In the beach area of ​​Santa Monica, people come and go at the entrance of a small building with a cross above, but an office in the building is very quiet and no one can easily disturb you. Archbishop Marquez Costello was sitting in front of the computer, looking at the most reposted messages on Facebook today.

These news basically have nothing to do with Catholicism. After so many years of development, Archbishop Marquez Costello has to admit that the influence of Catholicism in North America is no longer as good as before. Not to mention areas like California, even in the northeastern United States, devout Catholic believers are constantly decreasing.

His eyes swept through these messages one by one, and Archbishop Marquez Costello saw an extremely familiar name and stopped the scrolling mouse.

"Murphy Stanton's new film "Dark City" is officially scheduled to be released next summer and will be released in North America and many countries and regions around the world from May 3rd!"

Archbishop Marquez Costello immediately frowned when he saw this name.

In the first half of this year, His Excellency Benedict XVI personally called him to inquire about the academic affairs of the Central and Southern Diocese of California. His dissatisfaction with him was already obvious, especially for his failure to suppress the film "Diego Ross" in time, his words can be said to be more severe.

He then submitted a related investigation report, pushing a series of problems to the negative influence brought by Murphy Stanton and the film, claiming that it was the Hollywood super director's deliberate smear that caused the unfavorable spread of Catholicism in southern California.

Although this kind of words are a bit exaggerated, they can also reflect some facts. Both him and the Vatican are very clear that to the present, a super Hollywood director has absolutely great influence. In some ways, those actors and stars are simply incomparable. With their outstanding works and reputation, they have won the crazy support of countless movie fans. It is not an exaggeration to say that some movie fans have the faith and God.

Murphy Stanton is such a director!

Although he failed to successfully prevent the release of "Diego Ross" and Murphy Stanton from winning a big victory at the Oscars, the Catholic Church still has several loyal fans in Hollywood. According to their statement, after Murphy Stanton won the Oscar for Best Director, he is definitely the top five super director in the Hollywood industry.

Some people even told him that when Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and others get old, Ridley Scott is good and bad, and David Fincher is mediocre in business, the most globally influential super directors in Hollywood are James Cameron and Murphy Stanton!

Turn off the computer and sit quietly for a while. Archbishop Marquez Costello remembered the instructions of Pope Benedict XVI. The negative impacts brought by Murphy Stanton and Diego Ross must be eliminated as soon as possible and the Catholic reputation of the diocese in the central and southern California!

This kind of thing is simple to say, but it is very difficult to do in the Hollywood base area!

“What should I do?”

This is an issue that Archbishop Marquez Costello must consider.

The crew's post-production work continues, and the same busy promotion and promotion did not relax. When December arrived, Murphy released a series of brand new posters with James Franco as the main object.

"A new poster appears?"

Opening his Twitter and entering Murphy's account I followed, Daisy immediately saw several brand new posters, "It seems to be the Magician's theme series poster..."

She slides her phone to watch one by one. The first thing that appears was James Franco, wearing a cheap black magician costume. He stood in front of a glass window with a weird expression and wrote a line of letters on the glass with a blood-red pen - "I'm.the.agent.of.s!"

"I am the agent of chaos!" Daisy murmured as she looked at her phone, "I am the agent of chaos! I am the agent of chaos..."

These words penetrated layers of obstacles, like a divine light, and directly entered the deepest part of Daisy's soul, making her realize in an instant: to put it bluntly, isn't it just chaos?

It also takes chaos to get the punishment that the assholes who attack Murphy deserve, right?

Daisy's fingers slid unconsciously, and the posters behind appeared one by one. The most eye-catching ones on them were the evil magicians. He used a blood-red pen to draw a big red cross on the avatars of Chris Dane, Jay Rachel, Inspector Lynch and others in front of him, and the bright red ones was like the blood shedding from these people.

"I understand..." Daisy seemed to have received some tip, "I understand what to do!"

She put away her phone, ran into the bedroom and searched for it. Finally, she found a bright red lipstick purchased many years ago in the corner of the makeup cabinet. She unscrewed it and looked at it. She put it in her handbag, grabbed a baseball cap with a big brim and left the house.

