Chapter 5 Parkour Design
Tae-ho and David signed a contract with Europa Pictures half a month later, and they confirmed to star in this "Banlieue _13", also known as "Violent Zone 13". David plays the lead role of Leto, while Tae Ho plays the role of the male supporting actor Damian.
When signing the contract, Luc Besson told Tae Ho that he had already talked with the people in the family class, and when it was time to shoot the scene, there would definitely be no less than five martial arts fingers from the family class on the set. Hearing this, Tae-ho smiled happily.
Wu Zhi is a family class, and who else can there be besides Tae-ho and David in the action design of parkour? After all, who has the qualifications to teach the two of them how to parkour?
The release date of the film was set for November 10, and it was only the end of January, and Tae-ho and David had already arrived at the filming location that the production team had found, near a slum in Romania, in southeastern Europe.
Since the action design of parkour is Tae-ho and David, and the starring roles are also the two of them, then everything is naturally done according to the habits and styles of the two of them. Of course, this is also the reason why Luc Besson asked the two of them to star.
Although Tae-ho and David were acting as action designers for parkour for the first time, they got started very quickly, and they began to study in this 7-story commercial building with the director.
On the set, everything is up to the director, who sets the picture according to his own understanding of the script, while Tae-ho and David design the parkour action according to the director's vision.
After coming out of the room and entering the corridor, the protagonist will face four people, the corridor is narrow, the walls are smooth, and it is impossible to break out of the encirclement if you simply run, so the first task of the props team is to transform all the scenes that need to be drawn when parkour according to the design requirements of Tae-ho and David's parkour action.
In parkour, with the help of certain props, the runner's range of motion can be much larger than normal, for example, if a row of steel pipes is installed on the top of the head, the runner's range of motion can be extended to the entire corridor, instead of being limited to the ground like ordinary people. For example, a half-person tall cardboard box leans against a wall, for runners, the half-human high cardboard box only needs one Tic_Tac (wall jump) to completely ignore it, while the pursuit route of ordinary people is limited because of this, so they can only bypass it.
The list goes on and on.
For 50 euros each, director Pierre Morey hired four adults to accompany Tae-ho and David to design parkour moves here. The director assigns them a position next to them, where you stand, and Tae-ho and David design parkour moves based on this, such as designing a water pipe at the corner for the protagonist Leto to grasp to achieve a corner without slowing down, and can also knock down an enemy here. So the prop master will record this request in his notebook, and then go back and realize the design on the notebook perfectly.
"Let's just slide to the next floor here. Tae-ho poked his head out of the balcony and patted the row of iron pipes on the edge of the balcony that went straight down.
"Is this building all rented?" David asked, turning to Tae-ho.
"The whole building was run-free while shooting. The director nodded.
"That's fine, run through the encirclement from the room at the end of the hallway to the stairs, then give a shot under the stairs to show the two pursuers on the next floor, and then we'll give the main character, Leto, a reason to go off the beaten path. David nodded.
"We can grab the pipes sideways and slide straight to the next layer. Tae-ho nodded, and when he saw that there was nothing on the balcony downstairs, he grabbed the iron pipe with his left hand, kicked his body on one side, and kicked his right foot, and the whole person swung out directly. At the moment when the director and prop master were stunned, Tae Ho's hand that grabbed the iron pipe immediately exerted force, and Tae Ho, who was in mid-air, immediately made a 180-degree circle along the water pipe, and while facing David and others, the other hand immediately grabbed another steel pipe next to him and slid straight down, and then when he slid to the lowest end of the iron pipe, he swung directly into the balcony on the next floor, and finally walked up the stairs leisurely.
The director and prop master rushed out of the room, and the 50-won humanoid prop standing outside with nothing to do watched Tae-ho come up the stairs downstairs like a ghost.
Hey? No, didn't you just go inside? How did you get downstairs?
Tae-ho has been practicing parkour for 13 years, and this little action is simply trivial, although he is holding the iron pipe and sliding down, but using the skill of the slider, Tae-ho's palm is not even red, it is still so delicate.
