Genius is defined as people have a natural capacity in the field of intellectual property. Many movies depict people geniuses with their expertise, whether it be math, science, art or music. Here are 10 brilliant film depicting the 10 "geniuses" are different. Most of the film is based on the lives of the characters and how their ability to enter into their lives and the lives of those around them. The majority of them are based on real people.
Pollock (2000)
This film tells about his career and struggles with alcoholism as well as the reception to his work. Jackson Pollock was an American abstract painter who died in 1956, at age 44. He is famous for painting ekspresionisnya painted on large canvases, which are usually laid on the floor. Instead of painting that he created, he just threw paint and smearing the canvas canvas. He struggled with alcohol throughout his life, and ultimately alcohol be a cause of death in a car accident he was driving drunk. Pollock film was released in 2000 and among other actors Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden. Harden won an Academy Award for his role as Jackson's wife, Lee Krasner.
Rain Man (1988)
Some people must be familiar with this movie, "Rain Man" won four Oscars in 1989, including one for best actor, Dustin Hoffman. In this film as Hoffman plays Raymond, a disabled autistic savants. Raymond has the intelligence and expertise that goes against nature as a whole. Raymond's character in this film was taken on in the real world someone named Kim Peek, who is considered as the most brilliant scholars in the world. Peek can read two pages of books in about 10 seconds with his eyes. His left eye can read the page that is on the left and right eye can book to read pages that are in the right side of the book. He could remember 98% of this information. As well as "speed calculator", he can also remember more than about 12,000 books on geography, history, literature, etc.. He may also declare the day or date in history.
But basically this film is not telling the life of Kim Peek, but told me about Charlie, the brother of Raymond (played by Tom Cruise), who found his brother after their father died and left a legacy of millions of dollars to Raymond. At first Charlie was just using the ability of Raymond for their own benefit, but as time went on, Charlie turns into love with his brother Raymond. In this film, Dustin Hoffman's acting is flawless and brilliant.
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Robert James Fischer is considered as one of the best chess player of all time, with legendary accomplishments, including being the youngest grandmaster at age 15. This film tells Joshua Waitzkin, a child prodigy who follow in the footsteps Bobby Fischer. In this film, Waitzkin played by Max Pomeranc. He was found as a chess player who has natural talent. In this film she was raised by a strict instructor. Joshua Waitzkin started playing chess at age 6 years. Da has won eight individual titles and seven championship teams.
Little Man Tate (1991)
Little Man Tate is a film directed and starring Jodie Foster. This film tells the story of a boy genius, Fred Tate (7 years) who had a piano talent, genius at math and also the world's artists. The film focuses on Fred's efforts to adjust himself in public, despite his intelligence into the psychological tension between him and his mother.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
A Beautiful Mind is based on a book with the same title. Both the film and the novel tells the story of mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist John Forbes Nash. Initially, Tom Cruise is set to play a major role, but Crowe was selected after Ron Howard (director) saw his performance in Gladiator. This movie takes most of Nash's life, including time at Princeton University. The story includes success and despair Nash. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Amadeus (1984)
Amadeus is considered as one of the best movie musical ever made. It is characterized by being nominated for 53 awards and won 40 of the 53 awards, including eight Academy Award. The film was taken from the life of composer Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, both living in Vienna, Austria, at the end of the 18th century. Mozart was a child prodigy who wrote for keyboard and violin at age 5 years. Throughout his life he has produced more than 600 papers and is considered as a musician, naturally gifted of all time.
Dark Matter (2008)
Dark Matter is a film based on the story of Gang Lu, perpetrators of killings at the University of Iowa. The film focuses on his time at university, rather than the crime which he did. Character, Liu Xing, is a talented young Chinese students who were flown to America to study physics at a higher level. While there, he joined the cosmology group led by Jacob Reiser, a famous cosmologist. Xing brilliance became apparent and he was quickly taken under the wing professors. When they try to create a model for the origin of the universe. However, Xing becomes obsessed with the study of 'Dark Matter', an invisible substance that he believed the shape of the universe and everything in it, contrary to Reiser's theory. Character ego battles, and cultural differences when trying to retain his natural ability for science, and his sanity.
Powder (1995)
Sean Patrick Flanery plays an albino boy, nicknamed "Powder", which has a remarkable intellect, telepathy and paranormal powers. This child's real name is Jeremy Reed. His mother was struck by lightning when he was still in the womb. This child also has the ability to feel other people around him. Jeff Goldblum and Mary Steenburgen star in this film.
The Time Machine (1960 & 2002)
There are two movie Time Machine (1960 and 2002), each based on the HG Wells novel of the same name. Although the film the protagonist has a name, in a book he was simply known as 'Time Traveler', a talented young inventor from New York (version 2002) After kekasihnyanya killed by robbers, he built a time machine that will allow him to return to rescue his girlfriend. After realizing that no matter how many times he came back, his girlfriend is always killed in different ways until he went into the future year 2037. After fainting, she woke up in the year in which 802,701 people have returned to a primitive way of life and tormented by a monster ape called 'Morlocks'. Even though the film is not brilliant, at least the novel is "revelation" which introduced the idea of time travel.
Finding Forrester (2000)
This film tells about a young teenage nigger, Jamal Wallace, who has great natural talent for writing. He met in an old writer named William Forrester (played by Sean Connery). In the end their friendship grows, each find themselves in different ways. Although Jamal is a very gifted student, the pressure pushing him to perform at the average level in school, while Forrester helped give him a passion for literature.