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After waiting in Los Angeles for a short time, Murphy received good news from Bill Rossis. He has won the support of several important figures such as Walter Robinson, and has already started with the "Boston Globe" newspaper. negotiation.

Overall, Bill Rossis is progressing relatively smoothly.

On the other hand, Murphy also persuaded Gal Gadot. Although she still had some opinions, she hid them in her heart. In the tenth century, Fox made contact.

According to Murphy's idea, the investment and scale of the film are not large, and it will be operated as an independent film as much as possible. It is now late July. If everything goes well, we will strive to screen the film in Los Angeles before the 2012 New Year. To get the most important ticket for the awards season.

Similar to this kind of biographical film, there can be no big market. The awards season is the best place to go.

But in this way, if you have a full budget, the entire film will only take half a year from shooting to operation, which can be said to be very stressful.

Murphy has already notified his team that the film will not have a particularly large scene. Given the ability of the entire team, as long as the time is hurry, the possibility of completion is still very high.

However, this requires the full support of Twentieth Century Fox.

Fortunately, Murphy has established a relatively strong cooperative relationship with Twentieth Century Fox in recent years, and there are also real power figures like Carla Fess echoing. As long as the script and project plan are completed, Twentieth Century Fox will give the green light to the project. It's not that difficult.

Such a film has a low investment and a natural topicality, coupled with Murphy's strong appeal, the risk of investment failure is not high.

Therefore, for Murphy himself, the most important thing at this stage is to complete the script.

In fact, since the conversation with Rose Prison, Murphy took the time to write stories about Rose. These are basically derived from Rose’s own narration, and some are Murphy’s own observations. Later, he also went to see the same state. The bald black man who grew up in prison with Rose, because Rose had told him, the other party also described Rose's growth and subsequent actions to Murphy as objectively as possible.

These are the most basic materials. After Murphy sorted it out, he determined the main line of the story before adding it to the script.

To compile such a film about the type of personal biography, the first and foremost thing is to shape the role of Diego Rose.

There are many things that a person has done in life. For example, Rose is now in his forties. If the script includes all his life history, it will definitely be too long and protracted. Murphy does not particularly understand Rose’s post-prison situation, so Specially intercepted the time period Rose from his youth to imprisonment.

The theme of the film is of course not to describe how wicked Diego Rose is as the protagonist, but to explore why Rose turned from an ordinary and ordinary boy to a big drug lord.

Diego Rose has real characters, Murphy will definitely shoot based on the facts he knows, but the film comes from life, but it is higher than life.

The characters are the characters in the story first, and the play itself tells the story. The characters must first obey the logic of the story before they have the meaning of existence. What the characters do in the story must conform to the setting of the characters and be logical. His behavior is credible.

The story and the characters should complement each other. The story promotes the birth of the characters, and the characters promote the plot. The setting of the characters becomes the inevitability of promoting the development of the plot. The development of the plot enriches the image of the character and ultimately helps the character to establish an image.

Both the story and the characters are the key to a good drama and should be indispensable.

Faced with a character like Diego Rose and a series of stories related to him, Murphy's first principle is to stand firm. This is the key to a successful personal biographical film.

One of the most important points is that Murphy himself must understand that from writing the script to preparing for the shooting and then to post-production, he is first a director and then others.

No one can be completely neutral, and the director is no exception, but to be relatively neutral at the very least, otherwise wantonly praising or belittling a person in a biographical film will only make the whole film a laughingstock, and it will also hurt the film. The protagonist becomes a laughing stock.

Like some of the biographical movies or TV series that he has seen, they praise the greatness of a person who always describes it. It seems that there is no defect, and it does not look like a person. This kind of film will only make people feel nauseous. In the meantime, if you belittle a person, you will definitely throw him down to eighteen levels of hell, and then slam on countless mountains, to appear that this person is useless, but falsely make people think that this is framed.

These two methods are undoubtedly the most low-level methods of shooting biographical movies. Murphy knows very well that as long as any one is committed, the film will basically be finished.

Therefore, the whole story is to show the process of transforming the character of Diego Rose from an ordinary person to a big drug lord with a suitable film technique and show it to the audience. As for how to evaluate this character, it is the audience's business.

