“He’s not going to lose my work day” … This great master of the 80s and 90s Action Cinema knew how to motivate his troops!

Fans of the 80’s and 90s know the work of director John Macternan, which we are trapped in a crystal and hell with Bruce Will, but also a prey or the hero of the last act with Schwarzenegger or 13th warrior Antonio Bandero.

Always holding your hand

The director is currently a retrospect at Cinémathèque Française, and he has given the case a master class after the projection of Thomas Crown Relationship. With compassion Filmed by SurferThat allows all filmmakers to discover this moment that not everyone can attend.

At the same time, he told an anecdote that took place in the Red October persecution, which testified to his participation (and the protagonist of the film on a small part of Sean Connery):

“We went back to the ships.

I always have a broken branch

“Today, I’m a senior, but at the time, I always helped me when something had to be done, they would act like any member of the team.

The filmmaker also determines, lighter: “I always have a broken finger on the day when I put on the nomads.” Dollys is a camera support on wheels or rails, especially allowing you to turn fluid paths.

One lesson to learn from her

But the director did not say that for the pleasure of anecdote only: “A member of the team you see, as a director, tells himself,” He is not going to lose my day of work and what will come out, it is worth it, “is the message you send.”

And here is a beautiful lesson in cinema and mankind that is far forgotten by the filmmaker but unfortunately away from its results Conviction In the case of Pelicano’s illegal hearing and evolution of industry, which no longer demands visceral action films and “character -focused”, often classified R, which made MCT “MCT” in the late 80’s.