Chapter 661

In the early morning, Beverly Hills has been busy for a whole day. The luxury houses on the oak roadside exude incredible warmth and charm. In one of the 80000 square foot villas, James Franco wakes up from his sleep. Just as he opens his eyes, he sees a giant magician's make-up photo on the opposite side of the bed.

"A crazy day has begun!"

James Franco murmured a few words. He soon left James Franco and entered into the state of a magician. He grabbed the black costume from the crew, put it on, washed it as quickly as possible, held the iconic magic ball, went out of the bedroom and walked into the rehearsal room.

It's a very large rehearsal room, right in the middle of it, and it's a huge model sand table with a panoramic view of Manhattan.

Walking in front of the sand table, James Franco gazed at the location of the Brooklyn Bridge for a while and said to himself, "cut off all traffic on Manhattan Island, make a reason to force people to leave, and then install bombs on the ship..."

"Ha ha ha..." He gave a strange laugh, hoarse and harsh, "let them all blow up! Everyone becomes a villain

James Franco had a strange smile on his face, as if he were really planning an attack on Manhattan.

All of a sudden, he felt in his mind the fluttering sound of mosquitoes and ants, "buzz Hum, hum... " He felt that something was squeezing out of his blood vessels and almost cracked his body. The sound around him was covered with a sound insulation layer, blurred and distorted like an electronic device, and the pattern in his eyes was constantly shaking and twisting.

The skin began to chill. James Franco felt it twitch involuntarily. The kitten scratched the protruding goose bumps with its sharp claws. The itching pain gradually penetrated into the bone along the pores. His hands wanted to touch but could not touch it. He could only shake his body and tried to rub the bone with the swing of the skin to stop itching.

Since hiding at home to study the role of magician, and more and more able to grasp the emotions of the characters, he has this strange feeling.

James Franco closed his eyes, shook his head hard, stood here and waited for a few minutes, completely out of the magician's state.

It seems that there are psychological hints. All kinds of strange feelings in his body and brain suddenly disappear, and his whole body becomes energetic.

Gradually, James Franco returned to normal.

"I don't know what's going on?"

Thinking of this, he left the rehearsal room to go to the warehouse set in Venice. "I'd better meet that guy Murphy."

In the warehouse set in Venice, Murphy is discussing with the action director about Chris Dann's action design. In the last film, Chris Dann made the role of a catcher rather than a judge for himself, so as to set an unbreakable bottom line, so as not to slip into the abyss. This determines that he will not widely use weapons, but mainly use hand to hand combat for him To meet Murphy's realistic and tough requirements, the movement director and his team designed a set of comprehensive fighting skills for Henry Carvel, which can be upgraded at any time according to his own conditions and the situation of his opponents.

This kind of zero distance physical confrontation also doomed Henry Carville to need a large amount of training.

Murphy knows very well that the action scenes are very important if the film wants to attract people.

Once upon a time, the movie was absolutely classic, but the action scenes were only relatively ordinary. If it wasn't for the strong industrial system, the action drama would not even be qualified. Especially for the scene of Batman and mob fighting, some places really make people unable to look directly at it, not to mention the level of action drama, or even not in line with the logic of normal people's thinking.

At the end of the discussion, as soon as the action director left, James Franco knocked on the door and came in.

"Hi, Murphy." James Franco was not polite at all. He pulled a chair and sat across from Murphy with his legs crossed. He asked casually, "is the work going well?"

"Everything goes well." Murphy looked at him and frowned. "Where have you been this month?"

If it wasn't for the frequent phone calls, he could not have thought that James Franco had disappeared from the earth out of thin air.

"I Well, I... " James Franco shrugged and gave a rather awkward smile. "I shut myself up in the villa of Beverly Hills and studied the role of magician."

Hearing what James Franco said, Murphy could not help but put down the work at hand and looked up at him seriously.

Just a glance, Murphy can see that James Franco has obviously changed from the last time they met.

He is thinner than before. He seems to have a bad rest recently. He looks a little haggard. As long as you pay a little attention, you can find the thick dark circles under his eyes.

