Another Asperger Movie
merll2005 wrote:
pad wrote:
Yupa wrote:
A movie where the hero isn't obviously AS and where you can't really even tell until near the end of the movie, and on repeat viewings at that.
In otherwords, a realistic portrayal of someone with Asperger's Syndrome.
In otherwords, a realistic portrayal of someone with Asperger's Syndrome.
Yes, like some sort of build up! The premise: I'm unsure of the genre-by the way have you've seen "The Aviator". The main character(the pilot) I believe haves Asperger Syndrome. Anyways, he was extrordinary billionaire; meaning: He was well-recognized, noticed, and praised about because of his extrordinary talented ability as an plane-maker and pilot. In order for your movie to be more interesting how about a realistic portrayal(A build up) of someone with Asperger's Syndrome who's incredibly famous for doing something...
(I'm taking pieces of "The Aviator" plot points and incorporating it into "your movie")
The "pilot" is Howard Hughes. Many people say he was an aspie, and his obsessions around the HK-1 flying boat went well into OCD. The History Channel program on the HK-1 is pretty good. He was the pilot of his time and it was only a few years before that pilots were just this side of witchdoctors and just a few years before that that the only thing the Wright brothers did was run a bicycle shop.
A good aspie movie I think would prettt much have the mostly normal guy and would examine thought process aspects and would really only reveal it explicity at the end.
Merll,thanks for further noting on Howard Hughes and his various conditions he've developed throughout a great portion of his prime years as a pilot/plane-maker. You've further clarified his background quite well.
TheGreyBadger wrote:
"A Beautiful Mind" --- I know Nash was schizophrenic, but there was more going on than that! Check it out and tell me if my guess is correct.
I know a couple of people who knew Nash at Princeton and think he was more aspie than schizophrenic. One was a student who remembers him from the Library and other is David Holmes from Eden Institute who has been around Princeton for decades. I also was told by a screenwriter that the "man in a black hat, CIA type character" in the movie, played by Ed Harris, was NOT part of Nash's life at all. It was added to the story.
Remember that Nash got his DX years ago. Remember too, that even when aspergers is known to be the real situation, it isn't always used. That was the case for Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. His family thought he was one of us but the lawyers used another DX to keep him
alive in court. And we hardly need an aspie movie about Ted, do we?
Jerry Newport
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