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In this time period, Murphy is not blind in choosing such a film, just like the six major Hollywood companies will do a certain amount of market research before each project is promoted, and he also has certain data to support it, "From the late sixties and early seventies to the present, the divorce rate in American society exceeds 40 percent, and these people who have been hurt by marriages, as well as the children who have grown up who have been hurt by broken marriages and broken families, will become our potential audience." ”

In fact, everyone knows that some values are promoted for one thing, and it is another thing for ordinary people to accept them, even if these people agree with the so-called Hollywood-style mainstream values, they will not reject the views on marriage in the film.

Kara-Firth was lost in thought, and after a long moment, then said, "According to you, marriage is too horrible, and it is too wise for me to choose to be single. ”

Murphy shrugged, "Maybe it won't be long before you meet someone who wants to marry and think these words of mine are nonsense." ”

Pouting, Kara Firth didn't say anything more.

"Let's go back to the movies." Murphy pulled back the topic of deviation, "I also got another statistic, the divorce rate in Hollywood movies is even more alarming, the divorce rate on the screen is as high as 95%. ”

"Is it that high?" Carla Firth was a little surprised.

"It's just high, not low, which is also another trend in Hollywood movies." Murphy elaborates, "There's also a kind of anti-family and anti-sentiment selling point in Hollywood films. ”

Carla Firth asked, "Like our films?" ”

Murphy nodded, "Hollywood screenwriters are not only good at playing the warm family card, but also good at writing marriage and family as 'horror movies'." While a large number of screenwriters rely on their families to earn tears, there are also many screenwriters who dismantle the stage, and they say that this kind of 'family tragedy' is filmed for the 'post-70s', 'post-80s' and '90s'. ”

"This group of people is now the main force of the film market, and nearly half of them have experienced the breakdown of their families and marriages. ”

Carla Firth found that Murphy did more work than Twentieth Century Fox's market research department, and it's no wonder he was always able to get high returns at a small cost.

"It's not too early." Murphy looked at his watch, "Let's go." ”

The two continued to talk about these topics about the movie, walked out of the door of the warehouse set together, got into their respective cars, and left the small city of Venice.

On the way back, Murphy was still thinking about the previous conversation with Carla Firth, in fact, there is an extremely important point in choosing "Gone Girl", most of the Oscar-winning films in the past, he was only limited to watching, rather than studying them as carefully as academics, and seeing and treating them as academic research are completely different concepts.

The former will definitely be forgotten after a long time, how many people can remember the specific scenes of the movie they watched a few years ago? The latter is much more impressive.

Because of his personal preference, Murphy has studied the most and deeply films with a distinct noir style, which is also the film route he is taking now, and it is also the style he is best at.

It's impossible for him to put aside what he's good at, and run to get those works that come out of the Oscar industrial assembly line.

There is also a difference between the Oscar for Best Director and the Oscar for Best Director, and some directors who deliberately use the Oscar model with ulterior motives to shoot and produce films to win awards undoubtedly have limited influence and the ranks they can improve for themselves.

Because he didn't grow up in this country, Murphy didn't have a high degree of recognition of what the Oscar model advocated, and he didn't study much of this genre, but instead had a relatively in-depth study of the few films that were nominated or won awards for their heavy noir films.

Frankly speaking, these film noirs are more likely to become classics than the works that came out of the Oscar industrial assembly line.

This was not Murphy's own opinion, but was later recognized.

Since the late nineties of the last century, not only Hollywood's commercial films have completely entered the assembly line production mode, but also the films competing for the Oscars.

In the past two years, the North American film market has been released since October, and if you go to see the various movies released, you will see more convergence than difference, and a new genre of film has been born, which can be called "Oscar-winning films".

In the early autumn after the intensive film festival, those independent productions from the Venice Film Festival to the Toronto Film Festival and finally back to the New York Film Festival let Hollywood temporarily put down the commercial visual blockbusters of the summer file and adjust to another channel, allowing people to see another ecology of Hollywood movies.

However, driven by the glory and benefits that the Oscars can bring, the long screening cycle from late autumn to the beginning of spring of the next year has evolved into a "awards file" - a large schedule that is on par with the summer file, and even covers the traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas files in North America.

