Hollywood Road

The dark room was extremely quiet. Murphy and others were hiding in the corner of the corner. The camera was aimed at James Franco, and a **** hot girl threw on him, kissing him frantically, as if Goats in heat are just like.

"Cut!" Murphy yelled to stop. "This one is over."

James Franco stepped back and sat on the sofa. Jack Watson went over to touch up his makeup, and his assistant came to Amanda Seyfried to fill up the girl who was less than twenty years old. Makeup.

"Good job, Amanda." Murphy gave a thumbs up over there.

This is his consistent style, and he always praises actors more than critics, especially young actors. As long as their performance is not too bad, he will help them build confidence.

Amanda Seyfried's performance should be considered quite good among girls of the same age. When the role is quiet, she has a kind of pathos that can move people's hearts, and when the role should be as crazy as before, she looks incomparable. Sexy and coquettish.

Just like the split of the character itself, Murphy finally chose Amanda Seyfried in order to use her to separate the audience.

He likes this way of introducing characters. Andy, played by Amanda Seyfried, sneaks in from the back door like a werewolf and pounces on Nick Dunn, and Nick Dunn is obviously not too resistant.

When Murphy was looking for Andy’s actors, it was clear that he was looking for someone who could divide the audience into two groups immediately. It was like swinging a big sword to split the theater in half, and the women would cross in disgustingly. With both arms, he leaned back on the back of the chair and said:'He is such a jerk,' and the men leaned forward, touching their chins, and responded:'Yes. However, this is also understandable’.

In the audition, Amanda Seyfried showed this kind of ability. The shots just taken also proved that she has this kind of ability. She will make people feel that they can fully understand the reason for Nick Dunn’s derailment. This kind of deviant behavior is so bad that it must be severely punished.

This role seems simple, but in fact it is not easy to grasp. Murphy will also give Amanda Seyfried enough guidance. The shaping of a successful role is often the result of the joint efforts of the actor and the director.

As a comprehensive art, the film must experience a long run-in, controversy and sparks in the creative process. The director adjusts the state of the actor; the actor’s ideas inspire the director’s inspiration, and sometimes use his own charm and energy to change the director’s original intentions, giving birth to surprise The better effect outside; and the director may reprocess it again according to the shooting material in the later stage.

In a movie, the screenwriter is the soul, the actor is the soul, and the director is also the soul. A classic movie is the result of these souls' unreserved bite of wisdom and blood.

In this process, any link is indispensable.

After filming consecutive scenes about Amanda Seyfried, Murphy pulled the entire crew out of town and began filming the scene where Amy's fans formed a search team to search for her tracks.

The shooting was also carried out in a crossover, and the shooting of the search team was mainly focused on prime time shooting.

Golden time is also known as "Golden.Hour", also known as "Magic.Hour". To describe it with "golden" and "magic", it is enough to see the preciousness and magic of this time period. It lasts for a short period of time, the color is mainly golden, and the shooting time is mostly after sunrise in the early morning and before sunset in the evening.

When the sun is close to the horizon, the light becomes warmer and richer. At this time, the atmosphere through which the light passes absorbs most of the blue light in the light, leaving the warmer component of the spectrum, showing the charm of golden light. .

The light of golden time is golden, which can show the ordinary scenery with a new look. The pictures taken in this way are very charming.

Unlike the warm yellow artificial lighting under fluorescent lamps, the outdoor natural light during golden hours is warm and soft and has a sense of hierarchy. At this time, the sun has just exposed the horizon, so the shadows left behind are longer and deeper, which can be visually added. Many shooting possibilities.

However, Murphy and the crew have to do a lot of preparation for this.

The golden shooting time is very short. Murphy will lead the crew to the venue several hours before the golden time arrives and prepare all the equipment. This saves a lot of time for making mistakes. If you can't finish the filming at one time, NG many times, it will waste a lot of time.

When shooting, he would let Philip Raschel face the light and use a wide-angle lens to shoot the search team. The light conditions under the golden shooting time can make any shooting scene look beautiful, showing the details and shaping the layers. Close-up or telephoto lens shooting will cover up the advantage of prime shooting time.

Throughout the shooting, Murphy was in the middle of coordination, and now he rarely participates directly in specific work.

Director is different from photography, lighting engineer, artist, editor and other types of work. It needs to consider many aspects from story, scheduling, editing, to actors, setting, recording, and scoring. It needs to master the skills and knowledge of each specific type of work, and Extend to the expression of aesthetics, to meet the director's personal aesthetic, political outlook, world outlook and other needs.

