Hollywood Road

In the early morning, Beverly Hills has already started a busy day. The mansions along the Oak Road exude incredible warmth and charm. In one of the villas with an area of ​​up to 80,000 square feet, James Franco woke up from his sleep Come on, as soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a huge photo of a magician with makeup on the opposite side of the bed.

"Crazy day begins!"

James Franco murmured a few words, and quickly left James Franco, entered the state of a magician, grabbed the black costume from the crew next to him, put it on, and cleaned it as quickly as possible. Holding the iconic magic ball, he walked out of the bedroom and into the rehearsal room next to him.

This is a very large rehearsal room. In the center, there is a huge model sand table with a panoramic view of Manhattan.

Walking to the front of the sand table, James Franco stared at the position of the Brooklyn Bridge for a while, and said to himself, "Cut off all traffic on Manhattan Island, create a reason to force people to leave, and then plant bombs on the boat... ..."

"Hahaha..." He let out a weird laugh, hoarse and piercing, "Let them all be blown up! Everyone will become villains!"

James Franco had a weird smile on his face, as if he was really planning to attack Manhattan.

Suddenly, he felt the lingering wings of mosquitoes and ants in his mind, "buzzing...buzzing..." the sound kept going, the sound changed from small to loud, and gradually escalated into a huge boom Sound, he felt something squeezed out from the blood vessels and almost split his body, the sound around him was covered with a sound insulation layer, blurred and deformed like an electronic device, and the pattern in his eyes kept shaking and distorting.

The skin began to turn cold, and James Franco felt it twitching involuntarily. The kitten from nowhere scratched the raised goose bumps with its sharp claws, and the itching gradually penetrated into the bones along the pores. I can't touch it, but I can't scratch it. I can only shake my body and try to rub the bone with the shaking of the flesh in order to relieve the itching.

Ever since he hid at home and studied the role of the magician, and he has become more and more able to grasp the emotions of the characters, he has had this strange feeling.

James Franco closed his eyes, shook his head vigorously, stood here and waited quietly for a few minutes, completely getting rid of the magician state.

There seemed to be a psychological hint, all kinds of weird feelings in his body and mind suddenly disappeared, and his whole body became energetic.

Gradually, James - Franco back to normal.

"I don't know how the crew's preparations are going?"

Thinking of this, he left the rehearsal room and prepared to go to the warehouse studio in Venice, "Let's meet that guy Murphy."

In the warehouse studio in Venice, Murphy was discussing with the action director about Chris Dann's action design. Set an unbreakable bottom line to prevent himself from slipping into the abyss, which determines that he will not use weapons extensively, but mainly in hand-to-hand combat. In order to meet Murphy's realistic and fierce requirements, the action director and his team are dedicated to Henry Cavill designed a set of mixed martial arts that can be upgraded at any time according to his own conditions and the conditions of his opponents.

This kind of zero-distance physical confrontation is also doomed that Henry Cavill needs to train with a large amount of exercise.

Murphy is very clear that the action scenes are very important for the film to be attractive.

The previous movie is absolutely classic, but the action scenes can only be said to be relatively average. If it is not supported by a strong industrial system, the action scenes may not even be considered qualified, especially the scene where Batman fights the thugs. People can't look directly at it, not to mention the level of action scenes, and it doesn't even conform to the logic of normal people's thinking.

The discussion was over, and as soon as the action director left, James Franco knocked on the door and walked in.

"Hi, Murphy." James Franco was not polite at all, pulled up a chair, and sat opposite Murphy with his legs crossed.

He asked casually, "Is the work going well?"

"Everything is going well." Murphy glanced at him and frowned slightly, "Where have you been this month?"

If it wasn't for the frequent phone calls between the two sides, he might have thought that James Franco had disappeared from the earth out of thin air.

"I...well, I..." James Franco shrugged, showing a rather awkward smile, "I locked myself in a villa in Beverly Hills, studying the role of a magician."

Hearing what James Franco said, Murphy couldn't help but put down the work at hand, and looked up at him seriously.

With just one glance, Murphy can see that James Franco has obviously changed compared to the last time the two met.

He was thinner than before. It seemed that he hadn't had a good rest recently, and he looked a little haggard. As long as he paid a little attention, he could find the thick dark circles under his eyes.

