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Proof (2000) (Theatre)
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A play by David Auburn, first produced in 2000. It won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play. Mary-Louise Parker won a Tony for Best Actress for her portrayal of Catherine.Catherine is the daughter of a brilliant but mentally ill mathematician, Robert, and has acted as his caretaker up until his recent death, putting off her own education to do so. Now in the wake of his death she has to deal with her well-meaning but frustrating older sister Claire, Robert's former grad student Hal's discovery of a paradigm-shifting proof he attributes to Robert despite Catherine's insistence that she wrote it, the ghost of her father's genius and insanity, and how much of each she has inherited.Was made into a film in 2005. The film starred Gwyneth Paltrow as Catherine, Anthony Hopkins as Robert, Jake Gyllenhaal as Hal and Hope Davis as Claire.Not related to the TV series of the same name (despite coincidentally having a similarly named heroine), or the comic book of the same name. | |
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Age Lift | |
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Age Lift: The characters' ages were changed in the 2005 film, likely to better equate with those of their actors. Catherine, played by 33-year-old Gwyneth Paltrow, turns 27 instead of 25; and Robert, played by 67-year-old Anthony Hopkins, dies at 63 instead of his fifties. This is inverted with Hal who is 26 in the film instead of 28, also likely due to being played by 25-year-old Jake Gyllenhaal. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: Robert's writings degrade into this. | |
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Your Mom | |
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Your Mom: After the end of the first scene, she supposedly has a drunken confrontation with police after she called 911 on Hal, thinking he was about to steal one of Robert's notebooks, and reportedly told "one cop... to go fuck the other cop's mother". Catherine denies this to Claire and says, "Not with that phrasing." Catherine's response has an added layer of humor in the film, where Claire says she merely told her to "have sex with the other cop's mother." | |
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The Dutiful Son | |
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The Dutiful Son: Played with; both sisters invoke it on the other. Catherine stays home to care for her father and resents her older sister Claire for going to college and living her life in New York. But Claire is the more practical and stable one, and points out that she made a great deal of sacrifices in order to be able financially support her father and sister. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Robert, when he's coherent. | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Catherine and Claire to minor extent, but it isn't played up very much. Both are very smart and both are attractive but Claire plays up her looks more while Catherine has a natural genius. As a result they fill the roles of the pretty and the smart sister, respectively. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along The play opens with a conversation between Catherine and Robert, until Catherine remembers that wait a second, Robert's dead. Makes his reassurance that she's not crazy ring kind of hollow. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Catherine in the dress Claire buys her. | |
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The Caretaker | |
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The Caretaker: Catherine, to her father, and later Claire to Catherine for a short period. | |
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Always Second Best | |
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Always Second Best: Hal is self-conscious about his abilities as a mathematician, especially after his papers keep being turned down. He fears that he, or any of his generation, will never be as good as Robert was, which causes him to doubt that Catherine could have conceived of the proof herself. | |
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Experimented in College | |
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Experimented in College: Hal says there's "a lot of experimentation" at math conferences because there are so few women. | |
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Second-Act Breakup | |
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Second-Act Breakup: Though the romance isn't the main focus of the play, it pretty much follows this. After finally starting to trust Hal, that all goes away when he doesn't believe her about the proof. By the end of the play she's tentatively forgiven him and we're left with a Maybe Ever After. | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One: Hal talks about how he's driving to see a band composed of members of the math department and Catherine refers to them "nerds in a band." | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Both Catherine and Hal's mothers are deceased, which causing them both significant mental grief, especially with Catherine having to assume her mother's role as Robert's caretaker. | |
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The Public Domain Channel | |
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The Public Domain Channel: Robert watches Night of the Living Dead (1968). | |
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Posthumous Character | |
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Posthumous Character: Robert is dead before the events of the play, performing as figments of Catherine's imagination and in flashbacks. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: A heartbreaking example, Robert's writings in the scene in which Catherine discovers he's relapsed. | |
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Good with Numbers | |
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Good with Numbers: Applies to all four characters, though Claire explicitly says that she's always been good with numbers, but doesn't come close to her father's (or her sister's) genius. | |
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Black Sheep | |
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Black Sheep: Claire. She doesn't share her father and sister's genius, nor, as a result, their bond. | |
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Maybe Ever After | |
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Maybe Ever After: At the end of the play it seems that Catherine has forgiven Hal, as she's discussing the proof with him, but the nature of their future relationship is left open ended. | |
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Mad Mathematician | |
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Mad Mathematician: Robert has schizophrenia, as seen in the flashback scenes, and his work devolves into bizarre ramblings (see below). Catherine may have inherited this trait. | |
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Can't Hold His Liquor | |
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Can't Hold His Liquor: During the party on the night after Robert's funeral, Claire attempts to "keep up" with the physicists and fails miserably, with a massive hangover the following morning to boot. | |
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It Runs in the Family | |
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It Runs in the Family: Catherine - and her sister - worry the Robert's mathematical genius isn't the only thing Catherine inherited from him. | |
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The Mentally Disturbed | |
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The Mentally Disturbed: Robert spends a large portion of his life suffering from schizophrenia, which kept him from practicing save for less than a year of remission, where he mentored Hal. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The opening scene where Catherine talks to her (dead) father. Maybe she's losing it, or maybe she was just dozing off, or maybe it was ghost (generally thought to be one of the first two). | |
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Cool Teacher | |
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Cool Teacher: Before his illness Robert was a professor, and well loved by his students. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Catherine has a lot of emotional baggage due to dealing with her father's illness and subsequent death. | |
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Dead Person Conversation | |
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Dead Person Conversation: The opening scene between Catherine and Robert is revealed to be entirely in Catherine's head, either as a dream or hallucination, as Robert is revealed to be already dead. | |
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Geeky Turn-On | |
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Geeky Turn-On: Hal and Catherine's begin making out as while they are discussing mathematicians, which leads to Their First Time between scenes. | |
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