Hollywood Road

Due to the continuous holding of special screenings by film academies and media critics in several major North American cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, "Diego-Ros" did not perform well the next weekend, although these shows do not prohibit fans from buying. Tickets to watch, but the name Murphy Stanton is quite attractive to Oscar judges, media reporters and professional film critics, just like Steven Spielberg and James Cameron.

This directly led to the emergence of many free viewers, which affected the box office revenue to a certain extent.

Ten movie theaters, after three days of screenings over the weekend, "Diego Rose" received a box office of more than 280,000 US dollars. The average single hall score is still not outstanding enough. The only thing to be thankful is that the film did not double because of the expansion. The box office of a single library has plummeted.

A new week of Christmas holidays is here, but "Diego Rose" will not blindly expand the scale of screenings.

"Before the New Year, the film will remain on the scale of ten theaters."

In the driving car, Bill Rossis said to Murphy, "Such a screening is sufficient to obtain admission tickets, and it can also allow judges and media reporters to see the film, and it can also prevent poor audience evaluations. diffusion."

Although audience reputation is not the key to the awards season, it can also affect the voting choices of some people.

"I have communicated with Carla Firth." Murphy has been in contact with Carla Firth via the Internet every day recently. "Before most of the Oscar judges' votes are returned, "Diego-Ros" will be limited to 20 companies. In theaters inside."

Most judges usually mail their ballots back to the college in mid-January, and a few will wait until the final deadline.

"Diego-Ros" was screened too late and would inevitably miss most of the outpost awards, including the Golden Globes. This is a disadvantage.

Fortunately, the media and professional evaluation of this film is good enough, otherwise there is not much competition for Oscar nomination.

However, the film also has an advantage. The storyline is about Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. A large number of Oscar judges live in the Los Angeles area all the year round. You should still remember the chaos of that era. The film may evoke their nostalgia. feelings.

When people are old, they are easy to be nostalgic, and the Oscar judges can be called the old men’s club.

The car drove all the way to Santa Monica Commercial Plaza, where today there was a Blu-ray limited edition DVD signing event of "City of Chaos". In order to create momentum for subsequent films, Murphy needs to participate in person.

Although "City of Chaos" is not particularly high at the box office, the subsequent online on-demand, rental and DVD sales are very satisfactory, and the film now ranks among the top 50 IMDB movies with a score of 8.7, which is as popular as the audience. "Diego Rose" is in sharp contrast.

Faced with these two completely different situations, Murphy himself also analyzed it. The most criticized place for "Diego-Ros" is the smooth narrative rhythm and the climax of the plot transition.

This is also the biggest difference between this film and "City of Chaos".

Although "City of Chaos" has been touted by many fans as a very connotative and thoughtful film, there is one thing Murphy is sure that when watching this film, fans will not really think about the problem because the film is too fast. Well, there is no such frequent use of long shots as in "Diego Rose".

The scenes are short, the editing is sharp, and the plot is constantly changing, finally pushing the plot and the mood of the audience to a climax. This is the biggest feature of "City of Chaos" except for the black elements.

From these aspects, "City of Chaos" is a typical Hollywood movie. Even if he is praised as a personality director, he actually knows that he is still a typical Hollywood director.

In fact, after Murphy's comparative thinking, it is not difficult to discover why his films in the past have become popular in North America and the entire Western world. Those films are so attractive because they tend to express simple joy, anger, sorrow, joy, and love. Emotions such as, hate, and basic human behaviors such as violence and sex.

These films have a fixed genre, and the technical pursuit is smooth and coherent, without showing traces. The audience is familiar with the routines of these films and obtains satisfaction from the realization of the expected effects. Then Murphy added some serious and dark looking ones. The theme, and then appropriate adjustments, to more in line with the audience's instinct to pursue fresh and exciting, rather than completely overthrowing and starting over.

Even compared to traditional Hollywood commercial films, he pursues a tighter rhythm, attracting people with constantly changing plots and images, and does not require people to use a lot of brains to think about the content, at least when watching movies.

In this way, the audience only needs to follow the rhythm of the film. The dark and serious content mainly generates thoughts after watching the film. This is in line with the psychological needs of most audiences to relax and pursue intuitive stimulation when watching movies.

