Chapter 541: Fear Inspires Strength
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If you want to make a great and even classic film, every aspect is crucial, the director is one thing, the actors are the other, maybe it's because I've been busy with work lately, plus Ross is distracted, Murphy really didn't notice Henry Cavill's anomaly and didn't communicate well in time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Communication is undeniably important for a director and crew.
Many people think that directors are the best at self-expression, but the film can reach its prominence today, not because it is an individualistic medium, but because it is the product of collective collaboration, and making a great film requires the cooperation of writers, playwrights, actors, and even computer artists and visual creators, and it requires the cooperation of choreographers, special effects specialists, art directors, set designers, sound designers, makeup artists, costume artists, musicians, editors, and all kinds of different artists to complete the Noah's Ark-like undertaking. It also takes the work of distributors, cinemas, financiers and investors to make cinema possible, and the power and sensibility of cinema comes from collaboration.
Murphy has always been clear that the most important ability a film director should possess is to be like a lens, to gather the great talents of many colleagues, and then integrate them into a unified consciousness to present a film that is trying to do a good job of conscience.
Early the next morning, before filming began, Murphy went out of his way to talk to Henry Cavill about his role.
Closing the office, Murphy asked directly, "Henry, what do you think is the theme of the film?" ”
Henry Cavill thought for a moment and said, "Fear, anger, determination, and strength. ”
"That's right." Murphy's eyes moved out the window, the sun had risen, and "Chris Dane is more angry and fearful right now. ”
With that, he withdrew his gaze to Henry Cavill and asked, "What do you think of fear?" ”
"Physiologically, fear is an emotional experience in which an organism tries to escape from a situation and is powerless; It can also manifest a violent contraction of the physiological tissues of the organism; The density of the tissue increases dramatically, and the energy is released dramatically. ”
Hearing Henry Cavill, a non-academic actor, say academic, Murphy couldn't help but smile and said, "I think fear is a very paradoxical phenomenon - the more fearful, the more fearful, the greater the power to resist and even counter. ”
Henry Cavill looked curious, and Murphy continued, "Actually, to be honest, I've always been a disdain that opposites and incompatible things can exist at the same time, but it's a strange phenomenon. The only explanation is that fear itself restrains anger, but when anger is aroused, 'fear inspires power' happens. ”
This is the other side of the hero's fear - anger! Actually, I think it's fear that brings anger, and anger that inspires strength. ”
Murphy brings the topic back to the character itself, "Chris Dane's fear of darkness comes from the deepest part of his heart, and at this stage, he doesn't feel the power of fear. However, the murder of his father adds a tinge of anger to his fears, and Chris Dane gains his own great strength through study and exercise. ”
"Unlike his father, he began to have the courage to challenge the evil forces of New York City after losing the opportunity for revenge, until he finally learned to control fear, and he became fear itself, he ...... Be a messenger of justice in the night"
"Henry......" Murphy patted his arm, "what you need to do is to highlight Chris Dane's fear and anger and determination in the right scene and in the right way of acting!" ”
"I'll do my best." Henry Cavill swore by it.
Frankly speaking, the two did not communicate enough about the characters before, and Murphy didn't blame Henry Cavill for his bad state, so he couldn't help but say a few more words at this time.
Of course, as a director, most of the time, it's Murphy who speaks and Henry Cavill listens.
He added to Henry Cavill, "As his adoptive father Reyner said, what Chris Dane has been looking for is not the fear of criminals, but his own fear. What he had always feared was the power within him, the power he couldn't control by relying on anger. So, he embarked on the path of becoming fear itself, fighting and punishing criminals. ”
Hearing this, Henry Cavill thought about it for a moment before saying, "I think what Chris is really afraid of is the power in him. ”
"There's a conversation between my father and him in the script -- the more scary creatures, the more scared they are. Chris Dane fears the dark, but at the end of the day, what grows up as an adult is what he fears is the power that bursts out when he is afraid. ”
Seeing Murphy's affirmative look, Henry Cavill added, "When talking to Reyner about the indirect death of his father because of fear, Chris Dane was actually using anger to suppress power. Then, with Reina's help, Chris finds a primitive, safe, symbolic way to use this power correctly, to channel this power, to become fear itself to manipulate the power, to transfer the power, to shift the fear, so that the power of fear can be used against the person it really needs to deal with. This is the evil force that fights New York City. ”
Duke laughed and patted Henry Cavill on the shoulder as he walked past him, "I'm looking forward to what you're going to do next." ”
At the end of the day, it all comes down to how crime is treated, which is at the root of the conflict between the hero, the heroine and the villain, all of whom come from different ideas and ideologies.
