Chapter 614

Until the middle of December, Murphy was looking at all kinds of materials. Combined with the novels of Michael Dobbs and the TV series he had only seen, Murphy gradually outlined the context and trend of the first season in his mind.

Then he finished the script outline as quickly as he could.

At the same time, the screenwriter team recruited by Stanton studio has been completed. In today's Hollywood, with limited status and salary, it is not difficult to find a screenwriter who is good at writing political dramas as long as he is willing to spend money.

However, there are two distinct styles of Hollywood political dramas, such as house of cards and vice president. They are both political dramas, but there are differences in style and depth. The former typically focuses on the darkness and cruelty of political struggle, while the latter is a typical American comedy, in which a large number of American political jokes are included.

So on the first day after the writers signed the agreement, Murphy brought all the people involved in the project, including Gail gado and Paul Wilson, who came from England, to the conference room of Stanton studio for a meeting.

Since the final season of the game of Thrones has been completed, Paul Wilson is sure to be the director and producer of the series, as well as the screenwriter.

At this meeting, Murphy is going to focus on some principled issues in screenwriting and production.

"This play should have distinctive characters and powerful and interesting dialogues. Almost every episode is a wonderful individual story, but it is closely linked and closely linked, which can make the audience want to stop."

Standing at the front of the conference table, Murphy said very quickly, "more importantly, it can meet the needs of the audience. It can peep at high-level political figures and high-level politics in the United States, so that the audience can see many scenes that they can only imagine but can not see before, and feel novel and exciting!"

He nodded to Gail gado, who handed out an outline of the story, the script outline for season one.

Murphy also said, "I don't particularly study the political system of the United States. The story involves aspects of the political system. If there is any mistake, you should remind me to revise it on the basis of ensuring that the main line of the story remains unchanged."

This is one of the reasons why he spent millions of dollars to set up this writing team. Although these writers are not the top writers in the industry, they are all veteran writers of political themes, which can make up for his biggest shortcomings.

Paul Wilson raised his hand, Murphy nodded and said, "Paul, you say."

"I think from the beginning of the project, we should unify the caliber, saying that 99% of the plot of the play is real and can find the prototype in the political life of Washington!"

At this point, Paul Wilson laughed, "let the audience think they can understand the top dark scenes of political struggle through this play."

"Well!" Murphy agreed with Paul Wilson and said to the woman assistant who took the minutes, "make a note of that."

Political works have always been difficult to write, because there are too many inside stories and too many hidden rules. If you don't understand them, you will be timid everywhere. Even if you know them well, you can't grasp the yardstick.

Therefore, many political themes are rotten in the stomach.

In fact, what Paul Wilson said is very in line with Murphy's requirements. The biggest charm of house of cards is that it looks very real.

Because this play is not so much a portrayal of American politics as a struggle history of political figures who exaggerate and strive to create a sense of reality.

For example, for the sake of realism, Murphy specially marked on the outline that there should be drinking scenes everywhere, because drinking is a way of life in the United States, which is not only the best lubricant for social occasions, but also the basic necessities of life. Even Congressmen and presidents will put a few bottles of wine in the office.

For example, Nixon likes to drink Lafite, Clinton likes to drink all kinds of beer, George W. Bush committed drunk driving when he was young, and Obama even opened a small workshop in the White House to brew beer. These are not secrets.

"As Paul said..."

After Paul Wilson's words, Murphy stressed to the writers, "we need to make the audience look that the play is an in-depth analysis of American politics."

Several screenwriters are listening carefully, and they are not stupid. Although Murphy has a good reputation in the business circle, the high price of the film payment must make them show their value.

If they can't meet the requirements, they will be replaced. It's not easy to find another job with such high pay.

Murphy added, "you can adapt appropriately according to the actual examples, and use them flexibly in the script writing."

It is said that many plots in the play he once saw were adapted from real examples, which makes the whole play very real, especially for people outside the political circle.

