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Dad let's get it done

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people don't realize the role that a

stunt team plays on a movie

on the Avatar sequels we rely on them to

not do stunts that stand out as

spectacular we ask them to do stunts

that play as part of our story's

narrative

for the James Cameron film The Action

fuels the story while the story also

fuels the action and it makes it so

Dynamic and it makes it so engaging that

it makes you want to know what happens

next Jim of course doesn't like things

to just be animated you're going to do

them for real the only thing we're not

real is us being blue

I've got a dry team and I've got a wet

team some of the things that we're doing

are going to be 30 feet in the air and

we'll let the actors Do It full on and

we'll catch their movement they're

acting and everything and then we'll

build it up and we'll let those seasoned

professionals those parkour

professionals do that same motion who do

all the slinging climbing falling

grappling the action through the air

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those guys never slip

so from fighting falling parkouring we

have the best in the world for each

individual piece

flying Acron is much more difficult than

it ever was before I even wanted people

jumping on jumping off flying around

even wanted that bird to fly on the

stage and be able to come to a landing

we have multiple riggers and stop

performers operating the bird helping it

turn left right circling flying diving

so we had to have our performers in sync

with the creature

the wet team you know their breath holds

are amazing one of my top guys his

breath hold is like 11 minutes down

there which is ridiculous a lot of the

people came from Cirque du Soleil

synchronized swimmers Olympic hopefuls

so they can move like you've never seen

before in that water there's been

falling off horses the same way since

Truman was President you know when I

first was approached by Garrett and he's

like you've got to invent some stuff and

it's probably not possible but if

anybody can figure it out James Cameron

thinks I canceled let's do it for the

water sequence of this movie we had to

figure out how to make some of these

creatures fly underwater and how we're

going to do it are we going to use this

thing called the jet evader and use

underwater Jets to help make it work it

was like a high horsepower squirt gun we

got to be the first people to actually

ever take it under water I kept getting

ripped off and Garrett's like dude can

you stay on that thing I'm like yeah I'm

trying and there goes your hand you know

like it's so fast

fighting underwater what it reminds me

of is if we were in the gym and we were

hitting a heavy bag and you're hitting

that heavy bag as fast as you can as

many times as you can and as hard as you

can while holding your breath see how

long you last that's probably what your

limit's going to be underwater the final

battle is amazing it's epic at one point

Corey can Jake have this huge Knife

Fight while this ship is capsizing

turning listing and falling over on

itself we had to build this huge trust

enabled skeleton of the ship and we had

to drive it with these computerized

winches so that it was able to turn at

the right time at the right speed and

this is one of the processes that makes

this film feel so real is that it was

real now we're underwater we're really

fighting underwater and so that's part

of the process of making it real one of

the things I love about working with Jim

is that he will create that environment

for you if we need real fire there's

gonna be real fire in that stage if we

need those physical things in our hands

to interact with to make it real it will

be there this movie is not just some

amazing trip into another world it's

also still a reality based movie that's

right here on your face and that's why I

love it