Chapter 587

After waiting in Los Angeles for a short time, Murphy received the good news from Bill rosis. He has won the support of several important figures such as Walter Robinson and has started negotiations with the Boston global daily.

On the whole, the progress of bill Rossi is relatively smooth.

On the other hand, Murphy also convinced Gail gado. Although she still had some opinions, she kept them in her heart. She would continue to be a producer and executive producer in this project, and she also made contact with 20th century fox.

In Murphy's opinion, the investment and scale of the film are small, and it will be operated as an independent film as far as possible. Now it's late July. If everything goes well, we will strive for the film to be screened in Los Angeles before the new year 2012, so as to get the most important ticket of the award season.

Biographical films like this can't have a big market. The award season is the best place to go.

But in this way, if the whole film is fully paid, the time from shooting to operation is only half a year, which can be said to be very tense.

Murphy has informed his team that there won't be any big scenes in the film. In terms of the ability of the whole team, as long as we hurry up, the possibility of completion is still very high.

However, this needs the full support of fox in the 20th century.

Fortunately, over the years, Murphy has established a relatively strong cooperative relationship with 20th century fox, and some powerful figures like Carla Firth echo it. As long as the script and project plan are completed, it is not difficult for 20th century fox to give the green light to the project.

Such a film investment is not high, but also has a natural topic, coupled with Murphy's strong appeal, the risk of investment failure is not big.

Therefore, for Murphy himself, the most important thing at this stage is to complete the script.

In fact, after talking with rose prison, Murphy took the time to write a story about rose, which basically came from Rose's own narration, and some of Murphy's own observation. Later, he also met the bald black man who grew up with rose in the state prison. Because rose had told him for a long time, the other side also described it to Murphy objectively I've seen rose grow up and what he did afterwards.

These are the most basic materials. After sorting out, Murphy can determine the main vein of the story before adding it to the script.

To compile such a film about the type of biography, the most important thing is to shape the role of Diego rose.

A person has done a lot in his life. For example, rose is now in his forties. If the script includes all his life, it will be too lengthy and procrastinating. Murphy doesn't know much about what happened after Rose got out of prison, so he intercepted the period from his youth to his imprisonment.

The theme of the film, of course, is not to describe how heinous Diego rose is as the protagonist, but to explore why rose became a drug lord from an ordinary and ordinary boy.

There are real characters in Diego Roth, and Murphy will definitely shoot on the basis of what he knows, but the film comes from life, but it is higher than life.

The characters are the characters in the story first, and the play itself tells the story. The characters must obey the logic of the story first, and then have the meaning of existence. What the characters do in the story must conform to the characters' setting and logic, and his behavior can be trusted.

The story and the characters should be complementary. The story gives birth to the characters, and the characters promote the plot. The setting of the characters becomes the inevitability of promoting the development of the plot. The development of the plot enriches the image of the characters, and ultimately helps the characters erect the image.

Stories and characters are the key to a good play, which should be indispensable.

Facing a character like Diego rose and a series of stories related to him, Murphy's first principle is to stand firm, which is the key to a successful biography.

One of the most important points is that Murphy himself must understand that he is a director first, and then others, from writing scripts to preparing for shooting and then to post production.

No one can be completely neutral, and the director is no exception, but we should be relatively neutral at the very least. Otherwise, wantonly praising or belittling a person in a biographical film will only make the whole film a laughing stock, and at the same time make the protagonist of the film a laughing stock.

For example, some biographical movies or TV dramas that he once saw praise a person's description of Wei Guang Zheng. It seems that there is no defect, and it doesn't look like a person. This kind of film will only make people feel sick. On the contrary, if you belittle a person, you will definitely bring him down to hell, and then press him on countless mountains to make him look like a man There is no place. On the contrary, it is false, which makes people feel that it is a frame up.

These two ways are undoubtedly the lowest way to make a biographical film. Murphy knows that as long as he makes any mistake, the film will be basically finished.

