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.
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“Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)