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After waiting for a short time in Los Angeles, Murphy received good news from Bill Rothes, who had the support of several important figures such as Walter Robinson and began negotiations with the Boston Globe newspaper. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Overall, things are going relatively well on Bill Rothes's side.

On the other hand, Murphy also convinced Gal Gadot, who, although she still had some opinions, kept it in her heart, would continue to work as producer and executive producer on the project, and also made contact with Twentieth Century Fox.

In Murphy's mind, the film is not very expensive and large, and will operate as an independent film as much as possible, and it is now late July, and if all goes well, the film will be screened in Los Angeles before the 2012 New Year, in order to get the most important ticket to the awards season.

Biopics like this can't have much of a market, and awards season is the best place to go.

But in this way, if the whole film is full, the time from shooting to operation of the whole film is only half a year, which can be said to be very tense.

Murphy has informed his team that the film will not have particularly large scenes, and in terms of the ability of the entire team, as long as you hurry up, the probability of completion is still very high.

However, this required the support of Twentieth Century Fox.

Fortunately, Murphy has built a relatively strong relationship with Twentieth Century Fox over the years, and with real power figures like Carla Firth echoing, it is not difficult to get Twentieth Century Fox to give the project the green light as long as the script and project plan are completed.

Such a film has a low investment, and it has a natural topicality, coupled with Murphy's strong appeal, the risk of investment failure is not great.

Therefore, for Murphy himself, the most important thing at this stage is to complete the script.

In fact, since the conversation with Ross Prison, Murphy has been taking the time to write stories about Rose, which are basically from Rose's own telling, and some are Murphy's own observations, and later he also went to meet the bald black man who grew up with Rose in the same state prison.

These are the most basic materials, and Murphy can only add them to the script after sorting them out and determining the main thread of the story.

To compile such a film about the biographical genre, the first thing is to create the character of Diego Rose.

A person has done a lot of things in his life, like Rose is now in his forties, if the script includes his entire life course, it will definitely be too long and protracted, and Murphy doesn't particularly know what happened to Rose after he was released from prison, so he specially intercepted the time period from Rose's youth to prison.

Of course, the theme of the film is not to describe how heinous Diego Rose is as the protagonist, but to explore why Rose went from an ordinary and ordinary boy to a big drug lord later.

Diego Rose has real people, and Murphy will certainly shoot based on what he knows, but movies come from life, but they are higher than life.

The characters are first of all the characters in the story, the play itself tells the story, the characters must first obey the logic of the story, and then they have the meaning of existence, and what the characters do in the story must conform to the setting of the characters, be logical, and his actions can be credible.

The story and the characters should complement each other, the story gives birth to the characters, the characters drive the plot, the setting of the characters becomes the inevitability of promoting the development of the plot, the development of the plot enriches the image of the characters, and finally helps the characters to erect their images.

Both the story and the characters are the key to a good play, and they should be indispensable.

Faced with a character like Diego Rose, and a series of stories related to him, Murphy's first principle is to stand his ground, which is the key to a successful personal biopic.

One of the most important points is that Murphy himself must understand that from writing the script to preparing for shooting to post-production, he is a director first and then everything else.

It is impossible for anyone to be completely neutral, and the director is no exception, but at least relative neutrality must be achieved, otherwise wantonly praising or belittling a person in a personal biographical film will only make the whole film a laughing stock, and at the same time, the protagonist of the film will become a laughing stock.

Like some biographical movies or TV series he once watched, praising a person always describes Wei Guangzheng, who doesn't seem to have any flaws, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a person, this kind of film will only make people want to vomit; On the other hand, if you belittle a person, you will definitely knock him down to the eighteenth layer of hell, and then press him down countless mountains to make it appear that the person is useless, but falsely make people feel that this is a false accusation.

These two methods are undoubtedly the lowliest methods of making biographical films, and Murphy knows very well that if he commits either of them, the film is basically over.

Therefore, the whole story is to show the transformation of the character of Diego Rose from an ordinary person to a big drug lord in front of the audience's eyes with appropriate cinematic techniques, as for how to evaluate this character, it is the audience's business.

