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In the small conference room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Murphy, Gal Gadot, Filip Raschel and Helena Espola frowned, looking at the people from the New York City Hall sitting opposite, there were only two people coming to the New York City Hall, led by a gray-haired middle-aged man, who seemed to come over as a routine notice, and had no intention of continuing to negotiate with Murphy to cooperate with the shooting. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Why?" Murphy looked at the middle-aged man and asked, "Mr. Bloomberg, we have already reached an agreement on filming, why do you want to overturn it temporarily?" ”

As an important location for Hollywood movies, I don't know how many crews are filming in New York every week, and the New York City Hall is also quite cooperative, as long as it does not disturb the normal social order, they will generally give the green light.

When Gal Gadot came over before, the other party agreed very happily, and the two sides also initialed a filming agreement.

"It's not that I don't agree with you guys filming in New York." Bloomberg smiled formulaically, "It's okay to shoot small, but it's ......okay to shoot on a large scale."

As he spoke, he shook his head.

"Small-scale shooting?" Murphy's brow furrowed even tighter.

It's a crime action movie, and the New York location scenes are almost all large-scale action scenes.

Gal Gadot glanced at Murphy and said, "Mr. Bloomberg, I have already negotiated with you and signed a draft. ”

"I'm sorry, Miss Gadot." Mr. Bloomberg seemed sincere, "We were unable to enforce that agreement, and we deeply regret the inconvenience caused to you." ”

The New York City Hall has a very good reputation in this regard, and Murphy and Gal Gadot look at each other, completely confused why the other is doing this.

"You guys have a reason, right?" Gal Gadot asked.

Bloomberg nodded and explained, "Because Director Stanton's influence is too great. ”

"Me?" Murphy was even more puzzled, pointing to himself and asking, "Does this have anything to do with me?" ”

"Maybe you didn't pay attention," Bloomberg didn't seem to know where to start, and thought for a while before he said, "Director Stanton, you and your work have a huge impact, and last year's release of "The Wolf of Wall Street" caused many people to exacerbate their ......dissatisfaction with Wall Street."

Murphy and Gal Gadot nodded lightly, they knew that after the release of "The Wolf of Wall Street", especially after a series of publicity and marketing operations, the voices of dissatisfaction with Wall Street on the Internet became louder and louder.

Bloomberg smiled helplessly, "At present, there are many people and organizations that are preparing to brew a protest action against Wall Street in New York and Manhattan, according to what we have learned, this protest may be very large, and many of them have been affected by "The Wolf of Wall Street". ”

Hearing this, Murphy spread his hands, indicating that it had nothing to do with him.

Occupy Wall Street already existed, and perhaps "The Wolf of Wall Street" and that series of related hype accelerated the process of this protest.

"The town hall has made a great effort."

In Mr. Bloomberg's eyes, Mr. Murphy had a vested interest and certainly had nothing to do with the Occupy Wall Street group, adding, "but it didn't work very well, and we wouldn't have a good way to do it if they did rally." ”

At this point, the meaning is already obvious, and Bloomberg said bluntly, "Many of them are fans of you and The Wolf of Wall Street, and City Hall is worried that if you shoot publicly in New York, it will further stimulate their emotions, especially since the shooting plan you submit has a lot of location scenes on Wall Street, which will send a wrong signal to those people and make the situation more uncontrollable." ”

For most countries, stability is paramount.

Bloomberg said, "And this kind of thing could get you involved, Director Stanton, and I'm sure you don't want to see that, right?" ”

That's for sure, Murphy certainly doesn't want to have too much to do with Occupy Wall Street, it's one thing for the movie to be involved, it's another thing for him to get into it entirely.

"So, we hope that Director Stanton will think carefully about his plans for location shooting in New York." "Although we can't work together this time, and the unilateral cancellation of the filming plan for "Black New York" by City Hall will cause a lot of unnecessary problems for your crew, City Hall can promise that when Director Stanton comes to New York to shoot in the future, the whole of New York will welcome you." ”

Gal Gadot glanced at Murphy again, and it was up to him to decide.

Indeed, if the crew insists on filming in New York, the city hall does not have the power to cancel the filming due to relevant laws and regulations, but without the support of the city hall, filming will be subject to various restrictions and become extremely inconvenient.

In particular, the necessary road closure shooting is almost impossible to achieve.

Murphy also understands this, he has absolute power in the crew, and he can decide whether to shoot in New York or not.

