Chapter 2058： Adapted screenplay

Hugo carefully read this interview. This is an interview about John Nash and his wife Alicia. The content of the interview tells the love story between this couple who has gone through countless trials and hardships.

John and Alicia entered the marriage hall in 1957, but in a few short years after that, John’s schizophrenia became more and more serious, not only affecting his life, but also destroying everyone around him. life. Alicia stayed wholeheartedly to take care of John, but life was too difficult. Repeated illnesses made their marriage fragmented. Alicia, who could not bear John, filed for divorce.

this is the truth. No one can blame Alicia for her choice. Only those who have really dealt with schizophrenics know what a terrible and helpless feeling it is, and watch the person they once loved turns into a completely alienated person. A stranger cruelly hurts himself and everyone around him. This kind of pressure can destroy almost any person-even the blood of close relatives.

The ethics and morals of society always require people to persevere, require wives to never leave their schizophrenic husbands, require their children to be tolerant of their parents who are trapped in the mire and unable to extricate themselves, and require brothers and sisters to unconditionally accept the brothers and sisters that destroy all the good things in life... This is the right way. No one can deny it, but speaking is always easier and easier than action, because only one knows the difficulties, pain, struggle, loneliness and bitterness in it.

Alicia made a "selfish" choice, but it cannot be said to be a wrong choice.

If the story develops in this way, there will be no magic in John's experience. Perhaps John, who has lost the support of his beloved, will never be able to get out of schizophrenia. However, after Alicia chose to divorce, she still did not give up John.

After the divorce, Alicia did not remarry. She continued to take care of John and their only son, relying on her meager income as a computer programmer and financial support from relatives and friends. She insisted that John should stay in Princeton, because if a person behaves strangely, he will be treated as a lunatic elsewhere, and in Princeton, a place where geniuses are abundant, people will not focus too much on John.

After the two divorced, Alicia had been taking good care of John. By 1970, John had moved to several mental hospitals and his condition gradually stabilized. In fact, there is no love between Alicia and John for a long time, and what is left is more responsibility-which is required by social ethics. They are not lovers, let alone husbands and wives. They are more like companions who are supporting each other and trying to go on in the difficult road of life.

But no one can deny that if there is no Alicia's persistence, John may never be able to recover his sobriety. Whether it’s friendship, love, or family affection, Alicia chose to stay with John. In the blink of an eye, it’s been thirty years. He has accompanied John through countless ups and downs and witnessed John’s award in 1994. Won the Nobel Prize and witnessed John regaining his sanity and returning to the right track of life again.

Maybe, this is not love, just support; but maybe, this is love, because true love is not an oath, not sweet words, not earth-shattering, but a long stream of "holding hands and growing old together". Thirty years is almost half of the long life. They are the strangers most familiar with each other's lives.

In Hugo's view, this is not love, but better than love.

In this “Vanity Fair” interview, John and Alicia did not see the intention of remarrying at all. Maybe marriage is not important to them, maybe they have never thought about this problem, maybe this is not in theirs at all. Within the plan.

After reading the entire interview, Hugo was full of emotions, feeling the turbulent life, ups and downs, and magnificent life of John, and also feeling the incomprehensible but enviable acquaintance between John and Alicia. Accompany. But the question is, why would Allen want to show Hugo to this interview?

"What is implied in this interview? Is it related to me? Or am I missing something?" Hugo looked at Allen with question marks, as if he hadn't figured out the situation at all.

Allen was sitting next to him just now, contented, waiting for Hugo to finish reading the whole article, and now seeing Hugo's puzzled expression, he couldn't help but draw the corners of his mouth, and his eyes showed pride. With a look, "Is it my success if it can make you confused and unclear about the situation?"

Hugo couldn't help being covered with black lines, "Then this success is too easy." He is not a manga protagonist with a special ability to see through the human heart, how can he grasp all the situations. Allen was so inexplicably clueless that Hugo had no clue at all.

