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‘Atomic Blonde’ Director: How I Made Five Kick-Ass Action Sequences
From a breathtaking car chase in Berlin to a stunning “single-shot” fight sequence, David Leitch walks us through the spy thriller’s best set pieces
#https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/atomic-blonde-director-how-i-made-five-kick-ass-action-sequences-194703/#“In The Third Man#there’s no one getting kicked in the face.”#Director David Leitch isn’t saying the classic post-war thriller suffers from lacking a critical face-kicking element – but let’s just say#pitting weary spies against each in pursuit of a list that could leave them all exposed. The former stuntman-turned-filmmaker#however#says he wanted to make something that was “not your daddy’s Cold War spy movie.” Silencers and poison were out. The business end of a corks#RELATED#2017 Summer Movie Preview: From Superhero Blockbusters to Hot Oscar Hopefuls#Three years ago#Leitch and his partner#Chad Stahelski#revitalized the action genre – and Keanu Reeves’ career – with the revenge thriller John Wick#which turned dozens of brutal headshots into the sort of choreographed ballet unseen since John Woo left Hong Kong. While the latter went s#the former turned his attention toward the continued reinvention of Charlize Theron as a formidable action star after her electrifying turn#the Oscar-winning actor’s experience as a dancer feeds into an elegantly lethal performance as Lorraine Broughton#an MI6 agent who partners up with a shifty Berlin station chief (James McAvoy) to retrieve “the List” before it falls into enemy hands.#Working in a style he called “neon-noir#” Leitch builds the movie around a handful of gorgeously rendered action sequences#each with their own distinct flavor of brutal excess. While on the set of Deadpool 2#which he’s directing for release next summer#Leitch walked us through five of Atomic Blonde‘s standout set pieces – from Theron fending off Berlin cops with available household items t#all the way to the climactic melee – so the spoiler-averse should consider themselves hereby forewarned.)#1. Upon arriving in Berlin#Lorraine gets picked up by the wrong chaperones#leading to a three-way fight scene inside a fast-moving car – with one high-heeled red shoe serving as an improvised weapon.#“It’s funny. Coming from an action background#I always approach the action sequences in any script as kind of placeholders. When I originally got the script#that [scene] was a fight in an elevator at the airport#in the terminal. Doing this movie with the budgetary constraints we had … it was really done independently. We did it like John Wick. But w
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