Hollywood Road

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What is the most important thing about such a film? Just as for the film, the most important ability of Deadpool is the mouthpiece. It will never be the story, logic or philosophical thinking, but the charm of the character!

In other words, the role of Deadpool, who will appear on the big screen at that time, has to show a very different and extraordinary charm!

Therefore, in the script prepared by Murphy, the three elements of the movie story are: role, role, or role!

Other structures, rhythms, and plots are all secondary. Only when the Deadpool character is standing, the audience will follow the journey willingly without any complaints. If the character does not stand up, then this looks like In particular, it is impossible to tell stories that are clichéd in reality. The audience will continue to argue whether the logic is reasonable, and they will continue to find loopholes in various plots, which makes things very difficult to handle.

Murphy must first think about how the story will affect the protagonist-not the audience, not the production company, not himself-regardless of the category of the film, such as "What makes a good superhero movie?"

On the contrary, Murphy thinks more about what kind of dispute Deadpool should fall into, and then come up with a feasible story, based on the role, to create a strong and clear story.

Murphy pays special attention to the creative idea of ​​the story must be active, the story must be carried out by the protagonist of Deadpool, it is the actions and behaviors of Deadpool that define the entire story.

For the creation of a movie script, inspiration takes many forms: it can be a specific scene containing a character, it can be an exciting emotional impulse, or it can be an abstract idea about the concept of the story, such as "You thought you were Can fight against the forces of dictatorship, but these forces will ultimately win the concept of the "Star Wars Prequel Trilogy".

Regardless of the form of the story's inspiration, as long as Deadpool gets the germ of the story, Murphy can use it to create a solid and feasible story.

Deadpool is abnormal like a non-human, but Murphy will not build a story around non-humans. That is not a story that a screenwriter should do. All good stories are structured around people and conflicts, not to mention that Deadpool is just a transformation. People, including "Finding Nemo", "Bambi" and "Shrek", use other biological forms to hide their human nature. When imagining the protagonist, we must also think clearly about the defects of the protagonist.

Yes, flaws are very important for a movie character nowadays.

Maybe other people have not seen this, but Murphy knows very well that the role that is omnipotent and can easily solve its own troubles is no longer suitable for the needs of movies of this era, so Superman movies are the most difficult to shoot. In the superhero movie, Batman has to fall from the altar to complete the redemption.

Similar character defects are called "fatal defects" by Murphy, which is a very important human characteristic that a character lacks. This is not something that the character needs or comes naturally with in the film, but something that the director or screenwriter needs to give to the character.

This kind of "defect" may be addiction, or it may be the wrong goal. For example, the wealth and power in "The Wolf of Wall Street" were always good; the hope in "Mediocre Hall" was welcomed by others, and so on.

As the initiator and true implementer of the project, when Murphy constructed the role of Deadpool, he had to face-to-face "discuss" such deep-level issues with the protagonist, Deadpool. This will ultimately bring a very important end to the story. Variety.

What are the flaws of Deadpool? Talking, lustful, greedy for money, irresponsible...

Talking requires a certain design, not unlimited nonsense, which will only arouse the audience's disgust. In this regard, Murphy called Robert Downey Jr. and asked him to stay for a day. Robert Downey Jr. himself is a The mouth cannon-shaped words, after passing through Murphy Gully, take away a lot of cartoons about Deadpool and Murphy's outline template to design the mouth cannon lines for Deadpool.

Deadpool is very lustful, no matter which comic book, as long as the woman who appeared as the protagonist has kissed and made affection with him in the end, especially because she can't die, she once fell in love with the goddess of death, and fell in love with her. The curse of Death's Thanos became an immortal body, unable to be with her.

Therefore, a glamorous and **** heroine is a must, and if two people are equally lustful, an emotional scene can be set up. The two people hide together in a year's time, lingering together, changing into a pattern of sex.

Character flaws can make Deadpool closer to the audience, make him appear more attractive, and resonate with the audience, but to shape such a character, it is far from enough to have role flaws. Deadpool needs to have an ability. The road to satisfaction is the role's plan.

In the script and film, Murphy must let Deadpool embark on his own journey and make the character feel pain in his heart.

Correspondingly, because of love and cancer, Wade Wilson decided to carry out dangerous human experiments and became a human and ghost, and also because love wanted to find his original appearance.

