The timing of the movie's appearance is very important, and this has been proven by history.

For example, the "male and female thief" appeared at the right time and changed the film industry. But if it appeared a few years in advance, the work would be submerged in the long river of history and could not even be stimulated; for example, the "Titanic", perhaps a few years in advance, it would become a dud like the "Future Water World"; for example, the "Forrest Gump" was released in 2014, and it would not arouse people's interest at all. It can only be regarded as a stable and outstanding work.

Movies include commercial popcorn movies. Success requires a certain opportunity, including the influence of social culture, economic environment, ideology, industrial development and other aspects. The most intuitive thing is the "Seven Deadly Sins". The release period is the most sensitive moment, which then triggered people's dissatisfaction with the Uncrowned King, which made the movie create a miracle. If it were replaced at any other time, it would be almost impossible for this movie to create such a myth.

Of course, there are also some movies that are great works in any era, such as "Godfather", which is a masterpiece that the times cannot influence. But it is undeniable that even "Godfather" is placed in different eras, due to the different social backgrounds of the entire society, its influence will inevitably produce different results.

The same goes for biographical movies.

In fact, the true peak of biographical films was in the 1990s, and it reached its final glory in 2004. The works such as "Ray", "The Flyer", "The Hotel.rwanda", "Finding.neverland", "Motor Diary (dia Os.de.touching Tocicleta), "Deep Sea Sleeping (mar.adentro)" and other works exploded in full swing, and the quality was excellent. Three of the five Oscar-best film nominations were biographical films.

After that, biographical movies still emerged one after another, "The Selma Parade", "American Sniper (Ame Can.sniper), "Imitation Game (the.i Fans.game), "The Wolf of Wall Street (the.wolf.of.wall.street), "Lincoln", "Escape from Tehran", "The King's Speech", "Milke (the Milk)" and so on, and so on.

From a quantitative perspective, biographical movies only ushered in a real explosion after the awards season matured. In order to cater to the tastes of the judges of the college, to avoid the weakness of the original script, and to the economic effect of the Xiaojinren, there are often more biographical movies that appear in one year than in the 1980s and 1990s and 3 years.

But in fact, the quality of biographical films began to decline rapidly in 2004, and all directors were unable to get out of the framework that Lang Howard injected into biographical films. Even though some biographical films were still shortlisted for the Oscars’ best film nominations and even won the award in the end, the overall quality was not convincing. It could only make people see the decline and conservatism of biographical films, and at the same time it also made people sigh at the stiffness and aging of the Oscar Academy.

After entering the second decade of the 21st century, Oscars' attention remains global, but its overall momentum has continued to decline, no matter how many years have passed.

As of 2010, the last biographical film that won the Oscar for Best Picture but won a lot of applause was "Beautiful Heart". This work became the biggest winner at the 74th Academy Awards Ceremony.

The reason why "Beautiful Mind" is called the final peak is the timing of history. On the one hand, the concept of awards season has been gradually completed, which makes the Oscar truly a game. Biography movies have begun to enter a rigid routine mode and lose their original meaning; on the other hand, the production of biographical movies has reached its peak at this time, including rhythm control, framework setting, character shaping, emotional integration, and even lens operation, all of which are becoming perfect. Under all this background, "Beautiful Mind" emerged and achieved the final glory.

As a director, Lang Howard is considered to be one of the best directors in film history who is good at shooting biographical movies. Even if "one" is removed, many people will nod their heads to agree. Among Lang's works, "Rh", "Fox Dialogue with Nixon", "Cinderella.man", "Apollo 13" and other well-received works are all biographical movies. Of course, we cannot forget to create the "beautiful soul" that created Lang's career peak.

Lang's ability to grasp biographical movies was perfectly integrated in the "beautiful mind". Except for the last third, the entire film had no problem in terms of directorial skills. This also made it impossible for subsequent biographical movie directors to get out of Lang's shadow. The most famous one was Tom Hooper, the director of "The King's Speech". His steady shooting technique was almost innovating. In the end, he defeated the stunning wizard David Finch and won the Oscar for Best Director Xiao Jinman, becoming one of the biggest jokes people later mocked the Oscars.

