Chapter 1348: Many choices
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Although Hugo did not nod and agreed to take the work, Rick knew that he had nodded before seeing the script, and Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were not enough.
However, this is the second time after "Mission Impossible", Hugo expressed a positive response to the big investment in commercial films, which was the first step to success for Rick. Rick knew that Hugo still adopted his own opinion, which is a good thing. Therefore, Rick is also secretly praying in his heart that this project currently named "End of the World" is better worthy of Kevin's effort to plan.
Although Sergio said that Roland, Dean and Hugo can be arranged to meet, but in Rick’s view, they are not enough. Hugo does not need to come out in person. He will talk about it first, if necessary. , It’s not too late to arrange for them to meet after Hugo has reviewed the script.
After sending Rick away, Hugo suddenly remembered that "Independence Day" can be called Will Smith's summit work. The "Jedi Men" in 1995 allowed Will to successfully advance from a small screen to a large screen. The screen, the subsequent "Independence Day" and "Men in Black" made him the first real black box office star, and then started his ten-year career as a top box office star, known as "The Emperor", and Dan Ze El-Washington supported the black Hollywood actors together.
Steven and Hugo talked about the "Men in Black" project twice. Later, the script was directly rewritten. There has been no news. The "Independence Day" project has changed its trajectory. From the beginning, Hugo was locked in to become the male protagonist-of course, the premise is that Rick's "end of the world" and Hugo's "Independence Day" are the same project.
In fact, "Independence Day" selected a black man like Will as the protagonist, and there is no so-called political correctness, because the foothold of this film is to fight against aliens-to be more precise, it is Americans against aliens. people. Hugo remembered that at the beginning of the preparation of this project, the male protagonist was also white, but before an official actor was selected, Will came into sight, so they chose the fast-rising Will.
However, as a black actor, Will played the leading role in the "Independence Day", which still has a huge appeal to black audiences. Especially the great cause of black and white joint efforts to save the earth has made American audiences hooked. "Independence Day" provided the weight to create box office success-although it is not certain how much weight is the black factor.
If Hugo were to star in "Independence Day", Hugo’s strong appeal would be against Will’s appeal to save the planet as a black person. I don’t know what changes will happen to the box office performance on "Independence Day", whether it will rise or not. Fell.
What is even more curious is that if Will fails to play "Independence Day", will his future achievements have any impact? Before Hugo replaced Tom Hanks in "Night Sleep in Seattle" and replaced Keanu Reeves in "Life and Death". Finally, the wheel of history returned to the track in another way. Both Tom and Keanu Still achieved great success. But Will is different. It is not so easy for black actors to break into the sky in Hollywood.
But these are just conjectures. Now everything hasn't been determined. First, wait until Rick goes to meet with Roland.
Hugo originally thought that he would not pick up new works until at least this year's Oscars ended, but now it seems that Hollywood has opportunities almost every day, and things often go beyond plans. But thinking about it carefully, Hugo also took a rest for more than three months this time. Originally, I wanted to use this time to think about the third album of Glory To Death. Unfortunately, the progress is still not big, and the music bottleneck is still stuck. If there are suitable works, it is not impossible to work again.
Thinking of this, Hugo looked down at the big box left by Rick on the ground, let out a long sigh, hesitated, sat up cross-legged, and started turning around in the box casually.
Since Hugo is at home alone today, he is much more casual when he flips through the script. He doesn't need to do the flipping and reading the script in front of other people. He still has an impression of most of the scripts, so he knows these works. The pros and cons can be judged directly.
As Rick said, in fact, the scripts handed over to Hugo are various, almost all themes and production scales, and almost all characters are sent to Hugo, although this can be seen from the current Hollywood Hugo’s trust and affirmation, at least after Hugo’s continuous filming of murderers such as "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Death Row", they still affirmed Hugo's diversity and absolute ability, but it still made Yu Guo was a little dumbfounded.
Warner Bros’s "Four Brothers of Lofty Emotion" script is in it. Obviously, it is hoped that Hugo can cooperate with Barry Levinson again, and add the cast of Kevin Bacon and Robert De Niro. The intention to cooperate is very firm.
