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"With your current shooting efficiency and speed, the number of 35MM films prepared by 20th Century Fox may not be enough."

During filming on set, Gal Gadot, who had already started part of the crew's work, approached Murphy and talked about a situation that the crew had just reported, "I contacted Kodak dealers in Paris, but their inventory was insufficient. "

Murphy nodded lightly and said, "You immediately contact Carla Faith, there should be stock in the 20th Century Fox warehouse, so that they can fly in as quickly as possible."

"I'll do it now." Gal Gadot was about to leave, and suddenly remembered something, reminding Murphy, "I heard some rumors, it is said that Kodak is not doing well and may go bankrupt at any time."

"I see." Murphy frowned slightly and said, "Go ahead and do your job."

Kodak is facing bankruptcy, which is not good news for all directors who like to use film to shoot. This famous film company has been in a poor situation since entering the new century. The development of digital technology has almost forced them to a precipice. This year's economic crisis will surely bring a huge impact. Even if you can pass this barrier without bankruptcy, I am afraid it will not last a few years.

Then Murphy asked Gal Gadot to pay special attention to some news in this area. After all, Kodak's situation will be related to his future filming choices.

According to the information provided by Gal Gadot, Kodak can survive for the time being, and the film production related to the entire film industry will not be terminated, and Kodak has also reached a new agreement with the six major Hollywood companies and will continue To provide Hollywood with high-quality film, directors like Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher and Ridley Scott still said they would use film to shoot their next works.

In the media, there was also the news that "Hollywood directors join hands to rescue Kodak film", pushing Hollywood studios to reach an agreement with Kodak to guarantee the production and sale of a certain number of film films.

As the world's largest producer of motion picture film, since 2004, sales of Kodak motion picture film have fallen by a full 92%.

Even Murphy himself often uses film to shoot, but he knows that it is an irreversible trend for digital technology to completely replace film, and the rest is only a matter of time.

In particular, industry insiders are not very optimistic about the efforts of several Hollywood directors, saying that although it can save Kodak for a while, it will eventually be replaced by more convenient digital shooting. It is only a matter of time. For young directors, film will be To increase their shooting costs, digital shooting is more suitable.

Of course, as a director and movie lover, Murphy also doesn't want to see the movie film disappear.

A faint sour smell, that is the smell of film, a projector that can hold two turntables, and a round film box, under the reflection of a white cloth, focus into light and shadow... Once upon a time, this was Murphy's right All the memories of the movie.

Since the emergence of digital technology, the debate over which is better between film and digital technology has never stopped. The beauty of film and the coldness of numbers have formed two completely different aesthetics.

For hundreds of years, the world of images has always been based on film as a timeline, and film has witnessed the history of film development. However, the advent of the era of high-speed and advanced digital technology has made the era of manual screenings, which carry countless warm memories, collapsed.

Frankly speaking, the desolation of film is the result of the combined effect of technology and economy.

In recent decades, every revolution in the film industry has been spawned by a series of Hollywood-led industry standards. 35mm, 24 frames per second, widescreen technology, 3D... all of this.

However, Hollywood filmmakers like digital movies not because they are superior to film in terms of images, but because of their high quality and low price.

Think about it, a 90-minute movie, the film length is almost 3000 meters, it needs five or six copies, each copy weighs about 25 kilograms, and it has to be delivered manually to theaters one by one. For digital movies, an encrypted digital hard disk or even a U disk is enough, and it can be directly transmitted and delivered to the theater via satellite without leaving the house.

Taking account of the pen, the cost of making a film copy is as high as 2,000 US dollars, but a digital copy is only a few hundred US dollars. Under this consideration, what choice Hollywood and even the world's studios will make is not to say. It's metaphorical.

As long as the development of technology continues, there will always be old technologies that will be eliminated. However, in the eyes of some directors, the replacement of film by digital technology is essentially not a so-called advancement, at most it is an illusion of progress. They believe that the color reproduction and saturation of the film are still the same. When it is better than digital technology, it is forced to be swept into museums and warehouses, which inevitably makes people feel aggrieved.

The film crew’s shortage of film storage did not affect the shooting. After Gal Gadot contacted Carla Faith, Twentieth Century Fox used its own inventory reserves and directly airlifted enough 35MM film to Paris.

