Behind the camera, Tommy made a barely seen series called The Neighbors for Hulu — which means that theoretically, he could show up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — and starred in a movie Greg wrote called Best F(r)iends. The two friends are returning to the silver screen with a horror movie called Big Shark due out sometime, soon, but just like all their other projects, it probably won’t come anywhere close to the popularity of The Room, since people who want the special Tommy Wiseau brand of complete insanity can just follow him on social media.
Uh, A Beautiful Mind‘s Triumphant Ending Got Ruined By Reality
Where We Left Off:
Before “game theory” was a thing you heard in memes from five years ago (piggybacking off memes from years ago, it was a sexy new branch of mathematics. The idea of applying math to games for the sake of understanding the logic behind the competition, instead of just for winning the game, became seriously hot in the 1950s thanks to people like John Nash.
Nash’s story was told in the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind, which shows how he developed paranoid schizophrenia during the Cold War. If you squint, you can sorta see the steps of logic from “the dynamics of any competition can be mathematically predicted” to “the commies are out to get me because I figured that out!”
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Most of the movie is total Hollywood B.S. but it’s completely true he was able to recover enough to win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his continuing work on game theory. That work consisted of a lot more complicated math and a lot less pickup artist technique than you see in the movie, but true mind-beauty is on the inside, we guess.
So What Happened Next?
Nash was mostly retired by the time A Beautiful Mind came out, but like a lot of people on this list, a movie where you’re a visionary hero played by a sexy actor can really boost your reputation. After the movie came out, his life became one long celebration of itself up until then — Nash was racking up prizes, awards and honorary degrees like they were those phony credit cards that come in the mail. Life isn’t a game, but it’s hard to think of a clearer win condition.
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Tragically, because life isn’t a game, things ended in a completely chaotic and random way. In 2015, he and his wife were both killed in a car crash coming home from the airport after Nash had been on a trip to get yet another award. (They were both launched out of the cab, not wearing seatbelts.) It’s a gruesome, Final Destination-esque fate for a guy who had beaten the odds and a depressing surprise for audience members who Googled “what’s John Nash up to these days” minutes after finishing the movie.
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