Chapter 259: Contamination to a New Realm
At the beginning of the establishment of the crew, Murphy communicated with all the main creative staff, and reiterated it during the filming to further emphasize that the heads of the departments should not forget this. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
He worked with the team on three quintessentially cult-style film noirs, Saw Horror, Planet Terror, and Sin City, and the style of these films would definitely affect everyone involved in the production, but Murphy didn't want to make Deadpool a work similar to the first three films.
The reason is simple, the film's production is Twentieth Century Fox, the investment of up to $60 million, and his first film to enter the mainstream commercial film industry determines that "Deadpool" cannot be one of those films.
In any case, "Chainsaw", "Planet Terror" and "Sin City" are typical genre films, or they are a relatively small audience in genre films, their investment is relatively limited, and the audience is also a very targeted small group of people.
But "Deadpool" is different, this is a typical commercial film, and Murphy has more box office expectations for this film.
As a director, talking about the box office seems to be a very unpopular and low-performing behavior, but in Hollywood, a director who doesn't talk about the box office is a hooligan.
At present, Hollywood's mainstream large-scale commercial films are facing a very good era, although in Hollywood, the standard of a director's success is never single, but the box office is an extremely important basis, in Hollywood, an extremely commercial and industrialized film industry circle, whether it is an art film director or a commercial film director, it can even be said that there is no possibility of being a director without box office and market value.
At the beginning, Murphy's superheroes were Marvel comics and Batman, which were more suitable for this era, but reality would not shift by his personal will, and in the end he could only target the alternative character of Deadpool.
The film "Deadpool" bears too much hope for him, and Murphy knows very well that if he turns to mainstream commercial films for the first time, he will definitely be beaten back into the independent film industry if he fails, and he may not find a good opportunity for a long time in the future.
This also determines that the style of "Deadpool" must be compromised with business, and not too niche and dark.
To put it bluntly, Murphy just wants more audiences to watch "Deadpool" and contribute to the box office of this film.
Therefore, the black style of "Deadpool" is more reflected in the color design and black humor, rather than in the content and theme, for example, the tone of the film will be gray, dark, cold and other extensions made of black.
In Hollywood films, color is often a direct reflection of the film and the main character.
For example, the black color that Murphy has always been good at using has many meanings such as negation, power, ****, mystery, fear, anonymity, unhappiness, depth, style, evil, sadness, remorse, anger, and so on.
As long as the tone of the film does not deviate, the shooting will be relatively smooth.
From the second day, Murphy added a lot of action scenes to the shooting, and continued to use some high-speed slow motion to set off the fast, and when shooting action scenes, he also became a reviewer, leaving the pure action scenes to the action direction team.
However, all the action shots must follow his philosophy, and Deadpool's action scenes must also match his character.
In the next few days, Murphy will also listen to Seth Rogen's advice appropriately for the filming of some humorous scenes, and he asked Seth Rogen to join the show as an assistant director, originally to assist him in filming some humorous and funny scenes.
There is no omniscient director in this world, and he is no exception, like verbal humor can also be expressed through actors like Robert Downey Jr., some typical American body humor, Murphy is really not able to do it, he is not very good at funny, he actually did not grow up in this country, and he cannot understand and control American body humor language.
For example, American humor frequently mentions sex. organs, showing large-scale sex with body movements. Hintly, Murphy doesn't think it's funny at all, but some people can laugh so hard that they can't stand up straight.
It is no exaggeration to say that the laughter between him and these people around him is not on the same plane at all.
In contrast, some of the lines designed by Robert Downey Jr. for Deadpool, Murphy found more interesting.
People who have designed lines for Deadpool include Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Seth Rogen, and Jonah Hill, and even a scene where Wade Wilson confesses to Vanessa, with a quote from Gal Gadot.
These lines can be said to be dirty to a new level, in the entire script, Deadpool's lines, basically none of them are "clean", simple and straightforward "F words", the little in the script comes as soon as he opens his mouth, and the yellow jokes with various levels of connotation pop up every now and then.
In the words of Robert Downey Jr., watching this movie will definitely be a level test to test the "dirty level" of the friends around him, and the audience who laughs most frequently and loudest on the scene is definitely a "tenth-level scholar of the dirty level", because this person must have gotten all the yellow jokes from straightforward to obscure to super obscure, and the audience who only knows how to count how many "f words" appear in the film is already a very stupid and naΓ―ve person.
