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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - SEPTEMBER 1947
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Mathematicians won the war.
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Mathematicians broke
the Japanese codes...
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...and built the A-bomb.
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Mathematicians, like you.
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The stated goal of the Soviets
is global Communism.
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In medicine or economics...
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...in technology or space...
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...battle lines are being drawn.
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To triumph, we need results...
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...publishable, applicable results.
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Now who among you
will be the next Morse?
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The next Einstein?
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Who among you will be
the vanguard of democracy...
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...freedom, and discovery?
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Today, we bequeath America's future
into your able hands.
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Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.
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It's not enough Hansen won
the Carnegie Scholarship.
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No, he wants it all for himself.
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It's the first time the Carnegie Prize
has been split. Hansen's all bent.
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He has his sights set on
Wheeler Lab, MIT's military think-tank.
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They're only taking one this year.
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Hansen's used to
being picked first.
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Yeah, he's wasted on math.
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He should be running for president.
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There could be a mathematical explanation
for how bad your tie is.
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Thank you.
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Neilson, symbol cryptography.
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Neils here broke a Jap code.
Helped rid the world of Fascism.
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At least that's what he tells the girls,
eh, Neils?
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The name's Bender. Atomic physics.
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- And you are?
- Am I late?
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- Yes, Mr. Sol.
- Oh, good. Hi.
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- Sol. Richard Sol.
- The burden of genius.
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- There he is.
- So many supplicants, and so little time.
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- Mr. Sol.
- How are you, sir?
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- Bender.
- Nice to see you.
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- Congratulations, Mr. Hansen.
- Thank you.
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I'll take another.
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Excuse me?
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Pardon me.
I assumed you were the waiter.
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- Play nice.
- Nice is not Hansen's strong suit.
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Honest mistake.
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Well, Martin Hansen.
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It is Martin, isn't it?
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Why, yes, John, it is.
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I imagine you're getting
quite used to miscalculation.
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I've read your preprints...
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...both of them.
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The one on Nazi ciphers...
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...and the other one
on nonlinear equations...
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...and I am supremely confident
that there is not a single seminal...
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...or innovative idea in either one of them.
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Enjoy your punch.
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Gentlemen, meet John Nash...
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...the mysterious West Virginia genius.
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The other winner
of the distinguished Carnegie Scholarship.
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- Okay.
- Yeah?
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Of course.
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Oh, Christ.
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The prodigal roommate arrives.
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Roommate?
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Oh, God, no.
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Did you know that
having a hangover...
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...is not having enough water
in your body...
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...to run your Krebs cycle?
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Which is exactly what happens to you
when you're dying of thirst.
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So, dying of thirst...
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...would probably feel...
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...pretty much like the hangover
that finally bloody kills you.
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John Nash?
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Hello.
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Charles Herman.
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Pleased to meet you.
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All right! Well done!
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Well, it's official.
I'm almost human again.
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Officer, I saw the driver who hit me.
His name was Johnny Walker.
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Whew.
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Well, I got in last night
in time for...
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...English department cocktails.
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Cock was mine...
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...the tail belonged to a particularly
lovely young thing with a passion for...
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...D.H. Lawrence.
You're not easily distracted, are you?
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- I'm here to work.
- Are you? Right.
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I see. Crikey!
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Is my roommate a dick?
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Hmm?
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Listen.
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If we can't break the ice...
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...how about we drown it?
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So what's your story?
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You the poor kid that never got to go
to Exeter or Andover?
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Despite my privileged upbringing,
I'm well-balanced.
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I have a chip on both shoulders.
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Maybe you're just better with
the old integers than you are with people.
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My first grade teacher said
I was born with two helpings of brain...
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...but only half a helping of heart.
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Wow! She sounds lovely!
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The truth is that I...
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I don't like people much.
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And they don't much like me.
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But why,
with all your obvious wit and charm?
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Seriously, John.
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Mathematics...
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Mathematics is never going to lead you
to a higher truth.
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And you know why?
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Because it's boring. It's really boring.
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You know, half these schoolboys
are already published?
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I cannot waste time
with these classes and...
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...these books.
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Memorizing the weaker assumptions
of lesser mortals!
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I need to look through...
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...to the governing dynamics.
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Find a truly original idea.
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That's the only way
I'll ever distinguish myself.
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- It's the only way that I'll ever...
- Matter.
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Yes.
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- All right, who's next?
- I've played enough go for today.
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- Come on.
- I hate this game.
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Cowards, all of you!
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None of you rise to meet my challenge?
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Come on, Bender. Whoever wins,
Sol does his laundry all semester.
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- Does that seem unfair to anyone else?
- Not at all.
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- Look at him.
- Nash!
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Taking a reverse constitutional?
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I'm hoping to extract an algorithm
to define their movement.
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Oh.
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Psycho.
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I thought you dropped out.
You ever going to go to class or...
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Classes will dull your mind.
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Destroy the potential
for authentic creativity.
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Oh, I didn't know that.
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Nash is going to stun us all
with his genius.
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Which is another way of saying
he doesn't have the nerve to compete.
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You scared?
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Terrified. Mortified. Petrified.
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Stupefied by you.
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No starch.
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Pressed and folded.
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Let me ask you something, John.
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Be my guest, Martin.
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Bender and Sol here correctly completed
Allen's proof of Perron's conjectures.
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Adequate work...
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...without innovation.
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- I'm flattered. You flattered?
- Flattered.
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And I've got two weapons briefs
under security review by the DOD.
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Derivative drivel.
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But Nash achievements--
Zero.
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I'm a patient man, Martin.
Is there an actual question coming?
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What if you never come up
with your original idea?
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How will it feel
when I'm chosen for Wheeler...
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...and you're not?
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What if you lose?
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You should not have won.
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Hmm.
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I had the first move, my play was perfect.
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The hubris of the defeated.
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The game is flawed.
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Gentlemen, the great John Nash.
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You've been in here
for two days.
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You know Hansen
has just published another paper?
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I can't even find a topic for my doctorate.
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Well, on the bright side,
you've invented window art.
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This is a group playing touch football.
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This is a cluster of pigeons
fighting over breadcrumbs.
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And this is a woman who is chasing a man
who stole her purse.
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John, you watched a mugging.
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That's weird.
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In competitive behavior,
someone always loses.
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Well, my niece knows that, John,
and she's about this high.
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See, if I could derive an equilibrium...
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...where prevalence is
a non-singular event...
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...where nobody loses.
