back to RETURN OF XANDER CAGE, and there's a really nice moment: Vin Diesel and Donnie Yen are fighting on a street, get nailed by a couple of cars, more cars wreck around them -- & their adrenaline-junkie characters exchange a delighted grin: CAN YOU BELIEVE WE'RE DOING THIS?!
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Characters who enjoy what they're doing are more fun than characters who have to be coerced reluctantly into doing what they're doing, especially if it's something the audience wishes they could do.
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Also: how bad is RETURN OF XANDER CAGE at filming Donnie Yen fighting? Holy shit.
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What is the key element structure in shooting a fight scene? The cut. You figure out your framing for the shot, get what you need in, cut when the information is conveyed. Right? Right.
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Whenever Donnie Yen gets to show off, RETURN OF XANDER CAGE *frames it wrong,* then whip-pans over to show the additional action that is just off-camera in their original frame, then whip-pans back to original frame. It's *horrible.*
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Hard to tell if it's incompetence, or making sure the Asian stars don't outshine the Western ones. Probably both. The latter is especially bad in Tomorrow Never Dies, where Michelle Yeoh gets sandbagged so as not to completely embarass Bond.
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