However, no matter how yellow the joke is, it is just lip service, and if he wants to dirty a new realm, of course Murphy has to let Deadpool match it with actions.
There are also various passion scenes, in a large-scale shooting, the hero and heroine not only flirt with Master Yoda and Luke Skywalker, but also really do it for a year, spending time on the bed from Valentine's Day to Christmas.
And there has been the filming and success of "Sin City", and Jessica Alba, who plays Vanessa, is no longer reluctant to shoot large-scale action scenes.
But for the sake of classification and being able to appear in more overseas markets, Murphy has converged too much compared to "Sin City", and the picture is not particularly excessive, at most Jessica Alba's upper body is full. Nude, Robert Downey Jr. Hold the Focus Front and Back ****
However, there are some things that cannot be represented directly from the camera, but they can be reminiscent of the audience in another way, such as Murphy then filming a scene where Jessica Alba gives Robert Downey Jr. a chrysanthemum...... No, it's Vanessa Deadpool's.
In this kind of scene, even if there is a bottom line for the visible scale of the lens, the content of the "blank" lens will definitely make the audience "dirty their eyes"!
The exact situation can be said that although the camera was not completely filmed, Xiao Zi is definitely the first superhero on the screen to be attacked by the "queen".
Of all the scenes that have been filmed, Murphy is actually very careful about controlling the scale, and he, the director, knows very well that he wants to make a popular film, not the more pure black cult films before.
Therefore, Murphy still makes the whole film dirty on the outside and warm on the inside, full of the so-called mainstream aesthetics of North American audiences, just like a little cheap, full of various characteristics that are not "heroic", but in the end he must run all the way on the road of heroes.
He will mix all the yellow, violent, dirty, and cheap together, and then form a very warm and touching core.
Among them, the purest and sincere love between Deadpool and Vanessa's non-mainstream way of getting along, and the way of getting along with friends "you live and die" are undoubtedly extremely in line with the so-called mainstream values and the aesthetics of mainstream audiences.
After half a month of filming at Fox Studios, Murphy led the crew to a bar that Paul Wilson had contacted, hired a large number of stout and fierce-looking Australian extras, and began filming scenes in the mercenary bar.
This is where Deadpool and Vanessa met.
The bar was crowded, filled with the smell of alcohol and impulsiveness, and one extra after another got out of the makeup van outside, walked into the bar, and were then taken to their respective locations by Seth Rogen and Paul Wilson to give them another dos and don'ts when filming.
David Robbie is leading people to set up the lights; Helena Espora adjusted the background of the bar to cover an entire white wall with a slightly shabby and grey set; Jack Watson stands next to Robert Downey Jr. and Jessica Alba, directing two makeup artists to touch up the makeup of the hero and heroine.
Murphy stood in the corner of the bar, discussing the shoot with Philip Raschel.
"I don't need a shaky lens." He rejected Fili-Raschel's proposal to "ditch hand-camcaged filming and switch to Steadicam." β
Fili-Raschel nodded, "Yes." β
"I also need your main camera to shoot the panorama." He pointed to the bar counter, "After the heroine appears, Steadicam follows her, shooting in a semi-arc trajectory. β
Filming must be carried out according to the movement of the actors.
After communicating with Philip Raschel, Murphy walked over and explained a few words to Robert Downey Jr. and Jessica Alba, and when all the preparations were ready, the start of filming was immediately announced.
"Oh, oh, oh, baby......"
In front of the counter at the bar, sexy-dressed Jessica Alba turned out from behind Robert Downey Jr., a hand deliberately flirting over his body, and her tone was full of teasing, "Do you want to all of them?" β
A camera assistant set up on Steadicam keeps the camera on Jessica Alba.
This line also indicates Vanessa's identity, a woman who sells her body for a living.
Jessica Alba turned across from Robert Downey Jr., "Are you going to spend all the money?" β
"It's hard...... Robert Downey Jr. first made a very ambiguous gesture and asked, "Do you know who I am?" β
"Who are you?" Jessica Alba pressed one hand on Robert Downey's chest and swiped all the way down, "You're going to tell me who you are." β
She was the first to say, "I'm Vanessa. β
Robert Downey Jr. replied, "I'm Wade. β
Is the introduction of the hero and heroine a little bland? Some don't fit Wade Wilson's character? Thinking of this, Murphy shouted, "Stop! β
Then he beckoned, "Donny, Jesse, you two come here." β
Murphy was going to add a joke to the scene. (To be continued.) )