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For a new project to take place, Murphy must first get the script of the script, especially the script. Even the Hollywood streamlined script is one of the foundations of a movie.

After the eighty-first Oscars ceremony, Murphy's main focus was on script writing.

The outline story line is basically determined. Because it involves Jordan Belfort’s legal rights, Murphy cannot write too many articles on the protagonist. Most of the content must follow the well-documented content. It can be said that the protagonist has already Being limited within a framework, there is not much room for the script to play freely.

This will definitely have some adverse effects on the script.

But Murphy quickly found a way to deal with it. Jordan Belfort's counter-attack did bring him restrictions on the main role. If the protagonist is highlighted, it may not necessarily be reflected in the protagonist, and it can also be passed by his side. The supporting role is set off.

The people around a person often reflect his personality, just like Stanton’s party members. If Murphy is a moral model, he will definitely not be like Jonah Hill, James Franco and Robert Downey Jr. People become buddies.

Change to Hollywood's screenwriting philosophy, this can be said to be a partner for the protagonist.

In a successful movie, the characters assume or highlight a specific character archetype. Each archetype has a specific behavior and thinking mode, which is easy for the audience to understand and accept.

This character prototype theory believes that everyone has a deep and diversified character personality, and many different factors are woven together to form people's personality. Of course, there is a dominant feature among these many character personalities.

Therefore, when Murphy creates a supporting role for the protagonist, he needs to show some prototypes of the characters, so as to create a reliable ally for the protagonist.

The Swedish psychologist Carl Jung has summarized twelve character archetypes-naive, heroes, outlaws, magicians, swingers, ordinary people, lovers, guardians, rulers, explorers, inventors, Truth-seeking and pragmatic.

All filmmakers, including Murphy, will add these character traits to the protagonist more or less when creating the script, but Murphy will not be limited to these prototypes, because it is difficult to extend the depth of the characters. And three-dimensional.

For example, in traditional Hollywood movie protagonists, most of them are good people, or eventually become good people, but Jordan Belfort is not in this category. Murphy's plan is to further highlight the character's love for money and dark and crazy side, so match The supporting role by his side can never be a good person.

To be precise, most of them are veritable bastards.

Due to certain legal restrictions, Jordan Belfort cannot be used arbitrarily. When the protagonist cannot complete his own story alone, Murphy needs some supporting and opposing supporting roles, so that the story can continue and be fuller. .

Of course, the supporting role also has an irreplaceable role, such as being very pleasing, having comedic effects or helping the audience reveal the puzzles in the movie.

First of all, Murphy set Jordan Belfort's most important assistant, which can also be said to be the male second Donny Azov in the film.

In Murphy's script, this will be a typical clown-type supporting role.

If such a character believes that he only lives once in his life, and is proficient in sampling, eating, drinking, and gambling, then he is best set as a clown-type character.

The life goal of this type of character is to be happy and enjoy the fun in time, enjoy happiness, be afraid of boredom, always like to make jokes and make fun and pranks, and pursue some seemingly stimuli in life. The most important point is to be careless and clumsy.

Donny Azov is undoubtedly very suitable for such a role, and while setting this role, Murphy naturally thought of who is the most suitable for such a role. Even if the role changes, it is just like Martin Scorsese. The choice is the same, Jonah Hill is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate.

When Murphy set this role, he added funny and humorous elements on the basis of Jonah Hill as the prototype, and used humorous dialogue to resolve conflicts or crises, and also added the fun of the clown-type role.

The other supporting role is the founder of the 20th century shoe industry predator Steve Madden. Donny Azov’s hairpin was born. In the script, Steve Madden’s career is still in its infancy and his appearance is very simple. On the surface, this would be a naive supporting role.

The appearance of the naive supporting role needs to be very childish, and it is also the purest type of supporting role, at least on the surface.

For example, Xue Bao in "Frozen" that Murphy once watched is a very successful naive supporting role. He didn't know that he would melt in the sun, and he wanted to have a "sun bath"...not only that, Xuebao is also a lovable character, bringing all kinds of joy to the audience.

Such supporting actors will try their best to do things in the "right way" no matter how they are inconsistent with their appearances, and they have firm convictions.

