Want to be an Action Star? Take dance classes!
It’s a dirty little secret of mine: I like the movie Equilibrium. It’s not a pretty secret, because it’s a seriously flawed movie - all you have to do is listen to Kurt Wimmer’s commentary track on the DVD (and how much have I revealed about myself that I admit that I have listened to it?) to hear, over and over again, how “If we’d had more money, we’d have done this…instead, we ran out, so we did that.”
But it did establish Christian Bale as an action star (paving the way for Batman) and I’m not the only one who likes the movie, especially for the brilliant fight choreography. Wimmer came up with an entirely new fictional martial art he calls “Gun Kata” that has actually gotten quite a lot of documentation on the web. I won’t link to it, but feel free to google at will…
The point is this little quote from an interview with Wimmer. Bale wasn’t perfect for the role because he had martial arts training. No, it was a different kind of training…
“…I thought we’d just choreograph it and do it! I realised quickly that wasn’t going to be the case. But Christian is a gifted athlete, and he’s also a trained dancer, but more importantly he has an uncanny ability to remember choreography in a short period of time and execute it under pressure. We often only had one take because if there are multiple squibs going off, we didn’t have time to reset for a second take. He was able to do it first take and get it right every time. He has tremendous timing, and he saved my ass. Had it been almost anybody else, the results would have been really terrible.” - Dreamwatch Magazine, via EquilibriumFans
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO CLIP INCLUDES VIOLENCE AND LOUD ROCK MUSIC. PLEASE DO NOT VIEW IF YOU OBJECT TO GUNPLAY IN MOVIES.
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