Hollywood Road

? Such a concept was communicated with all the main creators at the beginning of the crew's establishment, and it was reiterated during the shooting to further emphasize, so that the heads of all departments should not forget this point.

He worked with this team on "Saw", "Planet Terror" and "Sin City" three typical Cult-style noir films, the style of these films will definitely affect everyone involved in the production, but Murphy I didn't want to shoot "Deadpool" like the first three films.

The reason is very simple, the production of the film is 20th Century Fox, the investment of up to 60 million US dollars and his first film to enter the mainstream commercial film circle and other characteristics determine that "Deadpool" cannot become those films.

In any case, "Chain Saw", "Planet Terror" and "Sin City" are all typical genre films, or they have a relatively small audience in genre films. Their investment is relatively limited, and their target audience is also A small group of people with very specific goals.

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 low-level behavior that degrades the artistic quality, but in Hollywood, directors who don't talk about the box office are hooligans.

At present, Hollywood’s mainstream big-budget commercial films are facing a very good era. Although in Hollywood, the standard for a director’s success has never been 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 without box office and market value, there is no possibility of being a director.

At the beginning, the superheroes that Murphy saw were the Marvel Comics and Batman that were more suitable for this era, but the reality would not be shifted by his personal will after all, and in the end he could only target Deadpool, an alternative character.

The film "Deadpool" has taken on too much of his hopes. Murphy is very clear that this is the first time he has moved to a mainstream commercial film. If he fails, he will definitely be sent back to the independent film circle. Chance.

This also determines that the style of "Deadpool" must compromise with business, and cannot be too niche and dark.

To put it bluntly, Murphy just wants more audiences to watch "Deadpool" and contribute to the film's box office.

Therefore, the black style of "Deadpool" is more reflected in the color design and black humor, rather than in the content and themes. For example, the tone of the film will be mainly gray, dark, cold and other extensions made of black.

In Hollywood movies, tone is often a direct reflection of the movie and the protagonist.

For example, black, which Murphy has always been good at using, has negation, power,

****, mystery, fear, anonymity, unhappiness, depth, style, evil, sadness, remorse, anger and many more meanings.

As long as the tone of the film does not deviate, the shooting will be relatively smooth.

From the second day on, Murphy added a lot of action scenes in the shooting, and continued to use some high-speed slow motion to set off the fast. When shooting action scenes, he will also become a reviewer, handing over pure action scenes Give the action coaching group control.

However, all the action scenes shot must follow his philosophy, and Deadpool's action scenes must also match his character.

In the next few days, when shooting some humorous scenes, Murphy will also properly listen to Seth Rogen's opinions. He asked Seth Rogen to join the crew as an assistant director, originally to assist him in shooting some humorous and funny scenes. Scenes.

There is no all-knowing and all-powerful director in this world, and he is no exception. Verbal humor can also be expressed by actors like Robert Downey Jr. Some typical American physical humor, Murphy is really powerless, he is neither very good at funny, In fact, I didn't grow up in this country, and I couldn't understand and control American body humor.

For example, American humor frequently mentions sexual organs and uses body movements to show large-scale sexual hints. Murphy finds it not funny at all, but some people can laugh so hard that they can't straighten their waists.

It is no exaggeration to say that his jokes are not on the same plane as those around him.

In contrast, Murphy finds some of the lines designed by Robert Downey Jr. for Deadpool more interesting.

People who have designed lines for Deadpool include Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, and even in a scene where Wade Wilson confesses to Vanessa, Add a quote from Gal Gadot.

These lines can be said to be polluted to a new level. In the entire script, there is basically no "clean" line in Deadpool's lines, and the simple and straightforward "F words". Dirty jokes with a level of connotation popped up every now and then.

In the words of Robert Downey Jr., watching this movie is definitely a grade test to test the "pollution level" of friends around you. The audience who laughed the most frequently and the loudest at the scene is definitely "pollution level ten." Scholars", because this person must have gotten all the dirty jokes from the straightforward to the cryptic to the super cryptic, and the audience who only knows how many "F words" appear in the film is already a stupid and naive person.

However, no matter how dirty the dirty jokes are, they are just lip service. If they want to show a new realm, Murphy will of course let Deadpool use actions to match.

