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Murphy is unconcerned about the ripple effects that "The Wolf of Wall Street" and the series of hype associated with it may trigger, as long as the benefits are large enough, some of the risks are completely worth taking, and the performance of "The Wolf of Wall Street" in its second week of release also proves that everything is not useless. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Spurred on by a series of insider scandals about Wall Street, the North American single-day box office of "The Wolf of Wall Street" not only did not slowly decline as usual, but continued to rise in the three working days starting Tuesday.

$7.85 million on Wednesday and $8.25 million on Thursday......

Such a box office trend is completely inconsistent with normal market rules, and it has also surprised many professional forecasters.

Although the public opinion environment is very favorable to "The Wolf of Wall Street", on Friday night, in order to continue to increase the topicality of the film, Murphy gave a TV interview to Fox TV.

The interview took place on the first floor of the Fox Tower in Century City and took a one-on-one approach between Murphy and the host.

The interview with Murphy is a middle-aged male reporter named Jesse Waters, one of Fox TV's ace reporters, and he hosts O'Reilly Element, a Fox TV News Network's evening social current affairs talk show, which is currently one of the most watched news programs in the United States.

Twentieth Century Fox pulled Murphy on the show, naturally wanting more focus on "The Wolf of Wall Street."

"Hello, Murphy."

Seeing Murphy sitting in the chair across from him, Jesse Waters nodded slightly and asked, "Can we start?" ”

"Of course." Murphy made a gesture of please.

Since this was a live broadcast, the director of the show made the two recognize wait for a while, and when the time came, they said that it would start.

The three cameras used for the live broadcast were placed on the same side of the 180th parallel at the angles of Panorama, Murphy and Jesse Waters, just as Murphy shot the dialogue scenes, so that neither camera interfered with the other cameras.

Under the right armrest of Jesse Waters' armchair, where the camera can't shoot, there is a piece of paper that has finished writing the question, said an opening sentence, and solemnly introduced Murphy to the camera, he glanced at the note without a trace, and asked the first question.

"Murphy, as you know, you're good at making a lot of genres." Jesse Waters looked puzzled, "Why did you choose such a sensitive subject as The Wolf of Wall Street?" ”

"Making and making any film is a passionate process, and I've always been driven by the motivation to find my inner spiritual core." Murphy had already prepared the answers to many of his questions, "For me, cinema is exploring the meaning of the world, but as I was filming, I felt that the subject was getting deeper and deeper, and I was only scratching the surface...... I'm obsessed with finding a spiritual core of life – and that's the subject of most of my personal films, like Jordan Belfort's emptiness and Clark Kent's search for himself. ”

Jesse Waters' second question comes up right after, "But a lot of people are questioning the values reflected in The Wolf of Wall Street, which are at odds with our universal values." ”

Listening to the other party talk about the universal values of today's American society, Murphy did not shy away from saying, "Maybe everyone looks at things from a different perspective, and I see a world where there is extreme selfish materialism, and many people are driven by the 'pursuit of happiness'. ”

"They are not driven by 'true happiness,' but by the process of 'pursuing'," he emphasized. "The Wolf of Wall Street" can be seen as an exploration of the deadly sin of greed. ”

Speaking to reporters, Murphy's rhetoric was quite different from that of Carla Firth and Gal Gadot, "I think materialism and selfishness are the hallmarks of the decline of contemporary American society. ”

He pointed to his feet and said in a pretended deep voice, "This is a land of greed! That's why I did The Wolf of Wall Street, not to show this greed, but to get people into it, to be a part of it, to enjoy it, to be seduced, and finally to be part of it. ”

"Greed is indeed terrible, it can ruin a person!" Jesse Waters first held Murphy aloft, and then asked a sharp question, "Recently, some media pointed out that there are two major crimes in your film, what do you think?" ”

"Two major crimes?" Murphy didn't seem to have heard of it at all, "I've been busy with work lately, and I haven't seen it, which two counts?" ”

Jesse Waters glanced at Murphy, it was not a matter of coordination between the two parties in advance, but he specially prepared it, but he couldn't tell if Murphy really didn't know.

"One of the charges," Jesse Waters, still looking at Murphy, "believes that the film amplifies a distorted set of values." ”

"People who say that definitely didn't take this movie seriously."

