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Human Brain | American Football
A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
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A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
Actor of the Year | 2015 | Will
Best Actor | 2015 | Will
2016 | Peter
2016 | Will
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Drama | 2016 | Will
Outstanding Motion Picture | 2016 | Ridley
Outstanding Supporting Actress Motion Picture | 2016 | Gugu
Outstanding Ensemble | 2016 | Lindsay
Outstanding Actor Motion Picture | 2016 | Will
Best Movie | 2016
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | 2016 | Gugu
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | 2016 | Will
Outstanding Motion Picture | 2016
Best Actor in a Motion Picture | 2016 | Will
Best Original Song | 2016 | Leon
Best Actor | 2016 | Will
Budget 35,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 50,400,000 USD
During the theatrical release of the movie, Sony Pictures offered free advanced screenings and free screenings at Cinemark theaters to former NFL players and their families.
To prepare for the movie, Will Smith and writer and director Peter Landesman observed autopsies, including two done by Dr. Bennet Omalu.
Prior to Mike Webster's death, during the worst of his CTE-related mental health difficulties, this movie shows him alone in his truck (where he has started living) when he removes his pants and applies a Taser-style electronic weapon to his own heavily scarred leg. Although the movie never provides an explanation for this action, articles on ESPN.com and in GQ covering Webster's death and Bennet Omalu's research explained that Webster did this to himself because at that point in his illness, he was unable to fall asleep, but the Taser would at least render him unconscious for periods of time.
In his office, when Dr. Julian Bailes (Alec Baldwin) prepares Mike Webster (David Morse) for a Haldol injection by helping him on the sofa, there's a close-up of a mounted cross-section of a bird's skull placed on the table to Mike's right. The skull is a woodpecker's and shows the unique tongue system that functions as a shock absorber for its brain when it pecks at trees. Dr. Omalu explains the mechanism to Dr. Steve DeKosky later in the film. ("It is the anatomical equivalent of a safety belt for its brain.")
The actual scientific article that brought CTE in football to light is "Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player," published in Neurosurgery. 2005 Jul;57(1):128-34. The full author list is: Omalu BI, DeKosky ST, Minster RL, Kamboh MI, Hamilton RL, Wecht CH. An abstract of the article is available at the US National Library of Medicine website (PubMed) and the full article is available from the journal's publishers (for a fee). The PubMed page also links to the commenting article that tried to debunk Omalu's findings as "serious misinterpretations", co-authored by Dr. E. Pellman (played in the film by Paul Reiser).
"Dr. Bennet Omalu: Need is not weak. Need is need. You have to be the best version of yourself. If you don't know what that is, you pick something and fake it"
"Dr. Bennet Omalu: All of these animals have shock absorbers built into their bodies. The woodpecker's tongue extends through the back of the mouth out of the nostril, encircling the entire cranium. It is the anatomical equivalent of a safety belt for its brain. Human beings? Not a single piece of our anatomy protects us from those types of collisions. A human being will get concussed at sixty G's. A common head-to-head contact on a football field? One hundred G's. God did not intend for us to play football."