In fact, this work is not well-known, but Hugo knows it, of course not because the actor is Brad Pitt, but because the work is quite deep in the discussion of morals and society, and the plot is similar to " The revenge story of the Count of Monte Cristo, but the style is closer to the combination of the "seven deadly sins" and the "Yihai Heroic Wind"-a reflection of the social darkness, intolerance of the law, and a discussion of the law's tolerance.
Objectively speaking, the script of the "Four Brothers of Pride and Emotion" is excellent, and the story is deep enough, even more profound than the "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Yihai Xiongfeng", and the depth of excavation is more thought-provoking. But it is a pity that Barry’s technique lacks novelty, and the lack of detailed outlines has caused the quality of the finished product to be greatly reduced, and many highlights in the plot have been missed. At the same time, it has directly led to the limitation of the actor’s play space. It is a pity.
Although I don't want to admit it, the fact is that Barry's inspiration and touch are gradually disappearing after "Rain Man".
However, the reason why Hugo put the script in the part that he didn’t want to take over was not because of Barry, but because the theme of "Four Brothers of Pride" was similar to "Seven Deadly Sins," and it was heavier, and the actor was a lawyer. Hugo does not want to take over such works for a short time.
In addition, Warner Bros. actually handed over the draft of the "Batman and Robin" script. It was said that it was a draft, but it was actually just a page of the plot summary. The script was not published at all, which made Hugo find it very interesting.
"Batman and Robin" proposed an ultra-high cost of 125 million U.S. dollars in the draft stage. Obviously, it wanted to build a box office giant. Unfortunately, it was counterproductive and this work became a Batman series. The worst of them was not only a bad word of mouth and a bad reputation, it almost became a record of shame, but it was also a disaster at the box office. Although the book cost did not lose money, it actually made Warner Bros. almost fainted at a loss. As a result, Warner Bros. put the Batman series on the shelf and waited until Christopher Nolan turned out ten years later to make Batman bloom again.
However, Warner Bros. handed the "Batman and Robin" script to Hugo. In fact, this is also a signal. Since the "007" series, "Mission Impossible" and Hugo had "scandals", now Hollywood is also going Step by step to connect Hugo with superheroes, including this time on "Independence Day", they tried to borrow Hugo's good image to detonate more heavyweight bombs.
After the 21st century, after the "Spider-Man" series became a magic weapon, the works of Marvel and these two comic book giants became the most powerful box office cash cows in the next decade. I don’t know whether the emergence of Hugo will make this history. Happened ahead of time?
Maybe Hugo starred in "Batman and Robin" to know the result. Unfortunately, Hugo has no plans for this, at least not yet.
In addition, Warner Bros.’s scripts are lacklustre. There are romantic comedies such as "Tin Cup (.cup, action movies such as "The Highest Crisis (., and "The Martians play with the earth (mars). .) "Thriller comedies such as Sword Go Pianfeng, etc., the subject matter is very diverse, but Hugo is not very interested.
Columbia Pictures don’t know if it’s a bit tired or bored with Hugo’s pickiness. They submitted eight scripts, but the quality is very average, and there is even a "double-sided mirror (the...has... Such a work with no highlights, except for the great Barbra Streisand, directed and acted by himself This work is useless at all, and the role is not suitable for Hugo-let Hugo talk to Barbra Love in love? This age gap cannot be justified.
However, Columbia Pictures still has a heavyweight work. It can be seen that they still attach importance to Hugo. In addition to quantity, quality has not completely lost the standard.
"Mr. Sweetheart" can definitely be called a famous name. This work can be said to be one of the representatives of the super high quality of film works in the 1990s. Like "Forrest Gump", this work has a good harvest at the box office and awards. This kind of situation is not common after entering the 21st century-Oscar seems to be allergic to commercial films, and works that are too outstanding at the box office are difficult to achieve outstanding results in the eyes of academic veterans.
"Mr. Sweetheart" not only continued Tom Cruise's leaps and bounds in the box office, and made him the first in film history with five consecutive box offices of over 100 million yuan-now it should be the second in film history, but also let him Tom received his second Oscar nomination. Although he did not win the award in the end, "Mr. Sweetheart" has become another masterpiece recognized by the academy for Tom, who has made great achievements in commercial films.
But apart from "Mr. Sweetheart", it seems that there are works that can enter the eyes of Hugo. I just don't know if the quality of the work has declined, or Hugo's vision has become more critical.
