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In fact, last weekend, Murphy and Gal Gadot hosted David Robbie and Margot Robbie brothers and sisters in the manor. Some things weren’t stated clearly by both parties, but they were all clear. As long as Margot -Robbie's audition effect is okay, he will definitely use his own people first. This is not just Murphy, Hollywood directors basically do this.

Murphy didn't care if Margot Robbie thanked him in person. Not only did the two have known each other for almost ten years, she was also Gal Gadot's best friend and David Robbie's sister.

That's just joking.

But Gal Gadot replied very seriously, "She will thank you in person later, and now she is going to the Death Star Building. She said that after the audition, she will come to us and come to us, the influence will not be good."

"Not good?" Murphy raised an eyebrow. "Maggie still cares about this."

Gal Gadot shrugged, "She is afraid that it will not affect you badly."

Murphy shook his head, "How can I care about this."

What's wrong with using one's own person? In Hollywood, it can be said that directors use their own people with confidence, and it is an unwritten rule recognized in the circle.

Taking Murphy's coffee cup, taking a sip, Gal Gadot turned to the opposite side of Murphy, pulled a swivel chair to sit down, and said, "You are a director, and you don't understand the difficulty of an actor's survival."

"As if you know it well?" Murphy rolled his eyes on purpose.

Except for a temporary cameo of Wonder Woman in "Man of Steel", Gal Gadot hasn't played any other roles at all.

Gal Gadot ignores Murphy's question and continues, "An actor who develops well like Maggie can easily be rejected by other actors."

Murphy nodded slightly, which was true.

Although Margot Robbie is not so popular nowadays, the role of the three fools has also made her name spread around the world. Everyone knows that an actress like her can emerge as soon as she enters Hollywood. For what, most people in the circle know that she has a close relationship with Murphy's team, and there are even tabloids hyping that she and Gal Gadot are gay.

Murphy has also seen these news, and the gossip lace of tabloids has never been afraid of fraud.

For example, he himself, even today, there are tabloids speculating that he and James Franco are gay, and Gal Gadot and Lily Collins are just the cover of the two of them.

The two said a few more words, Gal Gadot stood up, "Carla asked someone to help Warner over there, to see what they mean to Maggie and Harley Quinn, this will have a result, I'll give it to Kara makes a call."

"Yeah." Murphy waved his hand.

Since he offered sky-high rewards to Warner Bros. and DC Comics, he has basically been disconnected from there. It is said that Zach Schneider will continue to direct the future "Justice League" series.

Thinking of "Justice League", Murphy couldn't help but shook his head. He still couldn't reverse the direction of a super giant like Warner Bros. alone.

He really doesn’t know what the top leaders of Warner Bros. think. The cards in his hand are much better than Marvel. The three giants of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. The movies produced by Captain America and his like are completely different.

Because of "Man of Steel", Murphy has been paying attention to the DC superhero series, especially "Batman vs. Superman."

With the super high box office brought by Superman and Batman’s appeal in the first weekend, the film has now pushed the North American box office past 260 million US dollars. This result seems to be good, but after the first weekend, the film’s North American box office It only rose by more than 80 million US dollars, which was only a little more than half of the box office of the first weekend, which looked quite embarrassing.

The lack of stamina of "Batman vs. Superman" is quite obvious, anyone can see it, but its reputation has plummeted all the way compared to the slipping box office.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes in "Batman vs. Superman" has fallen to 28%, with a Metacritic score of 39, and the audience rating is basically the same. The IMDB score is only 7.2. The audience's reputation is very unsatisfactory, and the media rating is almost brutal.

As one of the most anticipated super blockbusters this year, whether it is a cast or behind-the-scenes production, this film is considered to be the first line of Hollywood. According to the general principle, even if it is bad, it will not be so bad as it is now.

This can be said to be a bitter experience and lesson, especially for directors like Murphy, who mainly focuses on commercial films and does not make ordinary popcorn films.

Now that there is nothing to be busy in this meeting, Murphy simply thought about the mistakes made in this film, including this and the previous one, which is really worthy of alert, and also reminded him not to make such mistakes.

First of all, Murphy thinks of adaptation. Any Hollywood director will deal with adaptation types of movies. The adaptation must not be a simple copy of the original event or original work.

In this regard, "Batman v Superman" is very typical.

