Hollywood Road

In the next few days, many Catholic-oriented media attacked Murphy and "Diego Ross". The entertainment media were not far behind and joined the report one after another. However, many entertainment media and Murphy and CAA did not agree There is a connection, and the position cannot be completely biased towards the Catholic Church, so there is a controversial situation in which some media attack Murphy and another part of the media speaks for Murphy.

Presumably this kind of situation, the Archbishop Marquez Costello liked to see it very much.

Murphy's Christmas was spent in such turmoil. Compared with the chaotic sounds outside the Wave Manor, the inside of the manor seemed very peaceful, no different from the past. How should Murphy and Gal Gadot live their lives? how to live.

Having been in Hollywood for so many years, it is not once or twice that he has been criticized by the media. Not to mention Murphy, even Gal Gadot is used to it.

The debate in the media about the war between movie fans and Catholics continues, with some saying 'Murphy planned this incident', others saying 'Murphy has nothing to do with', and others saying 'religion should not interfere with secular affairs' .

In short, it is controversies that continue to emerge.

On the Internet, Murphy's movie fans are also quarreling with hardcore Catholics. The two sides are fighting each other, especially Murphy's movie fans. Endless posture.

But these were all isolated by the high-walled compound of Wave Manor. After entertaining Gal Gadot's family who came to North America for Christmas, Murphy continued to pay attention to this incident, especially Marquez Kos The dynamics of Archbishop Tello, on the other hand, did not delay his normal work.

On the second day of Christmas, Murphy officially signed an order contract with Gulfstream, ordering a G650 business jet from the company at a total price of 65 million US dollars, with a delivery period of one year.

That is to say, the aircraft will not be ready for delivery until the New Year of 2013.

However, Gulfstream provided lease services for Murphy, who temporarily leased a G550 business jet from Gulfstream for the next year.

In the next two days, after Gal Gadot concluded negotiations with Netflix, Murphy on behalf of Stanton Studios and Reed Hastings on behalf of Netflix formally signed a cooperation agreement. Invested 40 million U.S. dollars to shoot a political drama based on Michael Dobbs's novel, tentatively titled "House of Cards"!

A brand new crew is also ready to start forming, with Murphy and Gal Gadot as producers, Paul Wilson as director, and actor Francis Underwood basically determined to be played by Kevin Spacey.

As for the leading actress, just as Murphy expected, Charlize Theron declined Murphy's invitation on the grounds that she was going to star in George Miller's "Mad Max 4" and the schedule was not suitable. Not surprisingly, big directors and big stars themselves have the capital to reject any project.

This is not a problem. Murphy has already discussed with Paul Wilson. After the crew is formally established, a large-scale audition will be conducted for the heroine. It is not difficult to find a suitable actress with a certain reputation in Hollywood.

In addition, Murphy pays more attention to script writing and subsequent filming and production.

Especially the writing of the script, he will carefully review the content of the script of each episode. Of course, the Stanton studio has such a large investment, so of course it cannot be messed up.

Like Hollywood movies, American dramas also have their own assembly line model, and there are many unwritten lessons that have been summed up through years of practical experience.

These experiences and lessons can effectively avoid many minefields, and Murphy is well aware of the taboos of review.

The many censorship taboos in American dramas are essentially derived from the market. If you do not bypass these taboos and follow these unspoken rules, then the audience will "vote with their feet" and will not watch you. If there is a pair of invisible hands behind the control of American dramas, then these hands come from the audience.

Good dramas may have their own advantages,

But bad dramas are all bad with similar stories.

If the story is bad, everyone from the screenwriter to the actors to the director will be scolded by the audience. If you fight back like some people Murphy has seen before, it will be a big joke.

For example, the audience asked: "What kind of fragment is this? Can the plot be more retarded? The screenwriter didn't have a brain to write the script!" The screenwriter responded: "You can do it, you can't write this, you can't write that, what can I do? !"

In this way, a fierce confrontation round ended with the audience scolding the screenwriter, and the screenwriter scolded the censor for being too strict.

For a long period of time, "too little room for development and too many taboos" has been the biggest excuse screenwriters have made for themselves. It really doesn't make sense to throw all the "pot" of the mentally retarded in the plot to the relevant departments.

Screenwriters of American dramas rarely face this pressure, but there are some taboos that cannot be touched in very pornographic and violent American dramas, even Murphy is no exception.