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Although Hugo did not nod and agreed to take the work, Rick knew that he had nodded before seeing the script, and Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were not enough.
However, this is the second time after "Mission Impossible", Hugo expressed a positive response to the big investment in commercial films, which was the first step to success for Rick. Rick knew that Hugo still adopted his own opinion, which is a good thing. Therefore, Rick is also secretly praying in his heart that this project currently named "End of the World" is better worthy of Kevin's effort to plan.
Although Sergio said that Roland, Dean and Hugo can be arranged to meet, but in Rick’s view, they are not enough. Hugo does not need to come out in person. He will talk about it first, if necessary. , It’s not too late to arrange for them to meet after Hugo has reviewed the script.
After sending Rick away, Hugo suddenly remembered that "Independence Day" can be called Will Smith's summit work. The "Jedi Men" in 1995 allowed Will to successfully advance from a small screen to a large screen. The screen, the subsequent "Independence Day" and "Men in Black" made him the first real black box office star, and then started his ten-year career as a top box office star, known as "The Emperor", and Dan Ze El-Washington supported the black Hollywood actors together.
Steven and Hugo talked about the "Men in Black" project twice. Later, the script was directly rewritten. There has been no news. The "Independence Day" project has changed its trajectory. From the beginning, Hugo was locked in to become the male protagonist-of course, the premise is that Rick's "end of the world" and Hugo's "Independence Day" are the same project.
In fact, "Independence Day" selected a black man like Will as the protagonist, and there is no so-called political correctness, because the foothold of this film is to fight against aliens-to be more precise, it is Americans against aliens. people. Hugo remembered that at the beginning of the preparation of this project, the male protagonist was also white, but before an official actor was selected, Will came into sight, so they chose the fast-rising Will.
However, as a black actor, Will played the leading role in the "Independence Day", which still has a huge appeal to black audiences. Especially the great cause of black and white joint efforts to save the earth has made American audiences hooked. "Independence Day" provided the weight to create box office success-although it is not certain how much weight is the black factor.
If Hugo were to star in "Independence Day", Hugo’s strong appeal would be against Will’s appeal to save the planet as a black person. I don’t know what changes will happen to the box office performance on "Independence Day", whether it will rise or not. Fell.
What is even more curious is that if Will fails to play "Independence Day", will his future achievements have any impact? Before Hugo replaced Tom Hanks in "Night Sleep in Seattle" and replaced Keanu Reeves in "Life and Death". Finally, the wheel of history returned to the track in another way. Both Tom and Keanu Still achieved great success. But Will is different. It is not so easy for black actors to break into the sky in Hollywood.
But these are just conjectures. Now everything hasn't been determined. First, wait until Rick goes to meet with Roland.
Hugo originally thought that he would not pick up new works until at least this year's Oscars ended, but now it seems that Hollywood has opportunities almost every day, and things often go beyond plans. But thinking about it carefully, Hugo also took a rest for more than three months this time. Originally, I wanted to use this time to think about the third album of Glory To Death. Unfortunately, the progress is still not big, and the music bottleneck is still stuck. If there are suitable works, it is not impossible to work again.
Thinking of this, Hugo looked down at the big box left by Rick on the ground, let out a long sigh, hesitated, sat up cross-legged, and started turning around in the box casually.
Since Hugo is at home alone today, he is much more casual when he flips through the script. He doesn't need to do the flipping and reading the script in front of other people. He still has an impression of most of the scripts, so he knows these works. The pros and cons can be judged directly.
As Rick said, in fact, the scripts handed over to Hugo are various, almost all themes and production scales, and almost all characters are sent to Hugo, although this can be seen from the current Hollywood Hugo’s trust and affirmation, at least after Hugo’s continuous filming of murderers such as "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Death Row", they still affirmed Hugo's diversity and absolute ability, but it still made Yu Guo was a little dumbfounded.
Warner Bros’s "Four Brothers of Lofty Emotion" script is in it. Obviously, it is hoped that Hugo can cooperate with Barry Levinson again, and add the cast of Kevin Bacon and Robert De Niro. The intention to cooperate is very firm.
