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Chapter 435 Super Showdown

Please give me a monthly ticket and a recommendation ticket

"With your current shooting efficiency and speed, the 35mm film prepared by 20th Century Fox may not be enough."

During the filming interval on the set, Gal Gadot, who had already provoked part of the crew's work, found Murphy and talked about a situation that the crew had just reported. "I contacted Kodak's dealer in Paris, but their inventory was insufficient."

Murphy nodded slightly and said, "You contact Carafes immediately. Twentieth Century Fox's warehouse should still have inventory, so they can air transport it as quickly as possible."

"I'll do it now." Gal Gadot was about to leave, and suddenly remembered something and reminded Murphy, "I heard some rumors that Kodak is in poor condition recently and may go bankrupt at any time."

"I get it." Murphy frowned slightly and said, "Go and do your business."

Kodak is facing bankruptcy, which is not good news for all directors who like to shoot with film. Since entering the new century, this famous film company has been in poor condition, and the development of digital technology has almost forced them to a cliff. The economic crisis last year and this year will probably have a huge impact. Even if it does not go bankrupt, it may not last a few years.

Then Murphy asked Gal Gadot to pay special attention to some news in this regard. After all, Kodak's situation will be related to his future filming choices.

According to the information provided by Gal Gadot, Kodak can hold on for the time being, and film production related to the entire film industry will not be terminated. Moreover, Kodak has reached a new agreement with six major Hollywood companies, which will continue to provide Hollywood with high-quality film films. Directors such as Quentin Tarantino, David Finch and Ridley Scott still said they would use film to shoot their next works.

In the media, there was also news that "Hollywood directors work together to save Kodak movie film", which promoted Hollywood film companies to reach an agreement with Kodak to ensure the production and sale of a certain amount of movie film.

As the world's largest film producer, Kodak's film sales have dropped by 92% since 2004.

Even though Murphy himself often uses film to shoot, he is very clear that digital technology completely replaces film is an irreversible trend, and the rest is only a matter of time.

In particular, industry insiders are not optimistic about the efforts of several Hollywood directors, saying that although this can save Kodak for a while, it will eventually be replaced by more convenient digital shooting. This is only a matter of time. For young directors, film will increase their shooting costs, and the digital shooting method is more suitable.

Of course, as a director and film lover, Murphy also doesn't want to see the film disappear.

A faint sour smell, that was the smell of film, a projector that could support two turntables, and a round film box focused into light and shadow under the reflection of a white cloth... Once upon a time, this was all Murphy's memory of the movie.

Since the emergence of digital technology, the debate on which film or digital technology is better has never stopped. The brightness of film and the coldness of digital have formed two completely different aesthetics.

For hundreds of years, the world of images has always used film as the timeline, and film has witnessed the history of film development. However, the arrival of the era of high-speed and advanced digital technology has caused the film era, which carries countless warm memories, to collapse.

To be honest, the desolation of film is the result of the combined action of technology and economy.

In recent decades, every innovation in the film industry has been spawned by a series of Hollywood-led industry standards. 35mm, 24 grids per second, wide screen technology, 3d...all so.

However, Hollywood filmmakers like digital movies not because they are better than film in images, but because they are affordable.

Think about it, a 90-minute movie with a film length of about 3,000 meters, requires five or six copies, each copy weighs about 25 kilograms, and needs to be delivered manually in theaters. For digital movies, an encrypted digital hard disk or even a USB drive is enough. Without leaving home, they can be directly transmitted and delivered to theaters through satellites.

After doing the calculations, the cost of making film copies is as high as $2,000, but a digital copy is only a few hundred dollars. Under this consideration, it goes without saying what choices will be made by filmmakers in Hollywood and even the world.

As long as the technology development continues, there will always be old technologies that will be eliminated. However, in the eyes of some directors, digital technology is not essentially so-called progress, but at most it is an illusion of progress. They believe that when the color reduction and saturation of film are still better than digital technology, they are forced to sweep into museums and warehouses, which is inevitable that people will feel wronged.

The crew's film storage shortage did not affect the shooting. After Gal Gadot contacted Carla Fies, Twentieth Century Fox used its own storage storage and airlifted enough 35mm film to Paris.

