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Post by Hostile on Dec 23, 2003 0:34:30 GMT -5
Jango Fett got taken by suprise by Jules with a lightsaber. Bobba Fett fell over and got eaten by a whole in the ground. Maul ... fuck, I dont even remember how he died, but i'll take your word for it being shit.
Darth Maul is easily the coolest character in Star Wars history. Easily. He deserves his own fucking mini-series ¬_¬
Ray Park, the Wushu guy? Much respect. I'd love to have that guys job.
Dont know if any of you have noticed, but the guy who does the other half of Maul, the voice, actually has parts in two British comedy series', Black Books and Spaced. Good stuff 8)
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Post by Kodanshi on Dec 23, 2003 11:35:30 GMT -5
Keep in mind that a lot of filmic martial arts experts (like Jackie Chan ;D ) usually have an extensive background in Peking Opera which combines martial arts, singing, dancing and acrobatics. Very rigorous, yet beautiful too.
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Post by Deimos on Dec 29, 2003 15:26:28 GMT -5
Jango Fett got taken by suprise by Jules with a lightsaber. Bobba Fett fell over and got eaten by a whole in the ground. Maul ... fuck, I dont even remember how he died, but i'll take your word for it being shit. Darth Maul is easily the coolest character in Star Wars history. Easily. He deserves his own fucking mini-series ¬_¬ Ray Park, the Wushu guy? Much respect. I'd love to have that guys job. Dont know if any of you have noticed, but the guy who does the other half of Maul, the voice, actually has parts in two British comedy series', Black Books and Spaced. Good stuff 8) Yeah, Peter Serafinowicz has been in quite a lot of stuff since Ep I. I think he used to go to my school, but he's such a ghost that I can't find any details about him online. Deimos
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Post by JenGe on Jan 6, 2004 14:45:33 GMT -5
Upon rereading Equilibrium's Production Notes I felt that the following needed to be mentioned on this thread (though I realize some has already been covered)... "Wimmer also turned out to have a uniquely dynamic sensibility for innovative, balletic action – breaking the mold of ubiquitous slo-mo digital effects in favor of a more immediate and visceral style. “Mostly I did whatever I could to create kick-ass action on a low budget,” says the writer/director. “Almost all of the fight scenes were shot in one take, because we didn’t have the time or resources to reset all the squibs and physical effects! But this only seemed to make it more forceful and direct."
Once Bale took the role, he also went into physical training. John Preston is one of Libria’s most skilled martial artists – a master of Kendo and of Libria’s special “Gun-Kata,” Wimmer’s innovative fighting form that merges Westerstyle gunplay with an Eastern Karate sensibility. Bale worked closely with stunt coordinator Jim Vickers to get a crash-course in the Japanese fighting arts as well as the Zen of handling multiple guns simultaneously.
“There are some really amazing choreographed action sequences in the film,” Bale points out, “and I wanted to be ready. Although I studied martial arts for ‘American Psycho,’ I needed more training for the kind of big-scale Kendo fights in EQUILIBRIUM. I took an eight-week course in Judo, and I so enjoyed it, that I look forward to doing more action roles.”
Adds Wimmer: “We were immensely lucky to discover that Christian is a gifted athlete. He has the ability of a trained dancer to remember choreography instantly and I honestly believe that he made the action scenes in this film work as no one else could have.”
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Jan 7, 2004 9:49:35 GMT -5
Oh, I see. Now I know where CB got his martial arts training.
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Post by Rymel on Jan 7, 2004 10:07:23 GMT -5
i know wimmer said he didn't wanna do a sequel to equilibrium, but it would be nice to see how things would be years later, after the fall of the prozium kingdom. or even better, pull a william gibson and have christian as a recurring character in future movies, or just have him in movies only as a cameo or similar character. be kinda fun, kinda like spotting recurring characters in the final fantasy series (vicks, wedge, sid...) personally, i'd love to have the amount of physical dedication he has. the crazy toned body would be nice too edit: i skipped the first 2 pages so sorry if this is a repeat - maul WAS easily the coolest fighter, but he got the lamest death bested only by qui gon jinn. i think he got sliced in half and he just fell into a hole....sneering....what a lousy death for such a great character idea...
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Post by Rymel on Jan 7, 2004 10:17:04 GMT -5
But then again, lots of villains tend to go out like that, most of them taken down by cheap shots. like al capone and various other "invincible" mobsters taken down by something as simple as tax evasion?
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