In fact, this work is not well-known, but Hugo knows it, of course not because the actor is Brad Pitt, but because the work is quite deep in the discussion of morals and society, and the plot is similar to " The revenge story of the Count of Monte Cristo, but the style is closer to the combination of the "seven deadly sins" and the "Yihai Heroic Wind"-a reflection of the social darkness, intolerance of the law, and a discussion of the law's tolerance.
Objectively speaking, the script of the "Four Brothers of Pride and Emotion" is excellent, and the story is deep enough, even more profound than the "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Yihai Xiongfeng", and the depth of excavation is more thought-provoking. But it is a pity that Barry’s technique lacks novelty, and the lack of detailed outlines has caused the quality of the finished product to be greatly reduced, and many highlights in the plot have been missed. At the same time, it has directly led to the limitation of the actor’s play space. It is a pity.
Although I don't want to admit it, the fact is that Barry's inspiration and touch are gradually disappearing after "Rain Man".
However, the reason why Hugo put the script in the part that he didn’t want to take over was not because of Barry, but because the theme of "Four Brothers of Pride" was similar to "Seven Deadly Sins," and it was heavier, and the actor was a lawyer. Hugo does not want to take over such works for a short time.
In addition, Warner Bros. actually handed over the draft of the "Batman and Robin" script. It was said that it was a draft, but it was actually just a page of the plot summary. The script was not published at all, which made Hugo find it very interesting.
"Batman and Robin" proposed an ultra-high cost of 125 million U.S. dollars in the draft stage. Obviously, it wanted to build a box office giant. Unfortunately, it was counterproductive and this work became a Batman series. The worst of them was not only a bad word of mouth and a bad reputation, it almost became a record of shame, but it was also a disaster at the box office. Although the book cost did not lose money, it actually made Warner Bros. almost fainted at a loss. As a result, Warner Bros. put the Batman series on the shelf and waited until Christopher Nolan turned out ten years later to make Batman bloom again.
However, Warner Bros. handed the "Batman and Robin" script to Hugo. In fact, this is also a signal. Since the "007" series, "Mission Impossible" and Hugo had "scandals", now Hollywood is also going Step by step to connect Hugo with superheroes, including this time on "Independence Day", they tried to borrow Hugo's good image to detonate more heavyweight bombs.
After the 21st century, after the "Spider-Man" series became a magic weapon, the works of Marvel and these two comic book giants became the most powerful box office cash cows in the next decade. I don’t know whether the emergence of Hugo will make this history. Happened ahead of time?
Maybe Hugo starred in "Batman and Robin" to know the result. Unfortunately, Hugo has no plans for this, at least not yet.
In addition, Warner Bros.’s scripts are lacklustre. There are romantic comedies such as "Tin Cup (.cup, action movies such as "The Highest Crisis (., and "The Martians play with the earth (mars). .) "Thriller comedies such as Sword Go Pianfeng, etc., the subject matter is very diverse, but Hugo is not very interested.
Columbia Pictures don’t know if it’s a bit tired or bored with Hugo’s pickiness. They submitted eight scripts, but the quality is very average, and there is even a "double-sided mirror (the...has... Such a work with no highlights, except for the great Barbra Streisand, directed and acted by himself This work is useless at all, and the role is not suitable for Hugo-let Hugo talk to Barbra Love in love? This age gap cannot be justified.
However, Columbia Pictures still has a heavyweight work. It can be seen that they still attach importance to Hugo. In addition to quantity, quality has not completely lost the standard.
"Mr. Sweetheart" can definitely be called a famous name. This work can be said to be one of the representatives of the super high quality of film works in the 1990s. Like "Forrest Gump", this work has a good harvest at the box office and awards. This kind of situation is not common after entering the 21st century-Oscar seems to be allergic to commercial films, and works that are too outstanding at the box office are difficult to achieve outstanding results in the eyes of academic veterans.
"Mr. Sweetheart" not only continued Tom Cruise's leaps and bounds in the box office, and made him the first in film history with five consecutive box offices of over 100 million yuan-now it should be the second in film history, but also let him Tom received his second Oscar nomination. Although he did not win the award in the end, "Mr. Sweetheart" has become another masterpiece recognized by the academy for Tom, who has made great achievements in commercial films.