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Imagine the effect that would have
on conflict scenarios...
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When did you last eat?
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- When did you last eat?
- Currency exchange?
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You know, food.
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You have no respect for cognitive reverie,
you know?
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Yes. But pizza...
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Now, pizza I have enormous respect for.
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And, of course, beer.
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I have respect for beer.
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I have respect for beer!
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- Good evening, Neils.
- Hey, Nash.
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Who's winning? You or you?
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- Good evening, Nash.
- Hey, guys. Hey, Nash.
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He's looking at you for sure.
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Hey, Nash.
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Neils is trying to get your attention.
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- You're joking.
- Oh, no.
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- Go with God.
- Come back a man.
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- Fortune favors the brave.
- Bombs away.
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Gentlemen, might I remind you
that my odds of success...
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...dramatically improve with each attempt?
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This is going to be classic.
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Maybe you want to buy me a drink.
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I don't know what I'm required to say...
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...in order for you
to have intercourse with me...
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...but could we assume
that I've said all that?
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Essentially we're talking about
fluid exchange, right?
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So, could we just go straight to the sex?
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Oh, that was sweet.
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Have a nice night, asshole!
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Ladies, wait!
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I especially liked the bit
about fluid exchange. It was...
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...really charming.
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Walk with me, John.
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I've been meaning to talk with you.
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The faculty is completing mid-year reviews.
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We're deciding
which placement applications to support.
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Wheeler, sir.
That would be my first choice.
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Actually, I don't really have
a second choice, sir.
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Your fellows have attended classes.
They've written papers. They've published.
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I'm still searching, sir, for my...
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- Your original idea.
- Governing dynamics, sir.
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It's very clever, John, but I'm afraid
it's just not nearly good enough.
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- May I?
- Thank you.
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I'm working on manifold embedding.
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My bargaining stratagems
show some promise.
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If you could just arrange another meeting
with Professor Einstein.
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I've repeatedly asked you for that.
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I'd be able to show him
my revisions on his...
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John.
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Do you see what they're doing there?
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Congratulations, Professor Max.
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Thank you, sir. Thank you.
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It's the pens.
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Reserved for a member of the department
that makes the achievement of a lifetime.
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Now what do you see, John?
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Recognition.
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Well done, Professor.
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Well, try seeing accomplishment.
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Is there a difference?
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You haven't focused.
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I'm sorry, but up to this point, your record
doesn't warrant any placement at all.
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Good day.
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And my compliments to you, sir.
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Thank you so much.
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I can't see it.
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Jesus Christ, John.
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I can't fail.
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- This is all I am.
- Come on, let's go out.
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- I have to get something done.
- John!
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- I can't keep staring into space.
- John, enough!
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Got to face the wall,
follow their rules, read their books...
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...do their classes.
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Come on! Go on, bust your head!
Kill yourself.
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Don't do it. Don't mess around.
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Bust your head! Go on,
bust that worthless head wide open.
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Goddamn it, Charles!
What the hell is your problem?
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It's not my problem.
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And it's not your problem.
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It's their problem.
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Your answer isn't,
face the wall.
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It's out there...
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...where you've been working.
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That was heavy.
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That Isaac Newton fellow was right.
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- He was onto something.
- Clever boy.
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Don't worry, that's mine.
I'll come and get it in a minute.
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Oh, God.
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- Incoming, gentlemen.
- Ay-yi-yi.
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Deep breaths.
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Nash, you might want to stop
shuffling your papers for five seconds.
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I will not buy you gentlemen beer.
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We're not here for beer,
my friend.
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Oh.
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Does anyone else feel
she should be moving in slow motion?
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Will she want a large wedding, you think?
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Shall we say swords? Pistols at dawn?
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Have you remembered nothing?
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Recall the lessons of Adam Smith...
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...the father of modern economics.
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In competition...
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- ... individual ambition
serves the common good.
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Every man for himself, gentlemen.
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Those who strike out
are stuck with her friends.
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I'm not going to strike out.
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You can lead a blonde to water,
but you can't make her drink.
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Nobody move.
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She's looking over here.
She's looking at Nash.
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Oh, God.
He may have the upper hand now...
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...but wait until he opens his mouth.
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Remember the last time?
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That was one
for the history books.
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- Adam Smith needs revision.
- What are you talking about?
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If we all go for the blonde...
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...we block each other.
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Not a single one of us is going to get her.
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So then we go for her friends...
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...but they will all give us the cold shoulder
because nobody likes to be second choice.
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Well, what if no one goes for the blonde?
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We don't get in each other's way...
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...and we don't insult the other girls.
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That's the only way we win.
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That's the only way we all get laid.
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Adam Smith said:
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The best result comes...
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"...from everyone in the group
doing what's best for himself.
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Right. Incomplete. Okay?
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Because the best result will come...
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...from everyone in the group...
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...doing what's best for himself...
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...and the group.
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If this is some way for you
to get the blonde, go to hell.
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Governing dynamics. Adam Smith...
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...was wrong.
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- Here we go.
- Careful, careful.
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Thank you.
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C of S equals C of T.
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You do realize this flies in the face
of 150 years of economic theory?
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Yes, I do, sir.
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- That's rather presumptuous, no?
- It is, sir.
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Well, Mr. Nash...
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...with a breakthrough of this magnitude...
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...I'm confident you will get
any placement you like.
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Wheeler Labs...
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...they'll ask you to recommend
two team members.
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Stills and Frank
are excellent choices.
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Sol and Bender, sir.
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Sol and Bender
are extraordinary mathematicians.
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Has it occurred to you that Sol and Bender
might have plans of their own?
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We made it!
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Wheeler, we made it!
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Cheers, cheers, cheers!
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Okay, awkward moment, gentlemen.
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Umm...
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Governing dynamics.
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Congratulations, John.
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- Toast! To Wheeler Labs!
- To Wheeler!
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THE PENTAGON 1953 - FIVE YEARS LATER
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General, the analyst
from Wheeler Lab is here.
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Dr. Nash, your coat?
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Thank you, sir.
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General, this is Wheeler team leader,
Dr. John Nash.
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- Glad you could come, Doctor.
- Hello.
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Right this way.
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We've been intercepting
radio transmissions from Moscow.
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The computer can't detect a pattern,
but I'm sure it's code.
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Why is that, General?
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Ever just know something,
Dr. Nash?
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Constantly.
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We've developed
several ciphers.
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If you'd like to review
our preliminary data?
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- Doctor?
