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February 23, 2002 — BBC reports...
Director Ron Howard, whose film A Beautiful Mind is tipped to win a clutch of Oscars, has defended the movie's interpretation of the life of schizophrenic mathematician John Nash.
Howard has been criticised of "grossly" distorting the facts of Nash's life and glossing over things that were unpalatable to Hollywood, including an "unbearable" personality, gay affairs and delusions of commuting with aliens.
But the director has said he only ever intended to use Nash's story as a "springboard" from which to construct a film, which was never supposed to be a true account of Nash's life.
"This is not a biopic. This is not a story where we're re-enacting all the details of a famous character's life," Howard told BBC's Breakfast programme.
"We're using John Nash's life as a sort of springboard to illustrate something that is quite difficult, but in this case we thought was quite interesting."
The main point of the film was to illustrate how someone could live with schizophrenia, Howard said, and Nash was used as an interesting example to tell a wider story.
"It's not a clinical representation of the disease and it's not a detailed re-enactment of Nash's life," he said. "But we did use the headlines and the shape of the life to build the story on."
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