In order to watch "Superman Super", the audience needs to read "Death of Superman", "The Dark Knight Returns", "Heaven Comes", "Injustice", "Superman: Red Son", "Justice League:" "Origin" and other DC comics, but having said that, a super blockbuster that cost 250 million US dollars and was screened in mainstream theaters, its core turned out to be a collective carnival of niche fans, I have to say "Bat Super" From the beginning, I didn't consider the general audience's weak acceptance.

In addition, Warner Bros. has made the mistake of adventurous no matter whether it was once or now, and the director not only didn't know how to adjust, but also made adventurous more impatient.

Especially in the past, and the reason why Warner Bros. and DC are so eager to release the "Justice League" movie is naturally to fight with the enemy Marvel to the end: aren't you all in the third stage? Has Hejiu Bifen started a civil war? Okay, then I'll go straight to "Bat Super" to catch up with all your previous progress. Our "Injustice" is also a comic of the heroic civil war, all of which is forced into the script for me.

But having said that, Marvel started from "Iron Man" in 2008. It took eight years and more than a dozen movies to build a movie universe in two stages. DC wanted to use a "Bat Super War" to open and close the level. This ambition It's no longer a fat man eating a bite, it's just a duck to the shelf.

So there is a full version that lasts for three hours, compressing 5 comic plots or even more, and there is no fan film absent from the 6 giants of the Justice League. Such a complicated paving need to be inserted in the main film. It turned out to be Zach Schneider, who was widely criticized in narrative. It is conceivable how scattered the film will be.

It's not that Zach Schneider has a problem, but the way Warner Bros. and Zach Schneider are working together is incorrect.

Zach Schneider has always been a controversial director and a rare stylized director on the Hollywood assembly line. His personal style is mainly reflected in the sound and picture level-the color of the picture is highly saturated, a large amount of slow motion lyrical, narrative montage, and comic-style composition are all the director's image tags.

In short, what the director produced is more like a violent aesthetic cartoon or a formal aesthetic MV. Graphical thinking takes precedence over dramatic thinking. This has led to Zach Schneider’s works being almost all postmodern. Formal academic tyrant, genre narrative scumbag.

Even Zach Schneider admits that he is first of all obsessed with the perspective when making movies, so he also uses the aesthetics of comics as much as possible in the movies.

In this "Batman vs. Superman", Zach Schneider continued his unique image style—as long as it reaches the stage where lyrical is needed, Zach Schneider immediately fires up, slow motion, close-ups, and time-space conversion bombing. , There is no one to force the grid to be high.

For example, the unforgettable slow-motion narrative of Bruce Wayne's house at the beginning of the film, the cross-montage of intense media debates, and the tragic and unusual state funeral of Superman at the end of the film are all unforgettable.

But once there is no background music, no slow motion, no montage, no exquisite composition and stacking narrative, no more of the above-mentioned form factors that depend on survival, Zach Schneider can't shoot even the most basic positive and negative dialogue. , Coupled with the use of dreams and flashbacks to lay out the scenes that are already a little stream of consciousness. Frequent space-time transformations severely disrupt the coherence of the plot, which directly leads to the excessive fluidity of the story time and space, and irreversibly causes the narrative rhythm to be unbalanced. , The plot is fragmented.

Another point is the most basic logic of the film. This is something Murphy has been emphasizing. Perhaps it is not important in the eyes of some directors or editors.

Batman and Superman’s reasons for turning enemies into friends are really unconvincing, and completely fall short of the basic standard of "unexpected and reasonable" in film conversion. Such a sudden and awkward dramatic transition gives people the first feeling that they are watching the battle. Zach Schneider glanced at his watch: "It's time to fight the boss, let the master stop the trouble."

These are not Zach Schneider's problems, but more of the mistakes of Warner's decision-makers.

They hired a big formalist to play genre narratives, and they didn't let him choose the script. Zach Schneider had no choice but to exert himself in narrative form rather than narrative grammar.

Manga movies are no longer like before. They are purely a subculture played by a small audience. As the tastes of the audience become more and more sophisticated, in addition to having visual effects to support the scene, they must also strive to break through their own genre constraints and bring a unique one. Entertainment experience.

In addition, Warner Bros. limited the film PG-13, which greatly restricted Zach Schneider's play.

But having said that, with an investment of US$200 million in a film, it is impossible for any production company to let the director shoot and produce R-rated films...

Thinking of this, Murphy shook his head. This is really an unsolvable problem. Unless Warner Bros. has great courage, there will be no fundamental changes in the DC comic hero movies.

The current DC series started very early, still making mistakes...

The former DC series actually started not too late. For example, Murphy himself believed that "Batman: Hour of War" was a good entry point.