Hollywood Road

In the early morning, Beverly Hills has begun a busy day. The mansion on the oak road exudes incredible warmth and charm. In one of the villas covering an area of ​​80,000 square feet, James Franco woke up from his sleep. Here, as soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a huge makeup photo of a magician on the other side of the bed.

"A crazy day has begun!"

James Franco murmured a few words, and quickly left James Franco and entered the state of a magician. He grabbed the black costume he brought from the crew next to him, put it on his body, and washed it as quickly as possible. Holding the iconic magic ball, he walked out of the bedroom and walked into the rehearsal room next to him.

This is a very large rehearsal room. In the middle of the room, there is a huge model sand table with a sweeping view of Manhattan.

Walking to the sand table, James Franco stared at the location of the Brooklyn Bridge for a while, muttering to himself, "Cut off all traffic on Manhattan Island, create a reason for forcing people to leave, and then install a bomb on the ship... …"

"Hahaha..." He let out a weird laugh, which was hoarse and harsh, "Let them all blow up! Everyone becomes badass!"

James Franco had a weird smile on his face, as if he was really planning an attack on Manhattan.

Suddenly, he felt the lingering sound of mosquito wings flapping in his head, "buzzing...buzzing...", the sound changed from small to loud, and gradually escalated into huge booms. He felt that something was squeezing out of his blood vessels and almost cracked his body. The sound around him was covered with a sound insulation layer and it was blurred and deformed like an electronic device, and the patterns in his eyes kept shaking and distorting.

The skin began to get cold, James Franco felt it twitching involuntarily, and the kitten who did not know where it came from scratched the raised goose bumps with sharp claws, the itching pain gradually penetrated into the bone along the pores, he thought with both hands I can't touch it, I want to scratch it, but it doesn't work, I can only shake my body to rub the bones with the flesh and blood in an attempt to relieve itching.

Since hiding at home to study the role of magician, and more and more able to grasp the character's emotions, he has had this strange feeling.

James Franco closed his eyes, shook his head vigorously, and stood here and waited quietly for a few minutes, completely getting rid of the state of a magician.

There seems to be a psychological suggestion that all the weird feelings in the body and brain suddenly disappeared, and his whole person became energetic.

Gradually, James Franco returned to normal.

"I don't know how the crew is preparing?"

Thinking of this, he left the rehearsal room, ready to go to the warehouse studio in Venice to see, "Let's go see that guy Murphy."

In the warehouse set in Venice, Murphy is discussing Chris Dan’s action design with the action director. In the previous movie, Chris Dan defined himself as the arrester rather than the judge. Set an unbreakable bottom line so as not to slip into the abyss. This determines that he will not use weapons extensively, but will focus on close hand-to-hand combat. In order to meet Murphy's realistic and fierce requirements, the action director and his team are dedicated to Henry Cavill designed a set of mixed martial arts that can be upgraded at any time according to his own conditions and the opponent's situation.

This kind of zero-distance physical resistance also destined Henry Cavill to need a lot of exercise.

Murphy knows very well that action scenes are very important for films to be attractive.

The previous movie is absolutely classic, but the action scenes can only be said to be relatively ordinary. If it is not supported by a strong industrial system, the action scenes are not even qualified, especially the scene of Batman and the mob. Some places are true. It makes people unable to look directly at it, not to mention the level of the action scene, and it does not even conform to the logic of normal people's thinking.

The discussion ended, and as soon as the action director left, James Franco knocked on the door and walked in.

"Hi, Murphy." James Franco was not at all polite, pulled a chair, sat opposite Murphy with Erlang's legs folded, and asked casually, "Is the work going well?"

"Everything went well." Murphy glanced at him, frowning slightly, "Where have you been this month?"

Had it not been for the frequent phone calls between the two parties, he might have thought that James Franco had disappeared from the earth out of thin air.

"I... um, I..." James Franco shrugged, with a rather awkward smile, "I shut myself up in a villa in Beverly Hills, studying the role of a magician."

Hearing what James Franco said, Murphy couldn't help putting down the job at hand and looked up at him seriously.

With just a glance, Murphy can see that James Franco has obviously changed from the last time they met.

