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In fact, last weekend, Murphy and Gal Gadot hosted David Robbie and Margot Robbie brothers and sisters in the manor. - Robbie's audition results are not bad, and he will definitely use his own people first. This is not just Murphy, Hollywood directors are basically doing this.

Murphy didn't care whether Margot Robbie thanked her face to face. Not only had the two known each other for almost ten years, she was also Gal Gadot's best friend and David Robbie's sister.

That's just kidding.

But Gal Gadot replied very seriously, "She will thank you face to face later, and now she is going to the Death Star Building. She said that after the audition, she will come to us, and the influence will not be good."

"Is the influence bad?" Murphy raised his brows, "Maggie still cares about this."

Gal Gadot shrugged, "She is afraid that it will affect you badly."

Murphy shook his head, "Why would I care about this?"

What happened to using your own people? In Hollywood, directors are justified in using their own people, and it is an unwritten rule recognized in the circle.

Taking Murphy's coffee cup and taking a sip, Gal Gadot turned to Murphy, pulled out the swivel chair and sat down, saying, "You are a director, and you don't understand the hardships of an actor's life."

"As if you understand it well?" Murphy rolled his eyes on purpose.

Apart from a temporary cameo as Wonder Woman in Man of Steel, Gal Gadot has never played any other roles at all.

Gal Gadot ignored Murphy's question and continued, "A well-developed actor like Maggie is easily rejected by other actors."

Murphy nodded slightly, which was true.

Although the current Margot Robbie is not very popular, the role of Three Idiots has also made her name spread around the world. Everyone knows that an actress like her can make a splash as soon as she enters Hollywood. For what reason, most people in the circle know that she has a great relationship with Murphy's team, and there are even tabloids hyping that she and Gal Gadot are a pair of gays.

Murphy has also seen these news, and the gossip lace of the tabloids has never been afraid of fakes.

For example, he himself, even today, there are still tabloids hyping that he and James Franco are gay, and Gal Gadot and Lily Collins are just a cover for the two of them.

The two said a few more words, and Gal Gadot stood up, "Kara asked someone to ask Warner to see what they mean about Maggie and Harley Quinn. This should have a result, and I will give it to you." Carla on the phone."

"Yeah." Murphy waved his hand.

Since he paid Warner Bros. and D Comics a sky-high salary, he basically cut off contact there. It is said that Zach Snyder will continue to direct the future "Justice League" series.

Thinking of "Justice League", Murphy couldn't help shaking his head. He still couldn't reverse the direction of a super giant like Warner Bros. by himself.

He really doesn't know what the top executives of Warner Bros. think. They obviously have much better cards than Marvel. The Big Three, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, completely kill Iron Man, Black Widow, and Marvel in terms of popularity. Captain America and his like, the movies produced are not like that at all.

Because of "Man of Steel", Murphy has been paying attention to the superhero series, especially "Batman v Superman".

With the super high box office brought by the appeal of Superman and Batman in the first weekend, the film has now pushed the North American box office to more than 260 million US dollars. This result seems to be good, but after the first weekend, the North American box office of the film It only increased by more than 80 million US dollars, which is only more than half of the box office in the first weekend, which seems quite embarrassing.

The lack of stamina of "Batman v Superman" is quite obvious, anyone can see it, but compared to the falling box office, its reputation has plummeted all the way.

The freshness of "Batman v Superman" on Rotten Tomatoes has dropped to 28%.

Metariti scored 39 points, and the audience's ratings were basically the same. The audience's word-of-mouth was very unsatisfactory, and the media's ratings were almost brutal.

As one of the most anticipated super blockbusters of this year, this film can be regarded as the first-line Hollywood in terms of cast and behind-the-scenes production. Generally speaking, even if it is bad, it will not be so bad as it is now.

This can be said to be a painful lesson, especially for a director like Murphy who mainly focuses on commercial films and does not shoot and produce ordinary popcorn films.

Now that there is nothing to be busy with, Murphy simply thought about the mistakes made in this film, including this one and the previous one, which are really worthy of vigilance, and are also reminding him not to make such mistakes.

First of all, what Murphy thinks of is adaptation. Any Hollywood director will deal with adapted movies. Adaptation must not be a simple original event or a copy of the original work.

In this respect, Batman v Superman is typical.

To have a full blast watching Batman, viewers need to read The Death of Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, Kingdom Come, Injustice, Superman: The Red Son, Justice League: "Origin" and other d comics, but having said that, a super blockbuster film costing 250 million US dollars and released in mainstream theaters, its core turned out to be a collective carnival for small fans, I have to say "Bat Super" From the beginning, the weak acceptance of ordinary audiences was not considered.

