Chapter 383: Actor Candidates
In the face of Murphy's gushing, Gal Gadot is also tempted, and it seems very good to be able to work with Murphy and actually help him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, she also knows that she still has a long way to go if she wants to be like Kara Fez.
To be a good producer, you can't help but have the support of someone like Murphy and the ability to match it, and Gal Gadot knows that he is not enough in this area.
Without any surprises, the conversation ended with Gal Gadot finally nodding in agreement, and since this is a project invested by Warner Bros., although Murphy has the right to decide on the actor, it is impossible to make Gal Gadot an actor of Wonder Woman casually, and a programmed audition is inevitable.
On the other hand, Gal Gadot will also join the crew as a personal assistant to Robert, assistant director and legal counsel, in order to gain practical work experience.
Murphy is not stupid, and he will not rashly let Gal Gadot take an important position, which is not only irresponsible for the crew, but also irresponsible for her personally.
Gal Gadot is indeed very smart, with a fairly high IQ and EQ, but there is still a long way to go from being a strong woman in the workplace like Carla Firth.
It can be said that Murphy has planned a common career path for the two.
There are so many husband-and-wife teams of directors and producers like this in Hollywood, and they have even formed a mature model, such as the former Catherine Kennedy, Peter Jackson, Christopher Nolan, Zack Schneider, and so on.
In Murphy's view, the future is bright.
A good film needs outstanding characters, and the role is not only based on the script and director, but also on the right actors and good enough performances.
If the director wants to make his film have a higher pursuit, the main role in it is not as some people say, any actor can be brought in, even if it is a very vase character like Wonder Woman, it is not just a vase actress who can achieve the desired effect.
The director is very important to a film, and so are the actors.
Because for example, Superman's actors have to start preparing for roles very early, after basically finalizing Gal Gadot to play Wonder Woman, Murphy's most important job in addition to making storyboards and shooting plans is to finalize the actors for each main role as quickly as possible.
Paul Wilson, who used to be the casting director, was working hard for the second season of "Game of Thrones", and Murphy could only take care of the casting of the main cast himself, and the casting of other minor roles was handed over to an assistant director who had been with him.
Of course, with Paul Wilson and Seth Rogan becoming directors, the Germanic descendant named Gent was also promoted from assistant director to assistant director.
The cast that Murphy is ready to hand-pick and audition for is mainly from four roles, in addition to Wonder Woman, there are Superman Clark Kent, the famous DC Green Tea Louise Lane, and the villain Lex Luthor.
The candidates for the roles of Clark Kent and Louise Lane will hold a wide range of auditions, and Murphy also asked Bill Rothes to inform the CAA side, and in equal circumstances, he will definitely give priority to the use of CAA's actors.
"In my opinion, there is no need to use big-name stars for the characters of Superman and Louise Lane."
In the studio's office at Warner Studios, Murphy said to Bill Rossies, "Some young, good actors with good personal images and many roles in the industry are very suitable candidates." ”
Hearing Murphy's request, Bill Rothes took a careful note and said, "I will notify the company to select the right actors and send their materials over as soon as possible." ”
"The sooner the better." Murphy thought for a moment, "I'll hold the first audition for these two roles before next weekend." ”
"Where's Lex Luthor?" Bill Rothes asked again.
"The character is in his youth in the setting." The setting and charm of the villain are extremely important for a film, so Murphy said solemnly, "I need young actors with good enough acting skills to ...... it"
He pondered a little, "In my name, you send out audition invitations to Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhill, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey......"
Speaking of this, Murphy suddenly remembered an actor he liked very much, "And Nicolas Cage." ”
If Uncle Cage accepts the audition invitation and wins, he can change the script for Lex Luthor as appropriate.
Anyway, his plot and many settings are basically out of the comics, so he doesn't have to worry too much, and the upcoming Justice League "New 52" universe of DC Comics will also be like Superman and Wonder Woman's new look, the plot will be turned upside down, and many aspects will learn from and follow Murphy's settings in the script.
For the other roles, Murphy was handed over to Gent, who would review them after the auditions.
Originally, Warner Bros. wanted to put together a five-star lineup for Murphy, such as Superman's biological father and adoptive parents were both Oscar-level middle-aged actors, but he refused.
