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• Then there was Ego Claw PART 1

  2011-10-15 11:15AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
  

    Coming back from Hong Kong, after awhile, it felt time to move on to another movie!  I had been inspired to do a 70's era chop socky cool cop movie something like Gordon Park's Shaft!  Something, cool, but more funny and not all about being badda##.  I loved the recent hit Black Dynamyte "Dynamyte! Dynamyte!"  I thought and though but couldn't come up with a story, then something else developed on it's own.
  
    A couple of things came together at the same time: 1) My wife's interest in catastrophic end of the world nature destroy all movies (ex: 2012, Day After Tomorrow) 2) Some conversations I would overhear about the martial arts and which one was the best. Who was the best?  3) I wanted to make something for Alex Do, a martial artist, instructor, and enthused action movie guy.
  
  At first I started thinking of the cool fight scene in Ip Man, where Ip Man (Donnie Yen) takes out like 13 Japanese martial artist - I just loved that!  And that's how it began!  I saw a first of many bodies flop into frame!  Let's start the movie at it's highest point with a cool fight scene only it would be one man, highly skilled, taking on many!  But his reasons where not evil just cocky or confident.  I would write something that could showcase all the martial artist I had build relationships with through the years and some whom I had met recently.  Thus became of Ego Claw.  That's right...Ego not Eagle Claw!
  
  
  
   I wanted to get back with my best friend and filmmaker Kang Vang who had just completed his latest feature Fallen City and who loves the martial arts, I showed him the script and he was very excited to co-direct it with me! 
  
  First was 2 Saturday's worth of rehearsing at Alex and his now instructor Sifu Simon Lui's clinic.  A room full of martial artist playing together, man nothing could get better then that!
  
  
  
  
  Having the talk before we began while Alex Do (right) and Kevin Jepsen (left), a great martial artist await the next steps.
  
  I asked Alex to take the lead and be both Lead Actor as well as Martial Art Choreograpehr
  

  
  Alex needed to jot his notes of every movement he'd had to face with every fighter and there were many to face.
  
  I just had one condition, that he listen to other martial artist ideas and welcome them if needed, but in the end wanted everybody to trust in his ideas.
  
  

  Kang Vang (center) the other Director looks on
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  

  Alex was great he worked hard and really had passion and care for what we were creating together. 
  
  But sometimes he wanted to do a lot of fancy moves and I had to tell him 'no' and stick to my vision!
  

  And this is what we came up with!
  
  
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/kangvang#p/u/11/5ejBKTRX2WU