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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“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)