Chapter 2151: 2151 Screenwriting Skills

The film review written by Nicholas for "A Beautiful Mind" is clear and clear. Obviously, he understood Hugo's original intention of creating this script at once, and made the most thorough interpretation. At the end of the film review, Nicholas said so.

"The biggest success of this movie is that Hugo's adaptation of John Nash's biography, he hopes to tell about not a real John Nash, but a real schizophrenic patient. This makes the whole movie spread out. With warm humanistic care, the touch that makes the soul tremble slightly is carried through from beginning to end.

Different from the coldness of "Death Row Walking" and the cruelty of "Schindler's List", "A Beautiful Mind" brings warmth.

The cooperation between Hugo and Charlize brought a strong chemical reaction to the film. The two most topical and influential actors today, since announcing their relationship as a couple, this is their first collaboration, which not only shows the two My superb and profound acting skills burst out with amazing sparks, and with incredible tacit understanding, the consistent emotions show a soul-stirring look. Almost every picture and every scene is like a work of art. People were amazed again and again.

It is hard to say whether it is the love between John and Alicia that made this classic cooperation, or the love between Hugo and Charlize made the movie wonderful. But there's no question that the two actors' collaboration goes beyond 'Before Sunrise' and is reminiscent of 'When Harry Met Sally'. "

Even at the end of the film review, Nicholas did not forget to tease Hugo and Charlize, which is really dumbfounding. However, the "Los Angeles Times"'s admiration for this work is beyond doubt, and the 100-point evaluation is enough to raise eyebrows, which is really a super high appreciation.

This time, the "New Yorker" immediately stood up and agreed with the views of the "Los Angeles Times". For Hugo's adaptation work.

"Hugo Lancaster has once again delivered a stunning adaptation and showcased his outstanding screenwriting talents.

The structure of the whole movie is compact and complete, without any redundant plots, let alone any redundant details. Almost every subtle part can form a sequence of echoes, and the control of the overall rhythm is even more masterful. From the first quarter of the Game theory quickly enters the theme, advances layer by layer with the emotions in the middle half, and then sublimates and precipitates in the last quarter. It tells such a true biography full of human care with meticulous, delicate, vivid and real brushwork. .

Hugo did not follow John Nash's real life, but re-created the story. This is not an "adaptation" but a "creation". It is precisely the biggest highlight of the whole movie. It can be seen from one detail: Hugo has carefully set up the three hallucinated characters of John, perfected and supplemented the whole story and John Nash, which is a part that cannot be seen in real life. But it makes the whole movie closer to reality and more exciting at the same time!

The appearance of Charles is a character created by John to alleviate the inner anxiety about failure. He appeared after John encountered long-term bottlenecks, continuous failures and deep despair. Charles’ personality is almost the opposite of John’s, but he keeps affirming John, encourage John, admit that John is a genius. For the lonely and helpless John, this is undoubtedly the most important self-affirmation.

In fact, this can also be seen as John's unconscious self-therapy. All his emotions, whether positive or negative, are vented through Charles, who is outgoing and cheerful. Therefore, Charles has always been John's best friend, even the only friend. Charles has contributed a lot to John's success.

The second personality that appears is William, which is the personality condensed by John's desire for success and fame. It is also John's inner definition of career, hero, and success, and it is also the life born of John's inner negative emotions. Therefore, William is brutal, brutal, domineering, strong, greedy, calm, decisive, cunning... It can be said that he has accurately grasped all the thoughts in John's heart and firmly controlled John's every move.

The emergence of William is based on the background of the times and the social environment. In the turbulent historical conditions, John, as a mathematician, has always been depressed. He published game theory, but he has no way to truly become famous in the world. He longs for Become a hero with the ability to change the direction of the war, so he became a secret spy who deciphered the Soviet code.

The last personality to appear is the little girl Marcie. In fact, she is the self-projection of John's inner self-first of all, a girl who has no ability to resist the violence and cruelty of the outside world. He is just a helpless mathematician. She is just like a girl at home; secondly, Marcy has a miserable life experience, is lonely and helpless, and is very pitiful, longing for the care and love of others. Known as a genius out of the field of mathematics, John is such a simple and fragile child, always looking for a harbor for his soul, but he has to wander around.