- 6-7-3-7.
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0- 3-6...
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8- 4-9-4.
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9- 1-4-0-3-4.
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I need a map.
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46-13-08, 67-46-90.
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Starkey Corners, Maine.
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48-03-01.
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91-26-35.
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Prairie Portage, Minnesota.
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These are latitudes and longitudes.
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There are at least 10 others.
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They appear to be routing orders
across the border into the U.S.
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Extraordinary.
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Gentlemen, we need to move on this.
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- Who's Big Brother?
- You've done your country a great service.
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- Captain!
- Yes, sir.
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Accompany Dr. Nash.
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What are the Russians moving, General?
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Captain Rogers will escort you
to the unrestricted area, Doctor.
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Thank you.
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Dr. Nash, follow me, please.
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None of those
who said they don't like the method...
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...have told us any other method
they could use that would be effective.
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- It's Dr. Nash.
- All right.
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WHEELER DEFENSE LABS
MIT CAMPUS
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- Thank you, sir.
- Home run at the Pentagon?
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Have they actually taken the word
classified out of the dictionary?
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Hi. The air conditioning broke again.
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How am I supposed to be in here
saving the world if I'm melting?
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Our hearts go out to you.
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Two trips to the Pentagon in four years.
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- That's two more than we've had.
- It gets better.
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Just got our latest
scintillating assignment.
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You know, the Russians have the H-bomb,
the Nazis are repatriating South America...
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...the Chinese have a standing army
of 2.8 million...
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...and I am doing stress tests on a dam.
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You made the cover of Fortune again.
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Please note the use of the word you,
not we.
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That was supposed to be just me.
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Not only do they rob me
of the Fields' Medal...
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...they put me on the cover
of Fortune magazine with these hacks...
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...these scholars of trivia.
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Exactly what's the difference
between genius and most genius?
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Quite a lot.
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He's your son.
Anyway, you've got 10 minutes.
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- I've always got 10 minutes.
- Before your new class?
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Can I not get a note
from a doctor or something?
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You are a doctor, John, and no.
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You know the drill,
we get these beautiful facilities...
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...MIT gets America's great minds of today,
teaching their great minds of tomorrow.
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- Poor bastards.
- Now, have a nice day at school.
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The bell is ringing.
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The eager young minds of tomorrow.
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Can we leave one open,
Professor? It's really hot, sir.
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Your comfort comes second
to my ability to hear my own voice.
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Personally...
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...I think this class will be
a waste of your...
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...and what is infinitely worse...
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...my time.
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However, here we are.
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So you may attend or not.
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You may complete your assignments
at your whim.
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We have begun.
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Miss.
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Excuse me!
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- Excuse me!
- Hey, hey!
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Hi!
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We have a little problem.
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It's extremely hot in here
with the windows closed...
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...and extremely noisy with them open.
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I was wondering
if there was any way you could...
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...I don't know, maybe work
someplace else for about 45 minutes?
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- Not a problem.
- Thank you so much!
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- Break!
- Got it!
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Let's go. Clean it up a little bit.
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As you will find in multivariable calculus,
there is often...
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...a number of solutions
for any given problem.
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As I was saying, this problem here...
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...will take some of you
many months to solve.
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For others among you...
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...it will take you the term
of your natural lives.
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Professor Nash.
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William Parcher.
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Big Brother...
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...at your service.
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What can I do
for the Department of Defense?
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- Are you here to give me a raise?
- Let's take a walk.
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- Impressive work at the Pentagon.
- Yes, it was.
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Oppenheimer used to say, A genius
sees the answer before the question.
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You knew Oppenheimer?
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His project was under my supervision.
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Which project?
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- That project.
- It's not that simple.
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Well, you ended the war.
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We incinerated 150,000 people
in a heartbeat.
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Great deeds come at great cost,
Mr. Parcher.
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Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury
of those on the sidelines, Mr. Nash.
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I'll try and keep that in mind.
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So, John, no family...
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...no close friends.
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- Why is that?
- I like to think it's because I'm a Ione wolf.
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But mainly it's because
people don't like me.
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There are certain endeavors...
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...where your lack of personal connection
would be considered an advantage.
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- This is a secure area.
- They know me.
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Have you ever been here?
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We were told in our initial briefing
these warehouses were abandoned.
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That's not precisely accurate.
-
By telling you this...
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...I am increasing your security clearance
to top secret.
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Disclosure of secure information
can result in imprisonment.
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Get it?
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What operation?
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Those are a good idea.
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This factory is in Berlin,
we seized it at the end of the war.
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Nazi engineers were attempting to build
a portable atomic bomb.
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The Soviets reached this facility
before we did, and we lost the damn thing.
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The routing orders at the Pentagon.
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They were about this, weren't they?
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The Soviets aren't as unified
as people believe.
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A faction of the Red Army
calling itself Novaya Svoboda...
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...the New Freedom,
has control of the bomb...
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...and intends to detonate it on U.S. Soil.
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Their plan is to incur
maximum civilian casualties.
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Man is capable of as much atrocity
as he has imagination.
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New Freedom has sleeper agents
here in the U.S.
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McCarthy is an idiot, but, unfortunately,
that doesn't make him wrong.
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New Freedom communicates
to its agents...
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...through codes imbedded in newspapers
and magazines...
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...and that's where you come in.
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You see, John, what distinguishes you...
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...is that you are, quite simply...
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...the best natural code-breaker
I have ever seen.
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What exactly is it
that you would like me to do?
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Commit this list of periodicals to memory.
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Scan each new issue,
find any hidden codes, decipher them.
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Place your chin on the chin rest.
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- Stare into the light.
- Pulse 88, regular.
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Okay, this may be
a little uncomfortable.
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It's got a little zap to it,
doesn't it?
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He just implanted a radium diode.
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Don't worry, it's safe.
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The isotope decays predictably.
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As a result,
these numbers change over time.
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They're the access codes to your drop spot.
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So what am I now, a spy?
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Come.
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Boy, you must be really important.
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It's all right, Mike.
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What are you working on?
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Classified.
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Everyone waited half an hour.
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- For?
- Class.
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You missed class today.
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Oh. I suspect that...
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...nobody missed me.
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The problem
that you left on the board...
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...I solved it.
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- No, you didn't.
- You didn't even look.
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I never said that the vector fields
were rational functions.
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Your solution is elegant.
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Though on this particular occasion...
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...ultimately incorrect.
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- You're still here.
- I'm still here.