A new film format called the eight-strand style has also emerged, the biggest feature of these films is that they are made for the appetite and preferences of the Oscar elderly white judges, the subject matter and the protagonist will always be a little controversial, and the seemingly out-of-the-ordinary posture will eventually return to the framework that the public can accept, maintain the mainstream values, give the actors enough room to play, emphasize the quality of the performance, and the actors' performance methods must be trained with methods without accident.

Also, if you want to act in a drama, you are not allowed to laugh.

The most representative of this is undoubtedly biopics, and the popularity of biopics is due to the very realistic "safety" considerations of Hollywood studios, because most of the judges want to see familiar faces and play familiar characters.

These Oscar-winning films, except for a small number of films with strong personal styles, if carefully analyzed, they are not fundamentally different from the visual blockbusters in the summer file, they are all industrial assembly line products that take care of some people's appetites, and they are all as plain as boiled water.

As Murphy said, in most Oscar awards, the right one is chosen first, and then the others are considered.

This directly leads to the fact that the film must be smooth, and stable often means flat.

How can someone with a character like Murphy like like a bland movie like it, and if he doesn't, how can he talk about research?

Similar to the summer films, which always like to impact the audience with visual effects, the vast majority of Oscar entries that are always produced with the taste of middle-aged and elderly white judges in the academy are not only as stable as the eight strands, but also bring another consequence, that is, like the summer files, the differences between the films are disappearing.

The Oscars gradually became a propositional essay, which no one would deny.

Of course, there are no exceptions to the Oscar competition, but most films, especially those that can please the judges, are becoming more and more homogeneous.

In fact, after the new century, if you look at the three most important film festivals in North America before the Oscars, Telluride, Toronto, and New York, and then look back at these film festivals, it is not how different the films participating in the exhibition are, but on the contrary, most of the films are similar, and it is much easier to summarize trends than to look for differences.

At a time when commercial blockbusters and teen films are increasingly moving closer to clichés such as comic book adaptations and heroes saving the world, the films that were originally competing for the awards season were a rebellion against clichés, but after years of hard work by the Oscar judges, this rebellion eventually became another cliché.

Similarly, there are a number of leading and supporting actors competing for the acting awards.

On the road to the actor and actress, men are either playing geniuses or patients, in short, they are not normal people. The women are suffering, all unlucky, miserable, passive, and need to be saved or saved by themselves.

These also form a template with clauses to refer to.

Such as Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron winning the award-winning role, such as Leonardo DiCaprio's self-destructive image, etc.

In fact, there has long been a consensus in the North American entertainment industry that in the Oscars and the entire Hollywood selection system, the measurement of acting skills is limited to a narrow vision, and the methodological performance of the 1960s is still the gold standard for judging acting skills.

On the road to becoming an actor and actress, you have to play a role that looks very different from yourself, you have to transform your appearance beyond recognition, and you have to play a character who is not so normal and has deviant behavior.

It's really hard to play a normal person and win an award, or an acting geek like James Franco to win a little golden man.

To be honest, Murphy would rather see a film like "No Country for Old Men" than see some propositional essays.

Especially female characters, do they need to be saved or save themselves? In the direction of rushing for awards, he thinks that films like "Gone Girl" that can create a little noise are more rare and interesting.

Perhaps after the release of the film, some people think that the film that puts the darkness and madness inside women under the microscope is put in the context of the current Hollywood advocating "Madonna" and "heroine", which is probably against the trend of history.

However, Murphy would rather see the noise in the cinema than the same-faced and unanimous awards.

That's his Oscar philosophy.

Whether it's because he hasn't studied before, or because of his personal hobbies, he prefers to use films with the ultimate style to impact the little golden man, rather than the eight-strand proposition composition.

For the rest of December, Murphy spent the rest of the month hiding on set in Venice, quietly filming the studio scenes, and after the Christmas and New Year holidays, when the set needed to be rebuilt, he and his crew rushed to a small town in Orange County to prepare for the location scenes.

There will definitely be crowds of onlookers when filming location scenes, but Murphy didn't expect that the residents of this town were so curious about filming that almost half of the town gathered near the crew to watch, which brought quite a lot of trouble to the shooting. (To be continued.) )