Margot Robbie's heroine, Jay Rachel, is a legal worker, and she believes that crime must be fought through the law in a legitimate way, which can achieve the fight against crime in the long run, because it is the most reasonable and social.
Liam Neeson's villain, on the other hand, fights crime by destroying and rebuilding, which is the most effective, but there are also problems: first, there is considerable uncertainty, and the criteria for whether or not to destroy are all based on the interests of the torturer, which lacks recognition; The second is that determining how to rebuild and the process of rebuilding is a costly process, which may not be worth the cost of rebuilding before the destruction.
The last is the male protagonist, who fights criminals through a more liberal and powerful lynching that is above the law.
However, through the script, Murphy expresses that these methods of fighting crime have private elements to a certain extent, and are not really beyond the social level to maintain order.
A way to maintain order that truly transcends the social hierarchy does not actually exist.
People have thoughts and feelings, not only machines that know how to execute, these are destined to have selfishness, and those so-called ways of order that ignore human selfishness are destined to exist only in utopia.
In the subsequent shooting, Henry Cavill was getting better and better, and the shooting began to go smoothly, and he filmed on the set outside Venice for another week, Murphy led the crew out of the studio and began to shoot on the streets of Los Angeles.
Murphy also set the main location in Century City, where there are many high-rise buildings, as long as there is no large range of shots, there is basically no lens deviation.
Especially in post-production, the crew can also use CGI to carry out appropriate background retouching.
Stanton Studios also moved to Century City a few years ago, and the rented office is not far from the Fox Building, which was also used as a location by Murphy, and the first floor of the building is a restaurant, and there is no clear sign about Los Angeles at the entrance of the restaurant, and Gal Gadot signed an agreement with the restaurant early in the morning, and the crew will shoot a very important scene between the male and female lead here.
The shoot was put on by Murphy for the evening, and due to the attraction of paparazzi and journalists, Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie were ready, and the filming began immediately.
"Jay, no...... This, all this ......"
At the beginning of filming, facing Margot Robbie who played his friend Jay Rachel, Henry Cavill didn't seem to know what to say, and his words were slurred, "This is not the real me, in fact, my heart is not so superficial......"
"Come here, Chris."
On the other side of the sports car, two hot blonde chicks shouted at this side, "Come on, Chris, let's go buy a few more restaurants." ”
Margot Robbie shook her head slightly, and the corners of her mouth pulled out a big smile, "Chris, deep down you are still that upright child, but it doesn't matter who you look down onwards, what you do matters." ”
She turned and walked off into the distance.
“cut!”
Murphy shouted a halt, peeking out from behind the monitor, and first complimented Henry Cavill, "Well done, Henry, keep it up." ”
Then, he beckoned to Margot Robbie, who immediately walked over on his high heels.
"Murphy," she asked tentatively, smiling, "do I have a problem?" ”
"Control your smile." Murphy didn't go around in circles, and said directly, "Don't laugh, that will ruin the character's image." ”
Margot Robbie thought for a moment and seemed to understand, "I see. ”
In fact, her problem is not serious, but as soon as Murphy sees Margot Robbie crack her mouth and laugh, she will unconsciously think of Halle Quinn, and the feeling of the character in the camera will completely change.
He said to an assistant director next to him, "Take a five-minute break and do it all over again." ”
The filming went smoothly, and it was announced after one time, and today's work is over.
Instead of removing her makeup immediately, Margot Robbie walked over and said to Murphy, "Shall I invite you and Gail to have a drink?" (To be continued.) )