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Why?
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I'm wondering, Professor Nash...
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...if I can ask you to dinner.
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You do eat, don't you?
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On occasion, yeah.
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Table for one.
Prometheus alone chained to the rock...
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...with the bird circling overhead,
you know how it is.
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No, I expect that you wouldn't know...
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Leave your address with my office.
I'll pick you up Friday...
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...at 8:00 and we'll eat.
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One more thing. Do you have a name,
or should I just keep calling you miss?
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Governor...
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...may I present...
- Miss Alicia Larde.
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Professor, please. You and the governor.
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Wait, one second. I'm sorry.
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I want a copy of this.
First big date and all, you know.
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So, you boys need to look good...
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...which is not a state
you find yourselves in altogether naturally.
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There. Better.
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- I'm surprising him.
- You just keep on surprising him.
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Professor.
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God must be a painter.
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Why else would we have so many colors?
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So you're a painter?
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That's not actually what I said...
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...but, yes, I am.
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Here.
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Me.
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Your date.
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Practice human interaction
and social comportment.
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That's a plan.
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Champagne would be lovely.
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I'll be outside.
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I will get the champagne.
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Oh, thank you.
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Thank you for that.
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No, keep it.
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I believe in deciding things
will be good luck.
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- Do you?
- No.
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I don't believe in luck.
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But I do believe
in assigning value to things.
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Oh.
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I once tried to count them all.
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I actually made it to 4,348.
-
You are exceptionally odd.
-
I bet you're very popular with the girls.
-
A pair of odd ducks, then.
-
Mmm.
-
Pick a shape.
-
What?
-
Pick a shape, an animal, anything.
-
Okay.
-
An umbrella.
-
Do it again.
-
Do it again.
-
- All right. What would you like?
- Do an octopus.
-
You don't talk much, do you?
-
I can't talk to you
about my work, Alicia.
-
I don't mean work.
-
I find that polishing my interactions...
-
...in order to make them sociable
requires a tremendous effort.
-
I have a tendency
to expedite information flow...
-
...by being direct.
-
- I often don't get a pleasant result.
- Try me.
-
All right.
-
I find you attractive.
-
Your aggressive moves towards me
indicate that you feel the same way.
-
But still, ritual requires that we continue
with a number of platonic activities...
-
...before we have sex.
-
I am proceeding with those activities...
-
...but in point of actual fact...
-
...all I really want to do is have intercourse
with you as soon as possible.
-
Are you going to slap me now?
-
How was that result?
-
What are you doing?
-
Trying to isolate patterned reoccurrences
within periodicals over time.
-
And you?
-
You talk funny, Mr. Nash.
-
Do I know you?
-
My uncle says you're very smart
but not very nice...
-
...so I shouldn't pay no mind
if you're mean to me.
-
And who might your uncle be?
-
The prodigal roommate...
-
...returns.
-
Come here, Charles.
-
My sister got herself killed in a car crash.
-
Not too far now, Marcee!
-
Her cowboy husband was too drunk
to know that he was too drunk to drive.
-
So, I took her in.
-
- She's so small.
- She's young. That's how they come.
-
I'm at Harvard...
-
...doing the great author's workshop.
-
D.H. Bloody Lawrence.
-
I really do think
you should buy yourself a new book.
-
Well, I've been reading
a lot about you.
-
How are you, John?
-
At first, all my work here was trivial...
-
...but a new assignment came up and...
-
I can't really tell you any details.
-
Top secret? Black bag? Black ops?
-
Something like that.
-
- And...
- Yes?
-
Well, I met a girl.
-
- No! A human girl?
- Homo sapien.
-
- A biped?
- Yep. And contrary to all probabilities...
-
...she finds me attractive
on a number of different levels.
-
God, that's wonderful.
-
There's no accounting for taste, is there?
-
- Should I marry her?
- Oh, God. Right.
-
I mean, everything's going well.
The job is fine. I have enough money.
-
It all seems to add up.
-
But how do you know for sure?
-
Nothing's ever for sure, John.
-
That's the only sure thing I do know.
-
Good evening.
-
Alicia, please don't be angry.
I just lost track of time at work...
-
- Again.
- Mm-hmm.
-
I'm sorry.
-
I didn't have time to wrap it.
-
Happy birthday.
-
The refractive faces of the glass
create a full wavelength dispersal...
-
...so if you look inside, you can see...
-
- Every possible color.
- Every possible color.
-
Yeah.
-
Remember you said that time, God must
be a painter because of all the colors?
-
At the governor's house you said that.
-
I didn't think you were listening.
-
I was listening.
-
It's beautiful.
-
Alicia, does our relationship
warrant long-term commitment?
-
Because I need some kind of proof,
some kind of verifiable, empirical data.
-
I'm sorry, just give me a moment...
-
...to redefine my girlish notions
of romance.
-
A proof?
-
Verifiable data.
-
Okay.
-
Well, how big is the universe?
-
Infinite.
-
How do you know?
-
- Because all the data indicates it.
- But it hasn't been proven yet?
-
You haven't seen it.
How do you know for sure?
-
I don't, I just believe it.
-
It's the same with love, I guess.
-
Now...
-
...the part that you don't know...
-
...is if I want to marry you.
-
Smile for the camera!
-
Well done!
-
Congratulations.
-
You look beautiful.
-
Hi, how are you?
-
- Bye-bye.
- 'Bye, now.
-
Be safe!
-
CAMBRIDGE, MA - OCTOBER 1954
-
Get in. Hurry.
-
They're following us.
-
- Who is following us?
- The drop has been compromised.
-
Get down!
-
Stay down.
-
- Take this.
- I ain't shooting anybody.
-
- Take the goddamn gun!
- No!
-
You stay back. Don't move.
-
John?
-
Hi.
-
Where were you?
-
- Sol...
- Yeah, I talked to Sol.
-
He said you left the office hours ago.
-
Why didn't you call me?
-
Are you all right?
-
Honey?
-
John...
-
...please, talk to me.
Tell me what happened.
-
John, open the door.
-
Come on, open the door! Let me in!
-
Talk to me!
-
John!
-
Open this door!
-
Watch for cars, kids.
-
John.
-
William.
-
This is not what I signed up for.
-
Every time a car backfires or a door slams...
-
I understand better
than you could possibly imagine.
-
You need to calm down, John.
-
Now listen.
We're closing in on the bomb...
-
...in large part due to your work.
-
Now don't you think your fear
is a small price to pay?
