Chapter 549

"I shot a lot of long shots this time."

In the post studio of fox building, Murphy told the head of his editing team, "Jody, these long shots are mainly used to show the struggling side of human heart and humanity. You must pay attention to this when editing."

Jody Griffith nodded, "these days, I've seen all the shots, and have a general idea. I'll make a general editing plan first, and then we'll communicate."

"Yes." Murphy fully trusted Jodie Griffith, "you can handle this."

At the beginning of post production, Murphy didn't participate in editing, instead, he asked people to call up a color matching group, just like in the post production of body of steel, which first carried out color matching and rendering for all the shots.

Although all shots are shot in dark and gloomy environment, it is necessary to use Da Vinci palette to achieve the effect of Murphy plan.

"Previous films were dark, but they were nothing compared with this one."

Before all the work started, Murphy called the post production team together and held a short meeting. "This film directly hits the heart and the darkest side of society, showing the collision brought about by different ideologies and personal ideas, and the dark tone and lens of the film will be the basis of all this."

The black inside the film depends on the black outside to further set off.

As he said, compared with this film, the darkness of "body of steel" and even "the lost lover" is nothing at all.

Strictly speaking, it will be the darkest film directed by Murphy since he entered Hollywood. Maybe it is more appropriate to describe it as a dark film.

If you want to achieve all this, it is very important to render the dark tone of the lens.

Therefore, Murphy put the Da Vinci palette in the front of all the later work, in order to highlight this requirement.

Murphy has made up his mind to make this film go further on the basis of black film and become a heavy dark film without any humorous elements!

In the field of pictures, it is difficult to verify the origin of "Diablo style", because the evidence of the existence of "Diablo style" can be found in Goya's series of black paintings, old Bruegel's triumphant return of death, triumphant return of death, Boccaccio's story collection Decameron and other paintings and literary works.

Only at that time, these contents were not called "Diablo".

Even if the theme of Hollywood's traditional black movies tends to be heavy, they often give people a special sense of satire and comedy, just like the lost lover. But the dark movies are different. Murphy doesn't know what others think. According to his own understanding, this kind of movies are more heavy and philosophical. In some ways, the matrix is different from his own "Body of steel" can be classified into this category.

Of course, "body of steel" just touched the surface, and "matrix" has gone further in this respect.

However, this is not to say how tall this kind of movie is. It's just that it's hard to see this kind of movie in the homogenized Hollywood commercial movies. According to Murphy's understanding, the dark style is just one of the branches of the movie, just like the black movie.

There is no doubt that the former Christopher Nolan is the key figure for the dark style films to really enter the mainstream film circle, and the dark style has even become the pronoun of high pressure.

This style is unique in superhero movies, which directly or indirectly brings two trends. First, in contrast, movies with mainstream commercial blockbuster style, such as Avengers and iron man, are more joyful and popcorn; second, dark knight brings depth and style to DC Comics and Warner Brothers So that the whole DC Universe should follow a unified style and values.

It's no longer a superhero movie, and it doesn't have the aura of the master. What Murphy wants to do is to make him more civilian and dark. Its content is heavier than that of the previous one. The protagonist doesn't have so much high technology, so he will carry more pressure to move forward, and may be crushed or even completely blackened at any time.

To achieve this style, one is setting and shooting, the other is post production.

After setting and shooting are basically done, post production becomes very important.

No one is born to be proficient in various styles of movies, even Murphy is no exception. Although he and his team have accumulated some experience before, he still carefully controls every aspect of post production.

If you want the post production team to follow this style, you need to understand the characteristics of Diablo style.

Dark means that the colors of these films are artificially dimmed. Even those scenes that take place in the daytime are dark and humid.

In this movie, most of the plot takes place in the dark, which is also in line with the characteristics of New York City, which will turn from a prosperous big apple into a rotten city of crime after dark.

Black, mainly refers to the theme of the film and the reflection of the idea is black, the story will be closely associated with the dark, sick, weird, violent, bloody, mysterious, religious, alternative and other words, although the main story of the film is positive, the protagonist is also good, but in the process of the development of the story, the above elements are magnified, exaggerated, due to And produced a "black" effect.However, even an artificial concept needs to follow certain regulations and styles before it can be established. In Murphy's hands, it will develop in several directions.