With the support of a large company like 20th Century Fox, many problems that have arisen during the preparation, shooting, and publicity process are actually not a problem at all.

Today, in the 20th century, Fox has become one of the leaders in Hollywood by virtue of its integrated strategy, which includes both horizontal and vertical dimensions.

The integrated strategy can establish a certain relationship to achieve resource sharing and achieve coordinated operations, which will ultimately reduce costs and improve efficiency. News Corporation’s media companies span broadcasting, film and television, newspapers, publishing houses, and the Internet, etc., and each subsidiary within the group owns The excellent manuscripts of the company are uniformly deployed and provided to subsidiaries around the world.

Horizontally, Twentieth Century Fox has expanded through acquisitions, owning Fox Cable TV, Fox TV and Fox News, Fox Music and Fox Films.

In terms of vertical competition, Twentieth Century Fox is not just film production, it has also expanded a lot of film marketing business, and further expanded from the film business to theme parks built according to the mission scenes in the film, movie DVD business, Internet business and related businesses. Consumer products industry.

These business expansions make the company's business closer to the ultimate movie consumer.

A platform as broad as 20th Century Fox is completely unmatched by Stanton Studios. This advantage is not established in a short period of time, but has undergone a long period of development and accumulation.

Even a fool knows that setting up a new film company in this era, just by shooting some excellent movies, wants to suppress the six major Hollywood and become the leader of the industry. That is definitely not a idiot.

That is a mental problem.

The former Lionsgate Films once relied on a series of hot movies to briefly become the seventh largest company in Hollywood at any time, but then fell into silence, and once again showed to the outside world that the new Hollywood company wants to be a first-line company. To the point, it can't be solved by film alone.

With the arrival of the 20th Century Fox’s 35MM film by air, Murphy’s crew solved the last problem and the filming proceeded in an orderly manner. Because the film basically has no big scenes except for the final theater explosion, as long as James Franco The state of the main actors such as Christopher Waltz and Margot Robbie is guaranteed, and the filming will proceed smoothly. The work that was originally behind the plan was gradually caught up in mid-April.

After more than three months of shooting, by late April, the crew finally ushered in the final scene.

Since the scenes of this scene did not overlap with the previous shooting, Murphy specially put the end of the film at the last shooting.

James Franco, Christopher Waltz, and Christopher Waltz’s stand-in models were all ready soon. Murphy has seen the lighting, props, background and camera positions of the location scene one by one, and after he is satisfied with everything , Gave the order to start shooting.

This quiet little forest ushered in a super showdown between the little gangster and the big gangster.

Murphy made a gesture to Philip Raschel, and the main camera controlled by Philip Raschel moved along the slide to the side of James Franco and Christopher Waltz.

Although there are four actors in the pine forest location, this is undoubtedly a head-on confrontation between the roles of James Franco and Christopher Waltz.

"Yutvić and I have heard your conversation with the general. The war will end tonight..."

James Franco said to the somewhat maddened Christopher Waltz with a serious face, "I am willing to make such a deal."

Christopher Waltz had a bad feeling, no longer his previous grace, exclaimed, "You will be punished!"

"This is a very good deal." James Franco didn't care about what he said, and said to himself, "As for your shameless request, it depends on your willingness to put the top officials in a pot. I think It can be considered."

Christopher Waltz looked at James Franco as if he couldn't see what he was going to do next.

"When you get the real estate provided by the U.S. government, you will take off your uniform, won't you?" James Franco asked repeatedly, "Is it?"

Christopher Waltz did not answer, but the corners of his mouth trembled.

"I think so too!" James Franco gradually revealed the temperament of a big bastard, "This is something I can't tolerate!"

He leaned to Christopher Waltz's ear, "If my official luck is prosperous, you don't want to take off this uniform in this life, but I know this is unrealistic, you always have to take off this uniform, so..."

James Franco drew the knife from his waist, "I want to give you a ** mark that can't be removed!"

The filming ended temporarily, and then replaced by his family, James Franco carved a deep ** mark on the dummy's scalp.

"Inglourious Basterds" also ended all the filming work. Murphy returned to Los Angeles with the filmed film the next day and began post-production.