Chapter 383: Actor Candidates
Faced with Murphy's constant talk, Gal Gadot was also moved. It seemed that it was very good to be able to work with Murphy and help him effectively.
However, she also knew that she still had a long way to go if she wanted to be like Kara Fis.
To become a qualified producer, you can't help but have the support of people like Murphy and the ability to match his wishes. Gal Gadot knows that he is not enough in this regard.
Without any surprises, the conversation ended with Gal Gadot's final nodding in agreement. Since this is a project invested by Warner Bros., although Murphy has the right to decide the actor, it is impossible for Gal Gadot to become a Wonder Woman actor at will, and a procedural audition is bound to be needed.
On the other hand, Gal Gadot will also join the crew as an assistant director and personal assistant to Robert, legal counsel, in order to accumulate practical work experience.
Murphy is not a fool, and he will not let Gal Gadot take an important position rashly. That is not only irresponsible to the crew, but also irresponsible to her personally.
Gal Gadot is indeed very smart, with a high IQ and EQ, but there is still a long way to go before a strong woman in the workplace like Cara Fais.
It can be said that Murphy has planned a common career path for the two.
There are many couples in Hollywood such as directors and producers, and even formed a mature model, such as the former Katherine Kennedy, Peter Jackson, Christopher Nolan, Zach Schneider, etc.
In Murphy's view, the future of this road is bright.
An excellent film requires outstanding roles. The outstanding role is not only based on the script and director, but also the right actors and excellent performance.
If the director wants to make his film have higher pursuits, the main characters in it are not as some people say, and they can just bring any actors. Even a very vase-like character like Wonder Woman is not just a vase-like actress to achieve the desired effect.
Directors are very important to a film, and actors are also very important.
Because for example, Superman's actors had to start preparing for the role very early, after basically finalizing Gal Gadot's role as Wonder Woman, Murphy's most important task was to finalize the candidates for each major role as quickly as possible.
Paul Wilson, who was previously responsible for casting director, worked hard for the second season of "Game of Thrones", and Murphy could only be responsible for casting the main actors himself, while casting of other small characters was handed over to an assistant director who had been following him.
Of course, as Paul Wilson and Seth Logan became directors, the Germanic descendant named Ghent was promoted from assistant director to associate director.
The actors Murphy is preparing to personally select and audition, mainly from four roles. In addition to Wonder Woman, there are also Superman Clark Kent, the famous DC Green Tea Louise Ryan and the big villain Lex Luther.
The candidates for the roles of Clark Kent and Louise Ryan will hold a large-scale audition, and Murphy also asked Bill Roses to inform Caa that under the same circumstances, he will definitely give priority to Caa's actors.
"My thought, there is no need to use big-name stars in the two characters Superman and Louise Ryan."
In the Warner Studios office, Murphy said to Bill Roses, "Some young actors with good personal profiles and have played many roles in the circle are very suitable candidates."
Hearing Murphy’s request, Bill Roses wrote it down carefully and said, “I will notify the company to select suitable actors and send their information as soon as possible.”
"The faster the better." Murphy thought, "I will hold up the first audition for both roles before next weekend."
"Where is Lex Luther?" Bill Roses asked again.
"This character is in youth in the setting." The villain's setting and charm are extremely important for a film, so Murphy said solemnly, "I need young actors with excellent acting skills, so..."
He thought a little, "You send an audition invitation to Heath Ledger, Jack Gillenhill, Jared Leto, and Matthew McConaughey, in my name..."
Speaking of this, Murphy suddenly remembered a male actor he liked very much, "and Nicholas Cage."
If Uncle Cage accepts the audition invitation and wins in the end, he can appropriately modify the settings about Lex Luther in the script.
Anyway, his plot and many settings are basically separated from the comics, so there is no need to worry too much. Moreover, the Justice League "New 52" universe that DC Comics is about to launch will be like the new look of Superman and Wonder Woman. The plot will have earth-shaking changes, and many aspects will be used to learn from and follow Murphy's settings in the script.
Murphy was left to Gent for some other roles, and he would review them after the audition.
Originally, Warner Bros. wanted to gather a five-star lineup for Murphy. For example, Superman's biological father and adoptive parents were both middle-aged actors at the Oscar level, but he refused.
