Hollywood Road

Faced with Murphy's eloquence, Gal Gadot was also tempted. It seemed very good to be able to work with Murphy and actually help him.

However, she also knows that she still has a long way to go if she wants to be like Kara Firth.

To become a qualified producer, you can't help but have the support of people like Murphy and the ability to conform to it. Gal Gadot knows that he is not enough in this aspect.

Without any surprises, the conversation ended with Gal Gadot finally nodding in agreement. Since this is a project invested by Warner Bros., although Murphy has the right to decide the actors, it is impossible for Gal Gadot to become a magical actor casually. A heroine actor must have a procedural audition.

On the other hand, Gal Gadot will also join the crew as an assistant director and personal assistant to legal counsel Robert in order to accumulate practical work experience.

Murphy is not an idiot either. He would not rashly let Gal Gadot take on an important position. That would be irresponsible to the crew as well as to her personally.

Gal Gadot is indeed very smart, with high IQ and EQ, but there is still a long way to go before she is a strong professional woman like Kara Firth.

It can be said that Murphy has planned a common career path for the two.

There are so many couples of directors and producers in Hollywood like this, and even formed a mature model, such as Katherine Kennedy, Peter Jackson, Christopher Nolan, Zach Schneider and so on.

In Murphy's view, the road ahead is bright.

An excellent film needs outstanding characters, and outstanding characters not only depend on the script and director, but also have suitable actors and perform well enough.

If the director wants to make his film have a higher pursuit, the main characters in it are not like some people say, any actor can be brought in at will, even if it is a very vase role like Wonder Woman, it is not random Find a vase actress, you can achieve the desired effect.

The director is very important to a film, and the actors are also very important.

Because actors such as Superman have to start preparing for the role very early, after Gal Gadot is basically finalized to play Wonder Woman, Murphy is the most important work in addition to drawing up the drawing board and shooting plan. It is to finalize the candidates for each main role actor as quickly as possible.

In the past, Paul Wilson, who was in charge of the casting director, was working hard for the second season of "Game of Thrones". Murphy could only personally be responsible for the casting of the main actors, and the casting of other small roles was handed over to him who has been following him. an assistant director.

Of course, as Paul Wilson and Seth Rogen became directors, this Germanic descendant named Ghent was also promoted from assistant director to assistant director.

The actors that Murphy plans to personally select and audition are mainly from four roles. In addition to Wonder Woman, there are Superman Clark Kent, the famous DC green tea Louise Lane and the big villain Lex Luthor.

Candidates for the two roles of Clark Kent and Louise Lane will hold a wide range of auditions. Murphy also asked Bill Rossis to notify CAA. Under the same circumstances, he will definitely give priority to using CAA actor.

"In my opinion, Superman and Lois Lane don't need big stars."

The crew was in the office of Warner Studios. Murphy told Bill Rossis, "Actors who are young, have a good personal image, and have played many roles in the industry are very suitable candidates."

Hearing Murphy's request, Bill Rosses took it down carefully, and then said, "I will notify the company to select suitable actors and send over their information as soon as possible."

"The sooner the better." Murphy thought for a moment, "Before next weekend, I will hold up the first audition for these two roles."

"Where's Lex Luthor?" Bill Rossis asked again.

"The character is in his youth in the setting.

"The villain's setting and charm are extremely important to a film, so Murphy said solemnly, "I need young actors with good enough acting skills, so..."

He pondered for a while, "In my name, you invite Heath Ledger, Jack Gyllenhaal, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey to audition..."

Speaking of this, Murphy suddenly remembered an actor he liked very much, "And Nicolas Cage."

If Uncle Cage accepts the audition invitation and wins in the end, he can properly modify the setting about Lex Luthor in the script.

Anyway, his plot and many settings are basically out of the comics, so there is no need to worry too much, and DC Comics' upcoming Justice League "New 52" universe will be like the new looks of Superman and Wonder Woman, and the plot will be turned upside down Changes, many aspects will learn from and follow Murphy's settings in the script.

For some other roles, Murphy handed over to Gent to be in charge, and he will review them after the audition is over.

Originally, Warner Bros. wanted to assemble a five-star lineup for Murphy. For example, Superman's biological father and adoptive parents were both Oscar-level middle-aged actors, but he refused.

