The weather in Wyoming has been terrible lately, with snow falling intermittently from mid-December to a blizzard on Christmas Eve, which has been spreading for nearly a day, and the snow outside the window has already submerged the calves, and the snow-covered world looks like the magnificent Middle-earth of the Lord of the Rings.

Adam, with a plate of simple scrambled eggs and toast, walked up to the second floor with a sturdy step, knocked on the door of the room, and then pushed open the wooden door, which was not thick, and saw the messy quilt at a glance, but Hugo was not inside, but sat quietly in front of the window, tapping at the typewriter.

Outside the window is a white snowfield, faintly visible the green and brown hidden under the thick white snow, the golden sunlight sprinkles down unhindered, making the whole world golden bright, and there is an illusion of being in a fairy tale.

Adam placed the plate lightly on the table and opened his mouth to say something, but the words came to his lips and swallowed anyway, just whispering, "I'll go to the ranch and have a look." Without waiting for Hugo's reply, he turned around and left. When I walked to the door, Hugo's voice came from behind me, "Merry Christmas!" ”

Adam's footsteps stopped, he was silent for a moment, and then replied sullenly, "Merry Christmas." ”

"I put your gifts under the Christmas tree, as well as gifts from the Taylors." Hugo's voice came again, and even if Adam didn't look back, he could feel the smile in Hugo's voice, showing his good mood.

Adam thought for a moment, turned around and walked back again, took out a small rectangular box from his trouser pocket, without any gift wrapping, just a simple box, handed it out, Hugo took it, and then Adam left the room again in silence, this time without any pause.

Hugo looked at Adam's slightly stiff back, showed a shallow smile, and lowered his head to open the box. There was a fountain pen lying inside, this was a very ordinary fountain pen, and even some old, if you looked closely, the brand on the side was even a little worn, which made Hugo can't help but open the fountain pen, look carefully and search, and then the memory in his mind will emerge little by little.

This fountain pen was a school gift from Lena when he was in the first grade, and he completely loved it and used it almost every day, so much so that the sides of the pen wore out. However, after Lena did not say goodbye, Hugo angrily threw away the pen and never found it again.

Unexpectedly, this fountain pen was returned to him again today.

Three days ago, Hugo left Los Angeles and returned to Lanchez. On the one hand, it is to accompany Adam through the annual Christmas, and on the other hand, it is also to be willing to be willing to the noisy environment of Los Angeles and completely quiet down and devote himself to the adaptation of the script.

Although Adam still complained, thinking that Hugo's return disturbed his peaceful life, it could be felt that the atmosphere at home had become relaxed, and Taylor's family often came over because of Hugo's presence, which made Adam's stiff face unable to continue to remain the same.

In fact, Hugo told Adam about Lena before this, and all along, Adam was the one who persuaded Hugo to let go, so when he learned the situation, Adam's mood was obviously lighter. However, Hugo did not expect that Adam would choose such a Christmas gift, which was really a surprise.

Hugo stopped what he was doing, leaned back in his chair, and carefully examined the pen in his hand, those long-ago memories almost blurred even some fragments, but rubbing the marks on the side of the pen, that distant familiarity slowly bloomed in the fingertips.

After thinking about it, Hugo opened the pen, found that there was enough ink in it, took the paper off the typewriter, and began to put pen to paper. Accustomed to using a typewriter, he was a little unaccustomed to suddenly switching to handwriting, which made Hugo pause, rearrange the thoughts in his head, and then began to write again, "John pulled on his coat and walked quickly into the dormitory building......"

The black ink flows slowly on the white paper, there is a kind of poetic romance, different from the solid and square black lead lettering, the black ink has an indescribable smoothness, blooming with a faint luster. It reminded Hugo of the excitement of getting his first fountain pen as a child, and he could sit at his desk almost all afternoon, reluctant to leave—Hugo felt deeply that he must have been a nerd as a child: not Hugo, to be exact, but Lancaster.

