How would you interpret this sentence?
The Pack Square Soda Shoppe could not have been decked out with more flag bunting if it were the president’s train car. Romulus was dazzled, mostly by his buffalo-like ice cream sundae. Mrs. Brown was rosy-cheeked, sipping cola through a straw. “You ought be thrilled,” she said. “A Hollywood movie.”
“You keep saying that. I am thrilled.”
“Well, ye barely look it,” she said. She had on the blue Kerrybrooke beret (wear it many ways!), identifying this as a Social Adventure of the highest order.
“You don’t,” Romulus agreed.
“You pipe down. We men have to stick together. We don’t wear our hearts on our sleeves the way women do.”
He glanced at his shoulder, then took a whitecap of cream off his cheek with the back of a hand.
“It’s not really settled yet, for one thing. Where am I going to find an agent?”
“Did Mr. Lincoln say you have to get one? Or just that it would be helpful? What did he say about that exactly?”“Find someone to negotiate the contract, for the motion-picture option. He can’t do it, this is between Hollywood and me. An agent is customary. Or a lawyer.”
How would you interpret this sentence ‘A Hollywood movie’ in the first passage?
Does it refer to a movie they had just watched, OR a movie that would be adapted from his novel?
Thanks!
PS: The man was a novelist.
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I think it is a movie that will be made based on his novel
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