The dark room was extremely quiet, Murphy and others were hiding in the corner, and the camera shot was aimed at James Franco. A sexy and hot girl pounced on him and kissed him wildly, like a goat in heat.

"cut!" Murphy stopped, "this one has passed."

James Franco took a step back and sat on the sofa. Jack Watson went over to make up his makeup, while his assistant came to Amanda Seyfried to make up the girl who was less than twenty years old.

"Good job, Amanda." Murphy gave a thumbs up there.

This is his usual style. He always praises the actors much more than criticism, especially young actors. As long as they perform poorly, they will help them establish confidence.

Amanda Seyfried's performance is quite good among girls of the same age. When the character is quiet, she feels pitiful and touching. When the character is as crazy as before, she looks extremely sexy and coquettish.

Just like the character's split, Murphy finally chose Amanda Seyfried in order to use her to distract the audience.

He likes this way of introducing characters, Amanda Seyfried's Andy sneaks in from the back door like a werewolf and pounces on Nick Dunn, who is obviously not very resistant.

When Murphy was looking for Andy's actors, he was very clear to find someone who could immediately divide the audience into two groups. It was like waving a big sword to split the theater in half from the middle. The women would cross their arms disgustedly, leaning back on the back of the chair and saying, "He's really a mess," while the men leaned forward with their chins and responded: "Yes. But this is understandable."

During the audition, Amanda Seyfried showed this ability. The shot just shot also proved that she had this ability. She would make people feel that it was completely understandable for Nick Dunn's cheating, but also felt that this deviant behavior was terrible and he must be punished severely.

This role seems simple, but it is actually not easy to grasp. Murphy will also give Amanda Seyfried enough guidance. The creation of a successful role is often the result of the joint efforts of the actor and the director.

As a comprehensive art, films will inevitably go through a long run-in, controversy and sparks in the creation process, and the director trains the actors' state; the actors' ideas stimulate the director's inspiration, and sometimes use their own charm and energy to change the director's original intention and produce unexpected better results; and the director may process it again based on the shooting materials in the later stage.

In a film, the screenwriter is the soul, the actor is the soul, and the director is also the soul. Classic movies are obtained by these souls constantly biting with wisdom and blood without reservation.

In this process, any link is indispensable.

After filming scenes about Amanda Seyfried in succession, Murphy pulled the entire crew outside the town and began to shoot Amy's fans to set up a search team to search for her trails.

The shooting is also carried out at the intersection. The search team's shooting mainly took place in prime time.

Golden time is also called "", also known as "", and it is used to describe it as "gold" and "magic", which is enough to show the preciousness and magic of this time period. It lasts very short, and the colors taken are mainly golden, and the shooting time is mostly after sunrise in the early morning and before sunset in the evening.

When the sun approaches the horizon, the light becomes warmer and richer. At this time, the atmosphere through which the light absorbs most of the blue light in the light, leaving behind the warmer components in the spectrum, showing the charm of golden light.

The golden light in golden time can bring ordinary scenery into a new look, and the pictures taken in this way are very charming.

Unlike the warm yellow artificial lighting under fluorescent lights, the outdoor natural light during prime time is warm and soft and layered. At this time, the sun has just exposed the horizon, so the shadows left are longer and deeper, which can visually add a lot of shooting possibilities.

However, Murphy and the crew also have to make a lot of preparations for this.

The golden shooting time is very short. Murphy will lead the crew to the venue several hours before the arrival of golden time and prepare all the equipment, which will save a lot of time that will make mistakes. If you can't finish shooting at one time and multiple times, you will waste a lot of time.

When shooting, he would let Filey Raschel face the light and use a wide-angle lens to shoot the search team. The light conditions under golden shooting time can make any shooting scene look extremely beautiful, with details displayed and shaping layers. Using close-up or telephoto lenses will cover up the advantages of golden shooting time.

During the entire shooting, Murphy was in the middle of coordination, and now he rarely directly participated in specific work.

Unlike photography, lighting artists, artists, editors and other jobs, directors need to consider from stories, scheduling, editing, to actors, sets, recordings, soundtracks and other aspects. They need to master the skills and knowledge of each specific job, as well as the expression that extends to aesthetics, and meet the director's personal aesthetic, political view, worldview and other needs.

