Chapter 380 Movies should attract audiences
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What will your reaction be like standing or sitting next to someone like Superman?
Face it calmly? I am happy that this world is protected by heroes? I am signing a photo like a fan? Or...
Thinking of this, Diego Harris shook his head first and put it in the comics. These very normal plots are simply jokes when they are taken into the real society!
In just a few seconds, he thought of the only reaction he would have!
Yes, fear, panic, overwhelming, and the vigilance and repulsion that arises.
"Humans need God!" Murphy said word by word, "but there is no need for God to come to the earth!"
"Yes," Diego Harris said slowly, "What you said makes a lot of sense."
"Just like geniuses and madmen are often separated by a thread, abilities beyond conventionality are born with multiple abilities." Murphy's voice gradually slowed down, "Clark Kent with superpowers may become both a god and a devil."
The darkened style is destined to be the complexity that Superman must be, and a simple and symbolic Superman can only bring about the tragic situation of "Return of Superman", Murphy is very clear about this, "Even, it can be said that Superman is both a paradise and a hell. Superpowers are the source of the complex situation facing Clark Kent. Only in the short time when he loses his superpowers can he show some fragility and pity, and people will regard him as a kind of person to give him mercy and sympathy."
He coughed in a low voice and said, "The public is afraid that his needs are infinitely amplified. The result of human beings losing their sense of security. An omnipotent God determines the life and death of human beings and everything. Human beings need a God, but they do not need God to come to the world. This is the eternal paradox that is internal to human beings."
Murphy added another sentence, "The thing we desire most and the most out of reach may not be as beautiful as we imagined, but will eventually bring fear and even summon the devil in our hearts. This is the tragedy of the paradox of human nature."
"Excluding dissidents is human instinct, and the party and the fight against dissidents is the eternal theme of human history."
Finally, Murphy said solemnly and powerfully, "The emergence of consciousness has made human beings the genius of all things, and has also lost the inner harmony of nature. The nature of each other is born. Super heroes can only live in the human head and imagination, but the haze is floating between our mouths and noses."
During this interview, Warner Bros. and DC Comics basically reached an agreement with Murphy on the style concept of the film. Compared with others, this is the basis for the cooperation between the two parties, and the subsequent series of conditions require Bill Roses and Warner Bros. to have a detailed discussion.
After resolving the basis of cooperation, negotiations in other aspects became much smoother. After about a week of formal negotiations, Bill Roses, who represented Murphy, reached a series of cooperation agreements with Warner Bros.
First, Murphy wants to develop a clear development framework for the DC superhero movies, just like the Marvel superhero movies, and also determine a unified style for the entire series.
This aspect is easier to solve. The series is naturally the dark style that Murphy is best at. As for the Justice League movie universe, of course, it will be formed around the three justice giants centered on Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
It’s okay for Superman and Batman to be said, but the time point for Wonder Woman appeared was the one that Murphy considered the most. If this character is successfully created, it will definitely attract countless fans.
Secondly, the agreement stipulates that Murphy must personally direct the new Superman movie that started the entire series, while serving as the screenwriter and producer of the project.
It is no exaggeration to say that after being persuaded by Murphy, Warner Bros. and the DC Comics almost put all the hope of revitalizing the DC superhero movie on Murphy alone.
Finally, there is the power and benefits Murphy can have.
Like all Hollywood crews, verbal promises cannot be trusted and must be written one by one on the contract, such as the final editing rights, actor determination rights, etc. that Murphy will have in the crew, etc., all have clear provisions in the contract.
Then there is Murphy's salary. His three positions as director, screenwriter and producer will add up to 10 million US dollars in basic salary, plus a 5% global box office share without any additional conditions. When the global box office of the film reaches 3 times the production cost, he can automatically receive up to 20% global box office share and DVD sales share as rewards.
This is a reward that only Hollywood's top directors can get. When Peter Jackson directed the new version of "King Kong" after the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the director contract signed with Universal Pictures was nothing more than that.
In early August, Murphy signed a formal agreement with Warner Bros. With the signing of the agreement, script writing, which is the basis of the entire project, was put on the agenda.
Murphy completely ended his vacation and hid in Stanton Studio to complete the script as soon as possible.