As a director, Murphy not only has the ability to control the details, but also has the ability to fully control the story, scheduling, editing, and then to the actors, sets, recordings, and soundtracks.

After the shooting of the search team, the crew left the town and moved to a lake villa area not far away to take a shot of Amy being imprisoned by his former lover, Collins.

Here, Murphy took a lot of large-scale shots, not only the scene of Charlize Theron’s self-defense with a wine bottle, but also a lot of dew-point shots.

This must be an R-rated film. Murphy knows very well, so as early as when the contract was signed, it was stated that the actors and actresses would have dew spots. Guys like James Franco are not a problem at all, and Charlize Theron is also not a problem. It's not a problem.

In the previous films of South African Diamonds, the scenes of dew points are not one or two.

The most important scene here is that Amy fabricated false evidence, framed Collins for kidnapping her, and then killed Collins.

For many of the lines here, Murphy has been polished many times to reduce logical loopholes. For example, when Amy came in, Collins told her that the monitoring system had just been activated, and the monitoring system was mainly aimed at the outside of the villa and near the door. , Not inside the house.

No one likes to live under surveillance, even a role like Collins with the same strong desire for control.

As for Amy being **** and still get the wallpaper knife, Murphy deliberately left it. This loophole was deliberately shown to the audience in order to echo the anti-Hollywood sentiment and the naked ridicule of the media.

He deliberately used artistic techniques to exaggerate this part of the play.

Murphy didn't want to make this part close to reality at the beginning, but deliberately made Amy's imprisonment to the anti-kill scene exaggerated beyond belief, and it will be more paradoxical later, but he likes this part of the filming process.

This is not two people coexisting sweetly, but one of them got what they wanted, and the other became a sacrifice to achieve the goal. When this scene was filmed, it was more troublesome than expected, not because of the contents, but mainly cleaning up. The problem.

Murphy took a total of two days of shooting, changing the wardrobe, bed, and pillows more than 30 times, because every time he retakes the shot, all the items contaminated with blood need to be replaced.

"A person is slaughtered like a lamb in the process of mating. This is an embarrassing thing, but it always needs someone to complete it."

Gail Gadot, who came to visit the class, stood near the director’s monitor and accompanied Murphy to watch the shots that were just finished. It is probably that the pressure has been a little bit late recently, and Murphy seems a little chatty, "Amy is trying to use these video recordings. Create a new incident and add a new addition to her victim resume. So she has to mess up his hair, pull his shirt, and let him bleed. Of course, she also asked him to send a shot. , She still sent him on the road."

However, from the shots taken, only blood can be seen, and there is no scene of a broken Collins hose, which needs to be added in post-production.

Gal Gadot had read the script before and asked curiously, "If I cut the pipe, I will die?"

"This is one of Amy's purposes for letting him take a shot. After strenuous exercise, people's blood flow will increase."

After thinking about it for a while, Murphy said again, “If you want to kill someone in prison, you will usually be on the playground. Because the heartbeat speeds up after strenuous exercise, the main blood vessels are injured at this time, and it only takes a few seconds to hang up. It's too late to call someone."

Hearing this, Gal Gadot suddenly felt heartache. He moved closer to Murphy and hugged him gently. Only she knew that in the dead of night, Murphy would often be awakened by nightmares from his sleep. He was in prison. Some of the memories inside have indeed brought him an extremely profound impact.

"It's okay." Murphy could feel Gal Gadot's concern, no matter if it was on the set, he kissed her gently, and continued the topic, "Amy's setting is a very knowledgeable Harvard student. , Knows this truth well, so this drama treatment is in line with her psychopath character."

Every time Gal Gadot sees this character, his back gets cold. If there are such women in the real world, it would be too scary.

Frankly speaking, she has never been a fan of Murphy. Murphy's films have always been inconsistent with her aesthetics. This one can be described as a typical one.

This is a script that made her feel aggrieved, because in the end it didn't give people a serious catharsis. Has Amy been brought to justice? No. Did Nick expose her? No. In the end, this marriage locked the two of them tightly like a cage, and it was more uncomfortable than at the beginning.

At least at that time, although they were complaining about each other, they still had the possibility of divorce. Now they have to pretend to be harmonious while hating, and acting for others is really worse than death.

Gal Gadot's eyes turned to Murphy, "This guy always likes to take pictures of the dark things in human nature."