Charles represents John's inferiority complex and self-confidence, William represents John's fear and strength, and Marcie represents John's fragility and loneliness... These three fictional characters are constantly entangled with John's ego, so that John gradually loses his sense of self. self in society. Rationality and reality principles are drifting away from the schizophrenic John. The spurs of these three characters make John almost crazily plunged into the study of semiotics. John’s achievements are closely related to these three characters, but in these achievements Behind the scenes, John gradually lost himself, and finally broke out completely.

In the process of watching the movie, the audience can't tell which are the real characters. The blinded eyes make the illusion completely out of control, as if every audience has also entered John's world, gradually lost in the blur between illusion and reality in the zone.

Three fictional characters allude to John's confusion and helplessness, which also makes Alicia's existence crucial-and then leads to the core theme of the film: true trust can make mental illness no longer terrible, and love builds a The bridge is the key to get out of the predicament.

It was Alicia who guided John out of the predicament step by step. She made Nash realize that in the midst of nothingness and illusions, at least their love is real and their heartbeats are real. A tinder brought reason back to Nash's consciousness, trust and love built a bridge between John's unconsciousness and reason, and finally became an opportunity for John to recover. The warmth that Alicia brought to John allowed him to overcome himself and complete his breakthrough.

This echoes the three fictional characters and completes the story - even Hugo spares little ink on the friendship to incredible effect. The two partners in the laboratory, Binder, Saul and the rival Martin, the story begins with the encounter between John and them, and ends with the acquaintance of John and Martin, which further ferments the brewing of emotions, and finally explains the core idea of ​​the whole movie : Trust and care, this is the only key and the best medicine.

In many film works, mental illness is always pushed into a corner, linked with abnormality, madness, and loss of control, but in "A Beautiful Mind", it is just a disease, the simplest disease, which can exhaust life disease. Perhaps, this is the beautiful mind described by Hugo Lancaster.

As a screenwriter, Hugo is using his pen to change the world. And this time, he did it. "

The "New Yorker" review showed a very different perspective, a lengthy analysis of the film's script, and obviously full of praise for Hugo's work.

Both the "New York Times" and the "Washington Post" expressed their approval of the "New Yorker" point of view. The former even believed that Hugo gave the whole script an amazing spark and energy, even if it was regarded as an original script. any problem. And this work is very hopeful to bring Hugo his second screenwriting award. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest affirmations of Hugo.

After "The Sixth Sense", "A Beautiful Mind", which debuted at the end of the year, almost captured the hearts of film critics without any suspense. This is a result that everyone expected, an unwilling result.

Different from "The Truman Show" and "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", "A Beautiful Mind" can be said to be the work that most conforms to the aesthetic point of view of the academic school. What's more, Hugo has returned to the plot themes he is most familiar with and is good at. It has become a quality guarantee, which makes the film favored by countless film critics before it is released, thinking that Hugo will dedicate another masterpiece.

As for how high this masterpiece can reach, and whether it can regain the glory of "Death Row Walking" or even "Schindler's List", it still depends on the quality of the finished product.

However, due to the rise of the "anti-Hugo" wave, people have begun to reject the continuous praise of Hugo, and even loathe this practice. This deep malice can be felt when "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit" is released, which also makes Many people think that the wave of praise for "A Beautiful Mind" will be slightly restrained. Even if it is praised, people will have a little reservation, and may even ignore the excellence of this work.

But the result was unexpected. The outstanding quality of the finished product of "A Beautiful Mind" is almost irresistible to film critics. Even if they "hate" Hugo, they can't open their eyes and say good things are bad-not to mention, they are very concerned about Hugo. Hugo's success has long been taken for granted, and he can only sigh with a wry smile: That annoying guy has done it again, and once again impressed everyone with his absolutely outstanding quality.

Therefore, after "A Beautiful Mind" was released in 11 theaters, the first batch of reviews actually ushered in a frenzy of praise again!