However, this does not mean that he has to treat this character ruthlessly, but that he has to be full of emotion in the process of writing.

Does the creator have real feelings? Did the creator put himself into the heart of the character? Do creators love their characters? Did the creator put his emotions in the process? If you don't want to solve this problem, you will write the wrong one out of ten, make those two fatal mistakes, and treat the role inappropriately.

In fact, the process of in-depth writing is to cultivate another type of feeling with the character, reveal the life of the character little by little, and show the psychological process of the character little by little.

Murphy grew out of nothing, shaping the character's worldview and way of thinking step by step, and at the same time portrayed his inner obstacles: on the one hand, he felt that he was violated and unfairly treated and then abandoned himself, and even lived to be unsustainable; on the other hand; On the one hand, he can survive tenaciously, but he has to pay a considerable price for it.

This kind of gradual and in-depth cognitive process should also be reflected in the play, so that the audience, like the screenwriter, is curious, puzzled, and understood about the role, and finally resonates.

A successful screenwriter, after shaping the character to a certain level, he will feel that he is right in front of him, knowing what the character will do and how to say it. As far as screenwriters are concerned, the characters are real. Regardless of whether they have prototypes or not, what they create is not a virtual character, but the real life of you, me and him.

In addition, archetype characters like Rose have richer experiences than most people imagine. Therefore, the characters’ stories should be reprocessed on the basis of his experiences. Such scripts have vivid and infectious details. It's not a screenwriter's imagination.

This is not a commercial science fiction movie, but a biographical film. If a screenwriter puts "treasure" on his talents when writing, the risk will be extremely high. The truly outstanding screenwriters of this theme are the reality itself. .

Because a large amount of first-hand information was obtained in the early stage, and with a clear stand and theme, by the end of July, Murphy's script had basically completed the first draft, and the project plan that had been formulated long ago was handed over with the first draft. Kara Feith, she submitted it to Twentieth Century Fox for review.

Similar to this kind of typical niche movie, Murphy certainly can no longer take the remuneration in commercial production, and the total investment of the entire project is only 25 million US dollars, which is a typical small project for 20th Century Fox.

However, the goal of the film is very clear. Since it is a personal biographical film, it also explores the process of mental transformation, so it is natural to venture into the awards season.

Twentieth Century Fox will use the fastest time in the program to review the project. Murphy also notified his team that he is ready to come to Los Angeles to gather at any time, and he will continue to improve the script.

For a personal biographical film, after completing the first draft script, the most important improvement work is to continue to shape the protagonist.

Like this kind of movie, the protagonist’s personality and worldview need to be clear and full of presence, so that the audience can clearly perceive his position. The most ideal effect is that in a specific situation, the audience can predict the choice of the character. If Murphy Set a situation, such as heavy temptation or threats, but the audience does not know how his character will choose after seeing it, which shows that the character's worldview is not clear enough.

The most common and most suitable way of shaping is to throw the character in front of the choice.

Not only movie characters. In real life, people often face dilemmas. The final decision reflects the personality and ideas. The audience will like the protagonist of the movie, often because the character will do what they can understand but cannot do. select.

Therefore, letting the character face a dilemma is one of the best ways to shape a character.

Then there are the details, including Rose's appearance, which Murphy specifically noted in the script, no matter who the actor chosen is, he must look quite powerful.

This is not only in line with Ross's reality, but also what a big drug lord should have.

May I ask, if a protagonist with a little white face whose skin can be broken appears in this kind of movie, would the audience believe it?

After all these are completed, Murphy once again sculpts Rose’s childhood scenes. Psychologically, he likes to attribute people’s personalities and heart knots to childhood; and screenwriters also like to attribute the characters’ personalities and heart knots to " History".

This is a simple causal logic. Something in the past has created the current worldview, so that there are such actions and choices.

Generally speaking, the details in the script are not accidental or improvised, but carefully designed.

After Murphy was basically satisfied with the script, good news came from 20th Century Fox. The project was successfully established and 20th Century Fox was responsible for the investment and distribution.

At the same time, Robert Downey Jr. and the rest of the Stanton party also found Murphy.