia
Museum of Art and that says much …
It does not help that on cover of the book about the life of John Nash – beautiful mind – the picture is of Russel Crew not the real image of John Nash.
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