But apart from "Mr. Sweetheart", it seems that there are works that can enter the eyes of Hugo. I just don't know if the quality of the work has declined, or Hugo's vision has become more critical.
Although Hugo did not nod and agreed to take the work, Rick knew that he had nodded before seeing the script, and Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were not enough.However, this is the second time after "Mission Impossible", Hugo expressed a positive response to the big investment in commercial films, which was the first step to success for Rick. Rick knew that Hugo still adopted his own opinion, which is a good thing. Therefore, Rick is also secretly praying in his heart that this project currently named "End of the World" is better worthy of Kevin's effort to plan.Although Sergio said that Roland, Dean and Hugo can be arranged to meet, but in Rick's view, they are not enough. Hugo does not need to come out in person. He will talk about it first, if necessary. , It's not too late to arrange for them to meet after Hugo has reviewed the script.After sending Rick away, Hugo suddenly remembered that "Independence Day" can be called Will Smith's summit work. The "Jedi Men" in 1995 allowed Will to successfully advance from a small screen to a large screen. The screen, the subsequent "Independence Day" and "Men in Black" made him the first real black box office star, and then started his ten-year career as a top box office star, known as "The Emperor", and Dan Ze El-Washington supported the black Hollywood actors together.Steven and Hugo talked about the "Men in Black" project twice. Later, the script was directly rewritten. There has been no news. The "Independence Day" project has changed its trajectory. From the beginning, Hugo was locked in to become the male protagonist-of course, the premise is that Rick's "end of the world" and Hugo's "Independence Day" are the same project.In fact, "Independence Day" selected a black man like Will as the protagonist, and there is no so-called political correctness, because the foothold of this film is to fight against aliens-to be more precise, it is Americans against aliens. people. Hugo remembered that at the beginning of the preparation of this project, the male protagonist was also white, but before an official actor was selected, Will came into sight, so they chose the fast-rising Will.However, as a black actor, Will played the leading role in the "Independence Day", which still has a huge appeal to black audiences. Especially the great cause of black and white joint efforts to save the earth has made American audiences hooked. "Independence Day" provided the weight to create box office success-although it is not certain how much weight is the black factor.If Hugo were to star in "Independence Day", Hugo's strong appeal would be against Will's appeal to save the planet as a black person. I don't know what changes will happen to the box office performance on "Independence Day", whether it will rise or not. Fell.What is even more curious is that if Will fails to play "Independence Day", will his future achievements have any impact? Before Hugo replaced Tom Hanks in "Night Sleep in Seattle" and replaced Keanu Reeves in "Life and Death". Finally, the wheel of history returned to the track in another way. Both Tom and Keanu Still achieved great success. But Will is different. It is not so easy for black actors to break into the sky in Hollywood.But these are just conjectures. Now everything hasn't been determined. First, wait until Rick goes to meet with Roland.Hugo originally thought that he would not pick up new works until at least this year's Oscars ended, but now it seems that Hollywood has opportunities almost every day, and things often go beyond plans. But thinking about it carefully, Hugo also took a rest for more than three months this time. Originally, I wanted to use this time to think about the third album of Glory To Death. Unfortunately, the progress is still not big, and the music bottleneck is still stuck. If there are suitable works, it is not impossible to work again.Thinking of this, Hugo looked down at the big box left by Rick on the ground, let out a long sigh, hesitated, sat up cross-legged, and started turning around in the box casually.Since Hugo is at home alone today, he is much more casual when he flips through the script. He doesn't need to do the flipping and reading the script in front of other people. He still has an impression of most of the scripts, so he knows these works. The pros and cons can be judged directly.As Rick said, in fact, the scripts handed over to Hugo are various, almost all themes and production scales, and almost all characters are sent to Hugo, although this can be seen from the current Hollywood Hugo's trust and affirmation, at least after Hugo's continuous filming of murderers such as "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Death Row", they still affirmed Hugo's diversity and absolute ability, but it still made Yu Guo was a little dumbfounded.Warner Bros's "Four Brothers of Lofty Emotion" script is in it. Obviously, it is hoped that Hugo can cooperate with Barry Levinson again, and add the cast of Kevin Bacon and Robert De Niro. The