Chapter 721

"Murphy Stanton is responsible for the dead!"

A business car slowly approaches the wave manor. Through the special window glass, the people in the car can clearly see that many people gather in front of the manor gate. They also hold up some banners and signs full of various slogans.

"The killer is Murphy Stanton!"

"Murphy Stanton will be punished by God!"

Many of the slogans look shocking, as if Murphy has become a heinous Judas.

Looking at the signs, Robert Downey, Jr., sitting on the front passenger's seat, said to the people behind him, "it seems that Murphy is in a lot of trouble."

"It's more than a lot of trouble."

Margot Robbie, with curly blonde hair, said, "Catholic guys obviously want to ruin Murphy."

Seth Logan, sitting in a row with her, asked, "Murphy's under a lot of pressure."

"These are nothing."

Jonah Hill reached out and patted Seth Logan on the shoulder. "What kind of pressure can beat Murphy?"

He pointed to James Franco sitting next to him and said, "the magicians are all right. Murphy is far from collapse."

"Do you think I'm not stressed?" James - Franco spread his hand, rather helpless said, "I just don't think about these things."

When the car arrived at the gate of wave manor, some reporters saw little Robert Downey through the front windshield and immediately surrounded him. However, the security personnel in the manor moved quickly, immediately opened the door, put the business car in, and then closed the door to keep reporters and protests out.

A few minutes later, Robert Downey Jr., James Franco, Seth Logan, Jonah hill and Margaret Robbie entered the villa.

"Sit down." Murphy was not polite to them, and then said, "tea or coffee?"

The servants quickly gave them tea and coffee according to their different needs, and several of them talked about the current situation without any further ado.

"What do you say?" Gail gado seems relaxed to say, "there's always some pressure. Some people want to take advantage of it and hit Murphy."

Murphy said more directly than Gail gado, "last time I offended the Catholic Church, they not only wanted to find the place, but also had more attempts."

"More attempts?" Little Robert Downey was puzzled. "Not just for you?"

Murphy shook his head. "You may not see it overseas. The public opinion attack of Catholicism has expanded to the whole Hollywood movies."

Margot Robbie, who has been in Los Angeles, echoed: "recently, the Catholic media have been saying that Hollywood movies are too violent and that there is something wrong with the self censorship system of Hollywood movies."

"What are they doing?" Asked Jonah hill.

Seth Logan, on the other hand, thought, "Catholic ambition seems to be a little big."

"Not so big." Murphy took a sip from his tea cup and said with a smile, "I have some definite news here. Archbishop Marquez Costello of the Catholic Diocese of central and Southern California recently met with the leaders of Christian, Jewish and Orthodox churches in California. It is said that he is going to visit several directors of the three major commercial cinema companies in North America. What do you think he wants to do when he is so busy Is that right? "

Robert Downey, Jr. immediately understood, "he wants to restore the moral censorship of Hollywood movies by the Catholic Church of the last century?"

All of you, except Murphy and Gail gado, look at each other. The ambition of the Archbishop of erkes Costello is not so great.

"He thinks too much, doesn't he?" Jonah Hill scratched his head. "This is not the 1940s and 1950s."

"Therefore, we should first use public opinion to build momentum." Murphy shrugged and said, "it's not impossible for some people or organizations to stand up and appeal when the surging public opinion magnifies the negative impact of Hollywood movies and the whole nation begins to blame Hollywood movies for their lack of morality."

"Is it worth it?" Robert Downey, Jr. shook his head.

Murphy reminded, "if you think about it in another way, once it is successful, Catholicism will have a profound impact on Hollywood films. How much share of the world film market does Hollywood films occupy today? How wide is the spread? You know that, don't you? How can the Vatican reward the Archbishop of Marquez Costello once he does it? Cardinals are inevitable

"I remember that Benedict XVI's term is not many years old." Like Murphy, James Franco is a typical non believer, but he has a wife who used to believe in Catholicism at home and knows something about the Catholic Church. "Archbishop Marcos Costello really made it, and it's not impossible to become a candidate for the pope in the future."

