The film "A beautiful mind" question?!
Question: For those of you that watched the 2001 film "A beautiful mind" with Russell Crowe I was wondering if you could help to explain a scene for me that I did not understand. Towards the end of the film when the old John Nash was sitting in the cafetorium with another scholar, these other professors starting placing their pens in front of Nash. What was the purpose of that ceremony and what did it signify? Thanks for any help you can provide.
Answers: For those of you that watched the 2001 film "A beautiful mind" with Russell Crowe I was wondering if you could help to explain a scene for me that I did not understand. Towards the end of the film when the old John Nash was sitting in the cafetorium with another scholar, these other professors starting placing their pens in front of Nash. What was the purpose of that ceremony and what did it signify? Thanks for any help you can provide.
That is a tradition that he witnesses early on in the film that when a professor distinguishes himself/herself through something he/she has written then all teh other professors give him their pens in recognition of the achievement. In that scene he was being recognized for his award on his paper on dynamics.
Lord Z is correct.