Chapter 2058: Chapter 2058

Hugo carefully read this interview. This is an interview about John Nash and his wife Alicia.

John and Alicia were married in 1957, but in the few short years since, John's schizophrenia has worsened, affecting not only his life, but everyone around him life. Alicia stayed and took care of John wholeheartedly, but life was too difficult. The repeated illnesses made their marriage shattered, and Alicia, who couldn't bear John, filed for divorce.

this is the truth. No one can blame Alicia for her choices, and only those who have actually worked with schizophrenia know what a horrible and helpless feeling it is, watching someone you once loved become a completely alienated person. Strangers cruelly hurt himself and everyone around him. This kind of pressure can destroy almost anyone—even bloodlines of close relatives.

The ethics and morality of the society always require people to continue to persevere, wives are required to never leave their schizophrenic husbands, children are required to be tolerant of their parents who are stuck in the mud, and brothers and sisters are required to accept unconditionally the brothers and sisters who destroy all the good things in life... This is the right way, and no one can deny it, but words are always easier than actions, because only you know the difficulties, pains, struggles, loneliness and bitterness involved.

Alicia made a "selfish" choice, but it can't be said to be a wrong choice.

If the story develops in this way, then there is nothing magical about 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 on John.

After the divorce, Alicia did not remarry. Relying on her meager income as a computer programmer and the support of relatives and friends, she continued to take care of John and their only son. She insisted that John should stay in Princeton, because if a person behaved eccentrically, he would be considered crazy elsewhere, and in Princeton, a place full of talents, people would not focus too much on John.

After the two divorced, Alicia has been taking good care of John. By 1970, John was transferred to several mental hospitals and his condition gradually stabilized. In fact, there is no more love between Alicia and John, and what is left is more responsibility—that is, what social ethics and morality require. They are not lovers, let alone husband and wife, but more like companions who support each other and try to continue on the difficult road of life.

But no one can deny that without Alicia's persistence, John might never be able to regain his sobriety. Whether it is friendship, love, or family affection, Alicia chose to stay with John. In the blink of an eye, it has been thirty years. She has accompanied John through countless ups and downs and witnessed John being awarded the He won the Nobel Prize and witnessed John regain his sanity and return to the right track of life again.

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

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

In this interview with "Vanity Fair", it is not clear that John and Alicia intend to remarry at all. Maybe marriage is completely unimportant to them, maybe they have never thought about this issue, maybe it is not in their heart at all. within the plan.

After reading the entire interview, Hugo was filled with emotions, feeling the ill-fated life, ups and downs, and magnificence of John’s life, as well as the incomprehensible but enviable acquaintance between John and Alicia accompany. But the question is, why would Allen want Hugo to read this interview?

"What does this interview imply? 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.

Alan was sitting beside him just now, and he had been waiting for Hugo to finish reading the whole article. Now seeing Hugo's puzzled expression, he couldn't help but draw the corners of his mouth, and his eyes showed a smug look. Look, "I can make you confused and unclear about the situation, does this count as my success?"

Hugo couldn't help but have black lines all over his head, "Isn't this success too easy?" He is not a comic protagonist with the supernatural ability to see people's hearts, how could he grasp all the situations. Allen made such an inexplicable move, Hugo had no idea at all.

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

Hugo shrugged, "Of course, it's wonderful." Many times, real life is far more exciting than movies. Who would have thought that Martin Luther King would have such a legendary cry, who would have thought that Elvis Presley would have achieved such a great success, and who would have thought that John Lennon would end in such a tragic way Reject the way to leave the world. "I absolutely can't imagine the ups and downs of John's life."

Alan was amused by Hugo's vivid expression, "Believe me, your life is also extremely wonderful, it is jaw-droppingly wonderful. From the Golden Raspberry Award to the Oscar? This distance is not something everyone can cover. "Currently, in the entire film history scene, only Hugo has finished it alone. There was a slight smile on the corner of Hugo's mouth, but he fell into deep thought because of Allen's words, "However, John Nash's life is unparalleled. Don't you have any special feelings?"

The awarding stage of the Golden Raspberry Awards appeared in Hugo's mind, and that distant memory was still as vivid as if it happened yesterday. However, Allen's voice made Hugo look up, looked back, and frowned slightly, "What do you mean?" Then Hugo saw a sincere emotion in Allen's eyes, sparkling on the sea The incomparably far-reaching meaning was reflected under the sparkling sunlight, which made Hugo's brain suddenly flash a thought, "You mean, adapt the script?"

Allen showed a satisfied smile, then nodded slightly, "Yes, that's right! It really is Hugo, his intuition is too sharp."

Adapting the John Nash story? This is almost a normal thing 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 objects of Hollywood adaptations—in the distant two decades Later, someone even adapted the famous painting "Mona Lisa's Smile" into a series.

Among these adaptation subjects, 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, etc., etc., these characters who have left their own names in the long river of history have all become the adaptation objects of Hollywood movie scripts, either praised or criticized, or Praise or approval appeared in people's sight, and even became a special movie theme.

On the Oscars, biographies have always been their favorite, from best film to best actor and actress, from best adapted screenplay to best director, almost every field has made the old academics crazy Not to mention, a genre of performance was even directly born - biographical performance. People regard those actors who can vividly interpret historical figures as profound and wonderful.

So much so that some people joked that if they want to win the Oscar statuette, they should act in the biographies. Although this is just a joke, it can be seen that the traditional academic party has a preference for biography.

Even Hugo himself has starred in two biographies, "Schindler's List" and "Death Row Walking", these two works also won Hugo the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor respectively People, the influence can be seen.

As Allen said, John's magnificent life is really wonderful, and the adaptation into a movie is bound to be very eye-catching. More importantly, John suffers from schizophrenia, which is almost the most powerful challenge for actors. Well, definitely a project that could revolutionize the entire market. Therefore, adapting it into a movie is almost an undoubted choice.

Historically, the story of John Nash has also been put on the big screen, but Hugo remembers that it was in 2001. The movie called "A Beautiful Mind" was directed by Ron Howard, which almost pushed the biographical movie to the big screen. It has reached the peak, and it is also the last peak of biography after the 21st century. After that, although the biographies of the characters are still emerging in an endless stream, there is no work that can really be recognized by the entire market

When "A Beautiful Mind" was released in 2001, it starred Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and others, and Akiva Goldsman was in charge of the script. After it was released, it received a lot of praise. After receiving eight Oscar nominations, it won four statuettes for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Hugo was very impressed with "A Beautiful Mind", in which Russell gave the best performance of his career - Hugo's personal opinion, that the performance was even better than Russell's "Gladiator" .

It's just that it's still 1998, which is three years earlier than when "A Beautiful Mind" should appear. Is this really good?