Another important supporting role is Jordan Belfort's rival, the federal agent who was not bought by him and sent him to prison.

This FBI agent named Patrick Denham is responsible for investigating the inside story of Stratton Oakmont’s illegal fraud. Facing Jordan Belfort’s money bribery offensive, he was not moved, but insisted on investigating it. the truth.

Patrick Denham is undoubtedly an exploratory supporting character. This kind of character always tries to knock down or break all the obstacles that hinder him, and can become an excellent character to highlight the protagonist.

In the setting of the characters, in addition to several real agents who investigated Jordan Belfort in reality, Murphy also referred to George Martin’s treatment of the little devil Tilly in "Game of Thrones" to a certain extent. Some characterizations of Ang Lannister.

The "little devil" Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones" can be described as a typical exploratory character. Although he is short, he is extremely ambitious.

In the first season, he went to visit the night watchman at the Great Wall in the North. He traveled so long, and in the eyes of people around him, he felt that this was very inconsistent with the status of a noble nobleman like him. Moreover, he was still a hero in "Game of Thrones" and became the right-hand man of Daenerys "Dragon Mom".

In most of the film and television works, this type of supporting role likes to experience a real and fulfilling life, eager to explore the freedom of the world and find the true self, afraid of comfort and being troubled by the world, avoid being disturbed by the world and the outside world, and try to maintain Ego, eager to learn and looking forward to long journeys, may be a very out-of-group or aimless person.

To get the supporting role of Jordan Belfort, Murphy went to meet his accountant, David, and commissioned him to hire several professional stockbrokers from Wall Street to assist his team of screenwriters to complete the financial and financial issues in the script. Those that are more specialized in securities and other aspects.

It doesn’t need to be amazing, but at least you can’t make fundamental mistakes.

The specific operations and techniques are not visible from the script. Although the protagonist has a strong ability to confuse people, there will be no detailed and detailed operations, which can also reduce the chance of making such mistakes.

"If it is as described in the film, is it really a group of marijuana rogues who have become masters of operating funds?"

As one of the future executive producers of the film, Gal Gadot was the first to see the first draft of the first half of the script that has already been completed. She was more confused about many things, and asked Murphy, "Isn’t that a hard hit?" The face of a financial practitioner?"

"The method they use is called Pump.and.dump."

In fact, Murphy does not know much about this aspect. A small part of what he knows is the impression left by watching various Wall Street-related movies before, and more of it is David’s Wall Street fans these days. What my friend learned is that he basically buys and sells now, "This is mainly for small and micro stocks, that is, the market value is quite small. You can also see in the script that the legendary leader in the future communications industry in the United States is actually A toilet-like thing next to a remote country road."

This film seems to be closer to comedy, but Murphy’s core set is black. He does not intend to whitewash Jordan Belfort, let alone show the glamorous side of Wall Street, but instead will stare at the side behind it. .

Not to mention Jordan Belfort’s information. Since the Oscars, Murphy has collected a lot of well-documented information about Stratton Oakmont. Compared to these guys, Stanton’s party really It is a group of good people.

Those guys in those days fooled strangers and packaged themselves as Wall Street elites. Then they made a big splash of this broken company. The most important point is that they lied to master the legendary inside information, for example, the stocks will go up in two days. Please give me two days, just two days, your money will not be used urgently in two days", it is generally said...

Then the customer bought it. After that, because the market value was small, the price did rise quickly. After that, they used this as a successful case to continue to fool more people in: I said two days ago that the stock was going to rise, and within two days He is indeed skyrocketing. I am very sorry that I could not contact you two days ago, but it is still too late...

Then it rolls bigger and bigger, just like playing a balloon, so it's called pump.

Until one day, I feel that the time has come. Generally, it may be because the stock has been played enough, or the stock has been targeted by the financial crocodile. These people are afraid that the gold in their hands will be taken away, so they throw away all they hold, completely Talking to this stock for nothing is like taking out the trash, that is, dumping.

Those customers who haven't sold yet deserve it.

As for Gal Gadot's group of bullies who sell big hemp and become masters of operating funds, according to Murphy's understanding, this situation is really not uncommon.