Chapter 202: The Sharp Effect
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"Your talent for acting?" Murphy frowned, Margaret put her head in front and turned to look at Murphy, as if she was very interested in knowing his answer, "Yes, yes, how about my talent for acting?"
"Sorry, Maggie." Murphy shook his head without hesitation, "I haven't seen anything like acting talent in you."
"What?" Margaret's voice immediately raised, "I don't have a talent for acting? How is this possible?"
She didn't believe Murphy's words, "I've never been involved in acting before. I only tried a few times today, and you shouted through it!"
"Because I have very low requirements for you!" Murphy said the truth, "Maggie, you have never been exposed to performances, and many emotions cannot be expressed in place, including the last time I called it through because the film does not have strict requirements for this character."
"Really?" Margaret was a little disappointed.
Murphy nodded seriously, "You have good psychological quality, not nervous, and not stage fright. I can give you tens of tens of them in this regard, but when it comes to acting talent, you are only sixty of a normal level."
He may misunderstand it, but the possibility of this estimation is still very high.
Margaret returned to her seat and was a little depressed, "I still thought that if I couldn't become a female rider, it would be nice to be an actor in the future."
"You can be an actor if you are not talented," Murphy comforted casually, "As long as you have a good chance, you can still succeed."
"Oh, forget it," Margaret waved her hand, "Let's talk about it when I grow up."
In the subsequent filming, Margaret officially became the actor of the girl Nancy. David Robbie approached Bill Roses and asked him to temporarily serve as Margaret's agent to sign a formal actor contract with the crew.
Just as Murphy said, Margaret's acting talent is average, and her performance is not very good in filming. However, the girl Nancy's role is limited and the requirements are not very high. As long as she is not as nervous as Nikki Milton, she can't help herself and cry loudly, even if she is not expressing some emotions properly, she can pass it.
After filming the role of the girl Nancy, James Franco, who plays Dwight, also joined in. Due to Murphy's appearance, James Franco's acting career has undergone a huge change. The biggest change is that he did not play the Little Green Devil in "Spider-Man", but instead continued to struggle in independent movies with Murphy and several best friends.
In the film, the three most important male characters are all different, just like being single, and Dwight, played by James Franko, has the least monologue, which just fits the character's cold sign.
During the shooting, each character's styling design is also very distinctive. Everyone has a distinct characteristic that distinguishes them from others, and must be able to express the character's personality traits, such as Muffer's strange face, Dwight's red sports car, cross scars on Hardy's forehead, etc.
However, the most eye-catching figure is the "yellow bastard" who is the second generation of officials in the city.
This character spends nearly five hours on makeup before each shooting, and also requires a lot of makeup during shooting.
The Yellow Miscellaneous is extremely prominent. The bishop dominated the city by controlling the church, while his younger brother was a senator. The family was powerful enough to make the only child in their family, Huang Miscellaneous, become the president of the United States. In this case, the so-called state machine has no justice, and there is actually no essential difference between the police and the gangster.
When the yellow bastard raped and killed the little girl one after another, except for the old policeman with a heart disease who was about to retire, Hardy decided to eliminate the harm for the people, the other policemen sat on their own. Hardy's assistant even shot him. When Hardy was seriously injured and rescued the young Nancy, the yellow bastard's predecessor Lock relied on his power to sentence Hardy to rape, lust and a young woman.
While shooting, a special effects team composed of three special effects studios also entered Disney Studios to handle the shots Murphy had taken, and the most important task was tone color.
All the shots taken by Murphy are in color. To achieve the style of the comic with black and white as the base, a lot of color processing must be carried out.
During the free time of shooting, Murphy also frequently communicated with the special effects team to review their processing effects in a timely manner.
As for the filming and production plan of "City of Sin", if you want to express its creative concept, the use of color is undoubtedly an element that Murphy attaches great importance to.
There will be differences in the color tone and style of the scenes in the movie, one is for the need of narrative and the other is for the need of visual style. Often there are big differences between them.
Murphy asked for the strong contrast brought by black and white, coupled with the camera scheduling and light angle, many shots can be viewed separately as an independent picture of the comic, especially the use of black in the film must be rich in layers, showing the original appearance of "City of Sin", and even achieving the image texture that cannot be obtained in color movies.