Despite his commitment to completing a superhero movie with a distinctive style, Murphy is very clear that the unique dark style is compared to the seriously young summer popcorn film. In any aspect, this brand new and unofficially named Superman movie will still be completed under the extremely mature and typical Hollywood framework that has been proven by countless films.
Hollywood may not be the greatest film production base in the world, but it must be the most popular film base for audiences all over the world. Since the establishment of the producer-centered system in the 1820s, Hollywood has been constantly exploring ways to attract audiences to theaters and nail them to armchairs. The era of large studios in the 1960s came to an end, but "movies must attract audiences" seemed to remain in Hollywood as a golden rule. Whether it is a commercial director or an independent genius, they all understand its importance.
If you want to make future films popular with the audience and fall into the plot, Murphy will of course follow the Hollywood script model that has been proven countless times when writing the script.
The story of this video must be complete and can be understood by ordinary audiences very easily.
Hollywood's hot-selling movies, which are often called "big plots", have a clear start with contradictions and a final ending, with suspense in the story, climax, and every scene, and every scene, there is a climax. This is what Murphy wants to be "complete". The dramatic conflicts in the film should be clear at a glance and can be welcomed by the target audience.
In terms of the narrative aspect of the script, Murphy follows the narrative principle of three ‘s’, which is the most effective invention of Hollywood movies in scripts and one of the magic weapons to win the box office.
The so-called three "s" principle is to give the audience a surp color, surprise, and surprise at the beginning of the film to attract the audience; the film's expansion part must be able to set suspend color, suspense, and delay in order to retain the audience; the end of the film must give the audience a satisfaction, satisfaction and satisfaction, so as to comfort and repay those viewers who paid for tickets.
Although it is set in a cruel dark style, Murphy will not forget that this kind of commercial video that pursues high returns is essentially an adult call.
Since the establishment of the Hollywood film industry system, the division of labor in film production has become increasingly detailed, and assembly line operations have become more and more mature. Most of the mainstream Hollywood movies carry illusory and daydreaming secular myths, which is related to Hollywood's long-term positioning of movies in the commercial and entertainment industry.
No matter how distinct the style is paid attention to, this is always a typical entertainment movie.
Also, as the absolute protagonist of the film, Superman must be strong and able to gain the audience's sense of identity.
Whether the audience can identify with the superhuman image on the screen is the key to the success or failure of the film. In the first part of the script, an event must be designed to show the initiative and strength of the protagonist Clark Kent.
Taking this as a guideline and completing the framework and outline of the script, Murphy carefully thought about the former "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" when filling in the specific story content to avoid making similar mistakes.
Among these mistakes, the most important point is that you should not be too fan-oriented, and you should not directly introduce the plots and scenes and various memes that a few comic fans talk about intact into the film, which will be extremely unfriendly to ordinary audiences. If this film wants to achieve real success, you must definitely avoid becoming a fan movie.
The specific story needs to be tempered repeatedly, and Murphy always has an idea that can introduce Wonder Woman into this brand new Superman movie?
No matter how the movie develops, storytelling is actually the key to a film. Superhero movies have natural "advantages" in storytelling, and the audience actually have little demands on the storytelling nature of such movies.
The former "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" no matter how fans defend their arguments, they cannot ignore the flaws that the story has not been told well.
Any story compiled is almost inevitable, and flaws will inevitably cause the audience to have a negative viewing experience. Choosing the appropriate editing method can greatly cover up these flaws. But in the end, it involves the problem of storytelling skills.
But in "Dawn of Justice", the audience started fighting before they understood why Batman hated Superman so much; before they understood why they fought, they stopped; before they understood why they stopped, a new round of battle began again...
There is no sharp conflict of values. Just because of a misunderstanding, the most powerful and wisest heroes in American comic history began to fight. The reckless Batman carefully planned a showdown. The reckless Superman gave up the explanation and chose to go straight to the front. A highly anticipated war of the century began to end in a hurry. A reckless and hastily, except for learning that Superman is not that capable of fighting and Batman’s IQ is absent, the audiences except comic fans have gained nothing.
In fact, audiences’ expectations for superhero movies are often very pure. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!