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This is the most impressive fight sequence I
have ever seen that contains no edits. From
the movie "The Protector", featuring Tony Jaa
(of Ong Bak fame), this stedicam shot lasts
over 3 min. I wonder how many times it took
to get this shot right! Simply amazing!
After watching the behind the scenes extras
on the DVD, here is some additional info that
filmmakers and martial arts film fans may
appreciate:
The director calls this "the most dangerous
long take scene ever." A 4 minute stedicam
shot featuring a variety of martial arts.
The crew spent over 1 month preparing and
choreographing before they were able to get a
perfect shot. When it came time to shoot,
they could only do 2 takes per day because of
the set repairing and prop replacement that
needed to be done. It took 5 takes to get it
right. A foreign cameraman was needed because
the stedicam mount was built for american /
european operators who are typically much
larger than asian operators.
The foreign operator they hired could only do
two flights of stairs at a time and simply
gave up. They decided to use a Thai stedicam
operator who physically prepared for a month
for this job.
The reason the shot is 4 minutes is because
reels of 35mm film are only about 4 min in
length.
They shot the first take which had a number
of problems with stuntmen cues, and even a
stuntman bumping into the stedicam operator.
After choreographing more dynamic action, an
increase of extras and improving the set, the
next take they did was 17 days after the
first take.
The second take was better but when the
stuntman was supposed to be thrown from the
3rd story, the safety mattress was not
completely in place yet so Tony Jaa stopped
the shot and saved the stuntman's life.
The third take was just about perfect but
just before Tony Jaa was supposed to bust
through the last doorway, the film ran out.
The director finally decided that instead of
simply cutting there, they would try again
for perfection.
They thought the fourth take was perfect but
after review there were some parts that
weren't as good as the pervious takes. They
decided on one more try.
On the fifth try, it was almost perfect. But
there were 2 miscues. On the 2nd floor, Tony
Jaa slams a door into the head of a stuntman
and the small glass window on the door was
supposed to break. It failed to do so, so
they used CGI to fix this. The 2nd issue was
the fight just before the sink gets thrown.
The timing was off as planned but the end
result looked natural so they decided this
was the take to use in the final film. Simply
amazing.
Tags : Tony Jaa Ong Bak The Protector Fight |
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Affichage : 3510075
Durée : 238 s |
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