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Her troubled son becomes a genius.
When every comic actor becomes a genius, it seems, every genius becomes a comic actor: "comic genius" Albert Brooks (The Alberta Report) was born Albert Einstein.
The story, from Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," is about a gentle mentally retarded man who becomes a genius through experimental surgery, then learns that it's all too good to be true.
It took seven years for him to get backing for a movie version, but eventually his role in Charly as a man with learning difficulties who is operated on and becomes a genius – only to regress again – won him the best actor Oscar, among other awards.
In telling the story of a man who becomes a genius when he sees a bright light, it also dramatizes a potent college state of mind: the caffeinated, finals-week mania during which you think your convictions at 3 17 a.m. are holy, and fear at the same time that your head will never stop whirring.
We regularly draw attention to the paradox of the mediocre musician who becomes a genius producer, drawing parallels with insignificant football players that turn out to be great coaches.
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Marlon Brando became a genius because he took his gifts and honed them with the acting teacher Stella Adler.
Bach, like Gould, became a genius who found in provincial life the solitude he needed in order to conduct his research into fugue and sacred song.
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