Soul Searcher: August 23rd 2002

Went to Malvern to engage in fighting talk with Simon Wyndham. We went through the fight scenes one by one (Simon pointed out that there are twice as many as in most Hong Kong action movies) discussing the style of fighting, character motivations, camerawork, location and length. If only we’d done that for The Beacon. Simon showed me excerpts from his not insubstantial HK action movie collection to illustrate various points. “What’s that fighting style that’s big and show-offy and crap?” was as technical as I got. We noted that two of the later fights were very similar, and so made a change to the script that will add more variety and I think works out better for the characters in the end.

Soul Searcher: August 23rd 2002