Instead of investing high pay for these not-so-important supporting roles, it is better to find some veteran actors with good acting skills and invest the saved money in filming and special effects production.
The special effects and action scenes of this film will not be limited to a very small range like "Deadpool".
After seeing off Bill Rossis, Murphy found his action guidance and special effects team. Both sides have discussed the action special effects scene many times. This kind of communication will run through all stages from preparation to shooting and then to post-production.
Special effects production is undoubtedly one of the key points of "Man of Steel". Murphy initially wanted to hand over the digital field that he had been working with. However, this special effects studio in the small town of Venice has been concentrating on manpower and material resources recently and has not drawn enough manpower.
So, Murphy came to Industrial Light and Magic, and Industrial Light and Magic formed a huge special effects team to cooperate with the crew throughout the process.
In addition, it is the action design. All the action scenes in the film, Murphy gave up the action routines that have evolved based on kung fu that have become popular in Hollywood recently. All the fights between Superman and Wonder Woman will return to the original, and on the basis of displaying speed and strength, huge destructive power will be used as a supplement.
This kind of action was not brought by Murphy casually, but was found out after a survey.
According to the feedback he received, more than 80% of ordinary viewers watched people fight on the screen mainly a mixture of two aspects of psychology.
On the one hand, it is violent catharsis.
There is a catharsis method in psychological counseling. It is believed that when people are angry, they will get beaten up. However, many studies later found that negative emotions like "aggressiveness" actually contain physiological reactions. The more you beat the sandbag, the stronger your physiological reactions will be. After beating the sandbag, the stronger your aggression will be.
But no matter what, this physiological reaction when venting violence is very similar to the pleasure after exercise.
On the other hand, in reality, you can only use turtle punches when fighting, just to defeat the other party. However, when fighting on the screen, you must play postures. Whether the fight is beautiful enough is also what the audience values very much. When they use the screen to vent violence, they must also meet their aesthetic needs.
So fighting is not only violent, but also elegant. This is a very distorted combination.
To satisfy the catharsis side, the fight must be sufficient; but if you use too much force, the beauty of the movement may be difficult to take into account, and if the force is too restrained, the pleasure of violence will be discounted. Instead of watching a fight that is elegant but soft and weak, it is better to just watch the dance directly.
Generally speaking, good-looking fights should find the best balance between strength and elegance, and should be both hard and soft.
In the past, when Hollywood hard action movies were popular, the fights on the screen were all muscular men. They had more strength but were elegant but not at all. They could only stimulate hormones and were difficult to meet aesthetic needs.
Later, when Yuan Heping and other Hong Kong martial arts commanders arrived in Hollywood, the atmosphere changed.
Before going to Hollywood, these martial arts fingers had already done quite perfectly to find a balance between strength and elegance in the action: from the 1980s to the mid-1990s, there were many beautiful and violent kung fu and martial arts masterpieces, but once the martial arts fingers arrived in Hollywood, once the kung fu stars who had been trained since childhood were no longer able to cooperate with the kung fu stars they designed, the force of the movements they designed would be greatly reduced.
It's a little better to force actors like "The Matrix" after practicing for a while. As for "Charlie's Angels", it's not just a fight, but a dance that includes fighting movements.
You have to beat the sandbag hard to vent your violence. How can you feel happy when touching the sandbag?
In the setting of "Man of Steel", Superman's superpowers are not as ever-changing as "Men". Apart from heat rays, they are basically pure physical attacks. Superpowers are nothing more than higher, faster and stronger physical destructive power, so only strength and speed need to be expressed.
To show superman's speed and strength, Murphy does not intend to use a roundabout way, nor does he express subtle and precise movement details. He will use the completely opposite choice to speed up and express strength.
As for elegance, Superman should forget it, Wonder Woman can add a little more appropriately.
It's just a little bit. Wonder Woman's movements are also mainly based on speed and strength, and the speed and strength have reached the level of the two of them in the setting. The so-called fancy techniques are all floating clouds, and the most direct attack method is the most suitable choice.
Who can imagine that with the speed and power of Superman and Wonder Woman, you need to make some tricks when fighting and use the virtual and real ones to attack your opponent?
It was definitely a disaster that was even more terrifying than Superman's earth-shaking fight. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!