Instead of investing high salaries in these small supporting roles that are not too important, it is better to find some old actors with good acting skills and invest the saved funds in filming and special effects production.
The special effects and action scenes of this film will not be limited to a small range like "Deadpool".
Sending Bill Rothes away, Murphy brought in his action director and special effects team, and the two sides had already discussed the action special effects scenes many times, and this communication would be carried out through all stages of preparation to shooting to post-production.
Special effects production is undoubtedly one of the main focuses of Man of Steel, and Murphy initially wanted to hand it over to the digital field that he had been working with, but the special effects studio in the small city of Venice has been concentrating on Michael Bay's "Transformers" for a long time lately, and it can't spare enough people.
Therefore, Murphy found ILM, and ILM formed a huge special effects team to cooperate with the crew throughout the process.
The other is the action design, all the action scenes in the film, Murphy has given up the action routines that have evolved based on kung fu that have recently become popular in Hollywood, and all the fights between Superman and Wonder Woman will return to the original, on the basis of showing speed and strength, and then supplemented by huge destructive power.
This method of movement was not pulled by Murphy casually, but was found after a pair of investigations.
According to the feedback he received, more than 80 percent of the general audience watched people fight on the screen, mainly a mixture of two psychological aspects.
On the one hand, there is the catharsis of violence.
There is a catharsis method in psychological counseling, which believes that when people are angry, find a sandbag and beat the anger to disappear, but later many studies have found that negative emotions such as "aggression" actually contain physiological reactions, and the more you beat the sandbag, the stronger the physiological reaction, and after beating the sandbag, the aggression is stronger.
Either way, the physiological response to catharsis is similar to the pleasure after exercise.
On the other hand, in reality, you can only punch out and only knock down the other party, but when you fight on the screen, you must play a posture and fight enough to be beautiful, which is also very important to the audience, and they must also meet their own aesthetic needs when they use the screen to vent violence.
So the fight has to be fought not only violently, but also gracefully - it's a very twisted combination.
To satisfy the cathartic side, the strength of the fight must be sufficient; But if you use too much force, it may be difficult to take into account the beauty of the action, and if the force is too restrained, the pleasure of violence will be discounted.
Generally speaking, a good-looking fight should find the best balance between strength and elegance, and it should be both rigid and soft.
In the past, when Hollywood hard action movies were popular, the people fighting on the screen were all muscular men, more than powerful, elegant but not at all, they could only stimulate hormones, and it was difficult to meet aesthetic needs.
Later, Yuan Heping, these Hong Kong military commanders, came to Hollywood, and the atmosphere changed.
Before going to Hollywood, these martial arts fingers had already found a perfect balance of strength and elegance in the action: from the 80s to the mid-90s, there were many beautiful and violent kung fu and martial arts masterpieces with action scenes, but once the martial arts fingers arrived in Hollywood, once they did not have the cooperation of those kung fu stars who had been trained since childhood, the action power they designed was greatly reduced.
It's a little better to force actors like "The Matrix" to practice for a while, and as for "Breaking Bad", it's not so much a fight as a dance that includes fighting movements.
You have to beat the sandbag hard to vent the violence, how can you feel the pleasure of touching the sandbag?
In the setting of "Man of Steel", Superman's superpowers are not as ever-changing as "X-Men", except for heat rays, they are basically pure physics attacks, and superpowers are nothing more than higher, faster and stronger physical destruction, so what needs to be expressed is only strength and speed.
In order to express superhuman speed and strength, Murphy does not intend to use roundabouts, let alone subtle, precise details of movements, but will adopt the exact opposite choice - speed up and strength.
As for elegance, Superman still counts, and Wonder Woman can add a little bit appropriately.
It's just a little bit, Wonder Woman's movements are also based on speed and strength, and the speed and strength have reached the level of the two in the setting, the so-called fancy skills are all floating clouds, and the most direct attack method is the most suitable choice.
Who would have imagined that with the speed and strength of Superman and Wonder Woman, you need to draw some tricks when fighting, and attack your opponent with reality in the void?
It was definitely a disaster even more terrifying than Superman's earth-shattering fight. (To be continued.) )