Hollywood Road

Even the best director cannot be completely immune to external factors. Murphy is determined. When the script was written in the early stage, everything went smoothly and normally, but when the team again assembled at the warehouse studio in Venice, After the preparations officially started, the situation that Gal Gadot was worried about inevitably emerged.

The relationship between Murphy and Rose is unusual, which leads him to want to minimize the probability of the film failing or becoming a bad film, so he began to consider all aspects of the situation.

Once people think too much, they tend to deny themselves. Soon after the first funds of 20th Century Fox were put in place, Murphy, after thinking about it, suddenly felt that the original shooting method was not very good.

With such an idea, he thought more, shut himself in his office for two full days, and reconsidered the theme of the film.

Just like "City of Chaos" reflects fear and conflict of ideas, before Murphy made the film, the first thing he determined was the theme of the film. The current one is mainly about the impact of the social environment on people and personal choices...

Is this theme appropriate for Rose? Being assaulted by a Catholic priest was the direct reason that led him on a path of no return, but it was not only Rose who was assaulted, but what about the others?

In just two days, countless thoughts flashed through Murphy's mind, and he couldn't make a decision until he remembered the class about biographical films he had taken when he was studying on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

"Yes, Rose is an example."

Thinking of the film and TV series with the same personal biographical character, Murphy finally cast aside his doubts and firmed up his original idea, "But this is a personal biographical film of Ross, why bother with other people?"

No matter what kind of biographical film, artistic processing is inseparable after all, but the degree of artistic processing must be mastered. Murphy has enough negative teaching materials in this regard.

Later, Murphy began to recall the biographical films and movies he had seen on the other side of the Pacific, as well as some theoretical problems, which could keep him awake and avoid making the most basic mistakes.

Contemporary movies can hardly escape the description of characters. Almost all films are about the relationship between characters and time and space. Biography of characters is one of the best and the most difficult in the film. The good point is that, When watching certain documentaries, I feel that I am watching a person’s Chronicle Discovery History Channel, which is so plain that I can’t squeeze a drop of oil; and speaking of the difficulty of shooting, the biggest difficulty of biopics is that the creators have to maintain a relatively neutral attitude and reject value. Make the story wonderful while judging.

This is quite demanding for the director, especially when the protagonist is still a notorious figure.

With the education that Murphy received, shooting a biographical film of people like Rose must completely drive him into hell, but the problem is that people like Rose are like helping him and Robert Downey Jr. and some others in the prison. Is there no good side to people like that?

Of course, you can't just stare at his good side and take a photo of him. That would be too low-level, naive and cheeky.

After refining the idea and keeping the original theme unchanged, Murphy recalled the relevant theories he had learned in the opposite professional school, as well as some typical problems that the director mentioned at that time that led to the failure of biographical films.

During the time he received his film education, there was almost no outstanding biographical film in the opposite film industry.

Why has it been difficult for the film industry over there to produce good biographical films for a long time? Murphy still remembers that when analyzing the reasons, many people said that when shooting biopics, it is often because of the existence of the prototype of the character or the interference of subsequent generations that it is difficult for the director to look at the protagonist in the biopic from an objective perspective when shooting.

However, in the eyes of his mentor, this reason seems to be an excuse for the film's own deficiencies. In the history of world cinema, there have also been many disputes between biopic directors and biopic characters.

As early as 1941, the then 25-year-old Orson Wells produced his debut work "Citizen Kane" because the film alluded to the newspaper tycoon Hirst at the time, and Hirst was dissatisfied with the film. Regarding the handling of his image, he tried his best to obstruct the release of the film. On the one hand, he published an article in his newspaper criticizing Hollywood in an attempt to force Hollywood to abandon the release of the film "Citizen Kane"; on the other hand, he also bought a large number of "Citizen Kane". The copies and negatives of "Citizen Kane" were destroyed together, making it impossible for many theaters to show "Citizen Kane" at that time.

Despite such difficulties, Orson Wells still did not give in, and decided to let the film be released as scheduled. As you can imagine, "Citizen Kane" was hit by Waterloo at the box office.

To this day, "Citizen Kane" has not affected its own value due to the failure of the box office. In the "100-year-old movie" selected by the American Film Institute, "Citizen Kane" ranks first on the list.

The mentor analyzed the reasons for the success of "Citizen Kane", first of all that director Orson Wells dared to choose controversial characters as the protagonists of his biopic.

