Road House: This fun technique for shooting fight scenes

Jake Gyllenhaal faces Conor McGregor Street house

For his new film, Doug Liman has chosen to direct Street houseremake of the film worn by Patrick Swayze released in 1989. In this new version, the main protagonist, Elwood Dalton, is a former MMA fighter. One day, a bar owner recruits him to be a bouncer and stop gang members from destroying him. But the leader of this gang soon shows up a murderer to get rid of Dalton.

Succeeding Patrick Swayze in the title role Street house, Jake Gyllenhaal was chosen. As for the assassin he faces, Knox, he is played by Conor McGregor. This is the MMA star’s first role in a feature film. The Irishman is among the actors at the center of numerous fight scenes in the film. And a particular technique was used to try to make their moves and reactions as authentic as possible.

A multi-step process for successful fight scenes

The stunt coordinator Street houseGarrett Warren, recently gave an interview to Total film magazine. He revealed that he used it for this film a technique invented by himself and used for the first time Avatars. Named “the Garrett plan”, “the multiple passage” OR “the alphabetical plan”, consists of several phases. First of all, the actors are filmed exchanging fake blows and simulating a reaction. The next step is explained by Warren:

“After that, remove one of the people in the image and put a boxing pad in his place. Then you tell the remaining person to hit that pad as hard as they can. And this person gives everything, puts all his strength into it – and the result in the image is incredible. »

Once this part is finished, the actor who delivered the blow is replaced by the one who should receive it. Warren then asks this actor Don’t act out the scene. The latter, however, must leave his body react naturally to what follows. The stunt coordinator then takes another pad – very soft and designed not to hurt – before actually hitting this actorwhich then reacts naturally.

“A glorified pillow fight”

Warren believes this technique is actually valid “a glorified pillow fight”, which gives a very convincing result on the screen. Finally, the last step of the process is to film the two actors reproducing the same scene in slow motionthen film the setting of this scene without the actors. All shots have been captured by the camera so far they are then juxtaposed to give the scene we see on the screen.

Also according to stunt coordinator, Doug Liman chose to use this process throughout the film rather than just one or two scenes. Warren assures that this does Street house a pioneer among action films.

Prime Video subscribers can now judge the result for themselves. Street house has been available on the streaming platform since then this Thursday March 21st.

Source: Cine Serie

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