Chapter 381

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People's expectations of superhero movies are pure.

These are the reasons why the audience pay for the tickets. If you add a basic logic that can be mixed in, and the scene of blowing up from the beginning to the end, you will enjoy it, such as the former "Avengers League". If we can add a little philosophical thinking to the wonderful scene and rhythm, we will get a masterpiece, such as the dark knight.

Murphy thinks very clearly that we must avoid discussing the same profound proposition as "Dark Knight" with the same rough narration as "the Avengers alliance" in Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of justice ". For the audience who want to see" Dark Knight ", dawn of justice can not satisfy them in the depth of thought; we hope to see" Avengers " The audience of "alliance" and the drama more than an hour before "dawn of justice" are too lengthy.

In addition, since this film is the first work that leads to the whole justice alliance universe, it will inevitably involve other superheroes, especially Batman and wonder woman, who are also the three giants of justice. It is also necessary to carefully consider how to properly lead them out.

Similarly, "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of justice" uses a lot of subtle ways to add colored eggs to the plot, which is also a typical negative lesson.

A lot of endless cool scenes and lines are "randomly" distributed throughout the movie. DC Comics fans will whistle at the beginning of the movie because lux lesser knows the identity of Superman, while the ordinary audience will be confused. For the scenes Bruce Wayne dreams of, DC Comics fans will scream and point out to you that they are flash point and the alliance of unrighteousness 》In the foreshadowing of the return of the dark knight, the big "Ω" on the ground is the super villain duckside, while the ordinary audience is muddled. When they see the founders of justice alliance appearing in the video, they will burst into tears: "there are no Mars hunters, but there are steel bones. Where is the green light?" At the end of the movie, because of Lex Luther's "death knell warning" and full of expectations for "Alliance for justice: War", the average audience may have run away from the screening hall.

Only with the "common sense" of fans, taking parallel universe and time travel as the basis of understanding the world of Meiman, can we keep up with the strange narrative rhythm of the film. These carefully designed passages have become the secret between the director and other DC comic fans. They are excited to whisper together and imagine the future in the DC Universe together The unlimited possibilities, and the audience's expression of bewilderment has become an excellent background for them to show off their knowledge reserves and beliefs.

It is obvious that such eggs will not only not let the people with unknown backgrounds buy it, but also greatly increase their viewing obstacles. When the story of the film is so thin and the rhythm is so dull, for ordinary audiences, these two hours are tantamount to a kind of grinding.

Ordinary audiences who know little about DC Comics almost agree that it's a rotten film, and this kind of negation eventually ferments into "disdain" under the show off of some brain damaged DC fans

It's really unacceptable that a commercial film should be so harsh on the audience. Many iron fans say that they are willing to pay for tickets even if they see Batman playing for two hours on the big screen.

Yes, Murphy believes Superman also has such lovely fans, but also believes that DC and warner are very clear that such fans alone can not resist the fierce surprise and Avenger universe.

Just relying on comic fans can't support a super popular film, such as this kind of typical market-oriented film, even if the style is unique, we should take the initiative to adapt to the market demand.

In addition to completing the script of the new version of Superman, Murphy also needs to determine a general justice alliance movie universe plan for DC Comics, which requires him, who is not a fan of comics, to see and study the justice alliance comics, including the three justice giants.

However, all the comics are the basis of adaptation, not the key.

Speaking of the justice alliance, people are most impressed by Superman Clark Kent, Batman Bruce Wayne and wonder woman Diana Prinz. By the standards of Murphy, these people are far less famous than the members of the Avengers alliance.

The main reason for this is that the superhero films created by Marvel film are more popular and can be accepted by passers-by besides fans.

But from the history of comics, to a certain extent, the Avengers alliance is just a replica of the justice alliance.

In 1960, DC Comics gathered its own heroes to form a team called "justice alliance". Inspired by this, Marvel Comics also launched its own hero team "Avengers alliance" in 1963. These two teams gathered the top experts of their respective companies, the elites among the elites.