As a director, Murphy not only has the ability to control details, but also has the ability to control stories, scheduling, editing, and then actors, sets, recordings, soundtracks and other aspects.

After the shooting of the Sou team, the crew left the town and moved to a lake villa area not far away to film Amy's imprisonment by her former lover Collins.

Here, Murphy took many large-scale shots, not only the scene where Charlize Theron used a wine bottle to "detonate" the chrysanthemum, but also many shots with dew points.

This must be an R-level film. Murphy is very clear about it, so when he signed the contract, he stated that the actors and actresses would show their scenes. A guy like James Franco is not a problem at all, and Charlize Theron is not a problem.

In the films in which South African American Diamonds starred in the past, the scenes of dew point are not one or two.

The most important scene here is that Amy creates fake evidence, falsely accuses Collins of kidnapping her, and then killing Collins.

Murphy has polished many lines here to reduce logical loopholes. For example, when Amy came in, Collins told her that the monitoring system had just been activated, and the monitoring system was mainly aimed at the outside of the villa and near the door, rather than inside the house.

No one likes to live under surveillance, even a character like Collins, who has the same control desire.

As for Amy being tied up and getting a wallpaper knife, Murphy deliberately kept it. This loophole was deliberately displayed to the audience in order to echo the anti-Hollywood-style emotions and naked ridicule of the media later.

He deliberately exaggerated this part of the play with artistic techniques.

Murphy didn't want to make this part very close to reality at the beginning, but deliberately made Amy imprisoned to counterattack scenes that were so exaggerated that it would be more paradoxical later, but he liked the shooting process of this part.

This is not that two people live together sweetly, but that one of them gets what they want and the other becomes a sacrifice to achieve their goal. When filming this scene, it is more troublesome than expected, not because of the content inside, but mainly a matter of cleaning.

Murphy took a total of two days to shoot, and changed the wardrobe, bedding and pillows more than thirty times, because every time he reshoots, all the items stained with props and blood need to be replaced.

"It is a despicable thing for a person to be slaughtered like a lamb during intercourse, but someone always needs to do it."

Gal Gadot, who came to visit the set, stood near the director's monitor and accompanied Murphy to watch the shots that had just been taken. Perhaps because of the fact that the pressure was indeed a bit too high recently, Murphy seemed a little chattering. "Amy is trying to use these video records to create a new incident and add a new thing to her victimization resume. So she wants to mess up his hair, tear his shirt open, and let him have a mouthful of blood. Of course, she also asked him to come, and she still sent him on the way."

However, from the shots, only blood can be seen, and there is no scene of Collins' throat rupture, so it needs to be added in post-production.

Gal Gadot had read the script before and asked curiously, "Will you die if you cut the throat like this?"

"This is one of the purposes of Amy asking him to do it. After strenuous exercise, the speed of human blood flow will accelerate."

After thinking for a moment, Murphy said again, "If you want to kill someone in prison, you will often be in the playground. Because your heartbeat will accelerate after intense exercise, you will hurt your main blood vessels at this time. It will only take a few seconds to hang up. It will be too late to call someone to come."

Hearing this, Gal Gadot suddenly felt heartbroken, approached Murphy and hugged him gently. Only she knew that in the dead of night, Murphy would often be awakened from sleep by nightmares, and some memories in the prison did have an extremely profound impact on him.

"It's okay." Murphy could feel Gal Gadot's concern, and regardless of whether it was on the set, he gently kissed her and continued the topic just now, "Amy's setting is a very knowledgeable Harvard student, who knows this truth well, so this drama treatment is very consistent with her psyhopath's personality."

Every time Gal Gadot sees this character, his spine is cold. If there are such women in the real world, it would be too terrifying.

To be honest, she has never been a fan of Murphy. The films shot by Murphy have never been in line with her aesthetics. This movie is a typical one.

This is a script that makes her feel frustrated, because in the end, there is no serious catharsis, is Amy brought to justice? No. Did Nick expose her? No. In the end, this marriage locked the two of them tightly like a cage, which was even more uncomfortable than at the beginning.

At least they complained about each other at that time, but they still had the possibility of divorce. Now they have to pretend to be harmonious while hating and show it to others. It is really more uncomfortable than a death sentence.
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