Allen didn't mind, just smiled and said with a smile, "Don't you think this story is wonderful?"

Hugo shrugged, "Of course, wonderful." In many cases, real life is far more exciting than movies. Who would have thought that Martin Luther King would have such a legend, who would have thought that Elvis Presley would have achieved such a great success, and who would have thought that John Lennon would be so tragic Leave the world in a rejected way. "I can never imagine John's ups and downs in life like this."

Allen was amused by Hugo's vivid expression, "Believe me, your life is also extremely wonderful, amazingly wonderful. From the Golden Raspberry Award to the Oscar? Not everyone can walk this distance. "At present, only Hugo has finished the whole film history scene. Hugo smiled at the corner of his mouth, but he was lost in thought because of Allen's words, "However, John Nash's life is unparalleled, don't you have any special feelings?"

The awards stage of the Golden Raspberry Award appeared in Hugo's mind, and the distant memories were as vivid as what happened yesterday. However, Alan’s voice made Hugo raise his head, retracted his gaze, and frowned slightly, "What do you mean?" Then Hugo saw a touch of sincere emotion in Alan’s eyes, sparkling on the sea. Under the sparkling sunlight, an extremely profound meaning was reflected, which made Hugo's brain flash a thought, "You mean, adapt the script?"

Allen gave a satisfied smile, and then nodded slightly, "Yes, that's it! It's Hugo as expected. My instinct is too sharp."

Adapting the story of John Nash? This is almost normal in Hollywood.

As the quality of original scripts plummeted, adapted scripts ushered in an era of blooming flowers. From comics to stage plays to novels, almost all literary or artistic carriers have become the targets of Hollywood adaptations-in the distant two decades. Later, someone even adapted the famous painting "Mona Lisa's Smile" into a series.

Among these adapted themes, biographies are undoubtedly the most watched, from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt, from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock, from Wolfgang Mozart to Jane Austen, from Gandhi to Martin Luther King... and so on, these characters who have left their names in the long history of history have all become the targets of adaptations of Hollywood movie scripts, either praise or derogation, or Like or approve of land appeared in people's sight, and even became a special movie theme.

At the Oscars awards ceremony, biographies have always been their favorites, from the best film to the best actor and actress, from the best adapted screenplay to the best director, almost every field has made the veteran academics enthusiastic. In addition, a genre of performance was born directly-biographical performance. People regarded those actors who can vividly interpret historical figures as profound and wonderful.

So some people joked that they would star in a biography if they want to get the Oscar statuette. Although this is just a joke, but it can be seen that the traditional academy's preference for biographies.

Even Hugo himself has starred in two biographies, "Schindler's List" and "Death Row". These two works also won the best supporting actor and best actor Oscar Xiaojin for Hugo. People, the influence can be seen.

As Allen said, John’s magnificent life is really wonderful. The adaptation of a movie must be very eye-catching. More importantly, John suffers from schizophrenia This is almost the most powerful for an actor. Challenge, if the actors are selected well, it is definitely a project that can completely change the entire market. Therefore, it is almost an unquestionable choice to adapt it into a movie.

In history, the story of John Nash was actually put on the big screen, but Hugo remembers that it was in 2001. The film called "Beautiful Mind" was directed by Ron Howard, which is almost a biographical movie. To the peak, it is also the last peak of biographies after the 21st century. After that, although biographies still appeared in endlessly, there was no work that could truly be recognized by the entire market.

When "Beautiful Mind" was released in 2001, it was starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly (.), Ed Harris and others, and the script was in charge of Aziva Gosman. After the release, it received a lot of praise. After receiving eight Oscar nominations, they won the best picture, best director, best supporting actress and best adapted screenplay.

Hugo was deeply impressed by that "beautiful mind", Russell dedicated the best performance of his career in that work-Hugo's personal opinion, that the performance is even better than Russell's emperor's "Gladiator" .

However, it is still 1998, which is three years ahead of the time when the "beautiful mind" should appear. Is this really good?