Rather than investing high salaries in these minor supporting roles, it is better to find some old actors with good acting skills and invest the saved funds in filming and special effects production.

The special effects and action scenes of this film will not be limited to a small range like "Deadpool".

After sending Bill Rossis away, Murphy brought in his action director and special effects team. The two parties have discussed the action and special effects scenes many times. This kind of communication will run through everything from preparation to shooting to post-production. stage.

Special effects production is undoubtedly one of the key points of "Man of Steel". Murphy originally wanted to hand over the responsibility to the digital field that he has been cooperating with, but this special effects studio located in the small city of Venice has been concentrating manpower and material resources on Michael- Bay's "Transformers" couldn't get enough people.

Therefore, Murphy approached Industrial Light and Magic, and Industrial Light and Magic formed a huge special effects team to cooperate with the crew throughout the work.

The other is the action design. In all the action scenes in the film, Murphy gave up all the action routines based on kung fu that have recently become popular in Hollywood. All the fighting between Superman and Wonder Woman will return to the original. On the basis of strength and power, it is assisted by huge destructive power.

This way of action was not drawn by Murphy casually, but obtained after a pair of investigations.

According to the feedback he received, more than 80% of ordinary viewers, watching people fight on the screen is mainly a mixture of two psychological aspects.

On the one hand, it is a catharsis of violence.

There is a catharsis method in psychological counseling. It is believed that when people are angry, they can find a sandbag to beat their anger, but later many studies have found that negative emotions such as "aggressiveness" actually contain physiological reactions. And the more you hit the beanbag, the stronger the physical reaction will be. After beating the beanbag, the aggressiveness will become stronger.

But in any case, the physiological response when venting violence is very similar to the pleasure after exercise.

On the other hand, in real-life fights, you can only throw punches, just to knock down the opponent, but when you fight on the screen, you have to make a gesture. Whether the fight is aesthetically pleasing or not is what the audience values ​​very much. They are using the screen to vent violence. At the same time, it must also meet its own aesthetic needs.

Therefore, fighting should not only be violent, but also graceful. This is a very twisted combination.

If you want to satisfy the catharsis side, you have to fight with enough force; but if you use too much force, it may be difficult to balance the beauty of the action, and if the force is too restrained, the pleasure of violence will be discounted. It's better to just watch the dance.

Generally speaking, for a good-looking fight, you should find the best balance between strength and elegance, and you should combine hardness and softness.

In the era when Hollywood hard action movies were popular in the past, all the fighters on the screen were muscular men, with more than enough strength, but not elegant at all. They could only stimulate hormones, and it was difficult to meet aesthetic needs.

Later, Yuan Heping and other Hong Kong martial artists came to Hollywood, and the atmosphere changed.

Before going to Hollywood, these martial arts had been perfectly done and found the balance of strength and elegance in the movements: from the 1980s to the mid-90s, there were many Kung Fu and martial arts masterpieces with beautiful and violent action scenes, but the martial arts were all the same. In Hollywood, without the cooperation of those kung fu stars who trained since childhood, the strength of their movements will be greatly reduced.

Like "The Matrix", those who forced actors to practice for a while are still a little bit better. As for "Charlie's Angels", it is not so much a fight, but a dance that includes fighting movements.

You have to hit a sandbag hard to vent your violence. How can you feel pleasure when you touch a sandbag?

In the setting of "Man of Steel", Superman's superpowers are not as varied as in "Men in Police". Except for heat rays, they are basically pure physics attacks. Superpowers are nothing more than higher, faster and stronger physics. Destructive power, so what needs to be expressed is only strength and speed.

In order to express superhuman speed and strength, Murphy does not intend to beat around the bush, let alone show subtle and precise movement details. He will use the opposite choice to speed up and express strength.

As for elegance, forget it for Superman, and Wonder Woman can add a little more.

Just a little bit, Wonder Woman's movements are also dominated by speed and strength, and the speed and strength have reached the level of the two people in the setting. The so-called fancy skills are all floating clouds, and the most direct attack method is is the most suitable choice.

Who can imagine that with the speed and strength of Superman and Wonder Woman, it is necessary to draw some tricks when fighting, and attack the opponent with falsehood?

It was definitely a disaster more terrifying than Superman's earth-shattering fight.