In addition, Warner Bros. has made aggressive mistakes no matter whether it was or is now, and the director not only does not know how to adjust, but also makes the aggressiveness more impatient.

Especially in the past, and the reason why Warner Bros. and d rushed to launch the big movie "Justice League" was naturally to fight to the end with their enemy Marvel: Aren't you already in the third stage? Has the civil war started since the long-term must be divided? Alright, then I'll catch up with all your previous progress with "Bat Super". Our "Injustice" is also a comic of Heroes' Civil War, and I'll force it all into the script.

But having said that, starting from "Iron Man" in 2008, it took eight years, more than a dozen movies, and a movie universe built in two stages, but d wanted to use a "Bat War" to start and pass the customs. This ambition It’s no longer eating a fat man in one bite, it’s simply driving ducks to the shelves.

So there is such a full version that lasts three hours, compresses the plots of 5 comics or even more, and has all the six giants of the Justice League. It turned out to be Zach Schneider, who is widely criticized in terms of narrative, and one can imagine how loose the finished film will be.

It's not that there's something wrong with Zack Snyder, it's that the way Warner Bros. worked with Zack Snyder wasn't right.

Zach Snyder has always been a controversial director, and he is also a rare stylized director on the Hollywood assembly line. His personal style is mainly reflected in the sound and picture level - the picture is highly saturated in color, long slow motion lyrical, narrative montage, and comic-style storyboard composition are all the image labels of this director.

In short, what this director makes is more like a cartoon with violent aesthetics, or an MV with formal aesthetics. Picture thinking should be prioritized over dramatic thinking, which leads to almost all of Zack Snyder’s works being postmodern. A master of form, a scumbag of narrative in genre films.

Even Zach Schneider himself admitted that he first made movies from the perspective of fans, so he also used the aesthetics of comics as much as possible in his movies.

In this "Batman vs. Superman", Zack Schneider continued his unique video style - as soon as a lyrical scene came, Zack Schneider immediately opened fire, slow motion, close-up, and time-space transformation bombing , there is almost no one who is too high.

For example, the slow-motion narrative of Bruce Wayne's family misfortune at the beginning of the film, the cross-cutting montage of the media's fierce debate, and the tragic and unusual Superman's state funeral at the end of the film are all unforgettable.

But once there is no background music, no slow motion, no montage, no exquisite composition and stacked narrative, no above-mentioned formal elements for survival, Zach Schneider can't even shoot the most basic positive and negative dialogues. , coupled with the use of dreams and flashbacks, which are already somewhat stream-of-consciousness, to arrange the foreshadowing of the scene, frequent time-space transitions seriously disrupted the coherence of the plot, directly leading to excessive fluidity of time and space in the story, and irreparably resulting in an unbalanced narrative rhythm , the plot is fragmented.

Another point is the most basic logic of the film. This is what Murphy has been emphasizing, and it may not be important in the eyes of some directors or editors.

The reason why Batman and Superman turned enemies into friends is really not convincing, and it does not meet the basic standard of "unexpected and reasonable" in the film conversion. Such an abrupt and clumsy dramatic turn gives people the first impression of watching the battle. Zach Schneider glanced at his watch: "It's time to fight the boss, tell the master to stop making trouble."

These are not Zach Schneider's problems, but more of Warner's decision-making mistakes.

They recruited a formalist big guy to play with the narrative of genre films, and didn't let him choose the script based on his strengths and weaknesses. Zach Schneider had no choice but to develop himself in terms of narrative form rather than narrative grammar.

Manga movies are no longer like they used to be. They are purely a subculture played by a small audience. As the tastes of audiences become more and more sophisticated, in addition to having visual effects to support the scene, they must try their best to break through the constraints of their own genre and bring a unique entertainment experience.

Furthermore, Warner Bros. has limited the film to pg-13, which greatly limits Zach Schneider's performance.

But having said that, with an investment of 200 million US dollars, it is impossible for any production company to allow the director to shoot and produce an R-rated film...

Thinking of this, Murphy shook his head. This is really an unsolvable problem. Unless Warner Bros. makes a bold move, there will be no fundamental changes in the comic book hero movie.

The current d-series started very early and is still making mistakes...

The former D series actually started not too late. For example, Murphy himself thought that "Batman: Beginning of War" was a good entry point.