-
William, my circumstance has changed.
-
Alicia's pregnant.
-
I told you attachments were dangerous.
-
You chose to marry the girl.
-
I did nothing to prevent it.
-
The best way to ensure
everybody's safety...
-
...is for you to continue your work.
-
Well, I'll just quit.
-
You won't.
-
Why would I not?
-
Because I keep the Russians
from knowing you work for us.
-
You quit working for me...
-
...I quit working for you.
-
Parcher!
-
John, you all right?
-
John?
-
Turn it off! Turn off the light!
-
Why would you do that?
-
- Why would you turn the light on?
- What is wrong with you?
-
You have to go to your sister's.
-
I left the car out in back.
Take Commonwealth, no side streets.
-
Stay where it's crowded.
-
John, I'm not going anywhere!
-
When you get to your sister's,
wait for my call.
-
- Get your things.
- I'm not leaving!
-
Stop! Stop it!
-
Please, Alicia.
-
I'll explain when I can.
-
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
NATIONAL MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE
-
Uncle John!
-
Uncle John!
-
Hey, baby girl!
-
Wow, someone needed a hug!
-
I saw you on the slate,
and I thought to myself:
-
How can I miss seeing a guest lecture
by the inimitable John Nash?
-
What's wrong?
-
I got myself into something.
I think I might need some help.
-
Now you tell me, what is it?
-
Professor Nash!
-
Welcome!
-
After?
-
So, we see that the zeroes
of the Riemann Zeta function...
-
...correspond to singularities...
-
...in space-time...
-
Singularities in space-time then...
-
And conventional number theory...
-
It breaks down
in the face of relativistic exploration.
-
Sometimes our expectations
are betrayed by the numbers.
-
Variables are impossible
to assign any rational value.
-
Professor Nash!
-
- Hold it!
- Professor Nash?
-
Professor Nash,
let's avoid a scene, shall we?
-
What do you want?
-
My name is Rosen.
-
Dr. Rosen. I'm a psychiatrist.
-
Forgive me if I don't seem persuaded.
-
I'd like you
to come with me, John.
-
Just for a chat.
-
It appears I have no choice.
-
Help me! Somebody!
-
Somebody!
-
Help me! Get off me!
-
I know who you are!
-
No, no, don't!
-
Charles, they're Russians!
They're Russians!
-
Call somebody! Call somebody!
-
- They're Russians!
- Steady the leg.
-
Get away from me.
-
Stay away from me!
-
There, now.
-
All better.
-
Everything's all right here.
-
Watch your head.
-
John?
-
Can you hear me?
-
Go easy now.
-
Thorazine takes a little while to wear off.
-
Sorry about the restraints.
-
You've got one hell of a right hook.
-
Where am I?
-
MacArthur Psychiatric Hospital.
-
I find that highly unlikely.
-
You made a mistake.
-
My work is non-military in application.
-
Which work is that, John?
-
I don't know anything.
-
There's no good in keeping secrets,
you know.
-
Charles?
-
Charles?
-
I didn't mean to get you involved in this.
-
I'm sorry.
-
Charles?
-
The prodigal roommate revealed.
-
Saw my name on the lecture slate?
-
You lying son of a bitch!
-
Who are you talking to?
Tell me who you see.
-
How do you say
Charles Herman in Russian?
-
How do you say it in Russian?
-
There's no one there, John.
There's no one there.
-
He's right there. He's right there.
-
Stop! I don't know anything!
-
Stop! I don't know anything!
-
My name is John Nash.
-
I'm being held against my will.
-
Somebody call the Department of Defense.
-
My name is John Nash.
-
I'm being held against my will!
-
What's wrong with him?
-
John has schizophrenia.
-
People with this disorder
are often paranoid.
-
But his work.
-
He deals with conspiracy.
-
Yes, I know.
-
In John's world,
these behaviors are accepted...
-
...encouraged.
-
As such,
his illness may have gone untreated...
-
...far longer than is typical.
-
What do you mean? How long?
-
Possibly since graduate school.
-
At least that's when his hallucinations
seem to have begun.
-
What are you talking about?
What hallucinations?
-
One, so far, that I am aware of.
-
An imaginary roommate
named Charles Herman.
-
Charles isn't imaginary.
-
They have been best friends
since Princeton.
-
Have you ever met Charles?
Has he ever come to dinner?
-
He's always in town
for so little time, lecturing.
-
- Was he at your wedding?
- He had to teach.
-
Have you seen a picture,
or talked to him on the phone?
-
This is ridiculous.
-
I phoned Princeton.
-
According to their housing records,
John lived alone.
-
Now, which is more likely?
That your husband...
-
...a mathematician
with no military training...
-
...is a spy fleeing the Russians...
- You're making him sound crazy.
-
Or, that he has lost his grip on reality?
-
The only way I can help him,
is to show him the difference...
-
...between what is real
and what is in his mind.
-
Come on.
-
What's he been working on?
-
His work is classified.
-
He mentioned a supervisor...
-
...by the name of William Parcher.
-
Maybe Mr. Parcher
can clarify things for us.
-
But I can't get to him without clearances.
-
You want me to help you get the details
of my husband's work?
-
John thinks I'm a Russian spy.
-
Is that what you think?
-
- What did the doctor say?
- Is he sick?
-
I don't know.
-
I want to see
what John's been working on.
-
- You can't go in his office.
- It's classified, Alicia.
-
Stop.
-
Oh, my God.
-
Oh, my God.
-
Why didn't you say something?
-
Alicia, John has always been...
-
...a little weird.
-
He said he was doing code-breaking.
-
- It was eyes-only.
- Top-secret, part of the military effort.
-
Was he?
-
It was possible.
-
Directives come down all the time
that some aren't cleared for.
-
- It was possible.
- Possible, but not likely.
-
Lately, he'd become much more agitated,
and then when you called...
-
So, is this all he's been doing every day?
-
Cutting up magazines?
-
Well, not all.
-
- I'm so sorry.
- It's okay.
-
I missed you.
-
I have to talk to you.
-
Okay.
-
Alicia, I've been thinking about it...
-
...and I do realize that my behavior...
-
...and my inability
to discuss the situation with you...
-
...must have appeared insane.
-
I left you with no other choice.
-
I do understand...
-
...and I'm truly sorry.
- That's okay.
-
Everything will be all right.
-
Everything will be all right.
-
We just have to talk quietly.
-
They may be listening.
There may be microphones.
-
I'll tell you everything now.
