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Hollywood film production companies can receive a lot of scripts every year, and Stanton Studio is no exception. On the floor of the newly leased Century City Building, there is a special room for the received scripts. After the scripts were mailed, they were simply browsed by Paul Wilson and even Rosa Rodriguez, and then...

Like most Hollywood companies, these scripts are left unattended for a long time.

Since nothing happened today, Crete Nam Wilkinson appeared again. After Murphy returned to Stanton Studio, he asked Rosa Rodriguez to send some scripts over.

He wants to see if there are any projects worth investing in.

After reading dozens of scripts, I was disappointed. Several of them were full of imaginative ideas and creativity, but these ideas and creativity are really not suitable to become movies, and the risks and returns of investment are not proportional to them.

The final result is how these scripts were taken by Rosa Rodriguez, and how they were taken back by her.

These scripts are definitely not just submitted to a company in Stanton Studio, but Murphy has never heard of relevant projects in the circle. Even though the creativity and artistic creation of many scripts in it are better than the scripts in which most of the films released in Hollywood are still not valued by Hollywood companies.

The reason is very simple. The so-called innovation risks of these newcomers and new works far exceed the routine and assembly line mode. There is no sufficient return, and of course no one will invest.

After all, Hollywood is a business circle after all, and related industries are also called "acting arts" and have never been "acting arts".

Perhaps some people think that Hollywood is looking for geniuses. On many TV shows, you can always see Hollywood agency companies. Film companies tell the audience in front of the camera that we are looking for geniuses in movies. This is simply one of Hollywood's biggest lies.

In fact, if someone believes what they say and calls several of the largest brokers in Hollywood to tell them that they are the geniuses they are looking for, they will not react and even hang up the phone directly.

What Hollywood needs is not a genius mind, but a brand with marketing potential, such as James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, etc.

Whether it is a producer, author, actor or director, Hollywood does not value talent, but profit potential. Many times, what impresses Hollywood companies by aspiring young man in the film industry, such as Murphy, is not the artistic nature of his works, but the benefits that his works can obtain.

When a person's name has the ability to attract audiences, or to attract money in the audience's pocket, then he is the so-called "genius" that Hollywood is looking for.

People who can enter Hollywood are not all talented, but they must know or know how to package themselves and make their names a brand. To some extent, this is also a kind of talent.

In this commercial paradise, creativity and stories are very needed, but everyone knows that creativity and stories are the least valuable. Hollywood's super popular movies have very simple stories, such as "Independence Day" and "Titanic". In terms of the storyline of the script, at most, it is the level of a second-rate or even a third-rate screenwriter.

It is no exaggeration to say that such a story has no creativity. If a newcomer takes this story to the film company, no one will pay attention to it.

Hollywood is eager to seek talent? Hollywood is a place where talent will be valued and shine? Don’t be stupid.

Just like when many people hear Hollywood, their first reaction is that this is a place to make movies.

Indeed, a large number of movies are produced here every year. Major Hollywood companies and directors and investors, including Murphy, also hope that the public will only regard Hollywood as a place to make excellent movies.

But the fact is that film production only occupies a very small part of Hollywood. This is an industrial area for film marketing, not a creative production paradise.

Just like those so-called low-cost big-money videos, are they really cheap?

Their production costs are only over 100,000 US dollars, but how much is the cost of marketing?

In Hollywood, people use more resources to market movies, probably twice to three times or even more as a movie made.

Movies in the Hollywood sense are not things that directors shoot and edit in their own cameras. They can only be called films (ilm), while movies (touch vie) are films that can be finally released in cinemas after a series of marketing activities.

The biggest difference between these two concepts is that the film does not make money, but the film can make money.

Only when a video can publish advertisements in the media and promote it to the public, it realizes the transformation from "video" to "movie".

Of course, many artistic and ideal directors will choose to take the film festival path.

But in fact, if you want to participate in most film festivals, including the three major European film festivals, not only do you have works and art, but you also need to prepare a lot of money!

