Hollywood Road

In the beach area of ​​Santa Monica, there are people coming and going at the door of a small building with a cross on its head, but an office in the building is very quiet, and no one will come to disturb it easily. Archbishop Marquez Costello is sitting in front of the computer , Looking at the most forwarded messages on Facebook today.

These news basically have nothing to do with Catholicism. After so many years of development, Archbishop Marquez Costello has to admit that the influence of Catholicism in North America is not as good as before. , devout Catholic believers are also decreasing.

Sweeping his eyes over these several messages, Archbishop Marquez Costello saw an extremely familiar name, and then stopped the scrolling mouse.

"Murphy Stanton's new film "Dark City" is officially scheduled for next summer, and it will be released simultaneously in North America and many countries and regions around the world from May 3rd!"

Seeing this name, Archbishop Marquez Costello immediately frowned.

In the first half of this year, His Excellency Pope Benedict XVI personally called him to inquire about the educational affairs of the South Central Diocese of California. His dissatisfaction with him was already evident in his words, especially for his failure to suppress the "Diego- The film "Ross" can be said to be harsher in terms of words.

He then submitted a related investigation report, pushing a series of issues to Murphy Stanton and the negative influence of that film, claiming that it was the deliberate smearing of this Hollywood director that caused the This caused a disadvantage in the spread of Catholicism in south-central California.

Although this kind of statement is a bit exaggerated, it can also reflect part of the facts. Whether it is him or the Vatican, it is very clear that the film industry has developed to the present. The influence of a Hollywood director is absolutely huge. From some aspects Those actors and stars are simply incomparable. With their outstanding works and reputation, they have won the crazy support of countless movie fans. It is not an exaggeration to say that some movie fans believe in God.

Murphy Stanton is such a director!

Although it failed to prevent the release of "Diego Ross" and Murphy Stanton's Oscar victory, the Catholic Church still has a few loyal fans in Hollywood. According to them, Murphy- After Stanton won the Oscar for Best Director, he is definitely among the top five directors in the Hollywood industry.

Some people even told him that today, when people like Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are getting old, Ridley Scott is good and bad, and David Fincher's business performance is mediocre, Hollywood The only super directors with the most global influence are James Cameron and Murphy Stanton!

After turning off the computer and sitting quietly for a while, Archbishop Marquez Costello remembered Pope Benedict XVI's exhortation that the negative effects brought about by Murphy Stanton and "Diego Ross" must be eliminated as soon as possible. Influence, restore the credibility of Catholicism in the Dioceses of South Central California!

This kind of thing is easy to say, but in the stronghold of Hollywood, it is very difficult to do!

"What should I do?"

This is something Archbishop Márquez Costello must consider.

The later work of the crew is still going on, and the same busy publicity and marketing promotion has not been relaxed. When December comes, Murphy released a series of brand new posters with James Franco as the main target.

"A new poster has appeared?"

After opening her twitter and entering the account of Murphy she followed, Daisy immediately saw several brand new posters, "It seems to be a series of posters with the theme of a magician..."

She swiped her phone to watch them one by one, and the first thing that appeared was James Franco, who was wearing a cheap-looking black magician costume. He stood in front of a glass window with a strange expression, writing on the A line of letters was written on the glass - "I'm.the.;"I am an agent of chaos! Daisy looked at the phone and murmured, "I am an agent of chaos!" I am an agent of chaos..."

These words penetrate through layers of obstacles,

Like a ray of divine light, it directly entered the deepest part of Daisy's soul, making her suddenly realize: what she thought in the past, to put it bluntly, isn't it chaos?

If you want those bastards who attacked Murphy to be punished, you need chaos, right?

Daisy's fingers slid unconsciously, and the posters behind them appeared one by one. The most eye-catching ones on them were the evil magician. I saw him using a blood-red pen to write in front of Chris Dane and Jay Leigh respectively. On the heads of Chell, Detective Lynch and others, a big red cross was drawn, the bright red was like the blood oozing from these people.

"I understand..." Daisy seemed to have received some hint, "I understand what to do!"

She put away her mobile phone, ran into the bedroom and rummaged a lot, and finally found a bright red lipstick bought many years ago in the corner of the makeup cabinet, unscrewed it, put it in her handbag, grabbed A baseball cap with a large brim is out of the house.