-
It's breaking with protocol,
but you need to know...
-
...because you have to help me
get out of here.
-
I've been doing top-secret work
for the government.
-
There's a threat that exists...
-
...of catastrophic proportions.
-
I think the Russians
feel my profile is too high.
-
That's why they won't do away with me.
-
They're keeping me here
to try to stop me from doing my work.
-
You have to get to Wheeler.
-
- You have to find William Parcher.
- Stop.
-
Stop!
-
I went to Wheeler.
-
Good, good.
-
There is no William Parcher.
-
Of course there is.
I've been working for him.
-
Doing what? Breaking codes?
-
Dropping packages in a secret mailbox
for the government to pick up?
-
How could you know that?
-
Sol followed you.
-
- He thought it was harmless.
- Sol followed me?
-
They've never been opened.
-
It isn't real.
-
There is no conspiracy, John.
-
There is no William Parcher.
-
It's in your mind.
-
Do you understand, baby?
-
You're sick.
-
You're sick, John.
-
John?
-
John!
-
Code red.
-
Dr. Rosen, code red.
Observation Room 2.
-
Dr. Rosen, code red. Observation Room 2.
-
John?
-
John?
-
The implant is gone.
-
I can't find it.
-
It's gone.
-
You see,
the nightmare of schizophrenia...
-
...is not knowing what's true.
-
Imagine...
-
...if you had suddenly learned
that the people and the places...
-
...and the moments most important to you
were not gone, not dead...
-
...but worse, had never been.
-
What kind of hell would that be?
-
Administering insulin.
-
8:42 a.m.
-
How often?
-
Five times a week for 10 weeks.
-
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - 1 YEAR LATER
-
John always spoke so fondly
of being here at Princeton.
-
Hansen is running the department now.
-
So he keeps reminding us,
and reminding us.
-
Yeah.
-
John won't come near the campus, though.
I think he's ashamed.
-
Hey. Hey.
-
Want this?
-
So, Alicia, how are you holding up?
-
The delusions have passed.
-
They're saying with the medication
and low stress environment...
-
I mean, how are you?
-
I think often what I feel...
-
...is obligation.
-
Or guilt over wanting to leave.
-
Rage against John, against God, and...
-
But...
-
...then I look at him...
-
...and I force myself to see the man
that I married.
-
And he becomes that man.
-
He's transformed into someone that I love.
-
And I'm transformed into someone
who loves him.
-
It's not all the time, but...
-
...it's enough.
-
I think John is a very lucky man, Alicia.
-
So unlucky.
-
- This is us.
- This is it?
-
It's near where I work.
-
John?
You have a visitor.
-
Hi.
-
I hope it's okay.
-
Hey, chief.
-
- Cigarette?
- No, thanks.
-
I quit, actually.
-
- Hello.
- Hey, John.
-
Have you met Harvey?
-
- There's no...
- Relax, it's okay.
-
There's no point being nuts
if you can't have a little fun.
-
Jesus Christ.
I should have known.
-
Here you go.
-
- I can take those later.
- You're supposed to take them now.
-
- Can I bring you something?
- I'm okay.
-
Okay.
-
So, I was in town giving a workshop.
-
I go back tonight.
-
Bender really wanted to stop by...
-
...you know, see you. Say hi.
-
Squeamish?
-
Yeah.
-
I suppose I would be, too.
-
But, alas, I'm stuck with me.
-
I'm trying to solve the Riemann hypothesis.
-
Uh-huh.
-
Oh, yeah?
-
I figured if I dazzle them...
-
...they will have to reinstate me.
-
But it's difficult with the medication...
-
...because it's hard...
-
...to see the solution.
-
You know, John, you should go easy.
-
There are other things besides work.
-
What are they?
-
What are you thinking about?
-
What do people do?
-
It's life, John.
-
Activities available, just add meaning.
-
You could try leaving the house.
-
You know, maybe...
-
...talk to people.
-
You could try taking out the garbage.
-
And there's some more,
there's some more in...
-
Who were you talking to?
-
Garbage man.
-
Garbage men don't come at night.
-
I guess around here they do.
-
Sorry.
-
Is it the medication?
-
I don't know what to do.
-
My mother's going to
keep the baby a little longer tonight.
-
I can get three hours of overtime.
-
I'm going to bed.
-
- Good night.
- Good night.
-
It's good to see you, John.
-
It's been a while.
-
Parcher?
-
Yes, sir.
-
You're not real!
-
Of course I am. Don't be ridiculous.
-
I don't think that I would go that way.
-
It's time for you
to get back to work.
-
The bomb is in its final position
here in the U.S.
-
Knowing your situation requires you keep
a low profile, "Mohammed"...
-
...we've brought the mountain to you.
-
We've narrowed the bomb's location
to somewhere on the eastern seaboard.
-
But we haven't been able to pinpoint
its exact position.
-
Their codes have grown
increasingly complex.
-
Look at this, John.
-
What?
-
What?
-
- Dr. Rosen said...
- Rosen! That quack!
-
Schizophrenic break from reality, right?
Psychological bullshit!
-
Look at me, John.
-
John, look at me.
-
Do I look like I'm imagined?
-
Wheeler has no record of you.
-
Do you think we list our personnel?
-
I'm sorry you had to
go through all this.
-
I've gone to a great deal of trouble
to get you back.
-
I can restore your status at Wheeler.
-
I can let the world know what you did.
-
But I need you now, soldier.
-
I was so scared you weren't real.
-
Princeton, New Jersey - April 1956
-
There's a storm coming.
-
I'm just going to grab the laundry.
-
I'll draw his bath.
-
It's okay.
-
Okay.
-
John!
-
I've almost got it!
Charles, you just watch the baby.
-
No!
-
I need a towel.
-
- Charles was watching him. He was okay.
- There is no one here.
-
There is no one here!
-
He's been injected with a cloaking serum.
-
I can see him because of a chemical
that was released into my bloodstream...
-
...when my implant dissolved.
-
I couldn't tell you,
it was for your own protection!
-
Alicia!
-
- No!
- Hello, I need Dr. Rosen's office, please.
-
You've got to stop her, John.
-
You leave her out of this.
-
- Who are you talking to?
- It's not her fault.
-
- She'll compromise us again.
- She won't.
-
You'll go back to the hospital.
-
- Answer me!
- Countless people will die.
-
Alicia, please put the phone down.
-
- I can't let that happen.
- Yes, hello?