After some deliberation and weighing the pros and cons, Murphy stood up and extended his right hand to Bloomberg, "I accept the suggestion of the New York City Hall, and I hope that we can continue to work together in the future." ”

Bloomberg quickly stood up and shook Murphy's hand, "Of course, New York also needs the great work of Director Stanton. ”

Murphy laughed, and so did Bloomberg.

When there is a consensus on this aspect, other things are easy to say, such as Murphy's mention that the crew was going to shoot some background shots in New York, and Bloomberg immediately expressed his strong support.

Seeing Bloomberg away, the group returned to Murphy's suite and immediately discussed the sudden contingency, and the inability to shoot live action in New York became an established fact.

"We had to adjust our shooting schedule."

Gal Gadot walked over to the coffee machine and picked up a cup of coffee for each of the three Murphys, "and to inform Twentieth Century Fox as soon as possible." ”

"Hmm." Murphy nodded, although he had such power, it was necessary to maintain communication, and he said to Gal Gadot, "You are responsible for communicating with Twentieth Century Fox. ”

Then, he looked at Fili Raschel, "The shooting plan has also been greatly adjusted. ”

Philip Raschel took the coffee from Gal Gadot and said to Murphy, "We don't have to shoot on film without live action. ”

Murphy stood up and took a few steps and quickly decided, "In this way, except for the footage shot by IMAX, all the other scenes were changed from film to digital cameras, and all the scenes about the New York scenes were all on the set in Venice, set up and green screen shooting, and then replaced with real scenes in New York during post-production." ”

"Yes." Philip Raschel is experienced, "This is the best alternative. ”

"Helen." Murphy then told his art director, "When you go back, decide on the set as soon as possible." ”

"Hmm." Helena Espora doesn't talk much, but she does things very reliably, "I will make a plan as quickly as possible." ”

Murphy said to Philip Raschel, "Replace all the film cameras in the crew with digital cameras, and do a good job of transferring IMAX shooting to ordinary shooting." ”

His brain was running at high speed, "Gail, a separate list of all the fee changes due to the change of plan, communicate with the third-party guarantee company in a timely manner." ”

Finally, Murphy said, "With the exception of background shots, all New York-related shoots were cancelled. ”

The crew will encounter all kinds of accidents in preparation, and such an unexpected situation is not the first time it has happened in Murphy's project, and it is not difficult for him to deal with it.

Now that the New York filming program was cancelled, there was no need for Murphy and the others to stay in the Big Apple for investigation, as he and Philip Raschel said, all the location scenes about New York were set up in the studio and set up green screens.

Murphy has never been the kind of director who is stubborn and doesn't like to be flexible, and since he can't shoot on film, he can use digital technology and CG compositing as well.

Cinema has never had to be a technology.

Except for the 70mm film required for IMAX cameras, when Murphy returned to Los Angeles, the crew retired all 35mm film cameras in favor of Sony Electronics' latest digital cameras.

Twentieth Century Fox also happily replied to Murphy's plan, using digital technology to shoot and produce, which is actually very beneficial to the distributor.

In the following time, although the preparation of the crew also encountered some other problems, but under the leadership of Murphy, they were basically successfully solved, and various departments such as actors, sets, lighting, recording, props, equipment and special effects were fully cooperating with Murphy's work, and by mid-September, the preparations for the film were gradually coming to an end.

At the same time, Murphy formalized the title of the project, "Black New York", which had a distinct geographical indication, was replaced by "City of Chaos", and Twentieth Century Fox began a proper pre-promotional work.

In this regard, Murphy does not bother, and the professional team of Twentieth Century Fox is completely in charge.

In addition, before the film started shooting, Murphy met with Hans Zimmer to negotiate a series of things about the soundtrack, which is a perfect fit for Hans Zimmer's scoring style.

This is not the first time that the two sides have cooperated, and the communication is relatively smooth.

After getting Hans Zimmer, the preparation work of the crew is basically over, and some scenes that have not been built can be built while shooting, and the two aspects of work do not conflict.

On September 30, 2010, the crew of "City of Chaos" officially started filming on the set of the warehouse outside Venice, and the crew did not hold any announcement activities, and Murphy was ready to start filming directly.

But by 10 a.m., the filming had not yet begun, and Murphy was looking at his watch frequently, and his director of photography, Fili Raschel, had not been on the set, and the phone could not be reached...... (To be continued.) )