He is thinner than before. It seems that he has not rested well recently, and his whole person looks a little haggard. As long as he pays a little attention, he can find thick dark circles under his eyes.

"Jim, didn't I say that if you have any questions, please contact me?" Murphy asked, pointing at him, "You are in a very bad state of mind."

James Franco’s hard work is good, but he doesn’t want to see that the film hasn’t started shooting, Hulanlan will break his body first.

"Hmm... I studied the movies and characters you recommended, then shut myself in the villa room for a whole month, wrote a diary, tried different kinds of madness, and finally got myself into a state of a mentally ill..."

Leaning on the back of the chair, James Franco pulled out a smile, "Since last week, I can only sleep for four hours a night, thinking all night, and being exhausted."

"You..." Murphy shook his head, "Do you remember what I said?"

James Franco smiled again, "Don't worry, Murphy. I'm very clear-headed, and I know where my limits are."

"It's good to be sober! If you are depressed because of the character, they will never let me go!"

Murphy was naturally talking about other people in Stanton's party. James Franco knew this, and finally laughed and said to Murphy, "You, sometimes you think too much."

Indeed, Murphy also admits this. Maybe James Franco can't understand it, but he knows it very well. After all, Heath Ledger can't forget it at will.

Murphy stood up and walked to the opposite side, patted James Franco on the shoulder, "Give yourself a vacation and relax, call Lily, it's best to go to the Caribbean or Hawaii for a vacation, and then wait for my notice. "

James Franco nodded, thinking of the worse state of life recently, "Well...I should definitely go out and relax."

Murphy said quickly, "You wait for my call, don't rush into the crew."

Seeing that James Franco's mental state is not very bad, he also relaxes, but let him relax first, health is more important than role.

Leaving James Franco away, Murphy went to Gal Gadot's office and briefly looked at the financial statements of the crew.

One of the basic skills of Hollywood producers includes "financial statements." Hollywood's complete industrial production system has extremely complex requirements for production management. Producers are required to prepare financial statements every week, including how to spend money this week... …

This part of the work of the crew is jointly responsible by Gal Gadot and a third-party guarantee. Although they are both producers, the division of labor between Murphy and Gal Gadot is completely different.

Compared to Gal Gadot's overall management, Murphy is completely a creative producer.

In a Hollywood film and television series, the producer is the manipulator of the project and has a key determinant of its success or failure. The creative producer who is the driving force of the project is all creativity. Whether it is story interpretation, actor selection, director selection, or even film promotion, it requires the pioneering and sincere brains of creative producers.

Throughout the project, creative producers play multiple roles at all times—mother, father, lover, affair, close friend, teacher, fighter, negotiator, arbitrator, dreamer, etc.

The creative producer watched the completion of the project, dreamed about the next project, gave birth to the project and grasped it in his hands, giving the project its own life, constantly shaping and shaping, injecting content and showing it to the whole world, and then giving the hope of being able to stand out.

For a director, nothing is more gratifying than working with a creative producer. There is no marriage story of any film or audiovisual product that can match the excellent cooperation between the producer and the director.

But even in Hollywood, the number of outstanding creative producers is quite limited. Gal Gadot still has some gaps. Murphy had to take up part of the creative producer's work, and Gal Gadot was responsible for the specific management work.

Just as he climbed up from the bottom step by step, the producer also needs the accumulation of work experience.

In addition, whether in preparation or filming, just like the division of labor between him and Gal Gadot, Murphy requires his crew to have a highly specialized division of labor.

As we all know, the production system of the Hollywood film industry is based on a finely divided production process. At present, there are about 140 work types in Hollywood film production processes.

Although film is an entertaining spiritual product, Hollywood has materialized and industrialized it from the needs of the market.

As a result of this fine division of labor, on the one hand, every detail of film production, such as set design, scene performance, character dialogue, etc., will be done very well and exquisitely because of the control of quite proficient experts; on the other hand, When every detail expert wants to express his creative personality, many personalities will eventually be submerged in the noise of the crowd due to collisions and inability to grasp the overall situation, becoming a subsidiary of production procedures and standardization. Things.

Up to now, all Hollywood commercial productions are part of it.

However, Murphy also established the concept of a "big movie industry" with 20th Century Fox in the process of production.