The significance of doing so is not only to enable Superman and Batman and other heroes to fight side by side, but also to ensure the overall continuity of the stories produced by the same company within a certain range. Events do not only happen in one person's story, but all characters in the same world may be affected. This is the concept of "universe".Warner Brothers and DC Comics want to bring "justice alliance" to the screen. Murphy needs to unify the superheroes in a world view, which is quite difficult.

The unified universe has brought greater challenges to film production. It's not hard to see that special effects are becoming omnipotent in CG. Now, it's not a problem to produce superheroes with various magical abilities.

The problem is how to make the audience accept the universe where gods, aliens and human beings coexist, and how to balance their abilities. The setting of each film can not be contradictory. Moreover, the role of DC Universe is more unrestrained, so it is not easy to create a unified world view.

The track of Marvel's film series was very clear: first, the story of each character was filmed, and then the hero team "Avengers alliance" was filmed. In this way, the setting of each film was unified, and the foreshadowing of mutual connection was also laid in each film, forming a unified world view, and then extended from this world view, gradually moving other heroes to silver The curtain.

At that time, DC did not have a clear strategic plan due to its late start. Although Christopher Nolan's Batman Series was very successful, only one was published in three or four years. Moreover, the whole world outlook had its own system, which was not as good as Marvel's step-by-step and full bloom.

Now it's different. DC and marvel start almost at the same time. They can take a step-by-step strategy to build their own universe view films step by step, accumulate audience and market, and finally assemble to fight for a general outbreak.

This is undoubtedly the least risky and safest way, and also the main component of Murphy's plan.

Although the contract with Warner Bros. only explicitly stipulates directing the first film as the beginning of the series, and Murphy has no doubt that joining the series is for a high salary, but since he takes the job, whether it's due to his sense of responsibility or for the sake of reputation, Murphy will try his best to make this new Superman film a success for the whole series Make a good start.

After the script entered the actual content writing stage, DC Comics CEO Diego Harris took two editors to Stanton studio to ensure that the two sides can communicate in the first time.

Murphy also understands the importance of communication for the success of a film, and will not be so arrogant as to write and change casually. Before many drastic adaptations, both sides will sit together and negotiate peacefully to achieve the most ideal effect.

This kind of communication also turns most of Murphy's adaptations into practical plans on paper. In this restart, many of Superman's classic settings will be boldly subverted, and new elements and visual aesthetics will inject new life into this old superhero.

The first is the change of Superman's image. Murphy will remove the red underpants that he always wears outside. Superman's bright blue combat suit will also turn into black blue. The sky when he appears is no longer blue, but dark clouds.

This setting is just one of the details of Murphy's adjustments to create a realistic Superman. This time, the Superman costume can be called "the least colorful in history". When communicating with Diego Harris, he made it clear that the audience can see Superman's heart this time. He is no longer a God that people look up to. The audience will take risks with him, and the clothing is his outside It's a kind of performance.

In addition, Murphy also worked with the script to draw several concept drawings. Because the theme of the film itself tends to be dark, the use of dark color is inevitable, which is his style all the time.

Of course, Murphy also knows that this dark style has both advantages and disadvantages for the film. The picture style is not bright and bright, and the corresponding narrative style is more serious. The work will show a sense of sadness and solemnity, which is very different from the relaxed and humorous style of other popcorn movies, and will inevitably lose a number of audiences.

But "Superman" series has been "Superman back" into a dead end, it is not too much to say that it is about to completely rot, without a huge to earth shaking change, this series of films may only have a failure.

Therefore, Murphy is more aware that the use of this dark tone will also give superhero movies a completely different vitality. Superman's battle clothes will be dark and his underwear will no longer be worn out, which will make the rebooted version of Superman more effective and complex. It can wash the dull feeling of "superman returns" directed by Brian singer.

Last but not least, Murphy officially proposed to bring Wonder Woman Gail gado into the film. (to be continued). )

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