"Jim, didn't I say, do you have any questions to contact me?" Murphy pointed to him and asked, "you're in a bad state of mind."

James - Franco effort is good, but he does not want to see the film has not yet started, the first Falklands beat the body."Well I studied the films and characters that you recommended, and then I locked myself in the villa room for a whole month, wrote down my diary, tried different kinds of madness, and finally made myself into a state of mental illness.... "

Leaning back in his chair, James Franco pulled out a smile. "Since last week, I've only been able to sleep four hours a night. I've been daydreaming all night. I'm exhausted."

"You..." Murphy shook his head. "Do you remember what I said?"

James Franco laughed again. "Don't worry, Murphy. I'm very clear headed and I know where my limits are

"Just wake up! If you are depressed because of your character, they will never let me go! "

Murphy was talking about the rest of the stantons, and James Franco knew that. He finally laughed and said to Murphy, "you, sometimes you think too much."

Indeed, Murphy also admits that James Franco may not be able to understand this, but he knows very well that, after all, Heath Ledger can never forget at will.

Murphy stood up, walked across the street and patted James Franco on the shoulder. "Take a vacation for yourself. Relax. Call lily. You'd better go to the Caribbean or Hawaii for a vacation, and then wait for my notice."

James Franco nodded at the thought of his worse life recently I really should go out and relax. "

Murphy said quickly, "you wait for my call. Don't rush into the cast."

See James - Franco's mental state is not very bad, he also relaxed, but let him relax, health is more important than the role.

Seeing off James Franco, Murphy goes to Gail gado's office and takes a brief look at the crew's financial statements.

One of the basic skills of Hollywood producers includes "financial statements". Hollywood's complete industrial production system has extremely complex requirements for production management, requiring producers to prepare financial statements every week, including how to spend money this week in the future, etc

Gail gado and the third party guarantee are jointly responsible for this part of the crew's work. Although they are both producers, the division of labor between Murphy and Gail gado is quite different.

Compared with Gail gado's overall management, Murphy is a creative producer.

In a Hollywood film and television play, the producer is the operator of the project, which has a key decisive factor for its success or failure. As the driving force of the project, the creative producer is the whole of creativity. Whether it is the interpretation of the story, the choice of actors, the choice of directors, or even the promotion of the film, creative producers need the pioneering and sincere brain.

In the whole project, creative producers play multiple roles all the time - mother, father, lover, lover, intimate friend, teacher, fighter, negotiator, arbitrator, dreamer and so on.

Creative producers watch the completion of the project, fantasize about the next project, give birth to the project, and then hold it in hand, so that the project has its own life, constantly shape and shape, inject content to show to the whole world, and then give the hope to stand out.

For a director, nothing is more gratifying than working with creative producers. There is no marriage story in a movie or audio-visual product that can match the excellent cooperation between producers and directors.

But even in Hollywood, the outstanding creative producers are quite limited, and Gail gado still has some gaps. Murphy has to shoulder part of the work of creative producers, and Gail gado is responsible for the specific management.

Just as he climbed up from the bottom step by step, producers need to accumulate work experience.

On the other hand, no matter in preparation or shooting, just like the division of labor between him and Gail gado, Murphy requires his crew to have a highly professional division of labor.

As we all know, the production system of Hollywood film industry is based on the production process of fine division of labor. At present, there are about 140 types of work in Hollywood film production process.

Although film is a kind of spiritual product for entertainment, Hollywood has materialized and industrialized it according to the needs of the market.

As a result of this fine division of labor, on the one hand, every detail of film production, such as set design, scene performance, character dialogue, will be excellent and exquisite because of the control of quite proficient experts; on the other hand, when every detail expert wants to express his own creative personality, many personalities will collide with each other and cannot express themselves To grasp the overall situation, and eventually be submerged in the noise, become the appendage of production process and standardization.

Up to now, all commercial productions in Hollywood are part of it.

However, in the process of production, Murphy also established the concept of "big movie industry" with 20th century fox.