"I''ve got special survey statistics from several professional companies before. In this period of time, Murphy is not blind in choosing such a film, just like the six major Hollywood companies do certain market research before each project is promoted, he also has certain data support, "from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, the divorce rate in American society has exceeded 40% These people who have been hurt by marriage, as well as the grown-up children who have been hurt by broken marriage and broken family, will become our potential audience


    In fact, as we all know, it is one thing to publicize some values, but it is quite another thing for ordinary people to accept or not. Even if these people accept the so-called mainstream Hollywood values, they will not reject the views on marriage in the film.


    Carla Firth, on the other hand, was lost in thought. After a while, she said, "according to you, marriage is terrible. It''s wise for me to choose to be single."


    Murphy shrugged. "Maybe it won''t be long before you meet someone who wants to marry and think my words are nonsense."


    But Carla Firth said nothing.


    "Let''s go back to the movie." Murphy brought back the topic of deviation. "I also got another statistic. The divorce rate in Hollywood movies is even more amazing. The divorce rate on the screen is as high as 95 percent."


    "So high?" Carla Firth was a little surprised.


    "Only high but not low, which is another trend of Hollywood movies." Murphy explained in detail, "there is also a kind of anti family and anti emotional selling point in Hollywood movies."


    Carla Firth asked, "like our movie?"


    Murphy nodded. "In addition to playing the warm family card, Hollywood writers are also good at writing" horror movies "about marriage and family. While a large number of writers rely on their families to earn tears, there are also many writers who tear down the stage. They say that this kind of "family tragedy" is for the "Post-70s", "post-80s" and "post-90s."


    "These people are now the main force in the film market, and nearly half of them have experienced the breakdown of their families and marriages," he cautioned


    Kara Firth found that Murphy''s work was so careful that he did more than the Market Research Department of fox in the 20th century. No wonder he was always able to earn high returns at a low cost.


    "It''s getting late." Murphy looked at her watch. "Let''s go."


    Two people continue to talk about these topics about the film, together out of the door of the warehouse set, on their respective cars, left the small city of Venice.


    On the way back, Murphy was still thinking about the conversation with Kara Firth before. In fact, there was an extremely important point in choosing "the lost lover". Most of the Oscar winning films he had only seen, rather than studying them carefully like his studies. Seeing and studying them as academic studies were two concepts.


    The former is sure to be forgotten after a long time. How many people can remember the specific scenes of the film they saw a few years ago? The latter is much more impressive.


    Because of his personal preference, what Murphy studies most and deeply is the film with distinctive black style, which is also the film route he is now taking and the style he is best at.


    It''s impossible for him to put aside what he''s good at, and run to get the works of Oscar''s industrial assembly line.


    There are also differences between Oscar best director and Oscar best director. Some directors with ulterior motives deliberately apply the Oscar mode to shoot and produce films, so as to win awards. Undoubtedly, their influence and the level they can promote are very limited.


    Because he didn''t grow up in this country, Murphy didn''t have a high recognition of what the Oscar model advocated. Originally, he didn''t study this type of films. Instead, he made a more in-depth study of a few films that were nominated or won awards by virtue of their strong black style films.


    Frankly speaking, these black films are more likely to become classics than Oscar''s works.


    This is not Murphy''s own point of view, but later recognized.


    Since the end of 1990s, not only Hollywood commercial films have completely entered the production line mode, but also films competing for Oscars.


    In the past two years, after October in the North American film market, if you go to see all kinds of films, you can see more convergence than difference. A new type of film has been born, which can be called "Oscar entries".


    In the early years, Thanksgiving to Christmas in North America was a beautiful term. It could cheer up independent movie fans and professional media, and hope for some different movies. After the intensive film exhibitions in early autumn, those independent productions from Venice Film Festival to dolando Film Festival and finally back to New York Film Festival let Hollywood down for a short time The commercial visual blockbuster of summer program is adjusted to another channel to let people see another ecology of Hollywood movies.


