Chapter 185

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after discussing with Bill rosis at the Death Star Building for a period of time, Murphy asked him to contact photographer Philip Raschel and others, and then to find a relatively cheap special effects production company, he left Century City and went to the branch of Burbank miramax. Harvey Weinstein just left New York today Come here. He's here to see this fat Jewish man.

"Why, I've decided on a new project," Harvey Weinstein asked jokingly.

"Harvey, do you remember the phone call I called you some time ago"

sitting on the chair in front of the desk, Murphy looked at Harvey Weinstein across the desk, "that comic book, that comic book is my goal"

"you mean" Harvey Weinstein immediately thought, "C is not easy to do"

instead, he asked, "Murphy, why choose Z é it The first three screenplays all came from you "

& nbsbsg means a lot of royalties, and Harvey Weinstein certainly wants to get the most profit with the least expense.

"Because this comic book boldly uses black and white to create, the strokes are disorderly and orderly, emphasizing the contrast of light and shadow, creating a unique black style, and breaking the reader's appreciation inertia in favor of color comic books."

After that, Murphy opened his hand and added, "it also has a unique black-and-white screen, strong cinematic scenes and traditional carving style, which has had an important impact on the comic world in the United States"

it's not enough to impress Harvey Weinstein, so Murphy added, "what's more, it has a large number of loyal fans throughout North America, These are the potential audience of the film in the future "

for the comic book, Harvey Weinstein also has some knowledge, and knows that what Murphy said is true, but it is not so simple.

"Murphy, we don't talk about the investment and return, nor the script and plan," he said, looking at the opposite, "Hollywood, you are not the first person to come up with the idea of this comic book, and Miramax is not the first company, but all of them have been rejected"

since Z é was chosen for the new project, Murphy certainly knew about it and nodded gently.

Now Harvey Weinstein admires the young director very much and says patiently, "even if we can deal with C, what can we do to deal with Frank Miller, a stubborn old guy"

"I'll talk to Frank Miller," Murphy says. "Now CAA supports my idea, as long as I can Miramax can support me, and I'm confident to convince Frank Miller

Harvey Weinstein put his fingers on the armrest of the chair slowly, thought for a long time, and then slowly said, "Murphy, as long as you can convince Frank Miller, we can contact with C. However, when it comes to investment, "he said," you know, I'm responsible to the head office of Walt Disney and other shareholders. I can't promise you anything until I see the script and the specific plan. "

"I know." Murphy nodded.

If Harvey Weinstein promises to invest tens of millions of dollars in the future, Murphy will suspect that this guy has a brain problem or ulterior motives.

Murphy stood up. "I'll go first, Harvey."

"OK," Harvey Weinstein stood up and took him out of the office, "keep in touch."

Such a young director with a promising future naturally needs to keep close cooperation with him.

It's not easy to impress people like Frank Miller. The other party has already achieved success. Simple temptation of fame and wealth is not the best way.

From the middle of August to the end of August, Murphy had a rest. However, unlike the previous time, he didn't go on holiday. He was basically hiding in Los Angeles. In addition to fitness, visiting friends and relaxing, he was also taking Lu new projects.

The two movies of electric saw and terror star have been successful in business. Wu I has given him more capital and more investment, even tens of millions of dollars. Therefore, he has focused on Frank Miller, a famous comic master.

Frank Miller is an absolute God in the North American comic circle. He has created many influential works, such as Batman: the return of the dark knight, the city of sin, the night Devil: rebirth, the 300 warriors of Sparta and so on.

He once profoundly changed Batman comics, saying that it is not too much for anyone who really brings the Dark Knight style to Batman.

Of course, Murphy is not interested in Batman Series. He also knows that he doesn't have this ability at all, and even if he wants to fight Batman's idea, C and Warner won't kill him.

Murphy is interested in the work that has established Frank Miller's master status in the comic circle, and it is also a work full of strong black style. Sin City

this comic can be said to be a rare work that can perfectly combine violence and aesthetics.