There will definitely be a lot of pain in the middle, but it is necessary.

For example, in "Midnight Cowboy," Joe Buck decided to become the most successful male publicist in New York. Is this really a bad idea? In fact, he learned more on this road than ever before.

Similarly, in "Halloween Maria", the 18-year-old and pregnant heroine gave up her job and had to make money quickly, so she decided to become a drug dealer.

For movies and scripts, such a terrible idea of ​​the role is extremely correct!

The two protagonists thought they could control the ending, but they didn't. Their failure made the film's success.

Therefore, Murphy will work hard here and must let Deadpool take a painful path. This will be cruel and rough, but it will also be compassionate. Letting Deadpool embark on this ups and downs journey will cause some Kind of radical change or recognition.

This passage that led Deadpool to contentment but ultimately failed is the plot he needs, and it is also a map of Deadpool and the audience to the new world.

And these will also reflect the necessary values ​​of a movie role.

You can see familiar values ​​in the movie, such as "love finds a way out", "be yourself", "connect with people", "money is not everything", "family can save you" and so on.

In the past, Hollywood referred to these as "information", the basic truths that the public tried to believe in their lives.

However, the values ​​of film roles should not be pastors' sermons or essays, and they should not be forced to the audience, but should be expressed through activities, behaviors, and words.

And Deadpool's values ​​are very special, which is also part of the character's charm.

After setting Deadpool's defects, action journey and value orientation, Murphy then formulated the action structure table in the script for him.

Through this table, Murphy combined the various settings of Deadpool into a coherent story, which can be used as an extended version of the "recommendation."

In fact, once Murphy completes the form, you can keep it in mind and give it to Bill Rossis and Carla Faith for a preliminary look.

The action structure table is a collection of all the elements that form the basis of the script's story. By doing so, Murphy can let people see the whole story at once, such as Hollywood's usual "incitement", "call to action", "climax" and "determination".

He will distill his ideas into six to ten short paragraphs, no more than two pages of ordinary scripts.

This will not be a list of events, Murphy does not need to list specific, actual scenes in the story.

The action structure is a way to define the main arcs and values ​​without filling in all the details. For example, in the second act of the script, he can set "something bad" as a placeholder because it can be used in the event These actions and events are described in detail in the table.

The work in this area is also much easier. Hollywood has ready-made action structure templates that can be used.

After getting this done, Murphy can use this as a template to fill in the content of the script with the situation of filling the template, and the filling will not make any unexpected content, and will develop according to the traditional three-stage structure.

Although the whole story will use flashbacks, the rhythm is still in the standard Hollywood mode. Deadpool must start with a relatively ordinary little person, and then through some unobtrusive little things, it will intersect with other main characters and even conflict. The way ordinary scripts trigger events.

Once Deadpool triggers an event, he needs to make a decision. The decision in the script is not because of desire or the character's plan, but Murphy's way of pushing Deadpool on his way.

Next is the journey and test of the second act of the three-stage structure. The simple story of Deadpool when he is an ordinary person will also become complicated in the process.

During this process, the reality of the combination of other characters and Deadpool’s bad decisions will bring more pain and complications to the protagonist, force the characters to struggle, push the plot forward, and make the story more complicated. ——If you don't do something, the protagonist cannot move forward, and the protagonist has exhausted all means.

At this point, the second act can also come to an end, and then the crucial third act.

The third act is the protagonist's decision and the climax of the whole story.

Once an important decision is made, Deadpool as the protagonist will no longer struggle with major issues. The only thing Murphy needs to solve is the conflict between people and the final values ​​of Deadpool.

That of course is Deadpool's decision to change and identify with its own shortcomings.

This is where the value of the story lies. The characters finally understand why the original plan or "satisfaction" is a mirage, but they have also gained something more important, a new understanding of themselves.

This is the end of the script, and the whole story is officially completed, and then Murphy will modify and fill some borders, such as Deadpool's mouth gun lines, in addition to borrowing part of the comics, it is also written by Robert Downey Jr More in line with the current social situation.

In the black humor scene, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, who ended the vacation, were also asked to help. These two fat guys are both funny experts.

After completing the first draft of the script, Murphy and the prepared plan were passed to Bill Rossis and Carla Faith respectively. If the project is to take place, they need to obtain the copyright.