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"With your current shooting efficiency and speed, the amount of 35mm film prepared by 20th Century Fox may not be enough."

During the filming interval of the set, Gal Gadot, who had already started part of the work of the crew, found Murphy and talked about a situation that the crew had just reported, "I contacted Kodak's dealer in Paris, but they were out of stock. "

Murphy nodded slightly, and said, "Contact Kara Firth right away, there should be some stock in 20th Century Fox's warehouse, and let them airlift it as quickly as possible."

"I'll do it now." Gal Gadot was about to leave, but suddenly remembered something and reminded Murphy, "I heard some rumors that Kodak is not doing well recently and may go bankrupt at any time."

"I see." Murphy frowned slightly and said, "Go and do your work."

Kodak is facing bankruptcy, which is not good news for all directors who like to use film to shoot. This famous film company has been in a bad situation since it entered the new century. This year's economic crisis will surely bring about a huge impact. Even if we can pass this test without going bankrupt, I'm afraid it won't last for a few years.

Then Murphy asked Gal Gadot to pay special attention to some news in this area. After all, Kodak's situation will be related to his future filming choices.

According to the information provided by Gal Gadot, Kodak can hold on for the time being, and film production related to the entire film industry will not be terminated, and Kodak has also reached a new agreement with the six major Hollywood companies to continue To provide Hollywood with high-quality film films, directors such as Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher and Ridley Scott still express that they will shoot their next works on film.

On the media, there was also news that "Hollywood directors join hands to save Kodak film", which pushed Hollywood film companies to reach an agreement with Kodak to guarantee the production and sale of a certain amount of film.

As the world's largest producer of motion picture film, sales of Kodak motion picture film have fallen by a full 92 percent since 2004.

Even Murphy himself often shoots on film, but he is very clear that it is an irreversible trend that digital technology will completely replace film, and the rest is only a matter of time.

In particular, people in the industry are not very optimistic about the efforts of several Hollywood directors, saying that although this can save Kodak for a while, it will eventually be replaced by more convenient digital shooting. To increase their shooting costs, digital shooting is more suitable.

Of course, as a director and movie lover, Murphy doesn't want to see the film stock disappear.

A faint sour smell, which is the smell of film, a projector capable of supporting two turntables, and a round film box, reflected by a piece of white cloth, focused into light and shadow... Once upon a time, this was what Murphy loved All memories of the movie.

Since the emergence of digital technology, the debate over the advantages of film and digital technology has never stopped. The gorgeousness of film and the coldness of digital form two completely different aesthetics.

For hundreds of years, the world of images has been based on film as the time axis, and film has witnessed the development history of film. However, the advent of the high-speed and advanced digital technology era brought the film era, which was screened by hand and carried countless warm memories, to a sudden collapse.

Frankly speaking, the desolation of film is the result of the combined effect of technology and economy.

In recent decades, every innovation in the film industry has been spawned by a series of Hollywood-led industry standards, 24 frames per second, wide-screen technology, 3D... everything is the same.

However, Hollywood studios like digital movies not because it is better than film in terms of image, but because of its high quality and low price.

Think about it, for a 90-minute movie, the length of the film is about 3,000 meters, and five or six copies are needed. Each copy weighs about 25 kilograms, and it needs to be delivered manually from one theater to another. For digital movies, an encrypted digital hard disk or even a USB flash drive is enough.

Without leaving home, it can be directly transmitted and delivered to the theater through satellite.

After calculating the accounts, the cost of making a film copy is as high as more than 2,000 US dollars, but a digital copy is only a few hundred dollars. Under such considerations, it is not clear what choices Hollywood and even the filmmakers of the world will make. And metaphor.

As long as the development of technology continues, there will always be obsolete old technologies, but in the eyes of some directors, the replacement of film by digital technology is not a so-called progress in essence, but an illusion of progress at most. When it is superior to digital technology, it is forcibly swept into museums and warehouses, which will inevitably make people feel aggrieved.

The crew's film storage shortage did not affect the shooting. After Gal Gadot contacted Kara Firth, 20th Century Fox used its own inventory reserves and airlifted enough 35mm film directly to Paris.

