Even the best directors can't be completely free from external influences, and Murphy is determined to write the script in the early stages, and everything goes smoothly and smoothly, but when the team meets again on the set of the warehouse in Venice and the preparations officially begin, Gal Gadot's fears inevitably arise. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Murphy and Ross have an unusual relationship, which leads him to minimize the chances of the film failing or becoming a bad movie, so he starts to think about all aspects.

Shortly after the first funding for Twentieth Century Fox arrived, Murphy thought about it and suddenly felt that the original way of filming was not very good.

With this thought, he thought more, and for two whole days, locked himself in his office and reconsidered the theme of the film.

Just as "City of Chaos" reflects fear and conflict of ideas, Murphy's first decision before making the film is the theme of the film, and this one is mainly about the impact of social environment on people, as well as personal choices......

Is such a theme appropriate for Rose? Being violated by a Catholic priest was the direct cause of his path of no return, but Ross was not the only one who was violated, what about the others?

For two short days, Murphy's mind flashed through countless thoughts, unable to make a decision, until he remembered the lesson he had taken on biographical films when he was a student on the other side of the Pacific.

"Yes, Ross is an exception."

Thinking of the cookie-cutter biographical films and TV series, Murphy finally put aside his doubts and strengthened his original idea, "But this is a personal biographical film of Ross, so why bother with other people?" ”

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

Murphy then begins to recall biopics and movies he had seen on the other side of the Pacific, as well as some theoretical questions that would have kept him awake and avoided making the most basic mistakes.

Contemporary movies are almost inseparable from the description of characters, almost all films are about the relationship between characters and time and space, and character biographies are the best and most difficult to shoot in movies. Speaking of difficult filming, the biggest difficulty in biopics is that the creator must maintain a relatively neutral attitude, refuse to judge the value while making the story wonderful.

This is quite demanding for the director, especially if the protagonist is still a notorious character.

With the education that Murphy once received, making a biographical film of a person like Ross must send him to hell completely, but the question is, does someone like Rose have no good side like he helped him and Robert Downey Jr. and some other people in prison?

Of course, you must not just focus on his good side and be a great person, which would be too low-level, naïve and cheeky.

After reasserting his train of thought and keeping the original theme unchanged, Murphy recalls the theories he had learned at the professional school opposite, as well as some of the typical problems that the director had raised at the time that led to the failure of biopics.

During the time when he was educated in film, there was hardly a brilliant biopic in the film industry opposite.

Why has it been difficult for the film industry there to make good biographical films for a long time? Murphy still remembers that many people once said when analyzing the reasons that the filming of character biopics is often due to the living life of the character prototype or the interference of his descendants, which makes it difficult for the director to look at the protagonist in the biopic from an objective perspective when shooting.

But in the eyes of his mentor, such reasons seem to be an excuse for the film's own shortcomings, and in the history of world cinema, there have been many disputes between biopic directors and biopic archetypes.

As early as 1941, at the age of 25, Orson Welles took out his debut film "Citizen Kane", because the film alluded to the press tycoon at the time, Hirst, who was dissatisfied with the treatment of his own image in the film, and tried his best to block the release of the film. On the other hand, he bought a large number of copies and negatives of "Citizen Kane" and destroyed them uniformly, making it impossible for many theaters to release "Citizen Kane" at that time.

Despite all this difficulty, Orson Welles still did not give in and decided to let the film be released as scheduled, and the result can be imagined, "Citizen Kane" suffered a box office waterloo.

To this day, "Citizen Kane" has not affected its value because of the box office failure, and in the "Top 100 Movies of a Century" selected by the American Film Institute, "Citizen Kane" ranks first on the list.

The reason for the success of "Citizen Kane" was first of all that director Orson Welles dared to choose controversial characters as the protagonists of his biopic.

