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If it is difficult to change as a friend of his own, Murphy will definitely help without hesitation, but a person who has only worked together once, it is a different matter, even if the other party is a Hollywood star he liked very much.

No matter how you look at it, Murphy is not a person with universal sentiments, let alone a lofty ideal to help the world.

For people of his class, there must be rewards for what you give. It is a very simple code of conduct.

Therefore, while providing a loan to Nicholas Cage, Stanton Studio also signed a formal contract with him.

The contract stipulates that the 20 million US dollars of funds are paid by Stanton Studios in advance to Nicholas Cage. Nicholas Cage will need to appear in three films invested by Stanton Studios in the future, and will play an important role in them. Character.

With an average cost of less than 7 million US dollars per film, it is still a very cost-effective thing to invite Nicholas Cage, a star, especially if he has not completely become the king of bad movies.

Subsequently, Murphy considered his upcoming project and decided not to use Nicholas Cage in "Inglourious Basterds".

The script and project plan of "Shameless Bastard" are also the focus of Murphy's next work.

He went to the hospital to visit Quentin Tarantino again, and had some simple exchanges on the project. This was the first meeting between Murphy and Quentin Tarantino after the negotiation. The director of the ruffian also reminded him A lot of considerations for Murphy.

Leaving California Medical School, Murphy first asked Twentieth Century Fox to deal with these potential troubles.

Quentin Tarantino originally wanted to make this film an "Italian Macaroni Western", and he also planned to name the film "Occupied France in the Past", but later gave up and decided to adopt "Shameless Bastard" ".

There is a problem with the title. In 1978, the English translation of the Italian film "Devotion of Crime and Merit" was called "Shameless Bastard".

In order to minimize the possibility of copyright disputes, after the Murphy Gully passed, the people of 20th Century Fox found the director of the film that year, and Enzo Castillari, the director of "Devotion to Crime", agreed to Murphy's use. The name "Shameless Bastard" comes at the price of showing a small face in the film.

This condition is nothing at all, Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox happily agreed to it.

In terms of script writing, Murphy will definitely use the outline provided by Quentin Tarantino as the main line, but this project has been directed by him. Of course, it is impossible to film and produce in Quentin’s way. The two have only a little style. Similar, not identical.

Therefore, Murphy hired a five-person screenwriter team to help him complete the script of "Inglourious Basterds" as soon as possible.

As long as he can control the team well, he can provide more creativity for script writing even with a large number of people.

Creativity is the ability of both self-expression and problem-solving. In both aspects, Murphy needs to gather a lot of fantastic ideas, but good ideas will not arise out of thin air, which requires a lot of effort. As the saying goes, when books are used, they hate less.

In order to get good ideas and good stories, the most common and arguably the most commonly used screenwriter is "brainstorming", where the team gathers to discuss solutions to problems.

But this so-called brainstorming cannot spread unrestricted, it must be suitable for the film, and Murphy must be appropriately restricted and guided.

Murphy must first let the entire screenwriting team know how to take the first step. The first step is to clarify the idea, theme and situation of the script. Chaos and anxiety are often caused by unclear themes.

Seeing the theme, the screenwriters will naturally have their own ideas. To record these ideas, the screenwriters never lack ideas, but they lack good ideas suitable for filming. Everyone in Murphy's team will have a lot of novelties every day. Thoughts, especially at night.

So he asked every screenwriter to carry pens and notebooks with them, no exception when sleeping. When they suddenly have ideas, they can write them down at any time.

Everyone's ideas are different, which will cause conflicts and conflicts. After recording enough ideas, Murphy called all the screenwriters together for the smoothest face-to-face communication. This is what the Hollywood team screenwriters did when they were creating. The so-called brainstorming.

Brainstorming is a good opportunity for thought exchange and collision. When Murphy discusses issues with his friends, he will use a tape recorder to record the discussion process. No matter what the idea is, write it on paper and nail it to the wall every time. In 15 minutes, the team will take turns to share a solution. In the last 15 minutes, check all the discussions and the list of questions, and many problems will be found.

After brainstorming, people who can really make decisions need to make decisions. Murphy must be responsible for this aspect of work. This is also a personal brainstorm. He needs to think about the results of the team's brainstorming.