It can be said that the release of "Beautiful Mind" in 2001 was one of the important reasons for the great success of this work. But now, in 1998 alone, Allen put the idea of ​​adapting the script in front of Hugo. Is this a good or a bad thing?

In fact, the "female devil" also advanced from 2003 to 1998. So it should not be too much of an accident that the "beautiful soul" was advanced. The preparations for many film projects are constantly flowing, and it is not surprising that the longest lasted for ten years. "Schindler's list" took nearly ten years from the establishment of the project to the investment in filming. Therefore, the existence of the little butterfly Hugo, a small butterfly, may lead to the advancement or delay of a certain film project.

But the question is, can the "Female Devil" be released next month succeed? So what about the "Beautiful Mind"? Now Lang Howard's grasp of biographical movies has not yet reached the point of perfection, and Russell Crow's acting skills have not reached the level of returning to nature. Jennifer Connery is still looking for his own performance style and struggling among a number of low-cost independent movies... Can the "Beautiful Mind" filmed in this way really succeed?

The thoughts flashed through his mind, and Hugo looked up at Allen in front of him, "Why did you think of adapting this theme into a script? I think you don't know much about the film industry, is it the advice given to you by others?"

Hugo's words were already very tactful. In fact, Allen knew nothing about movies at all. The investments in Hollywood were entirely because he saw Hugo accurately and achieved profits. Should he say he was lucky or had a correct vision? But today, Allen took the magazine "Vanity Fair" and told Hugo that he thought it was a good idea to adapt John Nash's life into a movie. This is indeed very abnormal.

Allen smiled slightly, "Thank you for your mercy." He immediately heard something in Hugo's words, "Actually, I said this is my own idea, do you believe it?" Hugo showed a look of surprise, then leaned forward slightly, but he became really interested in this matter.

Regarding Hugo's obvious expression of not believing in himself, Allen shook his head helplessly, "I accidentally read this magazine. When I saw this interview, you were the first person who came out of my mind." Hugo was full of question marks, obviously unable to associate himself with a mathematician like John Nash. He is a literary department and a complete liberal arts student. God knows that what he is most not good at is numbers... and there is direction.

"At first I thought it was because of Nash's schizophrenia that reminded me of the pain you have been suffering in the past two years." Allen's words raised Hugo's eyebrows. Although Hugo had never had any problems after the "Death-Battle Walk" filming, friends who really knew Hugo knew that Hugo was still suffering, especially during the shooting of "Trumen's World", Hugo's condition could definitely be described as bad. "But later I read this article carefully again, and I found that it was not, because the image of John Nash appeared in my mind. I could see the scene of you studying game theory carefully, and you were at a loss because of the pain of schizophrenia. At the same time, you could also see the scene of you struggling between normal and madness..."

Hugo smiled softly, "Allen, are you sure it's not because of my image in your mind or a psychopath?"

"Hugo, are you suggesting that John Nash is crazy?" A counterattack from Allen immediately made Hugo look panicked, and raised his hands to express surrender, which made Allen's mouth twitch gently, "You know what I mean, I think you can really interpret the role of Nash. I think you can tell everyone through your own performance how bad it is to suffer from schizophrenia, but we should not treat them as a flood. I think this story is tailor-made for you."

Hugo was silent because of Allen's words. He did not expect that Allen was really triggered and set a very heavy but profound tone for John Nash's story: mental illness.

In the 1990s, psychology has developed and matured, but people's understanding of psychology is still very limited. They simply and roughly regard patients with mental illness as "psychopaths". Just like when Hugo was filming "Death-infernal Affairs", all reporters couldn't wait to declare "Hugo was crazy".

In fact, no one knows the correct definition of mental illness. They just treat them as wild animals, and even summarize their families into the ranks of madmen, and are afraid to avoid them. But for those mentally ill patients, the least they need is alien vision. They are just sick, just like the body will catch a cold, fever and pain, and the mind and brain will also get sick. They are no different from ordinary patients.

If there is a movie like this that can really tell people what mental illness is, how terrible the pain and struggles in the illness are, and how people should treat mental illness... Then this is definitely of great significance to society. John Nash is undoubtedly one of the most suitable choices; similarly, Hugo is also one of the most suitable candidates to take on this script.
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