So when we see him run up the wall in the movie, that’s not wire assisted?
Nothing is assisted in “Six”. The only assisted shot that we used�nothing’s sped up. Nothing is even slowed down in the fight. There’re no wires except for one shot where he gets kicked in the chest and he flies across the room, we used a wire to pull him across the room. Any of the flips or running up the walls and stuff, that’s just him doing it.
It’s amazing.
Yeah.
Also, it’s frustrating when you watch a martial arts movie and you see wirework making things look clunky and stuff, I’m just thinking, “Just get a guy who can do it.” People can really do that stuff. It’s insane.
How did the filmed fight scene compare with the comic?
The fight scene in the comic wasn’t a martial arts scene. It was just drawn as a big fight scene at the end. Most of it’s guns and stuff.
With the film we didn’t have any budget. It was a zero-budget film. The place where we shot the fight at was actually our school, the martial arts school that we just dressed up a little bit.
The original idea was that they were supposed to have this big fight in this abandoned warehouse, where there’s a bunch of neon lights hanging. If you remember in the comic there are all these neon tubes hanging, and as they’re fighting these neon tubes would get smashed.
I remembered watching one of those backyard-wrestling specials and they use neon tubes on each other. When they break it looks really cool. The tube would just break into dust, so nobody gets hurt.
That was the visual idea, but we just couldn’t pull it off, so in the comic it’s a lot more elaborate and in the film it’s a more simple, straightforward fight thing.
Also, in the comic I didn’t think there was a need to concentrate on the specifics of the martial arts. In the comic it was fine to just have them fight and be over the top.
But there is one very cool shot where Six runs up the wall and kicks a neon tube and it explodes �
That was pretty scary because, when we did it, we only had one shot to do it in because we knew there would be glass everywhere. It’s a huge martial arts school. When Izzy hits the glass it shatters to dust that goes everywhere.
Now, we had to clean up in just a couple of hours�I think that day we only had four or five hours to shoot and an hour of that is cleaning up, so nobody stopped to even eat or anything. The thing was, the next day they had a kids’ class there. We had to have every single, tiny bit of dust cleaned up. We cleaned that floor so thoroughly. It was incredible. There were so many little pieces.
We could only use the one tube. Two tubes would have meant even more glass would be all over the place.
Not to mention the fact that glass could fly in somebody’s eye or something like that.