Although Murphy did not see the real American politics at that time, he would not believe that politics was full of positive energy. In his cognition, politics was much darker than commerce.The house of cards just shows the ugliness and evils of American politics, which makes him feel very real.

As for the ups and downs of the plot, we don't have to say anything about it. As a good play, the wonderful plot is the most basic. He thinks that the most attractive highlight of the play is that the leading role is bad enough. It can be said that Frank Underwood, the leading role in house of cards, is the worst leading role in all American dramas he has seen.

But the so-called protagonist is not bad, the audience does not love.

In this era of information explosion, the transparency of information is getting higher and higher, more and more ugliness and evil are exposed, and the taste of the audience is slowly changing.

Just as his black movies are becoming more and more popular and can enter the mainstream film circle, the audience no longer believe that the world is beautiful and that justice can always overcome evil.

It's not that people are becoming more and more evil, it's that people are becoming more and more rational.

After a moment's thought, Murphy said, "the original author of this book was once the vice-chairman of the Conservative Party in Britain, which is very good for us, and it's easy for the audience to believe the truth. Therefore, you should make all kinds of political operations in the play seem to have traces to follow, so that the audience who usually have no concept of politics can also understand it. "

Because of the author's experience, this novel and its adaptation naturally appear to be particularly credible, which will also increase the charm of the drama.

"In traditional Hollywood political drama creation, there is a premise: our political system is very good."

Paul Wilson took Murphy's words and said, "but there is a bad person in a certain position, such as the police station or the Council, who causes problems. They are all individual."

He shook his head, "but we did a survey, and now the situation has changed. Now a common mentality of the American people is that this political system is very bad. Before, the media published a public opinion survey, listing the disgusting degree of the following things in your mind."

At this point, Paul Wilson could not help laughing, "Congress is very high in the most annoying series."

Murphy nodded, then said, "this environment provides us with considerable convenience, you..."

He pointed to all the writers in the audience, "no matter what media interviews we have, you have to say that 99% of our plots are true, and the only one that is not true is that we have passed an education plan, and in reality they don't even have one."

He looked at Gail gado's side, and Gail gado immediately tacitly added a remark to his notebook: remark to the relevant contract.

After looking at everyone, Murphy finally said, "we should boldly set all the characters to be negative, showing the evil of human nature and the darkness of politics!"

The skeleton of this kind of political drama is the history of personal crawling, and flesh and blood are the details of how to face power, ambition and depravity.

At the end of the meeting, all the writers dispersed, and Murphy kept Paul Wilson.

"You did a great job in the game of Thrones." Murphy is not stingy of his praise, "this series to you, I also rest assured."

Paul Wilson said with a smile, "Murphy, without you, there would be no me as I am now, as long as you need to..."

Murphy raised his hand and interrupted him. "After directing the first season, do what you want to do."

After a moment of silence, Paul Wilson nodded his head. Every director has his own movie dream.

In fact, directing "game of Thrones" over the past few years has given him enough experience and money. If Murphy had not phoned him personally and invited Oscar rated actors and actresses, he might not have taken over the series.

"Paul..." Murphy sat back in his chair and said, "I'll call Kevin Spacey and Charlize Theron in person after the new year. You and bill will visit them in person."

Hearing the two names mentioned by Murphy, Paul Wilson immediately started to play the spirit of 12 points, "are you going to let Kevin Spacey play Frank Underwood and Charlize Theron play Claire Underwood?"

Murphy nodded. "That's what I planned."

"Kevin Spacey is good to say." Paul Wilson is in a dilemma. "In recent years, he has no outstanding works, and his status is not as good as before. But Charlize Theron... "

Paul Wilson is really telling the truth. It's not easy for a popular first-line movie star to play in a TV series.

Murphy thought about it and said, "well, you're in charge of Kevin Spacey. I'll meet Charlize Theron after I've been busy for a while

"Paul..." He also said, "you are in charge of the script writing for the time being, so you can communicate in time."

With the release of "Diego Ross" coming, Murphy has to shift her energy and get busy with the film. (to be continued). )