Although Hearst is a newspaper tycoon, he even does not hesitate to concoct fake news in order to get more attention for his newspaper. However, in the film "Citizen Kane", the director is not in a hurry to make a one-sided value judgment about Kane as the embodiment of Hearst, but chooses to present Kane in their eyes through the memories of five people who have spent time with Kane.

In the eyes of Kane's adoptive father, Kane was a young man with big ideals and political ambitions; In the eyes of Kane's partner, Kane is another demon who does not hesitate to break his previous oath in order to achieve his goal, and it is through the memories of different people that a multi-faceted and three-dimensional image of Kane is established.

On the other hand, the biopics of characters over there for a long period of time often take heroes and great men as the protagonists, and the value judgments are clear at a glance, the good guys are excellent, and the bad guys are extremely bad, which does not reflect the complexity of the characters themselves.

However, Murphy also knows that many times it is not the director who wants to do this, and the reasons are very complex, especially when standing in Hollywood and looking at the other side, other films are better to say, and there are too many restrictions on personal biographical films.

The biopics over there have always been difficult to shoot, there are too many constraints, and it is not easy to play, neither can they make up the plot out of thin air like many so-called "personal biopics" in Hollywood, nor can they be truthfully recorded like some biographical films, in short, they not only shackle the imagination, but also dismember the real history.

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

Therefore, these movies not only lost their audience, but even the latecomers hardly had any popularity.

In this way, only the positive side is depicted, there is no negative side, there is no contradiction level of the character's own character, and there will be no huge life contradictions and conflicts with the surrounding people, and the plot will not be shocked, let alone an excellent movie, I am afraid that it is 108,000 miles away from a qualified movie.

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

For example, the lack of the level of character of the characters, in order to increase the sense of contradiction in the movie, many directors can only substitute the characters into the environment of the struggle between the country and the nation and the enemy, and replace the small contradictions of the characters with big contradictions, so the effect is the image of a temple like a high wind and bright festival.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is simply building a shrine, and the gap between it and the living character with seven emotions and six desires is too big.

Compared with the directors on the other side of the ocean, Murphy is undoubtedly facing a much more relaxed filming and production environment, at least there will be no political restrictions.

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

Don't underestimate these, the parties or descendants of personal biopics often become obstacles to the shooting, production and release of films.

Murphy remembers very well that after the release of the movie starring a certain king surnamed Liu, he was accused by the so-called "descendants" of Zhao Yun who suddenly appeared, saying that Zhao Yun did not die in battle, but died in the end, 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 had discussed it with him, and the director couldn't help but think: "Didn't I just imagine it out of thin air, isn't it so real that it still makes people act?" Why don't you sue Luo Guanzhong for compiling Zhao Yun, the miscellaneous general in historical facts, into the Five Tiger Generals? Dare to love can only be made up to listen to, then the next time the return shot will make Zhao Yun resurrect with full blood on the spot, and he will be immortal. ”

The movie of Guan Erye shot by someone in the back is much better, at least it will not be harassed by the so-called descendants, because historical records record that Guan Yu killed the Wei general Pang De when he flooded the Seventh Army, and later when the Wei army invaded Chengdu, Pang De's son Pang Hui was the vanguard, and he killed Guan Yu's heirs and ethnicity, resulting in the destruction of the door.

After the broadcast of that film, if a Guan Yu "descendant" came to sue, he could directly take off his shoes and slap his face......

Even these highly entertaining films that can't be called biographies at all will be troubled, let alone real biographical films, and Murphy doesn't have to consider the disadvantages in this regard, which are extremely powerful conditions for him as a director and for the entire crew.

After three days of retreat, Murphy completely solved the conceptual problem, called a meeting of all the heads of the crew, and the preparation of the film named "Diego Rose" was also on track.

In terms of actors, although the Stanton party members joined en masse, they still needed to find suitable actors, such as the bald black man next to Ross, and the crew needed to find a black actor who was not difficult to engage and not glassy.

In addition, the crew will be filming on location in Los Angeles, and Murphy will also bring people back to the place where they started for a long time. (To be continued.) )