In fact, it is not only Hollywood popcorn commercial films, even his main black, serious and realistic commercial films, in fact, they often simply formulate problems in real life.

Half of the money earned by Hollywood movies comes from the global market outside the United States. Even if a director like him directs A-level productions with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, he needs to consider that when the film is for audiences around the world, he needs to pay attention to digging out the general psychology of human nature. And demand.

There is one thing that Murphy himself cannot deny. Throughout his films, all the independent history and culture of a country are ignored.

In the eyes of some art directors, this actually damages the value of the film.

From the perspective of pure film art, Murphy can't deny this.

Even works that seem more thoughtful in Hollywood films like "American Beauty" have many clichés, excessive dramatization, and murder...So it is different from those advocated by art films.

But having said that, how many pure art films are there in this world today?

"If you want to seriously discuss the chaotic and complex problems in life, you need people to use their brains to analyze them. Movies that analyze the problems put forward the audience's requirements beyond basic audiovisual, that is, such films need to be understood by art, and the audience must infer the screen. What is not directly expressed on the world, discover the hidden meaning in the unseen and unheard..."

Thinking of this, Murphy couldn't help shook his head, let alone an ordinary audience, I am afraid that quite a few directors can't do it.

A few days ago, he watched an interview with a European film director on the Internet. Although he didn't agree with what he said about art films, he still left a deep impression.

In an interview, the European director believed that because of the continuous development and change of human values, politics, history, culture, and the environment will change. Some highly experimental and advanced films may be better understood and more serious in the future. Of artists are always exploring how to use new techniques to express new ideas to surpass the current limitations. There will be failures in this, but movies and other arts and even science are interlinked, and they always gain on the basis of a large number of failures. If you do not innovate, you will regress.

There are also different types of artists. Some people create works that mainstream audiences like, while others are constantly exploring and striving to innovate. It is this force that promotes the continuous development of art.

The latter view Murphy is more agreeable. Strictly speaking, most Hollywood directors will create works that mainstream audiences like.

At this time, the commercial vehicle arrived at Santa Monica Commercial Plaza. Murphy also stopped his thoughts, turned his head and looked out the window, and the lights flickered outside. It seemed that there were many reporters.

Several bodyguards and Bill Rossis took the lead to get out of the car. After isolating the reporters, they opened the car door for Murphy. Under their support, Murphy went straight to the exhibition area in the center of the Plaza Building regardless of the reporter's messy questions. .

Santa Monica Commercial Plaza is one of the places where Hollywood movies often engage in activities. It connects to Santa Monica Beach in front. It is the most fashionable shopping destination in California and a shopping center on the west side of Los Angeles.

"Murphy, it's Murphy..."

As soon as he walked near the exhibition area, Murphy heard a high-pitched shout, "Murphy! Murphy!"

Although his voice was chaotic, his name was still legible.

In order to avoid confusion for movie fans, the organizer arranged for Murphy to walk through the east side entrance. At this time, he looked up and saw a long line in the lobby and near the main entrance of the commercial plaza, looking out from the transparent glass door. , I can't see where the end of the team is.

After all, this era has changed, and the appeal of great directors is not much worse than that of superstars.

Entering the temporary exhibition area, several bodyguards followed Murphy all the time, for fear of over-enthusiastic fans...

"Director Stanton..."

The person in charge of the event was a subordinate of Carla-Fiss. At this time, he walked over to say hello. Murphy nodded to him and walked directly to the signature table. As he walked, he said, "Better, let's get started."

Bette hurriedly followed Murphy and reminded, "There is still half an hour from the beginning of the signing, do you want to take a break?"

Murphy shook his head, "No, it looks like a lot of people are here today."

He walked behind the autograph table, pulled the chair away and sat down, and the movie fan holding the DVD on the other side was instantly impatient when he saw that the signing was about to start ahead of schedule.

Bette was prepared and pressed the button of the microphone pinned to his collar, and said loudly, "There are a lot of people here today, and everyone supports Murphy. Murphy also came here for a while and insisted that the signing start early. In order to satisfy more fans, please line up and keep order!"

With the spread of the sound, the fans became quieter, and with the help of security personnel at the scene, the restless team quickly restored order. Then the staff opened the isolation zone and let the fans walk in.