Back in Los Angeles, Murphy only had two days off before Hans Zimmer, who was on the soundtrack, called to inform him that some of the soundtracks had finished sampling. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

A great film needs an equally good soundtrack to set the mood, and if the two can be perfectly combined, the effect of one plus one is far greater than the sum of its parts, as many films have proven countless times, so Murphy immediately gave up his leave and told Hans Zimmer to meet in the professional studio of the Fox Building.

Both sides are veterans in the industry, and there is no unnecessary nonsense when they meet, and after a simple greeting, Murphy said directly to Hans Zimmer, "Let's start now." ”

"Hmm." Hans-Zimmer nodded, and instructed his assistant, "Alex, let's play." ”

The soundtrack sent is mainly divided into three aspects, respectively involving the magician, Jay Rachel and Chris Dane, the three most important characters in "Dark City".

Murphy, Gal Gadot, and Carla Fez, the film's three producers, pricked up their ears and listened carefully to the original soundtrack played by Hans Zimmer's assistant.

The first thing that plays is the main soundtrack of the magician, like Hans? Zimmer does the same as Murphy in that he uses a lot of suppressed electronic sound to highlight the restlessness and extreme evil that the magician brings.

Although he is a complete amateur to music, and he does not understand very professional knowledge such as composition and composition, Murphy has been in Hollywood for more than ten years, has shot and produced so many movies, and still has a certain understanding of film soundtracks.

The melancholy of this magician-themed soundtrack is characterised by a seemingly incongruous monotone transposition that is accompanied by a special sound effect created by an electronic synthesizer to give a direct and intense aural stimulus.

Hans Zimmer's apparent heavy use of cold tones creates a dark atmosphere for the soundtrack, with many incongruous chords and eerie melodies bordering on madness, with an unusually rich electronic element, and even an analog stopwatch countdown and explosion-like sound effects that combine to make this electronic sound of the magician not only sound less audible, but also more emotionally rich and real.

After playing the magician's main score, followed by Chris Dane's background score, this soundtrack inherits the tone of "City of Chaos", but is richer and more gorgeous, the violin keeps marching a sixteenth note jumping bow playing, strong, powerful, with the sense of urgency created by the percussion instruments, but also shows a sense of instability and uneasiness, like Chris Dane's mind that he may fall into the abyss at any time.

Coupled with the long notes of the strings, it is a total release of passion, which is combined with the accelerated Chris Dane theme with a strong sense of rhythm, which is full of movement.

The soundtrack combines electronic and orchestral bursts of effect in a commercial and modern way.

Murphy has worked with Hans Zimmer many times, and it is clear that this practice is common in many of Hans Zimmer's works, where the score uses a lot of electronic sound and orchestral music to move quickly between the orchestral sounds, which is quite quick and imperceptible, and allows the music to be completed smoothly.

At the end of the play is the background music of the heroine Jay Rachel, which uses a lot of beautiful piano solos and a lot of theme variations, which are obviously divided into two parts, just like Jay Rachel's ups and downs in life.

However, even in the first half of the full light, the melody of the piano of the soundtrack uses a string of cool notes, and the melody is quite divergent, as if telling a poignant story.

Silence returned to the room, and Duke turned to look at Gal Gadot and Carla Fez, and asked, "How does it feel?" ”

"I think it's good." Gal Gadot also has considerable professional ability now, nodded and whispered, "Hans Zimmer's usual high level. ”

Carla Firth also showed an approving look, "Very brilliant! ”

Hans Zimmer was at a distance from them, and when he looked at Murphy, he knew very well that Murphy was the one who really had the power to decide.

Murphy asked the assistant named Alex to play the three-part soundtrack, thought about it for a while, and said, "Hans, I'm very satisfied with the soundtrack, you can finish it as soon as possible, no later than the end of February next year." ”

"No problem." Hans Zimmer immediately stood up, "I'll finish on time." ”

"Alright, that's all for today."

Murphy stood up, shook hands with Hans Zimmer as he walked by, and said, "I'm waiting for your good news. ”

Seeing Hans Zimmer away, Murphy was not ready to leave, and in the editing studio next to him, Jody Griffith was watching all the shots with several assistant editors, and he went over to take a look.