After getting into the red Chevrolet sedan parked on the side of the road, Daisy quickly came to a Catholic church closest to her home. Since it was not a Sunday, there seemed to be no one outside the church, and it looked quite deserted.

Daisy parked the car in a relatively hidden place in the distance, put on a baseball cap, and changed into a very common coat, got out of the car and walked towards the church. While walking, she observed that there were no people around. After the people, he quickly stepped up and came to the gate of the church.

Standing here and looking up at the cross on the top of the church building, Daisy opened her handbag, took out the bright red lipstick, and drew a big red cross on the stone on the left side of the gate.

As if she was not relieved by this, she twisted the lipstick out again, and wrote under the red cross: "I'm.the.; The bright red lipstick marks are very conspicuous on the blue slate, as if the blood that Christ shed back then... …

Looking at it with satisfaction, Daisy quickly turned and left, went around and returned to her car, got in the car, and left here quickly.

"what a pity……"

Driving a red Chevrolet, Daisy was still sighing, "I haven't found the person who attacked Murphy until now, otherwise, I can carve a red fork directly on his face with a knife, that's the real one." Bright red!"

In the past few months, she has searched all the Catholic churches in the Los Angeles area, but she can't find the person she beat up.

But Daisy knows that the Los Angeles area has a large population, and it is not easy to find someone. She will not give up easily. Some people have done bad things, and they must pay the price!

In the Fox Building where 20th Century Fox is located, Murphy is still busy with the post-production of "Dark City". After entering mid-December, a new awards season for the North American film industry kicked off, and countless actors flocked to Los Angeles , For example, Margot Robbie and James Franco, who went overseas to shoot other films before, also returned to the City of Angels.

Murphy called them to his studio to complete their respective post-recordings.

"City of Darkness" uses about 45% of live sound and simultaneous sound, which is a normal ratio for commercial films.

In today's era of relatively prosperous commercial films, the production cycle, including shooting scenes, shooting scheduling, and all aspects are becoming more and more complicated, especially for scenes around the city like "Dark City", the sound conditions will be greatly affected, so The sound quality of the same period cannot be guaranteed, and Murphy can't help it. This is an objective fact.

In the preparatory stage, Murphy asked James Franco and Henry Cavill to record part of the recording, but that was more for the purpose of completing the reference sound, so that during the later dubbing, the crew could know what the actors were talking about, and put him These emotions can be heard clearly, and where possible, the dialogue is recorded to ensure the best quality.

In addition, the simultaneous sound needs to record a large amount of sound data, such as group miscellaneous, the sound related to a specific prop, and some things on the scene, these sounds are difficult to find in the later stage. Including the recording of ambient sound, recording a large amount of sound will bring great convenience to post-production.

Of course, whether an actor's dubbing is good or not depends not only on the actor's own performance, but also has a direct relationship with the subsequent mixing and voice dialogue.

The first thing Murphy asked the sound department to do was edit the soundtrack.

He will put all the simultaneous sounds together, and the part that cannot be used must be dubbed technically. As the director of the film, this part of the work is more done by a professional dubbing director. The dubbing director will guide How the actors say the words, make the voice believable.

In many cases, an actor will have his own impromptu things in dubbing, which is very joyful, and even adds to the whole dialogue.

Different characters have different ways of dubbing. James Franco's dubbing is divided into two parts, one is a seemingly normal magician, and the other is an extremely crazy magician.

These are first based on the sound of the same period. In fact, the post-dubbing of the film, either the sound quality cannot meet the requirements for use, or Murphy or the sound designer has other ideas. When encountering such a situation, Murphy will Select Voiceover.

When dubbing, let James Franco try his best to imitate the simultaneous voice, it is best to be able to speak exactly the same, and let him adjust it step by step if he wants to discover the most subtle things in it.

Dubbing requires emotion on the one hand, and technology on the other, such as the signal-to-noise ratio and timbre of the sound. Murphy sometimes asks James Franco to make his voice as loud as possible under certain emotions, and the pitch should be higher or lower. It can be regarded as some adjustments in tone, probably so.

"how are things?"

After the work was finished, Murphy found James Franco during the break, and asked with concern, "Have you recovered yet?"