Hollywood Road

Murphy communicated this concept with all the main creative staff at the beginning of the establishment of the crew, and reiterated it during the filming to further emphasize it, so that the heads of the various departments should not forget this point.

He collaborated with this team on three typical Cult-style noir films, "Chain Saw", "Planet of Horror" and "Sin City". The style of these films will definitely affect everyone involved in the production, but Murphy I don't want to make "Deadpool" a work similar to the first three films.

The reason is simple. The film was produced by Twentieth Century Fox, the investment of up to 60 million US dollars, and his first film to enter the mainstream commercial film circle, etc., determined that "Deadpool" could not be one of those films.

In any case, "Chain Saw", "Planet of Horror" and "Sin City" are typical genre films, or a relatively small audience in the genre films, their investment is relatively limited, and the target audience is also A small group of people with very clear goals.

But "Deadpool" is different. This is a typical commercial film. Murphy has more box office expectations for this film.

As a director, talking about the box office seems to be a very infamous and degrading behavior, but in Hollywood, the director who does not talk about the box office is a hooligan.

At present, mainstream Hollywood large-scale commercial films are facing a good era. Although in Hollywood, the criteria for a director’s success have never been single, the box office is an extremely important basis. In Hollywood, a highly commercialized and industrialized film industry circle Regardless of whether it is an art film director or a commercial film director, it can even be said that there is no possibility of being a director without box office and market value.

In the beginning, Murphy's superheroes were more suitable for Marvel Comics and Batman of this era, but the reality will not be shifted by his personal will after all. In the end, he can only target the alternative character of Deadpool.

The film "Deadpool" has taken on too much hope for him. Murphy knows very well that he switched to a mainstream commercial film for the first time. If he fails, he will definitely be beaten back to the independent film circle. He may not find a good one for a long time. opportunity.

This also determines that the style of "Deadpool" must be compromised with business, not too niche and dark.

To put it bluntly, Murphy just wants more audiences to watch "Deadpool" and contribute to the box office of this film.

Therefore, the black style of "Deadpool" is more reflected in color design and black humor, rather than content and themes. For example, the color of the film will be mainly gray, dark, cold and other extensions made of black.

In Hollywood films, color tone is often a direct manifestation of the film and the protagonist.

For example, the black that Murphy has always been good at has many meanings such as negation, strength, ****, mystery, fear, anonymity, unhappiness, depth, style, evil, sadness, regret, anger and so on.

As long as the keynote of the film doesn't deviate, the shooting will be relatively smooth.

From the second day on, Murphy added a large number of action scenes to the shooting, and continued to use some high-speed slow motions to set off the fast speed. When shooting action scenes, he would also become a reviewer, turning pure action scenes. Give control to the action steering team.

However, all action shots taken must follow his philosophy, and Deadpool's action scenes must also match his character.

In the next few days, Murphy will also listen to Seth Rogen’s advice when shooting some humorous scenes. He asked Seth Rogen to join the play as an assistant director, originally to help him shoot some humor and comedy. Scenes.

There is no omnipotent director in this world, and he is no exception. Language humor can also be expressed through actors like Robert Downey Jr. Some typical American physical humor, Murphy is really powerless, he is neither good at funny, In fact, he didn't grow up in this country, nor was he able to understand and control the American language of body humor.

For example, American humor frequently mentions *** officials and uses body movements to show large-scale sex. It implies that Murphy does not think it is funny at all, but some people can laugh so hard.

It is no exaggeration to say that the smiles between him and the people around him are not on the same plane at all.

In contrast, some lines designed by Robert Downey Jr. for Deadpool are more interesting to Murphy.

People who have designed lines for Deadpool include Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, and even a scene where Wade Wilson confessed to Vanessa. Add a passage from Gal Gadot.

These lines can be said to have stained a new realm. In the entire script, there is basically no line of Deadpool's "clean", simple and straightforward "F words". The yellow jokes with a level of connotation popped out at intervals.

In the words of Robert Downey Jr., watching this movie at that time will definitely be a grade test to test the "dirt level" of friends around me. The audience who laughed most frequently and loudly at the scene is definitely "Tenth level of dirty power." Scholar", because this person must have gotten all the **** from straightforward to obscure to super obscure, and the audience who only knows how many "F words" appear in the film is already a very silly and naive person.

However, no matter how yellow the jokes are, it is just a lip service. If you want to smear a new realm, Murphy will of course let Deadpool use actions to match.