After discussing the editing with Jody Griffiths, Murphy left the Fox Building, and in the following days, he would come to the editing room on time to deal with some pre-editing preparations, because more than 80% of the film's special effects were taken in live shooting, and there were fewer CGI shots, so he also put editing on his work schedule while letting the colorist grade the shots.

Heading into November, Murphy and Jody Griffith began rough cutting the film in order to turn the total length of more than 1,850 minutes into a coherent action crime movie.

Although some special effects scenes that require CGI compositing are not included, those shots that only need to adjust the background and lighting are basically completed, and the rough cut of the picture style fully meets Murphy's requirements, how to make the whole story more compact while maintaining the overall style is the most important work for him and Jody Griffith.

The film's theme is dark and heavy, and if it drags on to a slow pace like "The Line of Fire," Murphy believes that "Dark City" will hit the streets and make Twentieth Century Fox vomit blood.

"My request is very simple, use concise and sharp editing to form a strong narrative tension, and set off the dark and heavy theme of the film!"

The dark style of commercial productions, with Murphy's efforts, starting from "Man of Steel", has finally become a genre of mainstream North American films, which is definitely a new thing, and it should not be outdated in the last ten years, but there are not too many stories that can carry the dark wind, and based on the existing content framework and style restrictions, it is unrealistic to make all commercial films become dark winds, and completely eliminate the dark winds from large-budget commercial films.

However, to a certain extent, the visual effect of the dark style is easy to make people tired.

In fact, what makes people more tired is the process of watching the movie, it is precisely because of the dark outlook on life, the comings and goings of the pros and villains, and the repeated contest, human nature is stirring and whirling in it, and it is easy for people to feel "tired".

This kind of movie is not like Disney and Marvel's commercial films with light comedy characteristics, which makes people feel like "eating popcorn", but dark movies like Murphy also have their own advantages, it will not be as monotonous as popcorn, forget the taste after eating, but can continue to hook people's nerves.

Of course, from another point of view, darkness is not a one-size-fits-all style, let alone an element that every director can play with, the former "Dark Knight" is certainly the pinnacle of the dark style, but in "The Dark Knight Rises", the dark style has been reduced to the point where it is better than nothing.

Of course, there are commercial considerations, but the restrictions that this style itself has on the film, the story, and the characters are also a huge factor.

There are also some people who believe that Dark is a high-style and high-level film style, and cannot be compared with commercial films in the general sense - especially those comic superhero films in which superheroes team up to fight.

In fact, even in Murphy's own eyes, whether it is a dark style or not, this matter has nothing to do with forced style, and is only related to the personal choices of the studio and director.

For example, some of Marvel's superheroes, if they want to make a dark adaptation, it is not difficult, but the former Marvel did not do this, because such a movie style is very different from the style of Marvel Comics and the entire big series.

What's more, not everyone will like dark films, movies are just a pastime for most audiences, so in general, shooting seemingly sophisticated, stylized movies often does not satisfy the mainstream moviegoers, especially underage audiences, who occupy a significant share of the market.

Nowadays, in the increasingly important overseas film market, the audience's perception of commercial films is "high-tech special effects blockbuster".

Therefore, when "The Dark Knight" was released, the audience preferred to see it as an independent movie rather than a superhero movie.

Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel Studios, once said that the movie "The Dark Knight" does show the difference between a comic book and a movie and the potential of a movie. But I don't think the audience will blindly love this kind of dark, rough film. Therefore, we did not make "Thor" and "Captain America" into dark films like "The Dark Knight".

These words, even in the eyes of Murphy now, may not be unreasonable.

Movies are always diverse, Disney and Marvel are sticking to their own style, Murphy is sticking to his own style, and unless the inherent style doesn't work, it won't change easily.

In contrast to Murphy's plunge headlong into the post-production of "The Dark City", Gal Gadot has to take control of the overall situation of Stanton Studios, and as the head of the day-to-day work of this leather bag company, several projects that the company is currently investing in, such as "House of Cards" and "Game of Thrones", etc., need to be paid attention to in time.

And after Murphy gave an outline of "Fifty Shades of Gray," she was still thinking about how to run the project.