[Este artículo contiene SPOILERS de la película ‘EQUIPAJE DE MANO’]
Jaume Collet-Serra con hand luggage has returned to the field of humble but fun action cinema after a couple of macro productions with Dwayne Johnson (one turned out well, the other didn't; guess which is which) and those of us who fiercely defend the Catalan filmmaker's position in the highest position of trusted craftsmen in Hollywood couldn't be happier.
Presumably Netflix nor, judging by the excellent reception of the film among the platform's subscribers: unmovable from the first place of the most watched in the world since the day of its premiere. A Christmas present starring Taron Egerton as an airport security agent facing a terrorist plot alone on Christmas Eve.
hand luggage was specifically designed to succeed at this time as portable and cloistered dose of action on the path of crystal jungle (and, more specifically, its first sequel also set in an airport) and so it has done, trusting in the charisma and dynamism of its elements to relax the disbelief of the spectators up to very generous limits.
Making of 'Hand Luggage'
This security reaches its climax in an action scene that is not afraid to betray the foundations of the film until then: It abandons all pretense of overwhelming realism, takes place outside the airport and does not even involve the main characters.
It is a fight aboard a moving car between police detective Elena Cole (played by Danielle Deadwyler) and the terrorist who is posing as a Department of Homeland Security agent (Logan Marshall-Green in a scene-stealing intervention), just at the moment in which she discovers her true identity.
It is presented in a epidic circular sequence plane, without cuts, where the camera rotates on itself while the characters drive at high speed while hitting each other, fighting to catch a gun, creating accidents and a storm of chaos on the highway and finally flipping several times. All this without stopping ringing Last Christmas, of Wham!.
A video published by befores & afters shows images from the filming of hand luggage where you could see how the spectacular sequence was rehearsed and filmed. Although some viewers have criticized the digital look of the final result, where The use of digital colors and backgrounds is not hidden at any time, it is making of It allows us to see that the work of the actors, the action coordinators and the entire technical team was not less effortful and expensive.
Dave Macomber, second unit director hand luggage and experienced stuntman and action choreographer in dozens of productions of Marvel, DC, the saga Fast & Furious or titles for illustrated punch connoisseurs such as Banshee, He was the one in charge of designing and making this set piece, fulfilling the challenge posed by Collet-Serra, who asked him for an “uncut shot inside a high-speed vehicle.”
As told in Digital Trends, Macomber styled the scene using a pair of motion capture suits he has in his own home. “I choreographed the fight so that the viewer's eye was always able to also perceive everything that was happening outside the car at the right moment,” explains the person responsible for what will undoubtedly be the most talked about movie scene at your Christmas dinner if anyone else has seen it.
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