"No wonder you're one of the founders of parkour, you're really not average. The director exclaimed.
"I'm still far behind, I'm a little bit limited because of my height, and Bale is a lot more flexible than me. Tae-ho shook his head and smiled, "For example, getting into this room through the window above the door, I may be a little reluctant to do it because of my height, but Bell can definitely get through it all over again." ”
"Hey?" the director was stunned for a moment. He pointed to the 40-centimeter-high glass window on the door frame and asked, "Are you going to get into this room from here?"
"Yes, if it does, it should be a big scene. Tae-ho nodded: "Bell and I have calculated before we came, and we are going to design 3 or 4 big scenes in this parkour at the beginning of the movie that are worth the audience to buy tickets to watch repeatedly." When I was on the balcony just now, I saw a few small 4-story buildings and 3-story small buildings below, and I thought we could do a few more first-story rappels and two-story rappels. ”
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"With this simple rappelling, we can ensure that we don't get hurt and pass through, so when designing the storyboard, the director can design these scenes as a pass, which can add a lot of points to this parkour. David nodded, pointed to the window, and said, "Put a pipe on top of this window, and add a foot next to it, and I can jump in it all at once." ”
"How tall do you need to be on the feet?" the prop master was already just a salted fish who could shout 666, and he was taking a notebook and recording it carefully.
"It's about 70 centimeters, just give me a boost. David nodded.
"70 cm...... How about an external radiator?" suggested the prop master.
“…… OK. David thought about it for a moment, and felt that it would be feasible to step on the radiator, so he nodded in agreement.
Coming out of the room that Tai Hao had just entered, and slipping down the corridor, David's eyes were fixed on the two large open windows at the end of the corridor.
The window is open, there is a building in the distance, and below is the spacious and bright road, if it falls, it will definitely be "ah~~~ pop", and even the last words can not be left on the dog led.
Looking at this window, David had a plan in his heart, and hurriedly turned to Tae-ho and said, "Bernard, you go to other rooms to see if there is anything you can use." ”
"You're really trying to kill yourself. Tae-ho twisted his neck and turned to leave, leaving the director, prop master, and a few humanoid props confused.
Turning around all the rooms on this floor, Tae-ho finally found a balcony that was not sealed with glass windows, and looked at it and found that this balcony was not facing the same direction as the window that David was looking at, but on the other side of a 90-degree position, if it was really as David imagined, dragging the rope and running over the wall, then the roof would have to do some processing. At such a long distance and at such a large angle, the rope will not be able to cross without treatment.
When the group came to the top of the building, David looked at another building that was only 2 meters away, and nodded, you can jump here.
"Let's go over and see. David said with a sharp acceleration, stepping on the edge of the roof and jumping directly from this nearly 30-meter-high mid-air to another building.
After jumping, Tae-ho and David walked along the edge of the roof and soon walked to an iron railing. This iron railing is to block others from the roof of the building next to it, the iron railing extends to the air, there are protruding iron spikes above and next to it, and there is a one-story drop roof not far below, and there is an iron pipe specially left for people to climb on the roof of that building.
"Rappelling down from here, and then you can climb that iron pipe up to the top of the building over there. Tae-ho said.
"The height of one floor, the distance between the two buildings is not far, if there is a rappelling injured chasing brother as a foil, the effect is still quite good. David nodded.
"Let's go and have a look. Tae-ho said as he moved his body, took two steps back, and rushed towards the edge without hesitation.
Stepping on the masonry next to him and rushing to the edge, Tae-ho's left foot slammed hard, and the whole person jumped up as lightly as a cat, his arm grasped the balance of his body, and Tae-ho's whole person crossed an arc and landed on the roof of the opposite building safely. One rolled forward and was unloaded, and Tae-ho stood up unharmed.
David also jumped down, looked sideways at the building he had just jumped over and said, "There is a certain degree of difficulty, you can hurt a person here." ”
"Yes, indeed. Tae-ho nodded slightly sympatheticly.