Hollywood Road

"I took a lot of long shots this time."

In the post-production studio in the Fox Building, Murphy said to the head of his editing team, "Jodi, these long shots are mainly used to show the human heart and the struggle of human nature, and you must pay attention to this when editing. "

Jody Griffith nodded, "In the past few days, I have watched all the shots, and I have a general idea. I will first formulate a rough editing plan, and then we will communicate."

"Yes." Murphy fully trusted Jody Griffith, "You can check this aspect."

During the initial period of post-production, Murphy will not participate in the editing, but has a grading team convened, just like the post-production of "Man of Steel", first grading and rendering all the shots.

Although all the shots were shot in dark and gloomy conditions, it was essential to use the Da Vinci color palette to achieve the effect of Murphy's plan.

"The previous movies were dark, but compared to this one, it's nothing."

Before all the work started, Murphy called the post-production team together and had a brief meeting, "This film directly hits the darkest side of people's hearts and society, showing the collision of different ideologies and personal ideas, and the film The tone and the darkness of the shot, will be the basis of it all."

The blackness inside the film must be further set off by the blackness outside.

As he said, compared to this film, the darkness of "Man of Steel" and even "Gone Girl" is nothing at all.

Strictly speaking, this will be the darkest film Murphy has directed since he entered Hollywood. Perhaps it is more appropriate to describe it as a dark film.

To achieve all this, the rendering of the dark tones of the shot is quite critical.

Therefore, Murphy put the Da Vinci color palette at the forefront of all post work, in order to highlight this requirement.

Murphy has made up his mind to make this film go further on the basis of film noir and become a heavy dark film without any humorous elements!

In the field of painting, it is actually difficult to find out the origin of the "dark style", because from Goya's series of black paintings, Bruegel the Elder's "Triumph of Death" and "Triumph of Death", Boccaccio's Evidence of the existence of the "dark style" can be found in paintings and works such as the story collection "Ten Days Talk".

It's just that at the time, these contents were not called "dark".

Hollywood traditional noir movies, even if the theme tends to be heavy, often give people a special sense of irony and comedy like "Gone Girl", but dark movies are different. Murphy doesn't know how others see it. According to his In my own understanding, this type of film is more heavy and philosophical. In some respects, "The Matrix" and his "Man of Steel" can be classified into this category.

Of course, "Man of Steel" has only scratched the surface, and "The Matrix" has gone further in this regard.

However, this is not to say that this kind of movie is so lofty, but that it is almost difficult to see the existence of this type of film in today's Hollywood commercial movies that are highly homogenized. From Murphy's understanding, the dark style is the same as noir movies, except that One of the branches from which the movie was forcibly forked.

There is no doubt that the former Christopher Nolan was the key figure for dark-style movies to truly enter the mainstream film circle, and the dark style has even become synonymous with high-end style.

This style is unique in superhero movies, and it directly or indirectly brings two trends. It seems more joyful and popcorn; second, after "The Dark Knight" brings depth and style to DC comics and Warner Bros., it causes the entire DC universe to follow a unified style and values.

This is no longer a superhero movie, and there is no halo blessing from the master,

What Murphy wants to do is to make him more civilian and darker, and the content is heavier than the previous one. The protagonist does not have so many high-tech, and will be under greater pressure to move forward, and it may happen at any time. Overwhelmed or even completely blackened.

To achieve this style, one is setting and shooting, and the other is post-production.

After the setting and shooting are basically done, post-production becomes crucial.

No one is born to be proficient in various styles of film, even Murphy is no exception. Although he and his team have accumulated some experience before, he still carefully and meticulously controls every link of post-production.

If you want the post-production team to follow this style, you must first understand what the characteristics of the dark style are.

Darkness refers to the tone of the pictures in these movies, which are artificially darkened. Even those scenes that take place in the daytime are dark and humid.

In this movie, most of the plots take place in the dark, which is also in line with the characteristics that New York will change from a bustling Big Apple to a rotten crime city after night falls.

