Hollywood Road

As the representative of the American International Assurance Company on the crew, Kevin Pulis’s most important job is to ensure that the filming can be completed as planned, but for the first thing to start, Murphy did not talk about it all morning and continued in the afternoon. Now I have to shoot again, which has greatly exceeded the planned time.

The crew was preparing for the re-shooting, and he quietly found Murphy.

Kevin Pulis is certainly not a newcomer for this position, and no insurance company will use such a position to train newcomers.

Therefore, he pays great attention to methods and methods.

While Murphy was holding a cup of coffee, Kevin Pulis came over and said, "Director, how long will this one take?"

"It depends." Murphy turned his head and glanced at him. "This one is very important."

"I know." Kevin Pulitz still reminded in a low voice, "It's beyond the plan."

"Don't worry." Murphy put down the coffee cup, "We have a hundred days of shooting time, that's enough."

Different from the short and quick shooting method of "Deadpool", he set aside a hundred days of shooting time for "The Lost Lover".

After shooting two more times, Murphy called for approval, but after determining the tone of the shooting and after James Franco and Charlize Theron gradually found their status, the rest of the shooting became smoother, and the get off work ended in the evening. At that time, all the content planned to be filmed today was also completed.

As Murphy grows older and accumulates work experience, he becomes more and more proficient in lens design and shooting.

The day's work of the crew was completed, but Murphy did not get off work. It is not a weekend. Gal Gadot is at school and there is no one at home. It is better to stay here and continue working.

Since a careful plan has been made, the shooting of "The Lost Lovers" can go according to the plan, and Murphy can also distract some of his energy and turn to review the outline of the script of "Game of Thrones" submitted by George Martin.

It is impossible for TV series to follow the line of novels exactly, unless the heads of the production company are so stupid, let alone Murphy think so, even George Martin, the original author of Hollywood screenwriters, knows this. a little.

Compared with the original, the story of the script is more compact and suitable for shooting. Of course, the story is still tightly developed around those families.

The office door was pushed open from the outside, and Carla Faith walked in, "Why haven't you left yet?"

Murphy shrugged, "I have nothing to do when I go back."

Carla Fiss pulled a chair, sat across from his desk, and said, “A person in charge of the company’s public relations department just called me and thinks that our film is anti-family and anti-family and anti-family. The tendency of marriage is too obvious, and the public relations promotion in the future award season will face more difficulties."

"It's okay." Murphy closed the script outline and said nonchalantly, "We are not a mainstream commercial film. The negative impact in this regard will be much smaller."

It is absolutely impossible if there is no negative impact on such a direct mockery, but Hollywood's so-called mainstream film values ​​are more suitable for commercial productions than for films with very strong personal styles.

"If I was shooting a commercial masterpiece, I would definitely not choose such a theme." Murphy stood up, went to the coffee machine, and picked up a cup of coffee for himself and Carla Faith, "but it will be in line with normal Hollywood Movie-like value orientation."

Carla Faith took the coffee from Murphy and asked questioningly, "For example?"

"In the most typical situation, the background of the male protagonist is divorce, the child remarries with the mother, the mother, the film begins, and the third person dies—even if he saves the protagonist’s family several times, he will die—the husband and wife reunited.

Murphy took a sip of coffee and said while pacing, "If the man remarries, the third party of the woman will not die, but she will withdraw in embarrassment."

"Although the United States is a seemingly diversified country, mainstream values ​​have always been ****." Murphy continued, "The status of the family is extremely high. A good man must defend his family, his wife and children, the people, and the people. The motherland is full of love, loyal, hardworking, optimistic, and strong faith."

Carla Faith almost squirted out the coffee she had drunk in her mouth. "Why haven't I seen it on you?"

She sighed and said, "No matter how avant-garde a film is, how beautiful it is in Cannes, Berlin, and Venice, it’s not easy to eat something with some negative energy at Oscars."

"Bingo!" Murphy snapped his fingers. "So, Oscars, especially the Oscars in the past ten years, have always only selected the right ones, not the good ones."

"Our film is not right." Carla Fess said.

"Our goal is not to get an Oscar!" Murphy seemed to be very indifferent. "It is impossible to get the Golden Man in this film. I just want to tell those old men through this awards season that I am not a pure commercial film director. They are stylized directors, don’t let them prejudice me too much, so as to prepare for the future."