If a movie wants to participate in a film festival, just like Murphy attending the St. Dennis Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, the producer needs to submit an entrance fee to the film festival, which is often expensive, and there are various expenses submitted, such as the cost of printing promotional materials, transportation fees, staff compensation, expenses during screenings, and public relations activities...

If you are lucky, the film meets a publisher who is willing to buy at the film festival. At this time, the film has nothing to do with art. All discussions will only revolve around "profit", "sales" and "distribution".

Does this sound particularly unartistic?

To put it bluntly, whether it is a person or a video, if you want to be valued in Hollywood, you must first prove that you are valuable and can bring benefits.

Otherwise, no matter how much you say, you will be rejected, rejected, and rejected like Murphy in the first place...

Can a story and a creativity attract investment? Talent will be valued? This dream is indeed beautiful.

Before we prove ourselves, all stories and creativity are nothing and ethereal.

Although Murphy advocates that movies should have their own styles, rather than that today's Hollywood movies are seriously homogenizing, many things that exist in reality are not something that he pretends to not see.

These things will not be transferred by personal will at all. A person's power and ideas are very small in the face of the huge industrial chain.

The most typical question is, for a film production and distribution company, what kind of movie is a good movie? The black style he chose must be a good movie?

Is a good movie with a professional score of more than eight points? Is a good movie that reflects social reality? Is a good movie that thinks about human nature and humanistic care? Is a good movie that makes people unable to turn their minds? Is a good movie that scares people at the end? Is a good movie that makes people unable to sleep in the middle of the night? Is a good movie that speculates the director's techniques and intentions?

The answer is obviously no.

How should movies be classified?

Smart movies, skilled movies and smart movies? Commercial movies, inspirational movies, art movies or independent films?

In fact, in the eyes of Hollywood production companies, these are not complicated. There are only two types of movies that sell presellers and non-cast movies.

Even people like Murphy who believe that box office and commercial gain are not the only criteria for measuring a film cannot ignore this reality.

As a director and investor, if you ignore such an objective reality, you will fall badly and even lose everything.

It is never the result that Murphy wants to be acclaimed or not. What he wants is that the reputation of the film will not be bad, but it will also be able to sell.

If you want a video to sell it, you can never ignore it for promotion and marketing.

Therefore, during the period before the release of "Inglorious Bastard", Murphy was actively cooperating with the promotional and marketing plans formulated by 20th Century Fox and Weinstein Pictures.

As time slowly enters November, "Inglorious Bastard" is getting closer to its release, and various publicity activities are underway.

First, during an interview, Murphy revealed that the title of the film was not decided by himself, but was originally formulated by Quentin Tarantino, who was cultivating. Quentin Tarantino also accepted an interview with a media reporter. In response to the reporter's questions, the director, known as the "movie ruffian", was also very funny.

Regarding the meaning of the name of the film, Quentin said that the suicide squad in the film is all rough people with low cultural level. They are not heroes in the traditional sense. It is precisely because they can do all kinds of bad things that they can defeat the enemy.

In order to attract more movie fans, whether it is Murphy, Twentieth Century Fox and Weinstein Pictures, they will definitely not forget Quentin Tarantino.

Then, Margot Robbie appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly and was hyped as Murphy Stanton's new goddess.

Subsequently, a large number of photos of Diane Kruger when he participated in a promotional event were leaked, becoming the focus of gossip media attention.

"... German actress Diane Kruger is incredible behind her back, and her backless outfit that is open to her buttocks is amazing. Kruger, who once played the first beauty, said that this time she was chosen as the heroine by director Murphy Stanton, was as lucky as winning the lottery, but she also regretted that she was not intimate with James Franko in the film, and she also revealed that she was very exciting to be beaten by the other party in the film. She explained that many girls were not willing to refuse to be abused by James Franko."

This German actress knows how to hype and knows how to cooperate with publicity to attract attention.

It can be said that "Inglorious Bastard" is definitely one of the most popular videos this Thanksgiving to Christmas.
Chapter completed!