There are also various passionate scenes. In a large-scale filming, the male and female protagonists not only molested Master Yoda and Luke Skywalker, but also really did it for a full year, spending on the bed from Valentine's Day to Christmas. Over.

Moreover, there has been the shooting and success of "Sin City", and Jessica Alba, who plays Vanessa, no longer rejects shooting large-scale action scenes.

But in order to consider the classification and appear in more overseas markets, Murphy has converged too much compared to "Sin City", and the screen is not particularly excessive. At most, Jessica Alba has a full upper body. Naked, small Robert Downey guards the front and back of the point****

However, there are some things that cannot be directly expressed on the camera screen, but they can be used to make the audience associate in another way. For example, Murphy then filmed a scene and asked Jessica Alba to give Robert Downey Jr.** ...No, it's Vanessa's chrysanthemum from the dead servant.

In this kind of play, even if the visible scale of the lens has a bottom line, the “blank” content of the lens will definitely make the audience “smudge the eyes”!

The exact situation can be said to be the case. Although the lens is not fully captured, Xiao Jianjian is definitely the first superhero on the screen to be "attacked by the queen".

Among all the scenes that have been filmed, Murphy still pays great attention to the scale. He, the director, knows very well that he is going to make a popular film, not the pure black cult films before.

Therefore, Murphy still makes the whole film dirty and warm inside, full of the so-called mainstream aesthetics of the North American audience, just like Xiaojianjian, full of various characteristics that are not "hero", but in the end it must be on the road of heroes. Run wild.

He will mix all the yellow, violent, dirty, and cheap together, and then form a very warm and moving core.

Among them, the purest and sincere love between Deadpool Xiaojianjian and Vanessa's non-mainstream way of getting along with each other, Xiaojianjian's "death and alive" way of getting along with friends, undoubtedly fits the so-called mainstream values ​​and mainstream audiences Aesthetic.

After shooting at Fox Studios for half a month, Murphy led the crew to a bar contacted by Paul Wilson and hired a large number of strong and fierce-looking Australian extras to start filming scenes in the mercenary bar. .

Deadpool and Vanessa met here.

The bar was crowded with people and the smell of alcohol and impulse everywhere. One after another, extras came out of the vanity outside, walked into the bar, and were taken to their respective locations by Seth Logan and Paul Wilson. I also reminded me about the precautions during the shooting.

David Robbie is leading people to set up the lights; Helena Espola adjusts the background of the bar, covering a whole white wall with a slightly shabby and gloomy setting; Jack Watson stands at Little Robert- Beside Downey and Jessica Alba, direct two makeup artists to make up for the hero and heroine.

Murphy stood in the corner of the bar, discussing the shooting with Philip Raschel for a while.

"I don't need a shaken lens." He rejected Philip Raschel's proposal, "abandon shooting with a portable camera and use Steadicam instead."

Philip Raschel nodded, "Yes."

"I also need your main camera to take a panoramic view." He pointed to the bar counter. "After the heroine came out, Steadicam followed her, shooting in a semi-arc motion trajectory."

The shooting must be done according to the actors' positions.

After communicating with Philip Raschel, Murphy walked over and confessed a few words to Robert Downey Jr. and Jessica Alba, and immediately announced the start of filming when all the preparations were ready.

"Oh, oh, oh, baby..."

In front of the bar counter, the **** Jessica Alba turned out from behind Robert Downey Jr., with a hand deliberately poking over his body, her tone was full of teasing, "Are you going to shoot them all?"

A camera assistant who set up a Steadicam kept the camera on Jessica Alba.

This line also shows the identity of Vanessa, a woman who lives by betraying her body.

Jessica Alba turned to the opposite of Robert Downey Jr., "Are you going to spend all the money?"

"It's hard..." Robert Downey Jr. first made an ambiguous gesture, and then asked, "Do you know who I am?"

"Who are you?" Jessica Alba put a hand on Robert Downey Jr's chest and swiped all the way down. "You will tell me who you are."

She said first, "I am Vanessa."

Robert Downey Jr. replied, "I am Wade."

Is the introduction of the heroine and heroine a bit flat? Something doesn't fit Wade Wilson's character? Thinking of this, Murphy shouted, "Stop!"

Then he beckoned, "Donnie, Jesse, you two come here."

Murphy is going to add a paragraph to this scene.