Thinking will discover problems, and then he will solve them, study them as deeply as possible, look at the problems from all angles, and calm down to discover the problems and differences.

Work can’t ignore rest. When Murphy has a rough plot and scene design, he can stop and take a break to do something completely different. Inspiration always flashes inadvertently, such as taking a bath or Superman vs. Wonder Woman. When the hero.

While resting, Murphy will also pay attention to keeping exercise. Appropriate exercise can burn blood. Aristotle is called "the philosopher of the Peripheral School" because of his rampage in teaching and brainstorming.

Murphy will capture every thought related to "Shameless Bastard", regardless of whether it is useful or not, it will be recorded in time through a notebook or recording device.

During this period, he had some crazy ideas, but he didn't just abandon or confine his thinking to the rules. Due to the relationship between the theme and content of the film, he let his mind go crazy instead! Regardless of whether these thoughts are silly or extremely impossible, just follow the footsteps of your thoughts to fly freely.

Many questions are not without answers, but because they dare not think about it.

If you think too much, you will have doubts in your heart. When necessary, Murphy will ignore the doubts in your heart.

When he encounters a problem, there will always be a voice deep in his heart telling himself that "this idea is not good, this thing does not work".

It is this voice that hinders the pace of work. It will never stop. You have to know that this is not "its" work, but its work is to question and criticize.

A successful director must learn to distinguish and listen to the good voice deep in his heart, that young, energetic, daring, and more creative voice.

Finally, Murphy is going to transform Quentin Tarantino’s story.

For every movie he watches or every book he reads, he can rethink from three different aspects. For example, it’s not like this at the beginning, or it’s somewhere else where the story happened, and then in the movie or story. At the end of, you can also imagine three different endings, tragedy, comedy or open ending.

In this way, Murphy led the screenwriter team to finish the first draft of "Inglourious Basterds" as quickly as possible. The first draft is like walking barefoot across the grass, keeping it romantic, mischievous and absurd, and composing an ending for it.

Next, there is a more refined modification work.

Murphy participated in the writing of the script throughout the entire process, but he did not do it by himself as in the past. As a director and screenwriter, he also wanted to try a new model.

In some ways, there are two types of directors in Hollywood: one is to write their own scripts, and the other is not to write their own scripts.

If you have both and you can alternate between a movie you wrote and a movie you didn’t write yourself, this is very rare.

This is not to say that one type of director is more admirable than another. They are just different. Write the script by yourself and get a film with personal characteristics. A style will emerge quickly, and Certain points of interest often reappear.

Therefore, in the face of the works of such directors, the audience is more exposed to a kind of personality.

And if a director adapts a movie script written by someone else every time, he may direct it extremely well—if the script is good—may produce a great movie, but he will never have what an author has. That kind of personal traits.

Similarly, if you write your own script and make a film with personal characteristics, but you can’t say anything interesting or fresh about the film, such a film will never compare to a film adapted from a good script by a director. film.

"Once this distinction is made, I think all directors should make films for themselves, and their responsibility is to ensure that no matter what obstacles they face, the film remains theirs from beginning to end."

In Santa Monica’s home, Murphy sat next to Gal Gadot, who was reading the first draft of the script, and said, “The director must always be the master of the film. Once he becomes a slave, he becomes numb.”

Gal Gadot raised his head and said curiously, "You mean you don't need to care about the audience?"

"No!" Murphy shook his head without hesitation, "I mean the first thing I want to do is to make yourself satisfied. I don't mean you want you to despise the audience. My personal feeling is that if you make a movie that suits your liking If the film is well made, then the audience will like it, or at least part of the audience will like it."

"Hmm..." Gal Gadot nodded again and again, his eyes fell back to the script, and finally he could not help laughing when he flipped through it, "What a feast of revenge for the Jewish people."

She turned to look at Murphy, "Honey, thank you."

Murphy shrugged, but did not answer her words. This so-called Jewish revenge feast was just for the needs of the film and had nothing to do with Gal Gadot's ethnicity.

Gal Gadot went to see the finale. Murphy shook his head and said casually, "Why didn't the Jews resist?"

"What?" Gal Gadot looked at Murphy immediately.