I was going to say something, but I don’t think it’s that interesting. :p I guess I will just note that it’s an order of magnitude more difficult for me to flirt in English than in Korean. Since I grew up on Korean, it’s definitely my emotional language, where English was learned and mostly used at school and work. As I spend more time with English, the gap is not as big as maybe 7 years ago, but still, unless someone speaks Korean with me, it will be really hard for them to get to know the whole scope of me.
On the book, A Beautiful Mind… I shouldn’t have been really surprised, but again, I find the difference between the Hollywood version and the biographical accounts, having a significant different feeling. A lot of the detailed episodes in the movie to depict the various situations aren’t even mentioned in the book (e.g., the insight at the bar, the nightly delivery, etc.). Maybe those stories were from a private exchange between the movie makers and the Nashes, but still, I found it interesting. Also, the movie does not mention that Alicia and John Forbes are divorced (I think they still are) and didn’t see each other for more than a decade, although she eventually took care of him. Nor does the movie mention that John Forbes had a son outside the marriage (before the marriage to Alicia).
I am not saying what Alicia and John Forbes has gone through is anything less just because of those missing facts from the movie. Actually, I can admire them as human beings because of them. I think it’s almost always more interesting to have your own interpretation of the events than to be fed with someone else’s interpretation.