First of all, the story is dark, to a certain extent, there will be some pathological elements.

Most of the protagonists, whether positive or negative, will have the shadow and trauma of childhood. For example, Chris Dann's father fell into the black pool of chemical raw materials in order to save him. Under his own eyes, the corroded pool was blackened, thus creating the fear of black.

This kind of shadow and trauma accompanied with his maturity, and eventually became a part of his values, and such trauma will make him use another "sick" image to show to the public, he will always hide in black clothes and black shadow.

Similarly, the behavior of the villain is not for repayment or revenge, but a kind of ritual involving violence and blood to awaken the public. To a large extent, their violence is not related to personal past and enmity, but related to some kind of redemption and enlightenment.

Such a villain breaks through the general sense of "villain". He has the same color of speculation and philosophy as the positive role, which makes the positive role fall into a dilemma in many times. Such a swing of values and the thinking of justice and evil can be said to be a dark side of film aesthetics.

Secondly, religiousness, as well as the resulting sense of ceremony, mystery, heresy, deformity and otherness, will be the characteristics of sensory and narrative elements in the film. In many paragraphs and plots, the protagonist will go through the promotion of key characters, or get the lead in some ritual gatherings and activities, so as to enter the next stage.

In fact, such a setting is just a process of self-healing and ability upgrading. However, driven by the dark wind, a section that could have been full of vitality is bound to become a plot of "climbing from the mass grave". In the process of becoming a hero, the hero has to undergo a series of events to wash himself out, and then painfully choose to maintain the status quo.

No matter how it is, how it understands the world, whether the world needs to be cleaned up or not, heroes are never born heroes.

In this regard, Murphy has seen too many main theme movies about the hero's height. He has a deep understanding of this aspect and knows how to avoid the height without motivation. The most direct reflection of this idea is Chris Dann. His initial motivation is to overcome fear and revenge!

This is a realistic film. It's impossible to be like a superman film. The protagonist is born a hero, and it's impossible to deliberately create "Wei Guang Zheng" so as to get "false emptiness".

In addition, in the process of post production, Murphy borrowed a lot of painting, expressionism, Gothic and many modern and contemporary oil paintings can reflect the dark style.

Of course, there is another issue that he has to consider, which is also the concern of fox in the 20th century - whether the audience can accept this style.

There's no doubt that this style is several times more risky than Murphy's black films of the past.

Before "body of steel", such a dark and heavy film might have been rejected by 20th century fox in the review stage, but now 20th century fox is willing to accompany Murphy on the adventure.

The reason is very simple, just like Steve Jobs was sought after by countless people.

In addition, Murphy and 20th century fox are very clear that movies are deeply influenced by the social environment. Looking at the development and changes of Hollywood movies, it is not difficult to find that after countless CG special effects and simple mindless popcorn commercial blockbusters, the audience's expectation of those popcorn movies which are light in plot and only focus on whether CG is realistic or not has increased to a certain extent It is said that the decline, especially for the older audience, is becoming more and more dissatisfied with the commercial films which are seriously inclined to be childish.

Therefore, this kind of dark black film with serious film characteristics and creative tendency can be said to follow the trend.

Of course, in such a dramatic plot oriented film, the orientation of the characters is positioned in the dilemma of "alternation of good and evil", and the villains are placed with strong logic and speculation. In addition, some spectacle display and stories happened in the night can bring a kind of fresh stimulation to the audience.

In this style of movie, villain is also the key. If villain is just a facial figure in popcorn movie, this style will be out of balance.

Reflected in this film, Reina wants to use his own idea to take shock therapy to cure New York, while Chris Dann thinks that it will only bring destruction, which leads to opposition between adoptive father and son.

In this way, the villain's level is naturally raised or forced to be qualified.

Murphy and 20th Century Fox have considerable confidence. Apart from these external elements, they mainly believe that the film can get enough attention under the appropriate marketing strategy. (to be continued). )