However, this does not mean that he has to be ruthless with this character, but rather that he has to be full of emotion in the writing process.

Does the creator have a real feeling? Did the creator put himself in the heart of the character? Do creators love their characters? Are the creators emotionally invested in the process? If you don't think about this problem, nine times out of ten you will write it off, and you will make those two fatal mistakes, and you will not treat the role as someone else.

In fact, the process of in-depth writing is to cultivate another type of relationship with the character, uncover the character's life little by little, and show the character's psychological journey little by little.

Murphy starts from scratch, shaping the character's worldview and way of thinking step by step, and at the same time depicts his inner obstacles: on the one hand, he feels that he has been violated and treated unjustly, and then he has abandoned himself, and even lived unsustainably; On the other hand, it can survive tenaciously, but it has to pay a considerable price for it.

This gradual and in-depth cognitive process should also be reflected in the play, so that the audience, like the screenwriter, is curious, confused, understanding, and finally resonates with the characters.

A successful screenwriter, when he has portrayed the character to a certain extent, will feel that he is in front of him and know what the character will do and say. For screenwriters, the character is real, whether there is a prototype or not, what is created is not a virtual character, but the real life of you, me and him.

In addition, the experience of a prototype character like Ross is far richer than most people imagine, so the story of the character has to be reprocessed on the basis of his experience, and the details of such a script are vivid and infectious, which is not at all comparable to the screenwriter's imagination.

This is not a commercial science fiction movie, but a biopic, if a screenwriter bets all his "treasure" on his talent when writing, the risk will be extremely high, and the really good screenwriter of this genre is reality itself.

By the end of July, Murphy had basically completed the first draft of the screenplay, and handed over the project plan that had been drawn up long ago, along with the first draft, to Cara Firth for review.

Similar to this typical niche film, Murphy is of course impossible to get paid for in commercial production, and the total investment in the entire project is only 25 million US dollars, which is a typical small project for Twentieth Century Fox.

However, the goal of the film is very clear, since it is a personal biographical film, and it also explores the process of heart change, it is natural to break through in the awards season.

Twentieth Century Fox would review the project as quickly as possible in the program, and Murphy informed his team that they were ready to come to Los Angeles while he continued to refine the script.

For a personal biographical film, after completing the first draft of the script, the most important work to improve is to continue to shape the protagonist.

Like this kind of movie, the protagonist's personality and worldview need to be distinct, full of presence, so that the audience can clearly perceive his position, the most ideal effect is that in a specific situation, the audience can predict the character's choice, if Murphy sets a situation, such as a heavy temptation or threat, the audience does not know how his character will choose after seeing it, it means that the character's worldview is not clear enough.

One of the most common and suitable ways to create is to throw the character in front of the choice.

Not only movie characters, in real life, people often face a dilemma, and the final decision reflects the character and ideas, and the audience will like the movie protagonist, often because the characters will make choices they can understand but can't do themselves.

Therefore, making the character face a dilemma is one of the best ways to create a character.

Then there are the details, including Rose's appearance, which Murphy deliberately noted in the script that no matter who the actor is chosen, he must look quite tough.

This is not only in line with Rose's real-life situation, but also what a big drug lord seems to be.

Just ask, if a little white-faced protagonist with broken skin appears in this kind of movie, will the audience believe it?

After all this is done, Murphy re-imagines Rose's childhood scenes, psychologically, he likes to attribute people's personalities and knots to childhood; And screenwriters also like to attribute the characters' personalities and knots to "prehistory".

It's a simple logic of cause and effect, and something once made the worldview of the present, so that there are such and such actions and choices.

In general, the details in the script are not accidental or improvised, but carefully choreographed.

After Murphy was basically satisfied with the script, there was good news from Twentieth Century Fox, the project was successfully established, and Twentieth Century Fox was responsible for the investment and distribution.

Meanwhile, Robert Downey Jr. and the rest of the Stanton Henders also found Murphy. (To be continued.) )