With the support of a big company like Twentieth Century Fox, many problems that arose during the preparation, filming and publicity process were actually not problems at all.

Today's 20th Century Fox has become one of the leaders in Hollywood by virtue of its integrated strategy, which includes both horizontal and vertical dimensions.

The integrated strategy can establish a certain relationship to achieve resource sharing and realize synergistic operations, which will eventually reduce costs and improve efficiency. News Corporation's media companies span broadcasting, film and television, newspapers, publishing houses, and the Internet. The excellent manuscripts are uniformly deployed and provided to subsidiaries around the world.

Horizontally, Twentieth Century Fox has expanded through acquisitions, owning Fox Cable, Fox TV and Fox News, Fox Music and Fox Films.

In terms of vertical competition, Twentieth Century Fox has not only produced films, but also expanded many film marketing businesses, and further expanded from the film business to theme parks built according to mission scenes in films, film DVD business, Internet business and related businesses. consumer products industry.

These business extensions have brought the business closer to the ultimate movie consumer as well.

The vast platform of 20th Century Fox is completely incomparable to Stanton Studios, and this advantage was not established in a short period of time, but after a long period of development and accumulation.

Even an idiot would know that it is definitely not a dream to set up a new film company in this era, just by making some excellent films, to overwhelm the top six Hollywood companies and become the industry leader.

That's a mental problem.

The former Lionsgate Films had a brief success with a series of hit movies, and it seemed that it would become the seventh largest company in Hollywood at any time, but then it fell silent, and it once again showed the outside world that new Hollywood companies want to be top-notch. The situation cannot be solved by relying on movies alone.

With 20th Century Fox's 35mm film transported in place by air, Murphy's crew solved the final problem, and the filming proceeded in an orderly manner. Except for the final theater explosion scene, there will be basically no big scenes in the film, as long as James Franco , Christopher Waltz and Margot Robbie and other main actors are guaranteed, and the shooting will proceed smoothly. The work that was originally behind the plan, by mid-April, gradually caught up with the progress.

After more than three months of filming, in late April, the crew finally ushered in the final scene.

Since the scene of this scene did not overlap with the previous shooting, Murphy especially shot the end of the film at the end.

James Franco, Christopher Waltz, and Christopher Waltz's stand-in models were all ready soon, and Murphy checked the lighting, props, backgrounds and camera positions of the location one by one, and was satisfied with everything , gave the order to start filming.

This secluded grove ushered in a super showdown between the little hooligan and the big hooligan.

Murphy gestured to Feli Raschel, and the main camera controlled by Feli Raschel moved along the slide to the side of James Franco and Christoph Waltz.

While there are four actors on the Pine Woods location, it's certainly a head-to-head battle between the characters of James Franco and Christoph Waltz.

"Utwitch and I overheard your conversation with the General, and tonight will end the war..."

James Franco said to the somewhat frantic Christoph Waltz with a serious face, "I am also willing to make such a deal."

Christoph Waltz had a bad feeling, lost his former grace, and exclaimed, "You will be punished!"

"This is a very good deal." James Franco ignored his words and said to himself, "As for your shameless request, I think it is because you are willing to take the Nazi high-ranking officials to one hand. It can be considered."

Christoph Waltz looked at James Franco as if he couldn't figure out what he was going to do next.

"When you get real estate from the U.S. government, you take off this Nazi uniform, don't you?" James Franco repeated. "Isn't it?"

Christoph Walz did not answer, but the corners of his mouth trembled.

"I think so too!" James Franco gradually revealed the temperament of a big bastard, "I can't tolerate this!"

He leaned close to Christopher Walz's ear, "If I'm lucky, you'll never want to take off this uniform in your life, but I know it's unrealistic, you have to take off this uniform, so..."

James Franco drew a knife from his waist, "I'm going to give you an indelible swastika!"

The filming ended temporarily, and then replaced by family members, James Franco carved a deep swastika on the dummy's scalp.

"Inglourious Basterds" also ended all the shooting work. Murphy returned to Los Angeles the next day with the filmed film to start post-production. (To be continued.)