Chapter 632 Killing Without Amnesty
In the following days, many media that favored Catholicism attacked Murphy and Diego Ross. The entertainment media were not willing to fall behind and joined the report one after another. However, many media were in contact with Murphy and Caa, and their positions could not be completely biased towards the Catholic Church. So a controversial situation occurred where some media attacked Murphy and another media spoke for Murphy.
I believe that Archbishop Marquez Costello likes to see this situation.
Murphy's Christmas was spent in such a turmoil. Compared to the messy sounds outside the Wave Manor, the interior of the manor seemed very calm, no different from the past. How should Murphy and Gal Gadot live, or how should I live.
After so many years of entering Hollywood, I have been criticized by the media for not once or twice. Not to mention Murphy, even Gal Gadot is used to it.
The media debate about the battle between movie fans and Catholics continues, some say 'Murphy planned the incident', some say 'Murphy has nothing to do with', and some say 'religion should not interfere with secular affairs'.
In short, controversy continues to arise.
On the Internet, Murphy's fans were also quarreling with hardcore Catholics, and both sides attacked each other. Especially Murphy's fans, influenced by Daisy and others, acted like they were about to fight against the Catholics who attacked Murphy.
But these were isolated outside by the high-walled courtyard of the Wave Manor. After entertaining Gal Gadot's family who came to North America for vacation on Christmas, Murphy continued to pay attention to the incident, especially the news of Archbishop Marquez Costello, on the other hand, did not delay his normal work.
On the second day of Christmas, Murphy signed an order contract with Gulfstream to order a g650 business aircraft from the company for a total price of $65 million, with a delivery period of one year.
In other words, this aircraft will not be delivered until the New Year in 2013.
However, Gulfstream provided leasing services for Murphy, who temporarily leased a g550 business jet from Gulfstream for easy use in the coming year.
In the next two days, after Gal Gadot ended the negotiations with Netflix, Murphy, on behalf of Stanton Studio, formally signed a cooperation agreement with Reed Hastings, who represented Netflix. Both parties will each invest $40 million to film a political drama adapted from Michael Dobbs' novel, and the project is temporarily named "House of Cards"!
A brand new crew is also about to begin to form, with Murphy and Gal Gadot as producers, Paul Wilson as director, and the leading actor Francis Underwood is basically confirmed to be played by Kevin Spacey.
As for the heroine, as Murphy expected, Charlize Theron declined Murphy's invitation on the grounds that he wanted to star in George Miller's "Mad Max 4" and the schedule was not appropriate. Murphy was not surprised. The big director and big stars themselves have the capital to reject any project.
This is not a difficult problem. Murphy has discussed with Paul Wilson that after the crew is officially established, a large-scale audition will be held for the heroine. It is not difficult to find a suitable actress with a certain reputation in Hollywood.
In addition, Murphy focused more on the writing of the script and the subsequent shooting and production.
Especially when writing scripts, he would carefully review the script content of each episode. Stanton Studio has such a big investment, of course it can't be messed up.
Like Hollywood movies, American TV series also have their own assembly line model, and there are many unwritten lessons that have been summed up through years of practical experience.
These lessons can effectively avoid many minefields, and Murphy is well aware of the censorship taboos in it.
Many censorship taboos in American dramas are essentially derived from the market. If you do not bypass these taboos and do not follow these unspoken rules, the audience will "vote with their feet" and will not watch you. If American dramas have invisible hands behind their backs, then these hands come from the audience.
Good dramas may have their own advantages, but bad dramas are similar and bad stories.
If the story is bad, everyone from the screenwriter to the actor to the director will be scolded by the audience. If you fight back like some people Murphy has seen, it will make a huge joke.
For example, the audience asked: "What a mess? Can the plot be more mentally retarded? The screenwriter didn't write the script with his brain!" The screenwriter responded: "You can do it, you don't allow it to be written, and then you can't write it. What can I do?"
A fierce confrontation ended with the audience scolding the screenwriter, and the screenwriter scolding the censorship too strictly.
For a long time, "too small to play, too many taboos" was the biggest rhetoric that the screenwriter found for himself. Before each film and television drama was released, it had to be reviewed by relevant departments. However, if the screenwriter threw the "burden" of the plot to the relevant departments, it would really make no sense.