The theme of this film does not please the Oscar judges very much, but it is not that serious. After all, the hero and the heroine are more about mutual control, rather than destroying other people's families.

In Hollywood movies, destroying other people’s families is truly annoying. Although there have been countless cases of such destruction of families in Hollywood in reality, it is easy for word-of-mouth and box office to hit the street when they are promoted in the movie, even if they are handsome. Like Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Dawson still has to fart in the end.

And Murphy has seen part of the script of "Superman Returns" being produced by Warner Bros. through CAA channels. Brian Singer, who has filmed "The Very Suspect", dare not violate this rule in the commercial masterpiece. .

The famous green tea Louis Lane in the DC world is ambiguous with Superman’s body and transformation state, and then he has a husband, and the child lives with Super. Because he is mixed, he has to take a lot of pills for a long time. The husband is actually very fast. I realize it, but in order to maintain the child's immature heart and family integrity, I am determined to continue to be a dad silently...

Finally, the child drew a picture with a family of three plus Superman.

Putting down the coffee cup, Murphy continued this very boring topic, which can be used as a relaxation after work, or as a reminder of the minefield when Carla Faith is making films in the future.

"This tends to subtly affect many aspects of mainstream commercial movies." He added, "For example, in youth horror movies, the first easy-to-be-forged girls must be girls with unruly private lives, and the ultimate anti-kills are all honest and kind girls. "

"It seems..." Carla Faith thought for a while, then nodded slightly, "It seems to be the case."

She is extremely smart and immediately connected to the social reality through the film. "Family and marriage are also important to society. Before getting married, no matter how debauched is ok, once you get married, you have to take responsibility. Cheating is also very popular in the real society. For the purpose, like a presidential candidate, he must show that he has a perfect family, so that a mother, kind, and filial piety can be favored by voters."

Murphy laughed, "So Hillary, who has a heart for the presidential throne, never divorced Zipper."

The two laughed for a while, anyway, don't worry about this kind of private joke spreading out will cause a negative impact on them, and then brushed a few words with the big figures in Washington, and the topic returned to the movie.

"Actually, I have always been a little worried about this film." Carla Faith said suddenly.

Murphy didn't understand, "Because of what I just said?"

"Those are part of it." Kara Feith did not hide it, and said directly, "There is always a positive and motivated actor in a big-selling film, and our actor is a waste."

"So you are worried about this." Murphy deliberately joked, "Although I am poor, rude and not motivated, but I know I am a good man. The real **** has a good job, is considerate, handsome, and wears formal clothes. My woman It’s just a momentary blindness and a hypocrite. Only I know who the real Loser is..."

"You..." Carla Faith pointed at him and laughed.

Murphy opened his hand and said, "Of course it is impossible to be successful with such a person as the leading actor, but Nick Dunn is not such a person. After Amy left, he went from being stunned to self-saving, and then to TV interviews. The declaration of "Amy" has evolved into the Nick Dunn that Amy wants to see. He has worked very hard."

Carla Faith rolled his eyes, "Stop talking about these jokes, I'm serious."

Although she has been fully supporting Murphy since she knew that Murphy had the script, the worries in her heart have indeed existed.

The award season is fortunate to say. After all, there are too many factors that affect the awards, but can such an anti-mainstream film really sell well at the box office?

"This film does not lack entertainment elements, and there are many segments that audiences love to see."

Seeing Carla Faith nodded, Murphy said seriously, "Don't forget our special publicity plan. Even if these are excluded, there are actually many favorable factors."

"Hollywood-style mainstream film values ​​are indeed recognized by most audience groups, but are they really untouchable?"

Without Kara Feith’s answer, Murphy gave the answer, “After so many years of Hollywood mainstream movies, this kind of old bridge and old-fashioned movies have only just reached the average level of the Hollywood production line. This kind of Hollywood. The main theme of the plot is very boring if you watch too much. It is a deduction item and a performance of the screenwriter’s laziness. He wants to please the audience and has no good ideas. If there are no other bonus items in the movie, this kind of movie It’s destined to be no higher than mediocrity."

Murphy said confidently, "And our film? It will bring a fresh and completely different movie-viewing excitement to the audience that has been hypnotized by this model!"

"You also overlooked another point!" Murphy raised a finger, "Our film has a naturally existing audience group, and it will resonate with them!"