With the support of large companies like Twentieth Century Fox, many problems arise during preparation, shooting and promotion are actually not a problem at all.

Today, Twentieth Century Fox has become one of the leaders of Hollywood with its integration strategy, which includes both horizontal and vertical dimensions.

The integrated strategy can establish some kind of connection to achieve resource sharing and achieve synergistic combat, which will ultimately reduce costs and improve efficiency. News Group's media companies span broadcasting, film and television, newspapers, publishing houses, Internet, etc. The excellent manuscripts owned by each subsidiary of the group are uniformly allocated and provided to subsidiaries around the world.

Horizontal Fox Company has expanded through acquisitions and owns Fox Cable, Fox TV and Fox News, Fox Music and Fox Films.

In terms of vertical competition, Twentieth Century Fox is not just about film production, but also expands many film marketing businesses, and further expands from the film business to theme parks built based on task scenes in the film, movie DVD business, Internet business and related consumer product industries.

These business expansions make the business closer to the final film consumers.

A vast platform like Twentieth Century Fox is completely incomparable to Stanton Studio. This advantage was not established in a short period of time, but was developed and accumulated over a long period of time.

Even a fool knows that setting up a new film company in this era, and just shooting some excellent movies, it is definitely not a dream to suppress the six major Hollywood players and become the leader in the industry.

That's a mental problem.

The former Lionsgate Films, with its brief glory as a series of popular movies, seemed to become the seventh largest company in Hollywood at any time, but then fell into silence, and once again, as the outside world showed that Hollywood's new companies want to be at the forefront, cannot be solved by just movies.

With the airlift of 20th Century Fox's 35mm film in place, Murphy's crew solved the final problem and the shooting was carried out in an orderly manner. As a result, there were basically no big scenes except for the final theater explosion scene. As long as the state of major actors such as James Franko, Christopher Walz and Margot Robbie were guaranteed, the shooting would go smoothly. The work that was originally lagging behind the planned ones was gradually caught up with the progress in mid-April.

After more than three months of filming, by late April, the crew finally ushered in the final scene.

Since the scenes of this scene do not coincide with the previous shooting, Murphy specially placed the end of the film to the end.

James Franco, Christopher Walz, and Christopher Walz's stand-alone models were soon ready. Murphy had checked the lighting, props, background and camera positions of the outdoor venue one by one. After being satisfied with everything, he issued the order to start shooting.

This quiet forest ushered in a super showdown between the little hooligan and the big hooligan.

Murphy made a gesture to Filey Raschel, and the main camera controlled by Filey Raschel moved along the slide rail to the side of James Franco and Christopher Walz.

Although there are four actors in the Pine Woods location, it is undoubtedly a head-on encounter between the characters of James Franko and Christopher Walz.

"Yutvic and I heard your conversation with the general, and the war will end tonight..."

James Franco said to the crazy Christopher Walz with a serious look on his face. "I am willing to do such a deal, too."

Christopher Walz felt badly, no longer as grace as before, and exclaimed, "You will be punished!"

"This is a very good deal." James Franko said without caring about his words. "As for your shameless request, I think it is possible to consider it if you are willing to take the Nazi top leaders in one fell swoop."

Christopher Valz looked at James Franco, as if he couldn't see what he was going to do next.

"When you get the property provided by the U.S. government, you'll take off this Nazi uniform, right?" James Franco asked repeatedly, "Is it?"

Christopher Walz didn't answer, but the corners of his mouth trembled.

"I think so too!" James Franco gradually showed a big bastard temperament, "This is something I can't tolerate!"

He leaned over Christopher Walz's ear, "If I have a good career, you won't be able to take off this uniform in your life, but I know it's unrealistic. You always have to get rid of this uniform, so..."

James Franco pulled the knife from his waist, "I want to give you a Nazi mark that cannot be removed!"

The shooting was temporarily over, and then the family was replaced. James Franco carved a deep Nazi mark on the dummy's covered scalp.

"Inglorious Bastard" has ended all the shooting work. Murphy returned to Los Angeles with the film he shot the next day and started post-production. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!
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