American screenwriters rarely face pressure in this regard, but there are some taboos that are very pornographic and violent American dramas that cannot be touched, even Murphy will not be an exception.
In fact, whether it is a movie script or a series script, Murphy pays attention to some aspects.
For example, the issue of ethnic minorities is that he does not like to let blacks play the main role, but there are many important Latino and Asian characters in each film. Although many media hype him that he discriminates against blacks, no one has ever said that he discriminates against ethnic minorities.
Although "House of Cards" is a drama where the main characters are so bad that they are bleed, this situation should still be avoided.
In addition to ethnic minorities, lgbt is also a group that cannot be ignored.
lgbt is a collective name for four groups: lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In the past, these were the objects of jokes in American dramas and comedy movies, but after the new century, casual teasing of these people is very likely to cause big trouble.
Generally speaking, in American dramas for the public, each has one or two main characters that are not white-skinned. In addition, each has one or two gay or lesbian pairs, and some have transsexual or bisexual.
This is no coincidence!
In fact, it is a task that American drama screenwriters must do in every long American drama. If these are missing, it will be serious political incorrect.
When it comes to "House of Cards", the sexual orientation of the male protagonist Francis Underwood in the next few seasons is also quite intriguing.
Just like Murphy's plan instigated, this is inseparable from the characteristics of Hollywood. Hollywood is located in California, the largest voter of the Democratic Party in the United States. People in the circle generally advocate freedom and pursue liberation, so the political correctness of the American film and television industry has formed the unconditional support of LGBT, and all ethnic groups are as close as a family.
So I saw a variety of American dramas with all kinds of skin colors and a pair of homosexuals as standard. Among them, the trend of "standard" homosexuals began around 2006-2008. Some dramas did not arrange homosexual characters to appear before this. What should I do?
As the saying goes, there is no trick to twist you now, and there is no trick to break you now!
This point is not to mention popular dramas, even TV series played on cable channels are no exception.
"House of Cards" is mainly used for online on-demand and DVD sales channels, and the scale will be wider than the popular dramas on Wireless Channel, but Murphy will not make it as pornographic and violent as "Game of Thrones".
Therefore, it is very unsuitable for scenes like "Game of Thrones" where a dead child appears directly in the picture. Some scenes about children being hurt are not allowed to appear directly in the picture.
Under normal circumstances, children will be strictly protected in the pictures of Hollywood film and television works.
Since "House of Cards" is positioned as a popular drama, Murphy will certainly not allow the script to directly show the scenes of serious casualties. In some local film and television dramas, many screenwriters and directors will use the death of children to set off the atmosphere. Some pictures are even very large in scale, but they never consider that these things may be for minors to watch.
So if the screenwriters of "House of Cards" want to stir up the love and make a difference, they must think of another way. If they want to write about a child to achieve this, and not talk about others, Murphy will immediately fire him.
Strictly speaking, this drama is an online drama, but the standards set by Murphy are not much wider than the standards of popular dramas on Wireless Channel.
During the review, he saw a line that might make people contact Francis Underwood, who discriminated against homosexuality, and immediately called the screenwriter in charge of writing and told him that he had to finish the revision within ten hours!
Because based on past years of experience, black characters are important, but protecting homosexuals from being discriminated against is even more important. No matter who they are, discriminating homosexuals must be "killed without mercy".
Just a few years ago, typical cases of this appeared in Hollywood.
In the first season of "Grey's Anatomy", the male lead, the female lead is white, and the two are a couple; the male lead is black, and the female lead is Asian and Korean, and the couple constitutes the foundation of political correctness in the play. However, the male lead inherits the trait of brain-smile and accidentally reveals some discrimination against the homosexual group in an interview, and now the public opinion is in a turbulent manner.
The media and audience asked the actor to apologize and disappear from the show!
What was the result? The crew obediently followed the audience's request and first asked the black actor to apologize sincerely, then terminate the contract with him and kicked out of the crew. Because he was the second male lead in the play, he arranged an ending for him: "repent" at the wedding scene, and suddenly his mind was broken, saying, "I don't want to get married, give you freedom, bye bye", and then walked out of the church, and since then he completely disappeared from the play, leaving the Korean bride messy in the wind of the church...
Is it reasonable? From the plot point of view, it is very unreasonable. Is it necessary to do this? It must be because the audience has voices.
Chapter completed!