What I would love to do is watch him work. Jackie Chan has been a hero of mine since I was a kid but I wouldn’t want to work with him, I wouldn’t want to direct him. If you could work with any actor/actress, living or dead, who would it be? It was such a powerful way of using the violence but in a very restrained way as well. There were certain characters that die and it means everything in the world to one person but to the people inside that room it meant nothing at all and they carry on about their business. There was something so cold and distant in the way people died in that film. The design was immaculate and the set so perfect. I really fell in love with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I guess further from that we edit our fight scenes on set so we get a certain little moral boost and a little kick when we play back the fight scene and we can see how it’s going to look in the final cut and you know all the hard work has paid off. So there’s never really one big elated moment on set – it’s more a case of every time we get the shot, and we know that we got it, we can breathe a sigh of relief and move onto the next shot. Every shot is a little mini endurance test. What’s difficult are those great moments can take 15, sometimes 20, sometimes even 40 takes. You get little pockets of moments you feel really happy. Every shot is choreographed and designed to be a jigsaw piece that are very specific to nail the shot. Fondest memories are pretty few and far between because the shoot was really stressful. It’s one of those films were there’s so much action and action takes so long. It was trying to find that balance between having complex choreography and keeping it to feel like its still realistic and finding the balance to do that. It was very difficult to design we spent about two weeks designing it. It was a huge undertaking and it was a very long scene. I think I’m most proud of the final fight. What’s your favourite moment of action from The Raid? What I hope is that beyond the initial thrills that people will be able to be introduced to the Indonesian martial arts. The Raid is basically designed to be a thriller rollercoaster ride. All I have done so far is wake up and have toast. Choreographed by lead actor Iko Uwais ( Merantau), The Raid merges traditional martial arts with chaotic gunfights ( click here for more information and session times).įLICKS: Hello from Flicks, how are you and what have you been up to today? The Indonesian film centres on the police raid of an apartment block, home to the deadliest gangsters and drug lords in Jakarta’s criminal underworld. With a rave 5-star review from us, Gareth Evans’ awesome action flick The Raid is now playing in cinemas.
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