Chapter 467

If he wants to launch a new project, Murphy must first work out the script plan, especially the script. Even the Hollywood streamline script is one of the bases of a movie.

This will certainly have some adverse effects on the script.

However, Murphy quickly found a way to deal with it. Jordan Belfort's counter attack did bring him restrictions on the main role. If the protagonist is highlighted, it may not all be reflected in the protagonist. It can also be set off by his supporting roles.

If Murphy is a moral model, he will not be close friends with Jonah hill, James Franco and Robert Downey Jr.

In Hollywood's screenwriting philosophy, it can be said that it is to create a brilliant partner for the protagonist.

In successful movies, the characters bear or highlight certain archetypes of characters, and each archetype has a specific behavior and thinking mode, which is easy for the audience to understand and accept.

This archetypal theory holds that everyone has a deep-seated and diversified character, and many different factors weave together to form people's character. Of course, among these characters, there is a dominant feature.

Therefore, when Murphy creates a supporting role for the protagonist, he needs the partner to show some archetypes, so as to create a reliable ally for the protagonist.

Carl Jung, a Swedish psychologist, has summed up 12 archetypes of characters: the naked son, the hero, the outlaw, the magician, the prodigal son, the ordinary man, the lover, the guardian, the ruler, the explorer, the inventor, and the realist.

All filmmakers, including Murphy, will add these personality characteristics to the protagonists more or less when they write scripts, but Murphy is not limited to these archetypes, because it is difficult to extend the depth and three-dimensional sense of the characters.

For example, in traditional Hollywood movies, most of the protagonists are good people, or become good people in the end, but Jordan Belford is not in this group. Murphy's plan is to further highlight the character's love of money and dark crazy side, so the supporting role beside him must not be a good person.

To be exact, most of them are real bastards.

Due to certain legal restrictions, Jordan Belfort can't play freely. When the protagonist can't finish his own story alone, Murphy needs some supporting roles to support and oppose them, so that the story can continue and be fuller.

Of course, the supporting role has irreplaceable role, such as very pleasing, with comedy effect or help the audience reveal the riddles in the film and so on.

First of all, Murphy set up Jordan Belfort's most important assistant, also can be said to be the film's male number two Donnie Azov.

In Murphy's play, this would be a typical clown supporting role.

If such a character believes that he can only live once in life, and is proficient in eating, drinking, gambling and smoking, then he'd better be a clown.

This kind of character's life goal is to be happy and have fun in time, to enjoy happiness, to be afraid of boredom, to always like to make jokes and make fun and pranks, to pursue some seemingly not so exciting things in life, and the most important thing is to be careless and clumsy.

Doni Azov is undoubtedly very suitable for such a role, and while setting this role, Murphy naturally thinks of who is most suitable for such a role. Even if the role changes, just like Martin Scorsese's choice, Jonah hill is undoubtedly the most suitable person.

When Murphy sets this role, he adds humor and humor to Jonah Hill's prototype, and uses humorous dialogue to resolve conflicts or crises, so as to increase the fun of the clown character.

The other supporting role is Doni Azov, founder of the 20th century shoe tycoon Steve Madden company. In the script, Steve Madden's career is still in its infancy, and his appearance is simple. On the surface, he will be a naive supporting role.

The appearance of naive supporting role needs to be very childish, and it is also the purest type of supporting role, at least on the surface.

For example, Xuebao in ice and snow, which Murphy once watched, is a very successful naive supporting role. He doesn't know that he will melt in the sun, and he also wants to have a "sun bath" Not only that, Xuebao also belongs to the pleasing role, bringing all kinds of joy to the audience.

This kind of supporting role will try to do things in the "right way" no matter how the heart does not match the appearance, and the belief is firm.

Another important supporting role is Jordan Belfort's nemesis, the federal agent who didn't bribe him and sent him to prison.

This FBI agent, Patrick Dunham, is responsible for investigating the illegal fraud of Stratton Oakman company. He is not affected by Jordan Belfort's money bribery attack, but insists on finding out the truth.

Patrick Dunham is undoubtedly an exploratory supporting role. This kind of character always tries to knock down or break all the obstacles that block him, and can become a great character to highlight the main character.On the set of characters, apart from the fact that Jordan, a real agent who investigates Murphy, is able to draw lessons from it, Murphy also refers to George Martin's depiction of the little devil Tyrion lanitt in the game of power.

Tyrion Lannister, the "little devil" in the game of thrones, is a typical exploratory character. Although he is short, he is very ambitious.

In the first season, he went to the northern Great Wall to visit the night watchman. In the eyes of the people around him, he felt that this was not in line with his noble status as a prince. Moreover, he is still a hero in the game of thrones, and has become the right arm of "dragon mother" Denise.

In most films and TV works, this type of supporting actor likes to experience real and full life, eager to explore the freedom of the world and find his true self, afraid of comfort and being troubled by the secular world, avoiding being disturbed by the secular world and the outside world, trying to maintain himself, eager to learn and looking forward to long-distance travel, and may be a very unsocial or aimless person.

After finishing Jordan Belfort's supporting role, Murphy went to meet his accountant David, and entrusted him to invite several professional stockbrokers from Wall Street to assist his writing team in completing the more professional content about finance and securities in the script.

It's not surprising, but at least we can't make fundamental mistakes.

There is no specific operation and technique in the script. Although the protagonist has a strong ability to bewitch people, there will be no detailed operation, which can also reduce the probability of making such mistakes.

"If it's as described in the film, it's really a group of local ruffians who sell marijuana and become experts in operating funds?"

As one of the future executive producers of the film, Gail gado was the first to see the first draft of the first half of the script that had been completed. For many things, she was puzzled and asked Murphy, "didn't that hit the financial practitioners in the face?"

"The way they do it is called pump.and.dump 。”

As a matter of fact, Murphy doesn't know much about this either. A small part of what he knows is the impression left by watching various Wall Street related movies in the past. What he knows more is what David's Wall Street friends learned these days. He basically buys and sells now. "This is mainly for small and micro stocks, which have a very small market value. You can see it in the script The legendary leading enterprise of the future communication industry in the United States is actually something like a toilet on the side of a remote rural road. "

This movie seems to be close to comedy, but the core set by Murphy is black. He doesn't intend to whitewash Jordan Belfort, let alone show the bright side of Wall Street. Instead, he will focus on the side behind.

Not to mention Jordan Belfort's information, after the Oscar, Murphy had people collect a lot of well-documented information about Stratton Oakman company. Compared with these guys, Stanton gangsters are really a group of good people.

In those years, those guys deceived strangers, packaged themselves as a Wall Street elite, and then boasted about this broken company. The most important thing is that they lied about mastering the legendary inside information. For example, after two days, the stock market will soar. "Please give me two days, just two days, and your money will not be in urgent need in two days." it is generally said that …

Then the customer bought it. Because the market value was very small, the price really went up quickly. Then they used this as a successful case and continued to trick more people into coming in: I said two days ago that the stock would go up, and he did go up in two days. I'm very sorry that I couldn't contact you two days ago, but it's still too late

And then it gets bigger and bigger like a balloon, so it's called a pump.

Until one day, I feel that the time has come. Generally, it may be because I've had enough fun, or the stock has been targeted by financial tycoons. These people are afraid that their gold will be taken away, so they throw away all their holdings and say nothing about the stock. It's just like taking out the garbage, that is, dump.

Those who haven't sold deserve it.

As for Gail gado's idea that a group of thugs who sell big money and hemp have become experts in operating funds, according to Murphy's understanding, this situation is really not uncommon. (to be continued). )