Moreover, the advantages of movies in action scenes and the freedom to use colors are far superior to those in comics, which directly brings a visually sharp effect.
"The camera is mostly black and white, and only the blood splashing out is terrifying, making the characters' blood cover particularly shocking."
In the special effects studio, Murphy told the special effects staff the basic color adjustment concept, "This kind of black and white color runs through it... No, there are actually red, yellow and green that are rendered extremely. Whether it is the blood-red sky, golden monsters, or the green beauty's eyes, it looks even more imposing in the pure color world of black, gray and white!"
In addition to being able to fully fit the two-color world of the original comic, the movie also brings effects that are not visible in the comic without losing visual impact, moderately reducing the negative effects of violent blood and bringing to the audience, and even making some bloody shots appear quite humorous, and the film is easier to pass the R-rated rating of MPAA.
The overall shooting speed is not fast, and Murphy always firmly controls the rhythm of the crew. Since some shots that have completed the color tuning almost reproduce the comic scenes, Frank Miller, who holds another director position, has not become a hindrance to the filming. Although the crew is relatively large, they can still unite together and work towards the same goal and direction.
January 2003 passed like this. Murphy gave the crew three days off, and David Robbie also asked him for a few days off. After taking Margaret to visit Los Angeles for a while, she sent her back to Australia.
As February begins, the filming continues to be busy, with more actors joining the crew, such as Zi Yi Zhang who plays Mie and Rosario Dawson who plays Gale, and more actresses who will form the Red Light District of Sin City.
The crew also began to shoot more action scenes. Murphy not only used a large number of high-speed slow motions, but also appropriately shot some fast action scenes, which made some action scenes form a strong contrast between speed and slow.
However, there is no way to see much in the shots, and these shots rely more on the processing of post-production special effects.
For a week, the No. 3 studio in Disney Studios was full of women wearing sexy leather outfits, holding guns or whips, which definitely made people drool. According to the comics, the clothes on these female characters can't be shorter, and the fewer ones can't be less.
Just as Murphy said before, he not only does not object to nudity that can motivate the audience's emotions, but also supports it very much.
During the shooting, the actresses dressed in sexy clothes in front of these cameras were also the focus of private discussion in the crew.
"I swear, Donnie, I'm absolutely right!"
During the lunch break, several people gathered in Murphy's director's office. Jonah Hill said confidently, "After the crew got off work the night before yesterday, you walked into Rosario's dressing room and stayed there for at least twenty minutes!"
James Franco found mineral water from the cabinet and threw a bottle for Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Seth Logan and Jonah Hill each and said, "It won't be true, Downey, your taste is too heavy!"
Robert Downey Jr. didn't deny it, and raised his eyebrows, "Jim, do I have your taste strong?"
Hearing this, Murphy and the other two laughed. Jonah Hill also asked James Franco and Lily what progress had been...
"You guys," Murphy unscrewed the mineral water and took a sip, warning these guys who were not doing it properly, "Don't do anything wrong during work hours."
"Don't worry, Murphy," said Robert Downey Jr., "We are all your staunch supporters."
"That's it!" Jonah Hill cheered, "Even if I want to do something nonsense, I'm still off work."
He turned to look at Seth Logan, "Don't you like Asian girls very much? How about that chapter."
Seth Logan touched his nose, "It's okay."
"It's better not to make any decisions about her," Robert Downey Jr. warned, "her suitor is Ivey Niwo, a Jewish who is deeply involved with Hollywood."
James Franco also said, "We'd better not provoke those Jewish guys, we can't afford to provoke them now."
"I'm not confused yet," Seth Logan distinguished himself. "I don't like the type of chapter. The Asian girl I like should have deep eye sockets and small nose..."
After a while of casual talk, James Franco said, "Have you heard that Miss Universe, who participated in the Miss Universe final this year, has arrived in Malibu and is going to train and promote there. We can go and have a look if we have time."
Murphy remembered the party lobbying Frank Miller and asked, "When will the game be held?"
"You are interested, too?" James Frank thought for a moment, "If you remember correctly, it seems that it will be almost a few months later."
The five people agreed that if there was time at that time, they would go to the Miss Universe competition together.
Chapter completed!