Therefore, the whole story is to show the process of the transformation of Diego Roth from an ordinary person to a drug lord in an appropriate way. As for how to evaluate the character, it is the audience's business.However, it doesn't mean that he has to treat the character ruthlessly. Instead, he has to be full of emotion in the process of writing.

Does the creator have real feelings? Does the creator put himself into the character's heart? Do creators love their characters? Is the creator involved in the process? If we don't think about this problem well, we will make those two fatal mistakes and regard the role as an impersonal one.

In fact, the process of in-depth writing is to cultivate another type of feelings with the character, reveal the character's life bit by bit, and show the character's psychological process bit by bit.

Murphy created the character's world outlook and way of thinking step by step from scratch. At the same time, he also described the obstacles in his heart: on the one hand, he felt that he abandoned himself after being violated and treated unfairly, and even lived beyond his means; on the other hand, he was able to live tenaciously, but had to pay a considerable price for it.

This gradually deepening cognitive process should also be reflected in the play, so that the audience, like the screenwriter, will be curious, puzzled, understand and finally resonate with the characters.

A successful screenwriter will feel that he is in front of himself when he has shaped the role to a certain extent, knowing what the role will do and say. For a screenwriter, a character is real. Whether there is a prototype or not, what he creates is not a virtual character, but you, me and him in real life.

In addition, archetypal characters like Ross have much richer experiences than most people think. Therefore, the story of the characters should be reprocessed on the basis of his experiences. The details of the script are vivid and infectious, which can't be compared by the screenwriter's imagination.

This is not a commercial sci-fi film, but a biographical film. If a screenwriter puts all his "treasure" on his talent when writing, the risk will be extremely high. The real excellent screenwriters of this kind of subject matter are all reality itself.

By the end of July, Murphy had basically completed the first draft of the script, and submitted the long established project plan together with the first draft to Carla Firth, who submitted it to 20th Century Fox for review.

For a typical niche movie like this, Murphy can no longer get paid for commercial production. The total investment of the whole project is only 25 million US dollars, which is a typical small project for 20th century fox.

However, the goal of the film is very clear. Since it's a biography film, it also explores the process of mind change, so it's natural to rush into the award season.

Twentieth century fox will use the fastest time in the program to review the project. Murphy also informed his team that he was ready to come to Los Angeles to gather, while he continued to improve the script.

For a biographical film, the most important improvement after the completion of the first draft script is to continue to shape the protagonist.

For example, in this kind of movie, the protagonist's character and world outlook need to be distinct and full of sense of existence, so that the audience can clearly perceive his position. The most ideal effect is that in a specific situation, the audience can predict the choice of the character. If Murphy sets a situation, such as luring or threatening with heavy money, the audience does not know how to choose his character, That means the character's world view is not clear enough.

Among them, the most common and suitable way is to cast the role in front of choice.

It's not just the movie characters. In real life, people often face a dilemma. The final decision reflects their personality and thinking. The audience will like the movie protagonist because the characters will make choices they can understand but they can't.

Therefore, it is one of the best ways to create a character to face a dilemma.

Then there are the details, including rose's appearance, which Murphy specially noted in the script. No matter who the actors are, they should look very tough.

This is not only in line with Rose's reality, but also the appearance of a drug lord.

Just ask, if it is a small white faced protagonist whose skin can be broken, will the audience believe it?

After all this, Murphy once again carves out Rose's childhood scenes. Psychologically, she likes to attribute people's personalities and heart knot to childhood, while screenwriters also like to attribute characters' personalities and heart knot to "pre history".

This is a simple causal logic, something once created the present world view, so that there are such actions and choices.

Generally speaking, the details in the script are not accidental or improvised, but carefully designed.

After Murphy was basically satisfied with the script, good news came from 20th century fox. The project was successfully approved, and 20th century fox was responsible for investment and distribution.

Meanwhile, Robert Downey, Jr. and the rest of the stantons found Murphy. (to be continued). )