-
Hi, I need Dr. Rosen. Is he in?
-
I'm sorry, John.
-
No!
-
- You know what you must do.
- Get away from me.
-
- She's too great a risk.
- Get away!
-
I didn't mean to hurt you!
-
Finish her. She knows too much now.
-
Uncle John?
-
Take care of her, you pathetic
piece of shit, or I'll take care of you.
-
Christ, John,
please do what he says.
-
Move, soldier.
-
Now.
-
Uncle John?
-
John, please!
-
Now!
-
Alicia and Charles never
coexist in the same interactive field.
-
Parcher and Charles...
-
Charles and Marcee
cannot coexist with Alicia.
-
I understand.
-
She never gets old.
-
Marcee can't be real. She never gets old.
-
You see them now?
-
Yes.
-
Why did you stop your meds?
-
Because I couldn't do my work.
-
I couldn't help with the baby.
-
I couldn't...
-
I couldn't respond to my wife.
-
You think that's better than being crazy?
-
We'll need to start you on a higher run
of insulin shocks and a new medication.
-
No.
-
- There has to be another way.
- Schizophrenia is degenerative.
-
Some days may be symptom-free,
but over time, you are getting worse.
-
It's a problem. That's all it is.
-
It's a problem with no solution.
And that's what I do, I solve problems.
-
This isn't math.
-
You can't come up with a formula to
change the way you experience the world.
-
- All I have to do is apply my mind.
- There's no theorem, no proof.
-
- You can't reason your way out of this.
- Why not?
-
Because your mind is where the problem is
in the first place.
-
I can do this.
-
I can work it out. All I need is time.
-
Is that the baby?
-
The baby is at my mother's, John.
-
Without treatment, John...
-
...the fantasies may take over...
-
...entirely.
-
You almost ready?
-
Rosen's waiting outside.
-
I can't go back to that hospital.
-
I won't come home.
-
He said that if you said that...
-
...he has commitment papers
for me to sign.
-
Well, maybe you won't sign them.
-
Maybe you'll just give me some time.
-
I will try to figure this out.
-
Whatever you do...
-
...Rosen is right about one thing.
-
You shouldn't be here.
-
I'm not safe anymore.
-
Would you have hurt me, John?
-
I don't know.
-
Maybe you should let Dr. Rosen
drive you to your mother's.
-
He told me to leave.
-
I understand.
-
Rosen said to call if you try and kill me,
or anything.
-
You want to know what's real?
-
This.
-
This.
-
This.
-
This is real.
-
Maybe the part...
-
...that knows the waking from the dream...
-
...maybe it isn't here.
-
Maybe it's here.
-
I need to believe...
-
...that something extraordinary is possible.
-
Princeton University - Two Months Later
-
Come.
-
Hello, Martin.
-
Jesus Christ.
-
No. I...
-
I don't have that one. My savior complex
takes on a completely different form.
-
I heard what happened and...
-
...I wanted to write,
and I tried you at MacArthur's...
-
...but you'd left, and I just...
-
This is Helinger's old office.
-
Yeah.
-
Yeah, I stole it from him.
-
Seems that you won after all, Martin.
-
They were wrong, John. No one wins.
-
Please, have a seat.
-
God, it's so good to see you.
-
What brings you back to Princeton?
-
John?
-
John, I'm sorry, but you have to tell him.
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Tell him you're a genius. You're a genius!
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Tell him your work is critical.
John, please!
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Is there any chance
that you could ignore what I just did?
-
Of course, what are old friends for?
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Is that what we are, Martin? Friends?
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John, of course.
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Of course. We always have been.
-
Alicia and I think...
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...that fitting in,
being part of a community...
-
...might do me some good.
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That a certain level of attachment,
familiar places, familiar people...
-
...might help me...
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...elbow out...
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...these certain delusions that I have.
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It's a lot to ask, and now that I'm here...
-
...I'm quite certain
that you will just say no.
-
But I was wondering if I could hang around.
-
Huh.
-
Will you be needing an office?
-
No.
-
No, I could just work out of the library.
-
This guy tries to wander into
the library...
-
- But he has no ID.
- Why can't people read memos?
-
Then he goes totally nuts.
-
You're not real! You're not real.
-
There's no mission.
-
Oh, shit. Shit.
-
You're not real! You are not real!
-
Is this what you are, soldier?
Some useless ghoul?
-
The local madman?
-
- I'm not a soldier.
- You'll end up in a cell!
-
Old, worthless, discarded.
-
There's no mission.
-
While you rock and drool,
the world will burn to ashes!
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You are not real! You are not real!
-
You're still talking to me, soldier.
-
There's no mission!
I'm not a soldier!
-
John? John?
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John! It's okay.
-
I just heard what happened, I'm sorry.
-
- I'm not a soldier.
- John. Hey, Nash.
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Nash, hey. You're all right.
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Nash, hey.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
the great John Nash!
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John?
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You should've seen their faces.
-
Everybody was just staring at me.
-
John, you know that stress
triggers the delusions.
-
I know.
-
But then, on the way home...
-
...Charles was there.
-
Sometimes, I really miss talking to him.
-
Maybe Rosen's right.
-
Maybe I have to think about going back
into the hospital again.
-
No. Come here.
-
Maybe try again tomorrow.
-
John, now you can't ignore me forever.
-
You've been a very good friend to me.
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The best.
-
But I won't talk to you again.
-
I just can't.
-
Same goes for you, baby girl.
-
Good-bye.
-
Good-bye.
-
I was wondering
if I might audit your course.
-
It's an honor, Professor Nash.
-
Is something wrong?
-
This will be my first class.
-
Good morning...
-
...eager young minds.
-
It's never going to work, John.
-
You're just humiliating yourself.
-
It's pathetic!
-
You are being pathetic.
-
I'm ashamed of you!
-
Oh, man!
-
Are you coming?
You're going to be late.
-
- Dad, you've got my book.
- What?
-
- You've got my book.
- Oh, right.
-
Thanks.
-
- Good-bye.
- 'Bye.
-
See you tonight.
-
'Bye, honey.
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Princeton University - October 1978
-
Did you just solve Riemann?
-
Well, what do you think?
-
That's an analog to Frobenius
for noncommutative extensions.
-
Yes, it is.
-
But it only appears
to work sporadically, so, no.
-
But...
-
...I believe I'm making progress.
-
You're...
-
You're John Nash, right?
-
- Toby Kelly.
- Hello.
-
I've been studying your equilibrium
that you wrote here at Princeton.
