Hugo carefully read this interview, an interview with John Nash and his wife Alicia, about the love story of this couple who have endured countless ups and downs.

John and Alicia got married in 1957, but in the short years since, John's schizophrenia has become more and more severe, affecting not only his life, but also the lives of everyone around him. Alicia is determined to stay and take care of John, but life is too difficult, and the repeated illnesses have caused their marriage to fall apart, and Alicia who can't stand John has filed for divorce.

That's the reality. No one can blame Alicia for her choice, only those who have actually spent time with schizophrenia know what a terrible, helpless feeling it is, watching the person she once loved turn into a completely alienated stranger, cruelly hurting himself and everyone around him, the pressure that can destroy almost anyone, even the closest relatives.

The ethics and morality of society always require people to continue to persevere, to ask wives to never abandon their schizophrenic husbands, to ask children to tolerate their parents who are mired in the quagmire and cannot extricate themselves, and to ask siblings to accept unconditionally the destruction of all the good things in life...... This is the right thing to do, no one can deny it, but it is always easier to speak than to act, because the difficulties, pains, struggles, loneliness and bitterness in it are known only to oneself.

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

If the story goes on like this, then there is nothing magical about John's experience, and perhaps John, who has lost the support of his loved ones, will never be able to get out of his schizophrenia. However, after Alicia chose to divorce, she still did not give up on John.

After the divorce, Alicia did not remarry, and she continued to care for John and their only son, relying on her meager income as a computer programmer and the help of relatives and friends. She insisted that John should stay at Princeton, because if a person behaved eccentricly, he would be considered crazy elsewhere, whereas in Princeton, a place where talent was recruited, people would not focus too much on John.

After the two divorced, Alicia took good care of John, and by 1970, John had been in several psychiatric hospitals and his condition gradually stabilized. In fact, there is no 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 may never have been able to regain his senses. Whether it is friendship, love, or family affection, Alicia chose to stay by John's side, and this is thirty years in a blink of an eye, accompanying John through countless ups and downs, witnessing John being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1994, and witnessing John regain his sanity and return to the right track of life again.

Perhaps, this is not love, just support; But perhaps, this is love, because true love is not a mountain alliance and sea vow, not sweet words, not earth-shattering, but just a long stream of "holding the hand of the son and growing old together". Thirty years is almost half of a long life, and they are 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, there is no indication that John and Alicia have any intention of remarrying, maybe marriage is completely unimportant to them, maybe they never think about it, maybe it is not in their plan at all.

After reading the entire interview, Hugo was full of emotion, feeling the fate, ups and downs, and magnificent life of John's life, and also feeling the incomprehensible but enviable acquaintance between John and Alicia. But the question is, why would Alan want Hugo to watch this interview?

What does this interview imply? Is it related to me? Or am I missing something? Hugo looked at Alan with a question mark on his face, as if he had no idea what was going on.

Alan was sitting next to him just now, and he had been waiting for Hugo to finish the whole article, and now seeing Hugo's puzzled expression, he couldn't help but outline the corners of his mouth, and his eyes showed a smug look, "Can you be confused and can't figure out the situation, is this my success?" ”

Hugo couldn't help but have black lines on his head, "Then isn't this success too easy?" "He's not a comic book protagonist with the ability to see through people's hearts, so how can he grasp all the situations. Allen's inexplicable genius, Hugo has no clue at all.

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

Hugo shrugged, "Of course, it's wonderful. "A lot of times, real life is far more exciting than movies. Who would have thought that Martin Luther King Jr. would have such a legendary reputation, who would have thought that Elvis Presley would be so hugely successful, and who would have thought that John Lennon would leave the world in such a tragic and rejective way. "It's hard for me to imagine John's life going through all these ups and downs."

Alan was amused by Hugo's colorful expression, "Believe me, your life is also incomparably wonderful, and it is jaw-dropping." From the Golden Raspberry to the Oscars? It's not a distance that everyone can cover. "At present, in the entire film history, Hugo is the only one who has gone through. The corners of Hugo's mouth drew a light smile, but he fell into deep thought because of Allen's words, "However, John Nash's life is incomparable, don't you have any special feelings?" ”

Hugo remembered the stage of the Golden Raspberry Award, and the distant memories were still as vivid as if they happened yesterday. However, Allen's voice made Hugo raise his head, retract his gaze, and frown slightly, "What do you mean?" Then Hugo saw a sincere emotion in Alan's eyes, reflecting an incomparably far-reaching meaning under the sparkling sunlight on the sea, which made Hugo's brain suddenly flash a thought, "You mean, adapting the script?" ”

Alan smiled satisfactorily and nodded slightly, "Yes, that's it!" Sure enough, it was Hugo, and his intuition was 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 a hundred flowers, from comics to stage plays, almost all literary or artistic media became the object of Hollywood adaptation - two decades later, some people even adapted the famous painting "Mona Lisa's smile" into a series.

Among these adaptations, biographies are undoubtedly the most remarkable, from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin D. Roosevelt, from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock, from Wolfgang Mozart to Jane Austen, from Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr...... And so on, these characters who have left their names in the long river of history have become the adaptation objects of Hollywood movie scripts, or praise or disparagement, praise or criticism appear in people's sight, and even become a special movie theme.

At the Oscars, biographies have always been their favorites, from best picture to best actor and actress, from best adapted screenplay to best director, almost every field has made the academy's old pedants fanatical, and even directly born a genre of acting - biographical performance, people regard those actors who can interpret historical figures as profound and wonderful.

So much so that some people joked that if they wanted to win the Oscars, they would appear in character biographies. Although this is just a joke, it can be seen that the traditional academic school has a preference for biography.

Even Hugo himself has starred in two biographies, "Schindler's List" and "Death Row Walk", both of which also won Hugo the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor respectively, and 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, and more importantly, John suffers from schizophrenia, which is almost the most powerful challenge for actors, and if the actors are selected well, it is definitely a project that can completely change the entire market. So, adapting it into a movie, it's almost an undoubted option.

Historically, John Nash's story has been brought to the big screen, but Hugo remembers that it was in 2001, and the film called "A Beautiful Mind" directed by Ron Howard almost pushed the biographical film to its peak, and it was also the last peak of biographical cinema in the 21st century. Since then, although biographies have continued to emerge, no work has been truly recognized by the entire market

When "A Beautiful Mind" was released in 2001, it was produced by Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly. Connelly), Ed Harris and others, and the script was written by Aziva Gosman. After receiving eight Oscar nominations, he won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Hugo was so impressed by the "Beautiful Mind" that Russell gave the best performance of his career in that work - Hugo's personal opinion was that the performance in it was even better than Russell's "Gladiator".

It's just that it's still 1998, three years earlier than the year "A Beautiful Mind" should have appeared, is that really good?