    However, driven by the glory and benefits brought by the Oscar Awards, the long screening cycle from late autumn to the beginning of the next spring has evolved into a "Awards review" period, which is as big as the summer program, and even covers the traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas programs in North America.In the end, the movie judges have enough space to maintain the main character''s taste and value There is no accident in the way actors perform. They must be trained by the method school.


    Also, to play the drama, do not laugh.


    The most representative of these films is undoubtedly biographical films. The popularity of biographical films is due to the very realistic "safety" considerations of Hollywood film makers, because most judges want to see familiar faces and play familiar roles.


    Apart from a few of these Oscars with a strong personal style, if you carefully analyze them, they are not fundamentally different from summer blockbusters. They are industrial assembly line products that specially take care of some people''s appetites. They are as plain as boiled water.


    As Murphy said, in most of the Oscars, the right ones are chosen first, and then others are considered.


    This directly leads to the entry of the film must be smooth, and smooth often means insipid.


    How can a person with such a character as Murphy like plain movies? If he doesn''t, how can he talk about research?


    Similar to summer movies, which always like to impact the audience with visual effects, most of the Oscar films are always produced with the taste of the middle-aged and elderly white judges in the college. They are not only as stable as eight legged essays, but also bring another consequence, that is, like summer movies, the differences between films are disappearing.


    No one will deny that Oscar has gradually become a proposition composition.


    Of course, there are no exceptions to the Oscar competition, but most films, especially those that can appeal to the judges, are becoming more and more homogeneous.


    In fact, in the new century, if you go to the three most important film festivals in North America before the Oscars, namely, triliuride, Toronto and New York, and then look back at these film festivals, what you will remember is not how different the films are, but on the contrary, most of the films are similar. It is much easier to sum up the trends than to find the differences.


    When the commercial productions and youth films are more and more close to the stereotyped themes such as comic adaptation and hero saving the world, the films that originally participated in the award season are a kind of resistance to the stereotype, but with the efforts of the Oscar judges for many years, this kind of resistance has finally become another kind of stereotype.


    Similarly, there are a number of leading and supporting actors competing for the performance award.


    On the way to the movie king and the movie queen, men are not normal people, either as geniuses or patients. Women are suffering, suffering, passive, one by one need to be saved or self saved.


    These also form a template for reference.


    For example, the roles of Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron, such as Leonardo DiCaprio''s self destructive image and so on.


    As a matter of fact, there has been a consensus in the North American performing arts circle for a long time. In the selection system of Oscars and Hollywood as a whole, the measurement of acting skills is limited in a narrow field of vision. The methodological performance in the 1960s is still the gold standard for judging acting skills.


    On the way to the movie king and the movie queen, we should play a role that looks very different from ourselves, transform our appearance beyond recognition, and play a character with abnormal behavior.


    It''s really hard to win a prize as a normal person, or a geek like James Franco.


    To be honest, Murphy would rather see a film like "no country for old men" than some propositional compositions.


    Especially female characters, do they need to be saved or self saved? In the direction of award-winning, he thinks that movies like "lost lover" which can make a little noise are more difficult and interesting.


    Maybe after the film is released, some people think that putting the inner darkness and madness of women under the microscope in the context of Hollywood advocating "Virgin Mary" and "heroine" is probably against the historical trend.


    However, Murphy would like to see a lot of noise in the cinema more than those consistent and stable award-winning films.


    That''s his Oscar philosophy.


    Whether it''s because he didn''t do research or because of his personal hobbies, he prefers to use movies with the ultimate style to attack the little golden man, rather than eight part essay writing.


    For the rest of December, Murphy spent the rest of his time hiding in the studio in Venice, quietly shooting scenes in the studio. After the Christmas and New Year holidays, the studio needed to be set up again. He took the crew to a small town in Orange County to prepare to shoot location scenes.


    There are bound to be onlookers when shooting location plays, but Murphy didn''t expect that the residents of this small town are so curious about the shooting that almost half of the people in the town gather around the crew to watch, which brings quite a lot of trouble to the shooting.