Daily Dialogue — July 28, 2015

Nash: [to Charles] The prodigal roommate revealed. “Saw my name on the lecture slate.” YOU LYING SON OF A BITCH!
Dr. Rosen: Who are you talking to? Tell me who you see.
Nash: How do you say “Charles Herman” in Russian?

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Madness.

Trivia: Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman had plenty of personal experience to draw on in developing the story; he had previously worked as a child care counselor and had developed a method for training mental health workers, and had also grown up in a house where his parents had established a group home for emotionally disturbed children.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman read Sylvia Nasar’s book on John Nash and immediately saw the story’s three-act structure: Genius. Madness. Redemption.