After getting into the red Chevrolet sedan parked on the side of the road, Daisy soon arrived at the Catholic church nearest to her home. Since it was not Sunday, there was no one outside the church, and it looked quite deserted.

Daisy parked the car in a relatively secret place in the distance, put on a baseball cap, changed into a very common coat, got out of the car and walked towards the church. She also observed while walking. After seeing that there was no one around, she quickly accelerated and arrived at the gate of the church.

Standing here, looking up at the cross on the roof of the church building inside, Daisy opened her handbag, took out the bright red lipstick, and drew a big red cross on the stone on the left side of the gate.

It seemed that she was not satisfied with this, so she twisted her lipstick out again and wrote under the red fork: "I'm.the.agent.of.s!"

The bright red lipstick marks were particularly conspicuous on the cyan stone slab, as if the blood shed from Christ back then...

After taking a satisfied look, Daisy quickly turned around and left, circled around and returned to her car, and after getting in the car, she quickly left here.

"What a pity..."

Driving the red Chevrolet, Daisy was still sighing, "I haven't found the person who attacked Murphy until now, otherwise, he could directly carve a red fork with a knife on his face, and that would be the real bright red!"

Over the past few months, she has searched all Catholic churches in the Los Angeles area, but has not found the person she had beaten up.

But Daisy knew that the Los Angeles area was large and it was not easy to find someone. She would not give up easily. Some people had to pay the price if they did bad things!

In the Fox Building where 20th Century Fox is located, Murphy is still busy with the post-production of "Dark City". After mid-December, the new awards season for the North American film industry kicked off, and countless actors flocked to Los Angeles. For example, Margot Robbie and James Franko, who had gone overseas to shoot other films, also returned to Angel City.

Murphy summoned them to his studio to complete their respective post-recordings.

The usage rate of "Dark City" is about 45% of the time when shooting the live sound. In terms of commercial movies, this is a normal proportion.

In this era of commercial films, the production cycle, including shooting scenes and shooting schedules, is becoming more and more complex in all aspects. Especially for dramas like "Dark City", which revolve around cities, the sound conditions will be greatly affected, so the sound quality during the same period cannot be guaranteed, and Murphy can't do anything about it. This is an objective fact.

During the preliminary preparation stage, Murphy asked James Franco and Henry Cavill to record some of the recordings, but that was more about completing the reference sound, so that in the later dubbing, the crew could know what the actor was talking about and listen to his emotions clearly. When possible, the recording of dialogue ensured the best quality.

In addition, a large amount of sound data is required to record at the same time, such as group of sounds, related to the sound of a specific prop, and some things on the scene, which are difficult to find in the later stage. Including recording of ambient sounds, recording a large amount of sounds will bring great convenience to post-production.

Of course, whether the actor's dubbing is good or not depends on the actor's own performance, but actually has a direct relationship with the subsequent mix and voice dialogue.

The first step Murphy asked the sound department to carry out is editing the sounds during the same period.

He will put all the concurrent sounds together, and the one that cannot be used technically must be dubbed. As the director of the film, this part of the work is more to be done by professional dubbing directors. The dubbing director will direct the actors to say the words so that the voice can be authentic and credible.

Many times, actors will have their own improvisational things, which is very funny and even adds icing on the cake to the entire dialogue.

Different characters have different dubbing methods. James Franco's dubbing is divided into two parts, one is a magician who seems to be normal, and the other is an extremely crazy magician.

These are first based on the sound of the same period. In fact, the post-dubbing of the film either does not meet the requirements of use, or Murphy or the sound designer has other ideas. When encountering such a situation, Murphy will choose to dubbing.

When dubbing, James Franco will first try to imitate the concurrent sounds, and it is best to speak exactly the same. You must discover the most subtle things in it and let him adjust them step by step.

Dubbing requires emotions on the one hand, and technology on the other hand, such as the signal-to-noise ratio and tone of sound. Murphy sometimes asks James Franko to make some sounds as much as possible in certain emotions, and the tone should be high or low, which is considered to be some adjustments in tone, which is probably the case.

"how are things?"
Chapter completed!