"Violence" and "Aesthetics" were originally two different words. However, some comic works have skillfully integrated them and gradually formed a well-known art form "Violence Aesthetics". It usually uses appropriate artistic means to exaggerate the realism and directly exaggerate or to euphemistically allude to the violence process and blood with formal symbolism Scene, so as to stimulate the senses at the same time convey the soul stirring aesthetic experience and thought-provoking theme connotation.Once upon a time, Murphy had studied this cartoon and the works adapted from it. The film sin city broke the Convention and created a unique aesthetics of violence by using flat and conceptual visual language.

This film directly expresses a lot of violent process and bloody scenes with extremely artistic visual design techniques. Instead of disgusting vulgarity, it makes the naked violent scenes melancholy, sad and beautiful, with deep charm. It is actually an innovative masterpiece of violent aesthetic film.

After choosing the target, Murphy has spent a lot of time watching and consulting the city of evil comics and other related materials. It can be said that the comics are born with the characteristics of film. The strong cinematic scenes and traditional carving style are very suitable for adaptation, even without too much deletion, as long as the style of comics is realized If so, it will become a very charming film.

This has further strengthened Murphy's determination to get the right to adapt the cartoon.

Before the Saturn prize presentation ceremony, Murphy had a rough idea of the way of adaptation, shooting according to the original cartoon, with the least risk and the most support from Franco Miller.

Without Franco Miller's support, we can't get the right to adapt the city of sin, and nothing else can be said.

Even more, the project is more like a transition from comic to film than a complete film adaptation.

Crime city cartoon mainly tells three interrelated Stories: crime city, sniper and yellow hybrid.

These three stories all take place in the same fictional city, the evil city. In this city, bishops, senators and policemen, who should represent light and justice, are the root of evil.

Darkness is the only scenery in the city, and violence is the only justice in it. In order to fit the plot and theme, almost all the stories of the cartoon

are arranged to take place in the dark night, using simple and rough plane images and contrasting conceptual colors as visual language, trying to create a dark and terrible urban atmosphere.

Among them, the flat scene style boldly omits the unimportant details of the picture, and even uses pure color blocks to reshape the visual image, which makes the theme of violence simple and straightforward, and makes the bloody plot implicit and deep.

The adaptation of the film is bound to use this kind of conceptual color application, and mainly in black and white, combined with strong local color, to create a materialistic, corrupt, dark city image, so as to completely activate the evil city covered by darkness and violence.

Although he hasn't made a specific plan or got the script, Murphy has thought a lot about it, especially the shooting method of the film.

There is no doubt that he must abandon the traditional film camera and switch to the latest digital camera, taking the green screen as the main shooting background and relying on the CGI technology to realize the cartoon scene. What have a unique style of

comic edition? What is the essence of sin city? No I is its unique image and offbeat anti hero role. In a colorful cartoon world, Frank Miller adopted black and white style, but Hou has applied some striking colors to some special targets, which is quite fresh.

To achieve these effects, it is not impossible to rely on the traditional film camera and special effects technology, but the cost is quite high, far more than the cost of using digital technology.

Despite the continuous success of chainsaw and terror planet as capital, Murphy also knows that Hollywood producers are realistic. At his current level, it's hard to get more than $50 million in investment. In this way, digital cameras and digital special effects are the best choice for visual effect.

Visual effects can be found everywhere in movies, from the earliest frame by frame shooting, make-up technique, to real scene model shooting and mechanical special effects, to motion capture technology and 3-hybrid CGI. The technology of film industry is changing with each passing day. There are many kinds of technology in each category, such as mechanical, acoustic, electromagnetic, optical and so on Classification, and the final visual communication to the audience is the result of a variety of technical categories including the most basic use of photography lens.

Therefore, as long as it can achieve the desired effect, Murphy does not care whether it is the traditional way or the latest digital technology.

Whether it is the traditional live model and mechanical special effects, or the complete green and blue screen production; whether it is the traditional technology or the most advanced CG, it is ultimately for the production of film clothing.

But before all this, Murphy has to convince Frank Miller. It's not finished yet.

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