Chapter 673

"Where is gray's fifty shadows?"

Gail gado had long said that he would run the project, and Murphy agreed. Now when she mentioned it, she asked, "is the script finished?"

He remembers that he just gave Gail gado a free script, and then he became a shaker.

"I've hired a screenwriter."

Because of the subject matter, Gail gado is very interested in the adaptation of Gray's fifty shadows. "I hired a three person writing team to prepare the script according to the original work and your script outline."

"Well." Murphy nodded. "Just as you think fit."

Since it was very early to get the copyright, "Gray's fifty shadows" copyright fee is not high, and the type of film also decided that it would not be a big investment and production, so it would be more appropriate for Gail gado to practice.

Frankly speaking, if the two of them appear in the film in person, they are undoubtedly the most suitable actors.

Of course, that's what Murphy thinks. In private, how two people play is their own business. If they go to the screen and make a fool of themselves, that's a joke.

"Won't you give me some advice?" Asked Gail gado.

"First, the actors." This is a very important story for Mary and Murphy to be handsome

Once the heroine, regardless of appearance or figure, are a little bit worse.

Gail gado nodded and took it to heart.

"By the way, my dear." Murphy asked, "do you have the right director?"

The director's role in the film is self-evident, even this kind of bloody commercial film is no exception.

"There's a potential person I think is more appropriate." Gail gado did not hide, directly said his own ideas, "what do you think of Sofia Coppola?"

"Female director?" Murphy shook his head without hesitation. "This is not a good candidate."

Without waiting for Gail gado to say anything, he added, "I think it's better not to use female directors."

Hearing Murphy's last words, Gail gado frowned, "honey, you're sexist."

Murphy opens his hand innocently. "It has nothing to do with sexism. If you want to operate an independent film, I will never object to your use of female directors. However, for a typical commercial film like gray's fifty shadows, it is better not to use female directors. "

Although there is no lack of successful examples of female directors directing commercial films in Hollywood, they are rare. After so many years of development, Hollywood has already reached a consensus that female directors are more suitable for independent films than mainstream commercial films in Hollywood.

Seeing that Gail gado didn't understand, Murphy simply said a few words to her. Gail gado also gave up the idea of using female directors.

This is definitely not Murphy's prejudice.

After more than one hundred and thirty years of development, it has experienced many changes, and generations of filmmakers have witnessed technological progress: from Edison's projector to blackmagic film camera to imax3d camera; from exhibition activity film projector to smart phone exhibition, etc.

However, there is still a phenomenon in the film industry that has not changed - the sense of existence of female directors is not so strong.

There is no doubt that there are many female directors. Murphy is sure that many people have heard of Katherine Bigelow, Sophia Coppola and other famous female directors, but more female directors have never been heard of, let alone such world-famous directors as Martin Scorsese or James Cameron.

Compared with Hollywood experience, female directors are more likely to find a sense of existence and achieve "relative success" in independent films.

Murphy has seen a statistics that in the 10 years from 2002 to 2012, there were nearly 24% female directors in Sundance Film Festival, but among the top 100 films at the box office, female directors accounted for less than 3%.

Looking at Hollywood as a whole, the proportion of female directors was 9% in 1998, 7% in 2010 and 5% in 2011.

Even with the vigorous development of feminism, there are fewer and fewer women in the film industry.

In the past 85 years, female directors have been nominated for best director only four times.

Although some statistical data may not be completely accurate, the general trend has not changed, and there are very complicated reasons for this situation.

On the one hand, most famous films are shot by well-known male directors, especially the well-known male directors have inherent advantages in breaking the Convention and script adaptation; on the other hand, many female directors have no ability to perform shooting, which virtually lowers the competitiveness of female directors.

In fact, there are half male and half female graduates of directing major from major film schools in North America every year, which means that something seems to have happened from the graduation ceremony to the shutdown celebration, resulting in such a big gap between the number of male and female directors. One of the reasons is that many people in the industry have "misogyny". They think that women can't do shooting at all and will bring a lot of trouble.In addition, for female directors, the most difficult thing in making movies in Hollywood is not to make movies, but to constantly deal with gender discrimination, sexual harassment and other external factors.

I believe everyone knows that this is the most common little trouble in Hollywood.

Although the data show that, as a woman, if she wants to make a film directly, she will definitely encounter more rejection and get less respect than her male counterparts, and it will take a long time to walk on the thorny road, the emergence of independent films makes female directors become more and more open.

A large number of female directors have also joined the independent film circle.

According to Murphy's understanding, when Katherine Bigelow won the best female director Oscar in 2010, she inspired countless female directors, and even many female directors still had tears in their eyes after hearing the news and said, "God, we did it!"

In a word, whether it's Sophia Coppola or Katherine Bigelow, if they are going to make standard commercial films and want Stanton studio to invest in them, Murphy will definitely give up. That's too much risk.

On the contrary, Murphy will definitely invest in the independent films of the award season.

"Gray's fifty shadows" followed by Gail gado. Murphy continued his post production work.

In the studio of fox building, Murphy stands in front of the monitor and looks at the camera images. They have produced no less than 20 websites, large and small, including electors' website, prosecutor's election website, Jay Rachel's personal website and so on. Each website is full and accurate enough to confuse the true with the false.

In addition, the marketing staff also specially produced Jay Rachel's campaign ads, including pictures and videos, creating an election atmosphere as fierce as in reality, giving fans a strong sense of participation.

The city of darkness is a smart move to do virus marketing close to social hot spots.