Hugo nodded vigorously, affirming his guess, "That's it." ”

On Christmas Day, Los Angeles was sunny, not only was there no snow, not even the cold wind could be felt in the air, on the contrary, you could feel the restless enthusiasm slowly spreading in the air: because the first awards season in the history of Hollywood had quietly arrived.

In the last weekend of 1998, more than a dozen films had their premieres – including the first round – which was unprecedented before, with four of them premiering widely, and the remaining six being all partially screened, making the intention clear that they would be released before the Oscar deadline.

December of this year has become a carnival of art films, which do not have the ability to drive the box office, most of which are limited to art theaters, but their theme, quality, and style determine that these works are expected to achieve excellent results at the major awards ceremonies at the end of the year. However, some films are released before the Golden Globe Awards deadline, some are released before the deadline for the five major union awards, and some films are for the ultimate goal of each year, the Oscars.

These films took over the screens in November and December. For the first time in history, most studios don't have a clear idea, just hastily arranging the screening, and then hoping to bombard the judges before the awards ceremony begins, so that the judges can appreciate the charm of their works, but there is no specific strategy.

Among them, the Miramax Film Company led by the Weinstein brothers has quietly emerged, and they will focus on the work "Shakespeare Love History" at the end of this year.

The film brings together Joseph Fiennes. Fiennes), Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson (Tom) Wilkinson), Judi Dench, Colin Firth and other powerful actors, locked the focus on Will Shakespeare, and artistically processed the story of his creation of "Romeo and Juliet", giving life to one of the greatest and most famous writers in film history.

The Weinstein brothers were also apparently trying to promote the film around the awards show in December, but their keen business sense got them ahead of everyone else. "Shakespeare in Love" was released in the second week of December, coinciding with the Golden Globe deadline.

They staged intensive screenings of the film in Los Angeles, inviting judges from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to go into the theater to watch the film — a rule that was allowed because the judges could only comment on the film after they had seen it.

In the last week of December, the film was screened in 300 theaters for the first time, and at the same time, the Weinstein brothers held all sorts of parties - parties that had nothing to do with the movie, just a year-end party, in which most of Hollywood participated. This is still not against the House rules - because even the Academy cannot prevent its own judges from partying.

But it is in the midst of such ordinary daily life that people in Hollywood circles gradually begin to circulate the opinion that "Shakespeare's Love History" is an excellent work, beyond imagination, even better than "Truman's World".

This statement sounds a bit ridiculous, because "Truman's World" is considered to be the only work that can be compared to "Forrest Gump" in recent years, and in terms of in-depth excavation and realistic criticism of the film, "Truman's World" is even better. Many people believe that "Truman's World" will be a strong contender for the Oscars, and the film's biggest competitor is "Saving Private Ryan" - this work is considered to surpass "Schindler's List" and become Steven's most perfect work to date.

However, now "Shakespeare's love history" is actually better than "Truman's world"? Isn't this a big fallacy?

So, this week, "Shakespeare's Love History" was fully expanded, and many people decided to go into the cinema to see the work, to examine the real material of the work, and to see how much truth those rumors had.

No one noticed, and quietly, "Shakespeare's Love History", which had only been in theaters for three weeks, had become a work that everyone talked about; However, Steven noticed. This time, he thought of Hugo's warning, and an ominous premonition came to his heart. After two weeks of waiting, and after much hesitation, Steven found David Geffen, and the two men had an in-depth conversation for nearly two hours.

On Christmas Day, DreamWorks announced that it was going to hold a New Year's Eve party to welcome the second year of DreamWorks. At the same time, "Saving Private Ryan", which was already close to going offline, announced again that it will have a second round of expansion next week, showing it in 800 theaters.

For a while, there was an undercurrent in Hollywood, but this time, only a very small number of them could smell the anomaly. More people just think it's a normal routine. In the midst of this turmoil, the last week of December came, and a large wave of films premiered, including "Female." Adversary".