[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

Joey began to discuss the matter with screenwriter Mark for the script of "Bat Wars".

Joey said to Mark very bluntly: "Mark, this script is really not good. I'm not denying your ability, but this script has always given me a kind of slogan-like darkness and boundlessness, like spraying on the face and skin. The kind of darkness with black pepper and garlic."

Mark seemed dissatisfied with his script being rejected, he said: "What are you referring to?"

"I think the Batman in the script...is just a one-sided, two-sided thing." Joey said without hesitation: "He doesn't have the big picture that Batman should have at all, and he doesn't reflect what this person should have at all. There is depth."

In fact, one of the most criticized parts of the previous life movie is also a tendon of Batman.

Batman is gloomy, world-weary, irritable, ruthless, and doesn't care about the life or death of criminals. Losing his family three times makes him blinded by hatred. This is his greatest charm, but in the script he is a single-minded person.So this has to be corrected.

Joey explained: "The big reason why Bat can gain a foothold in Zhenglian as an ordinary person of flesh and blood is that he always comes prepared, and he never fights unprepared battles. As an audience, I'd like to see Bats figure out their mistake and be like 'I should have thought about it, it was my fault' and start a backup plan to save the day, but the script feels like, 'Fa, gram, It turned out to be like this, that's good, that's good, I'll help you'."

Mark understood what Joey meant, but he was thinking, "I'll try to change the script as much as I can."

"You are a screenwriter, you are definitely better than me, but I still want to remind you, Mark, the reason why you give me this feeling is entirely because you don't write much about Batman. There are three main lines in total. Batman, Luthor, Superman, every single one has this problem."

Joey paused, and then took a deep breath, "You have to be straight, how many DC fans are there? Most of them are passers-by audience. If you don't explain anything to the three protagonists, you are trying to kill passers-by. Rhythm!"

This is the second point that was criticized by the audience in the previous life. The background of the main characters in the plot is not explained at all, and the motivation of the behavior is not explained at all, which makes it difficult for non-fans to understand.

In the BVS of the previous life, the lack of character motivation and background logic accounted for the reason why its paintings of tigers failed to become anti-dogs, and even led to the collapse of the movie.

Former director Zack Snyder regarded the audience as DC fans, thinking that the audience knew everything, but in fact, the audience was confused.

In this life, Joey must also correct this point.

Mark said helplessly: "This is impossible, Joey, you asked me to portray three more main characters. You must know that this is a movie of more than 2 hours. It is impossible to spare time to explain the three main characters. The protagonist's background, logic, and motivation."

This is also the biggest problem. DC tried to squeeze the content of three movies into one movie, which made it impossible to explain many things clearly. The prehistoric setting of this movie is too complicated, and the rhythm collapsed in the end, and the hardcore fans watched it wildly. Tears, passers-by can sleep watching.

This is also the most difficult problem for Joey to take over the project this time. DC and Warner require that the content of the three movies must be stuffed into this movie. Anyway, it’s all up to you, Joey. If you can’t do it, you will be blamed. !If you can't do it, you are ready to be sprayed to death by fans!

Joey has already made preparations, if you insist on doing this, well, then I will not reduce the progress of the plot, I will reduce the amount of information.

So Joey took a deep breath, "We must strengthen the role of emotions, so we must explain more about the background and growth of each character."

Mark retorted: "We can't do it. A 2-hour movie can't tell that much."

"Then reduce it!" Joy picked up the script, and there were many paragraphs on which she had marked for deletion, and then she said a shocking sentence——

"Cut all the perspectives of the supporting characters! Leave room for the perspectives of the three protagonists to have more background narratives and lay out emotions, motivations, and logic."

Mark stared at Joey with wide eyes, as if in disbelief, "Are you crazy...Are you crazy? You want to delete all supporting roles? OHNO, you will ruin the artistry of this movie!"

"No, you're wrong Mark, this is the only way to save this movie!"

In general movies, the perspective of the supporting role has its own role. Although it cannot promote the main plot, it can look at the story and the protagonist from another perspective.

In this version of the script, there are too many perspectives of supporting characters. Joey knows what Martin thinks. This is a movie with religious metaphors. The perspectives of the three protagonists represent the perspective of God because they are too powerful.The perspectives of other supporting roles represent the perspectives of ordinary people, how ordinary people respond to disasters and how they view superpowers.

Only in this way can we explain the deepest core theme of this movie, the contradiction between man VS god.