And black, mainly refers to the theme of the film and the reflected thoughts are black, the story will be closely associated with words such as dark, morbid, weird, violent, bloody, mysterious, religious, alternative, etc., although the main body of the film's story is positive , the protagonist also punishes evil and promotes good, but in the development of the story, the above-mentioned elements are magnified and exaggerated, thus producing a "black" effect.

However, even if it is a man-made concept, it needs to follow certain regulations and styles before it can be established. In Murphy's hands, it will also develop according to several set directions.

First of all, the story is dark and has certain morbid elements to a considerable extent.

Whether the protagonist is a positive role or a negative role, most of them will have childhood shadows and traumas. For example, in order to save him, Chris Dan's father fell into the black chemical raw material pool. Under his own eyes, the corroded A piece of scorched black, thus creating the fear of black.

This kind of shadow and trauma accompanied his maturity and eventually became part of his values. Moreover, such trauma will make him show off another "sick" image. He will always hide in black clothes and black clothes. In the shadows.

Similarly, the behavior of the villain is not for repayment or revenge, but a ceremony involving violence and blood to awaken the public. Their violence is largely not about personal past and grievances, but rather It is about some kind of redemption and revelation.

Such a villain breaks through the "bad guy" in the general sense. He has the same speculative and philosophical color as the positive character, which makes the positive character fall into a dilemma in many cases. Evil thinking can be described as a kind of darkness in film aesthetics.

Secondly, religion and the resulting sense of ritual, mystery, cult, incompleteness, and alternatives will be the characteristics of the sensory and narrative elements in the movie. In many passages and plots, the protagonist will be pointed out by key characters , or come out on top in certain ceremonial gatherings and activities before you can enter the next stage.

This kind of setting is actually just a process of self-healing and ability upgrading, but driven by the dark wind, a section that could have been full of vitality will definitely become a plot of "climbing up from a mass grave" In the process of becoming a hero, a hero has to go through a series of events that wash himself out, and then painfully choose to maintain the status quo.

No matter how they are, how they perceive the world, no matter whether the world needs to be cleaned up and restarted, heroes are not born heroes.

In this regard, Murphy used to watch too many movies with the main theme of the hero's tallness. In Dan's case, his initial motivation came entirely from overcoming fear and revenge!

This is a realistic film. It is impossible to be like a Superman movie, where the protagonist is born a hero, and it is even more impossible to deliberately create "great light and righteousness" so as to obtain "fake big empty".

In addition, during the post-production process, Murphy borrowed from many paintings, expressionism, Gothic and many modern and contemporary oil paintings that can embody the dark style.

Of course, there is another issue that he has to consider, which is also the aspect that 20th Century Fox is more worried about whether the audience can accept this style.

There is no doubt that this style is several times more risky than Murphy's past film noir.

If before "Man of Steel", such a dark and heavy film might have been rejected by 20th Century Fox at the review stage, but now 20th Century Fox is willing to accompany Murphy on the adventure.

The reason is simple, just like Steve Jobs is sought after by countless people.

Another point, Murphy and 20th Century Fox are very clear that movies are deeply influenced by the social environment. Looking at the development and changes of Hollywood movies, it is not difficult to find that they have experienced countless CG special effects and simple and mindless popcorn commercial blockbusters. Afterwards, the audience’s expectations for those popcorn movies that understate the plot and only focus on whether the CG is realistic or not have declined to a certain extent, especially those older audiences are becoming more and more dissatisfied with commercial movies that are heavily biased toward childishness .

Therefore, this kind of dark film noir with serious film features and creative tendencies can be said to follow the trend.

Of course, in such a dramatic plot-oriented movie, the direction of the characters is positioned in the dilemma of "alternation between good and evil", and a strong logic and speculation are placed for the villain, plus some spectacle displays And the story that happened in the dark night can definitely bring a fresh stimulation to the audience.

In this style of film, the villain is also key, and if the villain is just a popcorn movie, the style will be out of balance.

Reflected in this film, Renner wants to use his own idea to take shock therapy to heal New York, while Chris Dane thinks it will only bring destruction.

This naturally elevates the villain's level or force.

Murphy and 20th Century Fox have considerable confidence. Apart from these external elements, they mainly believe that this film can gain enough attention with a suitable publicity and marketing strategy. (To be continued.)

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