Please give me a monthly ticket and a recommendation ticket!

After waiting in Los Angeles for a short time, Murphy received good news from Bill Rossis. He obtained the support of several important figures such as Walter Robinson and had begun negotiations with the Boston Global Daily newspaper.

Overall, Bill Rossis's progress was relatively smooth.

On the other hand, Murphy also convinced Gal Gadot that although she still had some opinions, she kept her heart in her heart and would continue to serve as producer and executive producer in this project, and also had contact with Twentieth Century Fox.

According to Murphy's idea, the film's investment and scale are not large, and it will operate as an independent film as possible. It is late July. If everything goes well, strive to pre-screen in Los Angeles before the 2012 New Year to get the most important ticket for the awards season.

There is no way there is a big market for biographical videos like this, and the awards season is the best place to go.

But in this way, if you have a lot of calculations, the entire film will only last half a year from shooting to operation, which can be said to be very nervous.

Murphy has notified his team that the film will not have particularly large scenes. With the ability of the entire team, as long as you seize the time, the possibility of completion is still very high.

However, this requires the strong support of Twentieth Century Fox.

Fortunately, Murphy has established a relatively strong cooperative relationship with 20th Century Fox over the years, and there are also powerful figures like Carla Fest. As long as the script and project plan are completed, it is not difficult to give 20th Century Fox a green light to the project.

Such a film is not very invested in and has a natural topic. In addition, Murphy's strong appeal makes the risk of investment failure not high.

Therefore, for Murphy himself, the most important thing at this stage is to complete the script.

In fact, after talking to Rose Prison, Murphy took time to write stories about Rose. These were basically derived from Rose's own tellings, and some were Murphy's own observations. Later, he also met the bald black man who grew up with Rose in the state prison. Since Rose had already given advice, the other party also described Rose's growth and what he did later to Murphy as objectively as possible.

These are the most basic materials. After Murphy sorted out, he determined the main line of the story before he could add it to the script.

The first thing to do when compiling such a film about personal biographical is to create the role of Diego Ross.

A person has done a lot of things in his life, like Ross is now in his forties. If the script includes all his life journey, it will definitely be too long and procrastinating. Murphy did not know much about Ross's affairs after he was released from prison, so he specifically intercepted the period from teenager to imprisonment.

The theme of the film is of course not to describe how guilty Diego Ross, as the protagonist, is to explore why Ross went from an ordinary and ordinary boy to a later drug lord.

Diego Ross has real characters, and Murphy will definitely shoot based on the facts he knows, but the movie comes from life, but it is higher than life.

The character is first of all the characters in the story. The play itself tells the story. The character must first obey the logic of the story and then have a meaning of existence. What the character does in the story must conform to the character's settings and be logical, so that his behavior is credible.

The story and the characters should be complementary. The story gives birth to characters, the characters promote the plot, and the character setting becomes the inevitability to promote the development of the plot. The development of the plot enriches the characters' images and ultimately helps the characters establish images.

Both the story and the characters are the key to excellent plays, and they should be indispensable.

Faced with a character like Diego Ross and a series of stories related to him, Murphy's first principle is to stand firm in his position, which is the key to a successful personal biographical video.

The most important point is that Murphy himself must understand that from writing scripts to preparing for filming to post-production, he is first a director, and then others.

No one can be completely neutral, and the director is no exception, but it must be at least relatively neutral. Otherwise, singing praises or belittles a person in a personal biographical video will only make the entire film a laughing stock, and at the same time it will also implicate the protagonist of the film into a laughing stock.

Like some biographical movies or TV series he has watched, praises the glorious and honest person who always describes it, and does not seem to be flawed. No matter how you look at it, it will only make people feel like they are vomiting. On the other hand, if you belittle a person, you will definitely knock him down to the eighteen levels of hell, and then press on countless mountains hard to make this person seem useless, but it is false to make people think that this is a false accusation.

These two methods are undoubtedly the most low-level methods of shooting biographical movies. Murphy is very clear that as long as he commits any of them, the film will basically be done.

Therefore, the whole story uses appropriate film techniques to present the process of transforming the character Diego Ross from an ordinary person to a drug lord to the audience. As for how to evaluate this character, it is the audience's business.