Indeed, this meets the requirements of DC. The script is very in-depth and meaningful for discussion, but the key point is, how many die-hard fans are there who really want to discuss the core of the movie in this way?

Most of them are passerby fans. From the perspective of passerby fans, you don’t even explain the background of the story clearly to me, and you still discuss such a deep spiritual core with me?Why don't you go to heaven?

Therefore, Joy admits that the perspectives of these supporting roles are very deep and artistic, but this is one of the biggest problems of this movie, and she must reluctantly cut it all.

Mark still couldn't agree with Joey, "What do you mean, Louise of the big super line, Alfred and Princess of the master line, Senator and Wallace of the bald line, all the perspectives of these supporting roles should be deleted? Can we not So crazy? These supporting perspectives are the most daring innovation and creativity of this movie."

Joey only answered 2 words, "Delete all."

Mark shook his head and said forcefully: "No, I have to report this matter and your request to Warner and DC."

Joey looked at Mark calmly, "Okay, you can tell DC and Warner, if they don't agree to delete them all, then forgive me, this movie really can't be made."

Later, Mark really conveyed Joey's exact words to Warner and DC.

In the end, Warner and DC executives had a heated debate, and Joey's reasons obviously convinced some people. After all, Warner spent 2.5 million dollars not to please fans, but to earn money from passers-by.But there are still some people who insist that if the movie is done in this way, it will lose a lot of depth, offend diehard fans, and fail to reflect the difference between DC and Marvel.

But in the end, Joey's reasons still convinced most people. After all, Hollywood serves the capital circle, and profit is the fundamental pursuit point, and maximizing profit is the consistent pursuit.

Warner was persuaded by Joey.

Afterwards, under the authorization of Joey, great changes were made to the script, which was basically different from the BVS script in the previous life.

The biggest difference is that, as the director of a commercial film, Zack Schneider in his previous life didn't know what ordinary audiences wanted, but Joey decided to maximize the needs of ordinary audiences this time.

Zack Snyder's approach to the plot in the previous life smashed a mirror and then pieced it together to narrate it bit by bit, interspersed with various trivial and random lens editing, and then the film became a long, dull, and dizzy scene. sleep.

And this time, Joey's request for Mark's script is that the three main lines should be narrated in the most regular way, and the last three lines should be merged together without interludes, structures, or techniques.For commercial superhero movies, telling stories honestly is the right way.

After Mark handed her a script she was finally satisfied with, Joy distributed the official script to the actors.

And she also started working hard at home to draw and build basic storyboards.

The story has already been narrated in a very straightforward manner, without using any tricks to piece together the plot, so on the screen, there must be something awesome on the screen to make people look up...

So she racked her brain cells and started drawing storyboards.

A few weeks later, when DC President Martin heard that Joey had finished drawing the storyboards, he wanted to see them on a whim.

Joey also graciously scanned a part for him to see.

As the president of a comic company, Martin has read countless comics, so he can understand the pros and cons of storyboards. After all, comics are built from countless storyboards.

He has long heard that some other filmmakers have an almost worshipful attitude towards Joy's storyboards. Her storyboards have convinced countless tricky filmmakers in the past.

At this moment, Joey seems to have abandoned the previous storyboard style with a literary and artistic style because he wanted to shoot a commercial masterpiece.

She changed to another style, and played with the screen and structure to the extreme.

The composition of many storyboards is full of extreme innovation and bold lens design concepts.Almost everything Martin had never seen before.

Only Joey's brain could come up with these tricky designs.

Admire, admire.

After watching it, he sent a text message to Joey. He commented like this: "The sub-shot full of ritual sense, the understanding and composition of the shot is very unique, I like to play with the structure, and the design of the shot structure is first-class."

I didn't write too much in this summary. After all, as a president, he still needs to have the style he should have. Even if he has cast his eyes on the five bodies that Joey worships at the moment, he still has to be strict on the surface.

Later, his wife walked into the bedroom, looked at Martin and asked, "How about it, do you think this director can shoot BVS well?"

Martin stretched helplessly. He really didn't know how to describe the feeling at this moment, so that his wife could fully understand that although he was deeply impressed by Joey in his heart at the moment, any qualified filmmaker could not accept the prospect of the movie. , would not jump to conclusions, so he thought for a long time before jumping out a sentence.

"I don't know, I can only say that after reading these storyboards, I seem to have seen the birth of a visual madman."

The author has something to say: Sprinkle some nutrient solution, let this little sapling grow up quickly QAQ