There are also various passionate scenes. In a large-scale shooting, the hero and heroine not only molested Master Yoda and Luke Skywalker, but also did it for a full year, spending time on the bed from Valentine's Day to Christmas. Pass.

And with the filming and success of "Sin City", Jessica Alba, who plays Vanessa, no longer rejects shooting large-scale action scenes.

However, for the sake of grading considerations and being able to appear in more overseas markets, Murphy is much more restrained than "Sin City", and the picture is not particularly excessive. At most, Jessica Alba is completely naked from the upper body. Robert Downey's front and back of keeping the focus ****

However, some things cannot be expressed directly from the camera, but they can be associated with the audience in another way. For example, Murphy then filmed a scene in which Jessica Alba gave Robert Downey Jr. an asshole ...No, it was Vanessa who exploded Deadpool's ass.

In this kind of scene, even if the visible scale of the camera has a bottom line, the "blank" content of the camera will definitely make the audience "stain the eyes"!

The exact situation can be said that although the shots were not fully filmed, Xiao Jianjian is definitely the first superhero on the screen to be attacked by the "Queen".

Among all the scenes that have been filmed, Murphy actually pays attention to controlling the scale. As a director, he is very clear that he wants to make a popular film, not the pure black cult films before.

Therefore, Murphy still made the whole film filthy on the outside and warm on the inside, full of the so-called mainstream aesthetics of North American audiences, just like the little cheap, full of all kinds of non-"heroic" qualities, but in the end he must be on the road of heroes all the way run wildly.

He will mix all the pornographic, violent, dirty and cheap, and then form a very warm and touching core.

Among them, the purest and sincere love between Deadpool Xiaojianjian and Vanessa's non-mainstream way of getting along, and Xiaojianjian's "life and death" way of getting along with friends are undoubtedly very in line with the so-called mainstream values ​​and mainstream audiences aesthetic.

After half a month of filming at Fox Studios, Murphy led the crew to a bar contacted by Paul Wilson, hired a large number of strong, fierce-looking Australian extras, and began filming the scene of the mercenary bar .

This is where Deadpool and Vanessa met.

The bar was crowded with people, smelling of alcohol and impulsiveness everywhere, extras one after another came out of the makeup van outside, walked into the bar, and were taken to their respective positions by Seth Rogen and Paul Wilson, He also reminded me about the precautions when shooting after the meeting.

David Robbie is leading people to arrange the lights; Helena Espora adjusts the background of the bar, covering an entire white wall with a slightly worn and dark set; Jack Watson stands in the small Robert- Next to Downey and Jessica Alba, he directed two makeup artists to touch up the makeup of the male and female protagonists.

Murphy stood in the corner of the bar, discussing the shoot with Philip Lascher.

"I don't need a shaky shot." He vetoed Philip Lascher's proposal, "Ditch the camcorder and use a Steadicam."

Philip Lascher nodded, "Yes."

"I also need your main camera to take a panoramic view." He pointed to the bar counter, "After the heroine appears, the Steadicam follows her and shoots in a semi-arc trajectory."

The shooting must be carried out according to the movement of the actors.

After communicating with Philip Raschel, Murphy walked over to Robert Downey Jr. and Jessica Alba and confessed a few words, and when all the preparations were ready, he immediately announced the start of filming.

"Oh, oh, oh baby..."

In front of the counter of the bar, Jessica Alba, who was dressed sexy, turned out from behind Robert Downey Jr., with a hand deliberately brushing past his body, her tone was provocative, "Are you going to ejaculate?"

A camera assistant with a Steadicam set up keeps the camera on Jessica Alba.

This line also reveals 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 your money?"

"It's hard..." Robert Downey Jr. first made a very ambiguous gesture, and then asked, "Do you know who I am?"

"Who are you?" Jessica Alba put one hand on Robert Downey Jr.'s chest, and then stroked down, "You will tell me who you are."

She was the first to say, "I'm Vanessa."

Robert Downey Jr. replied, "I'm Wade."

Is the introduction of the male and female protagonists a bit bland? Something doesn't fit Wade Wilson's character? Thinking of this, Murphy shouted loudly, "Stop!"

Then he beckoned, "Donnie, Jesse, you two come here."

Murphy was going to add a joke to this scene. (To be continued.)