Facing the live camera, of course, Murphy will not say that he doesn't care about the so-called political correctness and the correctness of the three views, but throws all the questions on Jordan Belfort's head, "The archetypal character of the protagonist is a man who is obsessed, completely desperate, free from all constraints, how far can he go?" How interesting is that, and what happens if people have such a force...... Could this story be about the darkness that exists in the depths of each of us? This thought has always fascinated me. ”

He paused for a moment, and then said, "I want to be as honest as possible to present this character and everything that happened to the character, not to evaluate this person, but to let the audience take his role and follow him." In a capitalist system with a free market, the rule of the game is to climb to the top at all costs...... This film is not about a good guy or a bad guy. ”

Jesse Waters grasped the point and asked, "So Jordan Belfort was the person who prompted you to make this film?" ”

"What intrigued me was the richness of the character's life, like being able to bring out all kinds of colors on the canvas." Murphy makes no secret of this, "The scope of his actions is huge, the various areas involved, all kinds of places, all kinds of interactions between people." Beyond that, there is the dark side of all this: the evil that endangers many people, and the person concerned may not be aware of it. ”

He shook his head and said, "Is this a phenomenon peculiar to the United States?" I can't be sure. But my intellect tells me that such people are everywhere, and that if our circumstances were a little different, we might have made the same mistakes as them. It's a universal humanity and we need to face it, not run away from it! ”

Hearing these words, Jesse Waters unconsciously felt in his heart that among the many public figures he has met and interviewed, Murphy Stanton is definitely the top player in packaging himself, and it is difficult not to admire these words.

Thinking so in his heart, he didn't stop, "Do you know what the second crime is?" ”

"Let me guess." Murphy shrugged, "It should be a matter of the scale of the film, right?" ”

Jesse Waters nodded and said, "Many people think that "The Wolf of Wall Street" is a rating of R-rated films, and the scale of NC-17 is not a bit big as a large-scale film? ”

"I don't think so." Murphy shook his head and said, "The first thing that came to my mind when making this film was 'blasphemy', 'blasphemy' as opposed to 'holy', and 'debauchery' as opposed to 'proper'. But not deliberately naked. Dew. 'Blasphemy' and 'fornication' are there, and they are the real textures of a particular culture. ”

"Did the MPAA ever ask you to modify it?" Jesse Waters asked.

"I'm an old friend of the MPAA." Murphy doesn't shy away from this, "I've been dealing with this agency since I started making films, and my films are all on the big side, and Man of Steel is no exception, but they're never violent for the sake of violence, for the sake of nakedness. Naked and naked. Dew! ”

Jesse Waters reacted very quickly and immediately said in a targeted manner, "But there is a scene in the film where a prostitute pulls a candle out of the buttocks of married Jordan Belfort and drips . Wax, you also used a close-up, isn't this scale big? ”

"This shot can't be seen alone, it has to be placed in the whole scene."

Speaking of this scene, Murphy laughed, "What is actually said here is that Jordan Belfort's wife is very angry with him, but Jordan Belfort doesn't even know where he is, what he is doing, and he lies to his wife, so I want the audience to see what he is doing." So, when the prostitute was dropping a candle on Jordan Belfort's back, he suddenly exclaimed, 'Oh yes! Oh yes! I remember! It's taken to the extreme, to show that he's really completely dazed, and there's actually a bit of humor to it. ”

"Hmm......" Jesse Waters nodded, and finally asked, "Money and drugs have broken all of Jordan Belfort's moral bottom line, and the audience obviously can't like such a protagonist, do you think they will still enjoy this film?" ”

The answer to that question is obvious, but Murphy doesn't pull the box office out and says that the Oscars need style, so he says, "Jordan Belfort is not the same as Bernard Madoff and Jeff Skilling - the latter two are not enough to run and crash a helicopter, compared to Jordan Belfort's image is more entertaining, and he himself is the epitome of entertainment to death." ”

Murphy concludes by emphasizing, "Shooting without a judgmental eye is a crucial part of a director's production. ”

The live show soon came to an end, and shortly after leaving the Fox Building, Murphy received the relevant data, and a total of nearly 7.5 million people tuned in to watch the live broadcast of the interview tonight, which is quite a good rating figure.

As for how much of it can be reflected at the box office of the film, it depends on the response of the two days of the weekend. (To be continued.) )