Chapter 423

If a friend is in trouble, Murphy will not hesitate to help, but a person who has only cooperated once is another matter, even if the other person is a Hollywood star he once liked very much.

In any way, Murphy is not a person with universal feelings, let alone the lofty ideal of helping the world.

It's a simple rule for people in his class to give something in return.

So, while offering Nicholas Cage a loan, Stanton studio signed a formal contract with him.

According to the contract, the 20 million US dollars is the advance payment made by Stanton studio to Nicholas Cage, who will play an important role in three films invested by Stanton studio in the future.

The average price of each film is less than $7 million. It's very cost-effective to invite Nicholas Cage, a famous star, especially if he doesn't become the king of rotten films.

Then, Murphy thought about his upcoming project and decided not to use Nicholas Cage in shameless bastard.

The script and project plan of shameless bastard are also the focus of Murphy's next work.

He went to the hospital to see Quentin Tarantino again, and had some simple exchanges on the project. This was the first meeting between Murphy and Quentin Tarantino after the negotiation. The ruffian director also reminded Murphy of many precautions.

Leaving California Medical School, Murphy first asked 20th century fox to deal with these potential troubles.

Quentin Tarantino initially hoped to make the film an "Italian macaroni western", and he also planned to make the film "the past of occupied France", but later gave up and decided to adopt "shameless bastard".

There's something wrong with the title. In 1978, the English translation of an Italian film "meritorious deeds" released in North America was called "shameless bastard".

In order to minimize the possibility of copyright disputes, after Murphy's communication, 20th Century Fox people found the director of that film. Enzo castillari, the director of "meritorious deeds", agreed to Murphy's use of the name "shameless bastard" at the cost of showing a small face in the film.

This condition is nothing at all, Murphy and twentieth century fox are very happy to agree down.

In terms of script writing, Murphy will definitely take the outline provided by Quentin Tarantino as the main line, but this project has been directed by him. Of course, it is impossible to shoot and produce in Quentin's way. The styles of the two people are just a little similar, not identical.

So Murphy hired a team of five writers to help him finish the script of shameless bastard as soon as possible.

As long as he can control the team well, he can also provide more creativity for script writing when there are many people.

Creativity is the ability of both self-expression and problem-solving. In these two aspects, Murphy needs to gather a lot of fantastic ideas, but good ideas will not come out of thin air. It takes a lot of time and energy. It's just the so-called book time.

In order to get good ideas and stories, the most common way for screenwriters is to brainstorm. Teams get together to discuss solutions to problems.

But this kind of so-called brainstorming can't spread without restriction. It must be suitable for the film, and Murphy must give proper restriction and guidance.

Murphy needs to make the whole writing team clear about the first step. The first step is to make clear the idea, theme and situation of the script. Confusion and anxiety are often caused by the unclear theme.

Seeing the theme, the writers will naturally have their own ideas. To record these ideas, the writers never lack of ideas, but they lack good ideas suitable for filming. Everyone in Murphy's team has many novel ideas every day, especially in the evening.

So he asked every screenwriter to carry a pen and a notebook with him. He was no exception when he was sleeping. When they suddenly had an idea, they would write it down at any time.

Everyone's ideas are different, which will cause contradictions and conflicts. After recording enough ideas, Murphy brings all the writers together to have the smoothest face-to-face communication. This is the so-called brainstorming of the Hollywood team's screenwriters.

Brainstorming is a good opportunity for thinking exchange and collision. When Murphy discusses problems with his friends, he will use a tape recorder to record the discussion process. No matter what the idea is, he will write it on paper and pin it on the wall. Every 15 minutes, the team will share a solution in turn. In the last 15 minutes, he will check all the discussions and problem lists and find many problems .

After brainstorming, people who can really make decisions are needed to make decisions. Murphy is definitely responsible for this work. This is also a personal brainstorming. He needs to think about the results of the team brainstorming.

Thinking will find problems, he will solve problems, as far as possible in-depth research problems, from all angles, calm down to find problems and different.Work can't ignore rest. When Murphy has a general plot and scene design, he can stop to have a rest and do something completely different. Inspiration always flashes inadvertently, such as taking a bath or Superman fighting wonder woman.

At the same time of rest, Murphy also pays attention to keep exercising. Proper exercise can make the blood burn. Aristotle is known as the "carefree philosopher" because of his violent walk in teaching and brainstorming.

No matter whether it's useful or not, Murphy will record every idea in time.

During this period, he had some crazy ideas, but he didn't abandon them or limit his thinking to the rules. Because of the relationship between the theme and content of the film, he let his ideas go crazy! Regardless of whether these ideas are silly or impossible, just follow the pace of thinking to fly freely.

Many questions are not without answers, but because I dare not think about them.

If you think too much, you will have doubts in your heart. If necessary, Murphy will ignore the doubts in your heart.

When he encounters problems, there will always be a voice in his heart telling him "this idea is not good, this thing will not work.".

It is this voice that hinders the pace of work. It will never stop. You should know that this is not the work of "it", its work is to question and criticize.

A successful director must learn to distinguish and listen to the good voice in his heart, the young, energetic, daring and more creative voice.

Finally, Murphy is going to transform Quentin Tarantino's story

for every movie he sees or book he reads, he can rethink it from three different aspects, such as the beginning is not like this, or the story takes place elsewhere, and then at the end of the movie or story, he can imagine three different endings, tragedy and joy Drama or open ending.

In this way, Murphy led the writing team to finish the first draft of "shameless bastard" as soon as possible. The first draft writing is like walking barefoot through the grass, keeping romantic, naughty and absurd, and making an ending for it.

Next, there is more detailed modification work.

As a director and screenwriter, Murphy also wanted to try a new model.

In some ways, there are two types of directors in Hollywood: those who write their own scripts and those who don't.

It's rare to have both, and to be able to alternate between a movie you wrote and a movie you didn't write.

This is not to say that one type of director is more commendable than another. They are just different. If they write their own scripts, they will get a film with personal characteristics. A style will soon emerge, and some points of interest will often reappear.

Therefore, in the face of this kind of director's work, the audience is more in contact with a personality.

If a director adapts a screenplay written by others every time, he may be very good at directing. If the script is good, a great film may be born. However, he will never have the personal qualities that an author has.

Similarly, if you write your own script and make a film with personal characteristics, but you can't say anything interesting or new about the film, then such a film will never be better than a film adapted from a good script by a director.

"Once this distinction is made, I think all directors should make films for themselves. Their responsibility is to make sure that no matter what obstacles they face, the film is their own from beginning to end."

At Santa Monica's home, Murphy sits next to Gail gado, who looks through the first draft of the script. He says, "the director must always be the master of the film. Once he becomes a slave, he will be numb."

Gail gado looked up and said curiously, "you mean you don't care about the audience?"

"No!" Murphy shook his head without hesitation. "I mean, the first thing to make a movie is to satisfy yourself. I don't mean to make you despise the audience. My personal feeling is that if you make a film that suits your heart and it works well, the audience will like it, or at least some of them will like it. "

"Mm-hmm..." Gail gado nodded, his eyes fell back to the script, and when he saw the end, he couldn't help laughing, "what a feast of revenge for the Jews."

She turned and looked at Murphy. "Thank you, honey."

Murphy shrugged, but did not answer her. This so-called Jewish revenge feast is just for the needs of the film, which has nothing to do with Gail gado's ethnicity.

Gail gado went to see the end. Murphy shook his head and said, "why didn't the Jews resist?"

"What?" Gail gado immediately looks at Murphy. (to be continued). )