"Jim, didn't I say, do you have any questions to contact me?" Murphy raised his finger and asked, "You are in a bad state of mind."

It's good for James Franco to work hard, but he doesn't want to see Fu Lanlan break down before the filming starts.

"Hmm... I studied the movies and characters you recommended, then locked myself in a villa room for a whole month, wrote a diary, tried different madness, and finally made myself enter the state of a psychopath..."

Leaning on the back of the chair, James Franco pulled out a smile, "Since last week, I can only sleep four hours a night, thinking crankily all night, and physically exhausted."

"You..." Murphy shook his head, "Do you remember what I said?"

James Franco smiled again, "Don't worry, Murphy. I'm very clear-headed, and I know where my limit is."

"It's good to be awake! If you get depressed because of the role, they will never let me go!"

Murphy was talking about other members of the Stanton Party, and James Franco knew this too. He finally laughed and said to Murphy, "You, sometimes you think too much."

Indeed, Murphy also admitted this, maybe James Franco couldn't understand it, but he knew it very well, after all, it was impossible for Heath Ledger to forget at will.

Murphy stood up and walked to the opposite side, patted James Franco on the shoulder, "Take a vacation for yourself and relax, call Lily, it's best to go to the Caribbean or Hawaii for a vacation together, and then wait for my notice. "

James Franco nodded as he thought of his recent poor living conditions, "Well... I should really go out and relax."

Murphy said quickly, "You wait for my call, don't rush into the crew."

Seeing that James Franco's mental state is not very bad, he is also relieved, but let him relax first, health is more important than role.

After seeing off James Franco, Murphy went to Gal Gadot's office and briefly looked at the crew's financial statements.

One of the basic skills of Hollywood producers includes "financial statements". Hollywood's complete industrial production system has extremely complex requirements for production management. Producers are required to prepare financial statements every week, including how to spend money in the coming week, etc... …

This part of the work of the crew is jointly responsible by Gal Gadot and a third-party guarantee. Although they are both producers, Murphy and Gal Gadot have completely different divisions of labor.

Compared with Gal Gadot's overall management, Murphy is completely a creative producer.

In a Hollywood film and television drama, the producer is the manipulator of the project and has a key determinant of its success or failure. The creative producer as the driving force of the project is what creativity is all about. Whether it is story interpretation, actor selection, director selection or even film promotion, it requires the pioneering and sincere brain of a creative producer.

Throughout the project, the creative producer plays the multiple roles of mother, father, lover, romancer, bosom friend, teacher, fighter, negotiator, arbiter, dreamer, and more at every moment.

The creative producer watches the completion of the project, fantasizes about the next project, gives birth to the project and grasps it in his hands, making the project have its own life, constantly shaping, shaping, injecting content to show to the whole world, and then giving hope to stand out.

For a director, there is nothing more gratifying than working with a creative producer. There is no marriage story of a film or audio-visual product that can compare to the excellent cooperation between the producer and the director.

But even in Hollywood, excellent creative producers are quite limited, and Gal Gadot still has some gaps. Murphy had to take up part of the work of creative producers, and Gal Gadot was responsible for the specific management work.

Just like he climbed up from the bottom step by step, a producer also needs to accumulate work experience.

Another point, whether in preparation or filming, just like the division of labor between him and Gal Gadot, Murphy requires his crew to have a highly specialized division of labor.

As we all know, the production system of the Hollywood film industry is based on a finely divided production process. At present, there are more than 140 types of work in the production process of Hollywood films.

Although movies are an entertaining spiritual product, Hollywood has materialized and industrialized them based on market needs.

As a result of this fine division of labor, on the one hand, every detail of film production, such as set design, scene performance, character dialogue, etc., will be done very well and delicately because of the control of quite proficient experts; , when every detail expert wants to express his own creative personality, many personalities will eventually be submerged in the noise due to mutual collision and inability to grasp the overall situation, and become a subsidiary of programmed and standardized production. things.

Up to now, all Hollywood commercial productions are part of it.

However, Murphy also established the concept of "big movie industry" with 20th Century Fox in the process of production. (To be continued..) u For more exciting novels, welcome to visit our Reading Academy