Chapter 435

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"with your current shooting efficiency and speed, I'm afraid the amount of 35mm film prepared by 20th century fox is not enough."

During the interval of filming, Gail gado, who has already started part of the crew's work, found Murphy and talked about a situation just reported by the crew, "I contacted Kodak's dealers in Paris, but they are short of stock."

Murphy nodded his head and said, "you should contact Carla Firth immediately. There should be stock in 20th Century Fox's warehouse. Let them fly over as fast as possible."

"I'll do it now." Gail gado was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and reminded Murphy, "I heard some rumors that Kodak is in bad condition and may go bankrupt at any time."

"I see." Murphy frowned slightly and said, "go and help you."

Kodak is facing bankruptcy, which is not good news for all directors who like to use film to shoot. This famous film company has been in a bad situation since it entered the new century. The development of digital technology has almost driven them to a cliff. The economic crisis of last year and this year will surely bring huge impact. Even if it does not break the production capacity, it will be difficult to pass this barrier In a few years.

Then Murphy asked Gail gado to pay special attention to some news in this aspect. After all, the situation of Kodak will be related to his future filming choice.

According to the information provided by Gail gado, Kodak can hold on for a while, and the film production related to the whole film industry will not stop. Moreover, Kodak has reached a new agreement with the six major Hollywood companies, which will continue to provide Hollywood with high-quality film. Directors such as Quentin Tarantino, David Finch and Ridley Scott still say they will Film your next work.

In the media, there was also the news that "Hollywood directors join hands to save Kodak film", pushing Hollywood film company to reach an agreement with Kodak to ensure the production and sale of a certain amount of film.

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

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

In particular, people in the industry are not optimistic about the efforts of several Hollywood directors. They say that although this can save Kodak for a while, it will eventually be replaced by more convenient digital shooting. It's only a matter of time. For young directors, film will increase their shooting cost, and digital shooting is more suitable.

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

A faint sour smell, that is the smell of film, a projector that can support two turntables, a round film box, under the reflection of a piece of white cloth, focus into light and shadow Once upon a time, that was all Murphy remembered about movies.

Since the emergence of digital technology, the debate on which is better between film and digital technology has never stopped. The beauty of film and the coldness of digital form two completely different aesthetics.

For hundreds of years, the world of image has been based on film as the time axis, and film has witnessed the development history of film. However, with the advent of high-speed and advanced digital technology era, the film era, which is hand projected and carries countless warm memories, has collapsed.

Frankly speaking, the desolation of film is the result of technology and economy.

In recent decades, every innovation in the film industry has been spawned by a series of industry standards dominated by Hollywood. 35mm, 24 frames per second, wide screen technology, 3D It's all the same.

However, Hollywood film makers like digital films not because they are superior to film in image, but because they are cheap and of good quality.

Think about it. For a 90 minute movie, the length of the film is about 3000 meters, and it needs five or six copies, each of which weighs about 25 kg. It needs to be delivered manually in cinemas one by one. And digital movie, an encrypted digital hard disk or even a U disk is enough. It can be directly transmitted to the cinema through satellite without leaving home.

The cost of making a film copy is more than $2000, but a digital copy is only a few hundred dollars. In this case, it's self-evident what kind of choices Hollywood and even the world's film makers will make.

As long as the development of technology continues, there will always be obsolete old technology. However, in the eyes of some directors, the replacement of film by digital technology is not progress in essence, but an illusion of progress at most. They think that when the color restoration and saturation of film are still better than digital technology, it will be forced into museums and warehouses, which inevitably makes people feel aggrieved.

The shortage of film storage did not affect the shooting. After Gail gado contacted Carla Firth, 20th Century Fox used its own stock to fly enough 35mm film directly to Paris.

With the support of a big company like fox in the 20th century, there are many problems in the process of preparation, shooting and publicity, which are not really problems at all.

In the 20th century, fox has become one of the leaders of Hollywood with its integration strategy, which includes horizontal and vertical dimensions.The integration strategy can establish a certain connection, achieve resource sharing, and achieve cooperative combat effect, which will ultimately reduce costs and improve efficiency. News Corporation's media companies span radio, film and television, newspapers, publishing houses, Internet, etc., and the excellent manuscripts owned by its subsidiaries are uniformly distributed and provided to subsidiaries all over the world.

Horizontally, 20th century fox has acquired and expanded to own fox cable TV, Fox TV and Fox News, fox music and fox film.

In terms of vertical competition, 20th Century Fox company is not only a film producer, but also an exhibition company of many film marketing businesses. It further expands from the film business to the theme park built according to the task scene in the film, DVD business of the film, Internet business and related consumer products industry.

These business expansion makes the business of the enterprise closer to the ultimate film consumer.

Stanton studio can not match such a broad platform as fox in the 20th century. This advantage is not established in a short time, but after a long period of development and accumulation.

Even a fool knows that it is not a dream to set up a new film company in this era, just by shooting some excellent films, and want to beat the top six of Hollywood and become a leader in the industry.

It's a mental problem.

With a series of hot movies, Lion Gate once seemed to become the seventh largest company in Hollywood at any time. But then it fell into silence. It also showed to the outside world that the new company in Hollywood could not solve the problem by relying on film alone.

With the arrival of 35mm film from fox in the 20th century, Murphy's crew solved the final problem and shot in an orderly manner. Except for the final theater explosion, there will be no big scenes in the film. As long as the main actors such as James Franco, Christopher Waltz and Margaret Robbie are in good condition, the shooting will go on smoothly, By mid April, the work that had been behind schedule had gradually caught up with the progress.

After more than three months of shooting, by the end of April, the crew finally ushered in the final part.

As the scene of the play does not coincide with the previous shooting, Murphy put the end of the film at the end of the shooting.

James Franco, Christopher waltz, and Christopher Waltz's stand in models were soon ready. Murphy checked the lighting, props, background and camera positions of the location one by one. After satisfied with everything, Murphy gave the order to start shooting.

This quiet grove ushered in a super duel between hooligans and hooligans.

Murphy makes a gesture to Philip Raschel, whose main camera moves along the slide to the side of James Franco and Christopher valds.

Although there are four actors in the pine forest location, it is undoubtedly a confrontation between the characters of James Franco and Christopher waltz.

"Yutevich and I have heard your conversation with the general. The war will end tonight..."

James Franco, with a serious face, said to some frantic Christopher valds, "I'd like to make such a deal, too."

Christopher Waltz had a bad feeling, no longer as elegant as before, exclaimed, "you will be punished!"

"It's a very good deal." James Franco didn't care what he said and said to himself, "as for your shameless request, I think you can consider it for the sake of your willingness to bring the Nazi high-level to the top."

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

"When you get a house from the U.S. government, you take off your Nazi uniform, don't you?" Repeated James Franco, "isn't it?"

Christopher Waltz didn't answer, but the corners of his mouth shook.

"I think so, too!" James - Franco gradually revealed a big asshole temperament, "this is what I can't stand!"

He leaned to Christopher Waltz's ear, "if I'm successful, you'll never want to take off this uniform in your life, but I know it's unrealistic. You always have to take off this uniform, so..."

James Franco drew a knife from his waist. "I'm going to give you a Nazi mark you can't get rid of!"

The shooting ended temporarily, and then replaced with his family, James Franco carved a deep Nazi mark on the masked head of the dummy.

"Shameless bastard" also ended all the shooting work, Murphy returned to Los Angeles the next day with the film to start post production. (to be continued). )