In fact, whether it is a movie script or a drama script, Murphy pays more attention to certain aspects.

For example, the issue of ethnic minorities. He really doesn’t like to let black people play the main roles, but there are many important Latino and Asian characters in every film. Although many media hype that he discriminates against black people, no one has ever said that he discriminates against black people. Minorities.

While "House of Cards" is a show where the main characters are stinking bad, this is something to avoid.

In addition to minorities, LGBT is also a group that cannot be ignored.

LGBT is a collective name for the four groups of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transsexuals. In the past, these were the objects of ridicule in American dramas and comedy movies, but after the new century, casually teasing these people is very likely to provoke big trouble.

Generally speaking, in American dramas for the general public, there are one or two main characters who are not white, and there are also one or two couples of gay men or lesbians, and some of them are transgender or bisexual.

This is no coincidence!

In fact, including ethnic minorities and LGBT people in every feature-length American drama is a job that must be done by the screenwriters of American dramas. If these are missing, it will be seriously politically incorrect.

Switching to "House of Cards", the sexual orientation of the actor Francis Underwood in the next few seasons is also quite intriguing.

Just like Murphy's plan, this is inseparable from the characteristics of Hollywood. Hollywood is located in California, the largest voting base for the Democratic Party in the United States. People in the circle generally advertise freedom and pursuit of liberation, so it has formed unconditional support for political correctness in the American film and television industry. LGBT, all ethnic groups are like one family.

So I saw a variety of American dramas with a variety of skin colors and a gay couple as standard. The trend of "standard" homosexuality probably started around 2006-2008. Some dramas did not arrange gay characters to appear before that. what to do?

As the saying goes, there is no twist for you to twist, no pull for you to break now!

This point, not to mention the dramas of the public, even the TV dramas broadcast on cable TV stations are no exception.

"House of Cards" is mainly used in online on-demand and DVD sales channels, and the scale will be wider than that of TVB's popular dramas, but Murphy will not make it as pornographic and violent as "Game of Thrones".

Therefore, scenes like "Game of Thrones" where dead children appear directly in the screen are very inappropriate to appear in "House of Cards", and even some scenes about children being hurt, he is not allowed to appear directly in the screen.

Under normal circumstances, children will be strictly protected in the screens of Hollywood film and television works.

Since "House of Cards" is positioned as a popular drama, of course Murphy will not let the scene of children's serious casualties appear directly in the script. In some film and television dramas in some places, many screenwriters and directors will use the death of children to set off the atmosphere. Even the scale of some pictures is very large, but never consider that these things may be for minors to see.

Therefore, the screenwriters of "House of Cards", if they want to use force to stir up emotions, highlight how bad Francis Underwood is, etc., they must think of another way. , Murphy would fire him immediately.

Strictly speaking, this drama is an online drama, but the standard set by Murphy will not be much wider than that of TVB's popular dramas.

During the review, he saw a line that might be linked to Francis Underwood, who discriminated against homosexuals, and immediately called the screenwriter in charge, telling him that he had to complete the revision within ten hours!

Because based on the experience of the past few years, the role of blacks is important, but it is more important to protect homosexuals from discrimination. No matter who they are, discrimination against homosexuals must be "killed without mercy".

Just a few years ago, there was a classic case of this in Hollywood.

In the setting of the first season of "Grey's Anatomy", the male number one and the female number one are white, and they are a couple; the male number two is black, and the female number two is Asian-Korean, they are a couple It constitutes the foundation of political correctness in terms of race in the play. However, the male number two has inherited the traits of showing off his head. In an interview, he accidentally revealed some discrimination against the gay community, which caused public opinion to explode.

The media and the audience demanded that the actor apologize and disappear from the play!

The results of it? The result was that the crew obediently followed the audience's request, first asked the black actor to apologize sincerely, then terminated the contract with him and kicked him out of the crew. Because he is the second male number in the play, an ending was arranged for him: he "repented of the marriage" at the wedding scene, suddenly his mind broke, and he said "I don't want to get married anymore, let you be free, goodbye", and then walked out of the church, Since then, she has completely disappeared from the show, leaving the Korean bride in a mess in the wind of the church...

reasonable? From a plot point of view, it is very unreasonable. Do I have to do this? Must, because the audience has a voice.

This is a typical example of the audience forcing the plot, and almost all the censorship in American dramas comes from the audience, and all the taboos also come from the audience's "do not want to watch".