-
To come up with something
totally original, the way you did...
-
You know, I was young.
-
I've been developing a theory.
-
I believe I can prove...
-
...that Galois extensions
are covering spaces.
-
That everything is connected.
That it's all part of the same subject.
-
When was the last time you ate?
-
- Excuse me?
- You know, food.
-
Oh, uh...
-
My wife...
-
...she loves mayonnaise.
-
Thank you.
-
Go on.
-
The functor...
-
...is in the two categories.
-
Alicia!
-
Alicia!
-
Coming together
at a maximum speed of...
-
...let us say, 10 miles per hour.
-
So you have a fly
on the tire of bicycle "B"...
-
...and the fly,
who can travel at 20 miles an hour...
-
...leaves the tire of B
and flies to the tire of bicycle A...
-
...and backwards and forwards
until the two bikes collide...
-
...and the poor little fly is squashed.
-
This is the important thing about
actually focusing in and comprehending...
-
...the area you're dealing with.
Mathematics is very specific...
-
...and it is an art form,
no matter what people here will tell you...
-
...especially people from biology.
Don't listen to those people.
-
Let me go back to what you were doing.
I might want to steal this...
-
...write a book and get famous.
-
I was thinking that I might teach.
-
A classroom with 50 students
can be daunting for anyone.
-
John, besides, you're a terrible teacher.
-
I'm an acquired taste, Martin.
-
I was hoping there still might be
something I could contribute.
-
What about the...
-
Well, you know.
-
Are they gone?
-
No, they're not gone.
-
And maybe they never will be.
-
But I've gotten used to ignoring them,
and I think they've given up on me.
-
You think that's what it's like with
all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin?
-
You've got to keep feeding them
for them to stay alive?
-
John, they haunt you though.
-
They're my past, Martin.
Everybody is haunted by their past.
-
Well, good-bye.
-
John, I'll talk to the department.
-
Maybe in the spring.
-
Hey, Nash.
-
You, uh...
-
You scared?
-
Terrified.
-
Mortified. Petrified.
-
Stupefied by you.
-
Now you ought best ring Alicia,
or you'll get me...
-
- I'll ring her.
...in a lot of trouble.
-
- Thanks, Professor.
- Good-bye.
-
- Have a nice day.
- Good-bye.
-
Princeton University - March 1994
-
Papers in hand, Mr. Bayer.
-
Professor Nash?
-
- Can you see him?
- Yeah.
-
- You sure?
- Yes.
-
Positive? He's within your vision?
-
Okay. Good.
-
Forgive me,
I'm just always suspicious of new people.
-
- See you next week, Professor.
- See you next week.
-
So now that I know that you're real,
who are you, and what can I do for you?
-
Professor, my name is Thomas King.
-
Thomas King?
-
I'm here to tell you that you're being
considered for the Nobel Prize.
-
Forgive me,
but I'm just a little stunned.
-
Over the past years, your
equilibrium has become a cornerstone...
-
...of modern economics.
-
Suddenly everybody likes that one.
-
What about my work on other some
such projects like manifold embedding?
-
The application
of your bargaining problem...
-
...to FCC bandwidth auctions
or to antitrust cases...
-
- Antitrust cases?
- Yes.
-
I never would have considered that.
-
Have I just reached some level of honesty
that borders on stupidity?
-
- No, you haven't.
- I wouldn't have thought of that.
-
Shall we have tea?
-
I don't go in there.
I usually take my sandwich in the library.
-
Come on, John. Let's have some tea.
It's a big day.
-
Most commercially available brands of tea
are not suitable to my palate.
-
I'm not...
-
There are some Northern Indian teas
which are dense enough...
-
I enjoy the flavor that they have.
I have not been in this room...
-
...for quite some many years.
I wonder what tea they serve.
-
Why, thank you, young lady.
-
Things have certainly changed around here.
I have a son that age.
-
Harvard.
-
Hmm.
-
I would have thought the nominations
for the Nobel Prize would've been secret.
-
I would have thought you'd only find out
if you won or lost.
-
That is generally the case, yes,
but these are special circumstances.
-
The awards are substantial.
-
They require private funding as such...
-
...the image of the Nobel is...
-
I see, you came here
to find out if I was crazy?
-
Find out if I would screw everything up
if I actually won?
-
Dance around the podium,
strip naked and squawk like a chicken?
-
Something like that, yes.
-
Would I embarrass you?
-
Yes, it is possible.
-
You see, I...
-
I am crazy.
-
I take the newer medications...
-
...but I still see things that are not here.
-
I just choose not to acknowledge them.
-
Like a diet of the mind,
I choose not to indulge certain appetites.
-
Like my appetite for patterns.
-
Perhaps my appetite to imagine
and to dream.
-
Professor Nash.
-
It's good to have you here, John.
-
Thank you.
-
- It's an honor, sir.
- Thank you very much.
-
A privilege, Professor.
-
Professor.
-
- Nicely done, John.
- Thank you, Tom.
-
Thank you.
-
Thank you.
-
Thank you, Ed.
-
That was certainly most unexpected.
-
Nobel Prize Ceremony - Stockholm, Sweden
-
December 1994
-
Thank you.
-
I've always believed in numbers.
-
In the equations and logics
that lead to reason.
-
But after a lifetime of such pursuits...
-
...I ask, what truly is logic?
-
Who decides reason?
-
My quest has taken me
through the physical...
-
...the metaphysical...
-
...the delusional...
-
...and back.
-
And I have made the most important
discovery of my career.
-
The most important discovery of my life.
-
It is only in the mysterious equations
of love...
-
...that any logical reasons can be found.
-
I'm only here tonight because of you.
-
You are the reason I am.
-
You are all my reasons.
-
Thank you.
-
So nice to have met you.
-
I'll call for the car, Dad.
-
- Bye-bye.
- Bye-bye.
-
- Are you ready to go now?
- Yes, I am.
-
Yes, indeed, and yes, please.
-
Thank you so much.
-
Thank you.
-
What is it? What's wrong?
-
Nothing.
-
Nothing at all.
-
- Come with me, young lady.
- Oh.
-
I have a car outside.
Are you interested in a ride?
-
Where's it going to?
-
Nash's theories have influenced
global trade negotiations,
-
national labor relations and
even breakthroughs in evolutionary biology.
-
John and Alicia Nash live in Princeton, NJ.
John keeps regular office hours
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In the Mathematics Department.
He still walks to campus every day.