However, this does not mean that he has to treat the character ruthlessly, but rather has to be full of emotions during the writing process.

Does the creator have a true feeling? Does the creator put himself into the heart of the character? Does the creator love his character? Does the creator devote his feelings to this process? If you don’t think about this problem, the creator will write a wrong way, and make those two fatal mistakes, and don’t treat the character as a human being.

In fact, the process of in-depth writing is to cultivate another type of relationship with the character, reveal the character's life bit by bit, and show the character's psychological journey bit by bit.

Murphy gradually shapes the character's worldview and way of thinking from nothing to something, and also depicts the obstacles in his heart: on the one hand, he feels that he has given up on himself after being violated and unfairly treated, and even lives to the point where he cannot survive; on the other hand, he can survive tenaciously, but he has to pay a considerable price for it.

This gradual and in-depth cognitive process should also be reflected in the play, allowing the audience to be curious, confused, understand and finally resonate with the characters, just like the screenwriter.

When a successful screenwriter creates a character to a certain level, he will feel that he is right in front of him and knows what the character will do and what to say. For screenwriters, the character is real. Regardless of whether there is a prototype or not, what is created is not a virtual character, but you, me and him in real life.

In addition, the experience of prototype characters like Ross is much richer than what ordinary people imagine, so the story of the characters must be reprocessed based on his experience. Such script details are vivid and contagious, and they are not comparable to that of the screenwriter's imagination.

This is not a commercial science fiction movie, but a biopic. If a screenwriter puts his "treasure" on his own talent when writing, the risk will be extremely high. Screenwriters with truly outstanding subjects are reality itself.

Because she obtained a lot of first-hand information in the early stage and had a clear position and theme, by the end of July, Murphy's script had basically completed the first draft, and the project plan that had been formulated long ago was handed over to Cara Fais, who was submitted to Twentieth Century Fox for review.

For typical niche movies like this, Murphy certainly could not get paid for commercial production. The total investment of the entire project was only 25 million US dollars, which is a typical small project for Twentieth Century Fox.

However, the goal of the film is very clear. Since it is a personal biographical video and also discusses the process of changing your mind, you naturally have to make a breakthrough in the awards ceremony season.

Twentieth Century Fox will review the project as quickly as possible. Murphy also notified his team to come to Los Angeles to meet at any time, and he himself continued to improve the script.

For a personal biographical film, the most important improvement work after completing the first draft script is to continue to shape the protagonist.

In such movies, the protagonist's personality and worldview need to be distinctive and full of presence, so that the audience can clearly perceive his position. The ideal effect is that in a specific situation, the audience can predict the character's choice. If Murphy sets a situation, such as temptation or threats that the audience does not know how his character will choose after seeing it, it means that the character's worldview is not clear enough.

The most common and most suitable way to shape is to throw the character in front of the choice.

It’s not just movie characters, but in real life, people often face dilemma choices. The final decision reflects the personality and ideas. Audiences will like the protagonists of the movie, often because the characters will make choices that they can understand but cannot make.

Therefore, letting characters face a dilemma is one of the best ways to shape characters.

Then there are the details, including Rose's appearance, which Murphy specifically noted in the script. No matter who the actor is selected, he must look quite strong.

This is not only in line with Ross's reality, but also the appearance that a big drug lord seems to have.

Let me ask, if the protagonist of a young white-faced person with a skin that is shattered and can be seen in such a movie, will the audience believe it?

After all these were completed, Murphy once again sculpted Rose's childhood scenes. Psychologically, he likes to attribute people's personality and hearts to childhood; and the screenwriter also likes to attribute characters' personality and hearts to "history".

This is a simple causal logic. Something that once created the present worldview, so that there were such actions and choices.

Generally speaking, the details in the script are not accidental or improvised, but are carefully designed.

After Murphy was basically satisfied with the script, good news came from Twentieth Century Fox. The project was successfully launched, and Twentieth Century Fox was responsible for investment and issuance.

At the same time, Robert Downey Jr. and the rest of Stanton sects also found Murphy (to be continued.).
Chapter completed!