intention to cooperate is very firm.In fact, this work is not well-known, but Hugo knows it, of course not because the actor is Brad Pitt, but because the work is quite deep in the discussion of morals and society, and the plot is similar to " The revenge story of the Count of Monte Cristo, but the style is closer to the combination of the "seven deadly sins" and the "Yihai Heroic Wind"-a reflection of the social darkness, intolerance of the law, and a discussion of the law's tolerance.Objectively speaking, the script of the "Four Brothers of Pride and Emotion" is excellent, and the story is deep enough, even more profound than the "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Yihai Xiongfeng", and the depth of excavation is more thought-provoking. But it is a pity that Barry's technique lacks novelty, and the lack of detailed outlines has caused the quality of the finished product to be greatly reduced, and many highlights in the plot have been missed. At the same time, it has directly led to the limitation of the actor's play space. It is a pity.Although I don't want to admit it, the fact is that Barry's inspiration and touch are gradually disappearing after "Rain Man".However, the reason why Hugo put the script in the part that he didn't want to take over was not because of Barry, but because the theme of "Four Brothers of Pride" was similar to "Seven Deadly Sins," and it was heavier, and the actor was a lawyer. Hugo does not want to take over such works for a short time.In addition, Warner Bros. actually handed over the draft of the "Batman and Robin" script. It was said that it was a draft, but it was actually just a page of the plot summary. The script was not published at all, which made Hugo find it very interesting."Batman and Robin" proposed an ultra-high cost of 125 million U.S. dollars in the draft stage. Obviously, it wanted to build a box office giant. Unfortunately, it was counterproductive and this work became a Batman series. The worst of them was not only a bad word of mouth and a bad reputation, it almost became a record of shame, but it was also a disaster at the box office. Although the book cost did not lose money, it actually made Warner Bros. almost fainted at a loss. As a result, Warner Bros. put the Batman series on the shelf and waited until Christopher Nolan turned out ten years later to make Batman bloom again.However, Warner Bros. handed the "Batman and Robin" script to Hugo. In fact, this is also a signal. Since the "007" series, "Mission Impossible" and Hugo had "scandals", now Hollywood is also going Step by step to connect Hugo with superheroes, including this time on "Independence Day", they tried to borrow Hugo's good image to detonate more heavyweight bombs.After the 21st century, after the "Spider-Man" series became a magic weapon, the works of Marvel and these two comic book giants became the most powerful box office cash cows in the next decade. I don't know whether the emergence of Hugo will make this history. Happened ahead of time?Maybe Hugo starred in "Batman and Robin" to know the result. Unfortunately, Hugo has no plans for this, at least not yet.In addition, Warner Bros.'s scripts are lacklustre. There are romantic comedies such as "Tin Cup .cup, action movies such as "The Highest Crisis ., and "The Martians play with the earth mars. . "Thriller comedies such as Sword Go Pianfeng, etc., the subject matter is very diverse, but Hugo is not very interested.Columbia Pictures don't know if it's a bit tired or bored with Hugo's pickiness. They submitted eight scripts, but the quality is very average, and there is even a "double-sided mirror the...has... Such a work with no highlights, except for the great Barbra Streisand, directed and acted by himself This work is useless at all, and the role is not suitable for Hugo-let Hugo talk to Barbra Love in love? This age gap cannot be justified.However, Columbia Pictures still has a heavyweight work. It can be seen that they still attach importance to Hugo. In addition to quantity, quality has not completely lost the standard."Mr. Sweetheart" can definitely be called a famous name. This work can be said to be one of the representatives of the super high quality of film works in the 1990s. Like "Forrest Gump", this work has a good harvest at the box office and awards. This kind of situation is not common after entering the 21st century-Oscar seems to be allergic to commercial films, and works that are too outstanding at the box office are difficult to achieve outstanding results in the eyes of academic veterans."Mr. Sweetheart" not only continued Tom Cruise's leaps and bounds in the box office, and made him the first in film history with five consecutive box offices of over 100 million yuan-now it should be the second in film history, but also let him Tom received his second Oscar nomination. Although he did not win the award in the end, "Mr. Sweetheart" has become another masterpiece recognized by the academy for Tom, who has made great achievements in commercial films.But apart from "Mr. Sweetheart", it seems that there are works that can enter the eyes of Hugo. I just don't know if the quality of the work has declined, or Hugo's vision has become more critical.