Although Hirst is a newspaper tycoon, in order to allow his newspaper to gain more attention, he even did not hesitate to concoct fake news. However, in the film "Citizen Kane", the director was not eager to make a one-sided value judgment for Kane as the incarnation of Hearst, but chose to show them through the memories of five people who had been with Kane. Kane.

In the eyes of Kane’s adoptive father, Kane is a young man with lofty ideals and political ambitions; in the eyes of Kane’s partners, Kane is another demon who violates his previous vows in order to achieve his goals. It is through From the memories of different people, a multi-faceted, three-dimensional and deep image of Kane was established.

On the other hand, the biopics over a long period of time often take heroes and great men as the protagonists, and the value judgments are clear at a glance, good people are very good, bad people are extremely bad, and they do not reflect the complexity of the character's own image.

However, Murphy also knows that many times it is not the director who wants to do this. The reasons are very complicated, especially when watching from the other side of Hollywood. It is good to say something about other movies. There are too many restrictions on personal biographical films.

The biopics over there have always been difficult to shoot. They are too constrained to perform well. They can neither create plots out of thin air like many so-called "personal biopics" in Hollywood, nor can they record truthfully like some biographical films. In short, it not only constrains the imagination, but also dismembers the real history. Generally speaking, it is based on praise, and the negative history is implicit or not mentioned as much as possible. In general, it has not deviated from the shooting method of the color film of the year-the perfect production method.

Those people are not perfect like people, but just perfect symbols.

Therefore, these films have not only lost the audience, but even latecomers have almost no spread.

In this way, only the positive side is described, there is no negative side, the character has no contradictory level, and there will be no huge conflicts in life with the surrounding people, and the plot will be calm, let alone an excellent movie, I am afraid that it is not a qualified movie. All are as far as one hundred and eight thousand miles.

Of course, the director over there is also aware of the existence of the problem, but it is limited to various unspeakable reasons, and can only find another way to solve it.

For example, lack of the character level of the characters. In order to increase the sense of contradiction in the film, many directors can only substitute the characters into the environment of the country and the nation fighting against the enemy, and replace the small contradictions of the characters with big contradictions, so the effect is a high-spirited temple. The image of the palace.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this is simply building a sacred platform, which is too far away from the real character who has seven emotions and six desires.

Compared with the directors across the ocean, Murphy's filming and production environment is undoubtedly much more relaxed, at least there will be no political restrictions.

Not only that, but there is a more favorable side, that is, Murphy will not face troublesome characters like Jordan Belfort, after all, Rose will not take him and the crew to court because of the adaptation of some parts of the film.

Don't underestimate these, the parties or descendants of personal biopics often hinder the filming, production and release of the film.

Murphy remembers very clearly that after a movie starring in a certain Liu surnamed Tianwang, he was accused by the so-called "descendants" of Zhao Yun who suddenly appeared, saying that Zhao Yun was not killed in battle, but died of life, and threatened to go to court.

It is estimated that the director must have been sweating when he heard this letter.

At that time, Murphy’s classmates also discussed with him, and the director was not allowed to think: "I just imagined it out of thin air, is it so true that it is a romance? Why don't you sued Luo Guanzhong for editing the miscellaneous general Zhao Yun in history? Are you in the general of the Five Tigers? Dare to love you can only make up a good sound. Then the next time you shoot, Zhao Yun will be resurrected with blood, and he will be immortal."

The movie of Guan Erye shot by someone later is much better. At least it will not be harassed by the so-called posterity. Because of historical records, when Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army and killed the general of the Wei Kingdom, Pound, and later when the Wei Army invaded Chengdu. , Pound’s son, Pang Hui, was the vanguard, and he completely cut off Guan Yu’s descendants and ethnicities to destroy the door.

After the film was broadcast, if a "descendant" of Guan Yu appeared to complain, he could just take off his shoes and draw his face...

Even these highly entertaining movies that cannot be called biographical films at all will be troubled, let alone true biographical films. Murphy does not have to consider the disadvantages in this regard, whether for his director or the entire crew. In all, they are extremely powerful conditions.

After three days of retreat, Murphy completely solved the problem of concept, convened a meeting with the heads of all departments of the crew, and the preparation of the film named "Diego-Ros" was also on the right track.

In terms of actors, although Stanton’s party members joined collectively, they still need to find suitable actors. For example, the bald black actor next to Rose needs to find a black actor who is not difficult to engage with and who is not glass-hearted.

In addition, the crew will be filmed on-site in Los Angeles, and Murphy will also take people back to the place where they have been long-lost fortune.