Hugo listened to Charlize's words and recalled carefully. This sentence was indeed what he said to Charlize. It was after Allen handed over the project "Beautiful Mind" to him. He had not yet investigated John Nash's life. All his knowledge was only the exclusive interview of "Vanity Fair" and the story plot of the movie in his memory. Therefore, Hugo was relatively relaxed at the time. He watched the videotapes of several biographical movies with Charlize, and the two exchanged many opinions.

"You said at the time that movies are simple, but life is too complicated. It is impossible to include a real and complicated life in a movie. Even the greatest artist cannot, because movies only have two hours, but life has countless 'two hours'."

Charlize's words awakened Hugo's own memories bit by bit. These memories have gradually become blurred because of the busyness in recent weeks and John Nash's ups and downs of life, and even made Hugo doubt: Have you really said this?

"So, you must first determine a main line, and then cut off all the detailed endings that are not related to the main line, or weaken them, or concentrate them on the main line, so that the adaptation of the script may be easier."

After saying that, Charlize himself looked at Hugo without confidence. Charlize was not sure whether his statement was feasible, because a person's life is complicated, and the impact of any event in his life may not be able to form his current complete personality; and in a biographical movie, ignoring major events in life makes the story seem missing, and then having an impact on the structure of the entire script.

Charlize seemed to be inconfident.

However, Hugo was once again trapped in his own thinking because of Charlize's words. John Nash's life was indeed magnificent. After he was born in 1928, he lived in a turbulent environment. His achievements were inseparable from the living environment. He was judged as a "madman", so that he did not receive the Nobel Prize in Economics until 1994, which were closely related to the overall social environment.

However, it is absolutely impossible to include all these stories. "Greed" is the most taboo thing in adapting a biography. Hugo is more clear about this than anyone else, but when it is his turn to complete this work, it is still inevitable that he will make the same mistake. If he wants to tell too much, he often doesn't explain anything clearly in the end.

John's life was very complicated. Perhaps everything he experienced would be entangled with each other, but the focus of each main line was different.

If you want to write about the cruelty and bloodiness of real life, then you should write about the strange and long love between John and Alicia as the main line, including the breakup and reunion of the two, including the unruly and unruly of John, including the support and alienation of the two in the pain, all of them are written. The essence of love is truly displayed.

If you want to pay attention to the oppression of independent individuals by mainstream society and the persecution of individualism by totalitarianism, then you should take the process of John's loss of reason, the impact of the details of his surrounding life on him, and his experiences and experiences in Europe as the main line, and truly show the chaos and depression under the background of that era.

However, these are not what Hugo wants to write. From the beginning, he and Allen discussed the script, focusing on the mental patients themselves. Hugo wants to show the struggle and confusion of mental patients, and wants people to have a different understanding of mental illness through John's story, and want people to truly feel John's pain and all mental patients' pain... Then, Hugo should focus on showing the process of John's schizophrenia.

Of course, love life and social environment are inseparable from John's illness. Without these parts, the biography is not a biography. But a successful biography requires grasping a highlight or a main line and showing the screenwriter's core idea.

So, Hugo should write the process of John from the onset of illness to the gradual aggravation and finally to the cure of the disease as the main line, and then hide other important ideas as metaphors in the story. Perhaps, John's prophecies about the Cold War can be integrated into the story as one of the important factors for John's onset of illness; in addition, what is the real reason for John's illness? Or, what is the most needed for mental patients? As John said, "rely on his own reason" to recover from illness, this is obviously unrealistic. Not to mention that this view has not been recognized by the psychological academic community, it is obviously too difficult to write a script.

Hugo always believed that for mental patients, the most important thing is family affection, love and friendship support, and other people’s less special sight. This is a disease, which is no different from other diseases.

When Allen came to Hugo with an exclusive interview with "Vanity Fair", they hoped to show it through this movie: telling people that mentally ill patients are not beasts, they are just ordinary people, they need support and help from others, not just relatives, lovers and friends, but also ordinary people and even strangers around them. Perhaps just a warm smile will make the situation better.

This reminded Hugo of seeing John at Princeton University.

Although game theory has been used almost in all fields of social disciplines, "John Nash" has been mentioned for a long time as a representative scholar of game theory. But in fact, John was very ordinary at Princeton University, and no one even noticed that his existence Hugo did not refer to the kind of superstar-like crowding, but the respect for John.

In universities like Princeton, professors who have achieved academic success are highly respected, from students, colleagues, and scholars. Even professional professors in many departments are highly respected, let alone researchers who have achieved great breakthroughs. However, John, as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, was treated coldly and even ignored.

When Hugo met with John for the first time at Princeton, the two made an appointment in a small courtyard inside the campus. The open occasion made John less restrained. The conversation between the two was stumbled. During this process, Hugo could gradually feel the strange eyes next to him. He knew that those eyes were caused by the commotion caused by him, a "Hollywood star", but Hugo still tried hard to ignore these recessions and focus on John.

Hugo originally thought that in an environment like Princeton University, people did not attach much importance to celebrities. What they valued was academic, achievement, and major. The "Hollywood Halo" had no practical significance to them, and many people even looked down on practitioners in the entertainment industry. But the facts proved that Hugo's idea was wrong.

After Hugo and John's conversation ended, many students surrounded him and surrounded Hugo and John. The scale was at least fifty or sixty, and many even made requests for taking photos. But few people greeted John, as if John was just an old man guarding the door.

This actually made Hugo a little embarrassed, because the person sitting in front of him was the people who changed the economic development of the entire world, but these students ignored John's existence and just asked him for autographs and photos enthusiastically. Hugo even felt a little embarrassed.

Looking back now, Hugo couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He didn't think people needed to worship John, but at least, people should show respect for John. Hugo couldn't help but start thinking: If John could be more tolerant, kinder, more friendly, and less strange eyes at the beginning of his illness, then wouldn't John's condition be so bad?

Just like the situation Hugo experienced himself during the filming of "Deathly Walk", what he needed the least was the media's sarcasm. What he needed was the relaxed environment around him and the support from his friends. It was his relatives and friends who helped Hugo step by step out of the mud. The relaxed atmosphere of the crew of "Deathly Walk" under Steven Spielberg and Tim Robbins' strict control also made an indelible contribution.

So, in John's life, people's indifference is a harm, so who made John spend the simplest years?

It was Alicia, and Hugo could not think of anyone except Alicia. Because when John needed friends the most, Alicia chose to stay. Just as Alicia chose to divorce, Alicia also chose to stay. No one could blame her for her choice, because even if her choice seemed selfish, it was a choice that a normal person would make. This is exactly what Hugo wanted to tell people: mental patients are not monsters, Alicia's stay helped John through the difficulties and eventually recovered.

At this moment, Hugo's thoughts finally became clear. He should tell the story with John's illness as the main line, and tell the love between Alicia and John as the focus, which is in sharp contrast with the cold eyes and repulsion around him. Even if it is somewhat different from the facts, the reason why movies are called art is because movies are completely different from real life.
Chapter completed!