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00:00What was the last film that made you go pfff or go like ooo?
00:06That's a really good question.
00:11That's me facing televised execution by breakfast cereal mascots.
00:17Not my happiest day.
00:20First of all I'd like to say that the experience of watching the film yesterday with an audience was amazing.
00:25This movie has to be seen with an audience.
00:28Because there was a lot of pfff, there was a lot of ooo, there was a lot of ahh.
00:33You know what I mean?
00:36This first question is kind of a two-parter.
00:40First, what was the best reaction you've had of audiences watching the film for the first time?
00:47It was literally just what you said.
00:49Like that reaction in the cheese grater scene.
00:53Just like hearing that sound from 200 people next to me was very satisfying as a filmmaker.
00:59I was like, oh yeah, we've done our job. This is working.
01:02So yeah, that was the one.
01:07And the Shalter-Copley scene, the Glenn scene is also a very, an audience favorite.
01:19And the second part of the question is, what was the last film that made you go pfff or go like ooo?
01:28That's a really good question.
01:33One thing that I keep coming back to when I think about this was this Korean movie, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.
01:44By Park Chan-wook.
01:46And there's an Achilles heel cut and he bleeds out into the river and it's very, very painful to watch.
01:56Always.
01:58It's been a while, but that's sort of what instantly came to mind.
02:14A lot stronger.
02:17One thing that I find curious about these kind of films is that it's really like there's a whole bunch coming,
02:24but there's really few that you see and you kind of feel the punch, if you know what I mean.
02:30It's kind of a, there's so much sequences in your film that you can feel the punch.
02:36There's something that makes you go like, that's going to hurt.
02:40I was wondering, what was the system for you to actually film sequences and choreograph fight sequences
02:48that make us as an audience feel the pain?
02:53I mean, a lot of the credit goes to David Chetarsky, my action director.
03:02We did a phenomenal job in exactly creating those feelings where you sort of stylize it,
03:10but also you keep it authentic enough to actually that people feel the punch, as you put it.
03:18I think it's sort of a combination of how you film it and a lot of the time,
03:24I feel like the purpose of the scene also plays a role in it, where you want it to hurt.
03:32Like, oh yeah, that sort of the, to put it mildly, the deeper meaning was like,
03:38oh, does the guy deserve to be punched that hard?
03:41That it's just not like a superficial effect, but also like, oh yeah, he deserved that.
03:47He freaking deserved that.
03:50I'm also very curious about perhaps some of the conversations you had with Yayan,
03:55this actor that's, you know, it's been probably some of the best, you know,
04:01fight sequences ever put to film since probably 10 years ago.
04:04So I was wondering which type of conversations you had with him on set?
04:10Yayan is a fantastic guy, a super humble human being.
04:18He's like a master martial artist and the thing is he's also a super hard worker.
04:26So it is like you would think that he sort of got some attitude about him
04:32because he's done it a million times, but he really has not.
04:36And he just shows up in the morning with a smile and goes like, yeah, let's do this.
04:42So I don't have any crazy stories about him.
04:47But just working with him in that way was just all I could have hoped for.
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