A Beautiful Mind.... of a Gladiator is a 2004 short film which is a parody of the Oscar-winning films Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind both of which star Russell Crowe. The film's cast consists of newcomer Indian actor Akshay Kapoor in a small role. The film's leading character is Maximus Nash (played by Evan Matthew Weistein) whose name is a combination of Maximus, the leading character in Gladiator and John Forbes Nash, the leading character in A Beautiful Mind. The film portrays Maximus Nash as a rude and arrogant mathematician who hears a voice in his head telling him to be rude and beat people up.
Famous quotes containing the words beautiful and/or mind:
“The attorneys defending a criminal are rarely artists enough to turn the beautiful ghastliness of his deed to his advantage.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars, it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)