Margot Robbie looked at James Franco and Murphy, and suddenly felt that Murphy could always see things thoroughly.She suddenly remembered a sentence about Murphy that Gail gado had said, desire drives life!

Murphy continued, "even if it fails, Archbishop Marcos Costello will not have too much loss. After all, he is the Archbishop of the church. Whether it is the government or Hollywood, under normal circumstances, there is no way to take him."

At this point, he could not help laughing, "even if the failure, but also hit me, I think the Archbishop of Marquez - Costello had a problem with me for a long time."

These ideas and plans are really wonderful.

Several people discussed for a while. Murphy left them for lunch and asked the housekeeper to inform the kitchen. Robert Downey, Jr. asked, "what do you need us to do?"

Everyone else looked at Murphy, waiting for Stanton's leader to give orders.

"You'd better not mix it in." Murphy didn't want to bring trouble to his friends. "I can handle it."

Robert Downey, Jr. didn't say anything, but after leaving wave manor, they didn't stay out of it and expressed their support for Murphy in various forms.

That night, Robert Downey Jr. updated his twitter.

"This is not the first and will not be the last case in the history of world film in which the audience imitates the characters of a film to commit a crime. In the face of such a tragedy, any criticism of only one film is unfair and unreasonable. There is nothing wrong with the existence of violence in the film, because the reality is not perfect. "

As he said, there are many tragedies related to movies in the history of North America.

For example, during the screening of "rejuvenation" in 2008, a fan kept cheering for the film, which made the people nearby very impatient. In the case of unsuccessful persuasion, the latter decisively escaped from the pistol and shot at the front

In fact, if you search Google, conflicts caused by movies emerge in endlessly, and casualties also occur from time to time.

Perhaps, watching movies, originally for leisure and entertainment, will one day become the "ultimate pastime" of being killed.

Later, Jonah hill, Seth Logan and others also support Murphy through their own channels. Although this may not have much effect, it can show the stance and unity of stantons to the outside world.

In spite of the public opinion fight with Catholicism, there is a fact that can not be ignored. Even Murphy can not deny that after entering the new century, the death and injury caused by movies are increasing.

Why in the past, the clear distinction between reality and dream has become blurred, and even more and more people are unable to distinguish between dream and reality? To some extent, it has something to do with the new meaning world created by the Internet.

After the emergence of the Internet, the difference between reality and virtual is becoming smaller and smaller, and the direction of technology production is to eliminate this difference completely.

In particular, with the help of Internet marketing, the film attaches great importance to interaction and participation, which can significantly increase the sense of substitution of participants, and correspondingly, it will also bring some problems.

"What is a movie? In short, it's dreaming. "

I think so, but Murphy won't say so. He has been personally updating his social platform since he responded.

"As some media have said, should the film pay for the two shootings?"

"Imagine if there's no violence in the movie, so clean that even the most conservative people can't pick out problems, will the world be a better place? No more violence? If you don't say the answer, you will know. "

"But in this impossible imagination, what we can be sure is how false and empty the human spiritual world will become. All artists and audiences will degenerate into dementia children, pretending to be in a simple and perfect dream world."

"Film, like other arts, is the deformation and reflection of reality. It's true that many films exaggerate or advocate violence, but at the same time, there are probably more films that let the audience have a deeper understanding of the seriousness of the problem of violence, and let people be alert and reflect on where violence comes from and where the darkness is. "

"It may not be the best of times, but it's obviously not the worst. What the movie reflects is just the reality with many chronic diseases. In our society, there are both positive and negative energies flowing all the time. An antisocial lunatic, even if he doesn't watch any movies, comics, novels, play games or listen to rock music, may become a butcher thug who kills innocent people indiscriminately. "

"Of course, we have reason to ask film directors, producers and film companies to be more cautious and pay more attention when dealing with violent scenes, but such a tragic bill is something that a film can't and shouldn't buy."

"In the real world, we don't need Chris Dann, let alone a magician. We just need more soberness, deeper reflection, greater courage and more passionate love for the world. Free choice and free will, rather than more filtering, protection and control, can lead us out of the shadow of the shooting and into a brighter world. "