Cuz you can't be over here in a nice close-up on Hemsworth and then go, ‘Oh, the best next shot is a low wide angle from over there,' or if it is, you have to organically find a way to get the camera from that closeup back down to that low shot without having this dead space in between,” Hargrave explained. “The challenge of a sequence like this, truthfully, is there so many different points of view that you have to capture because you're not cutting, so how do you choreograph and block the scenes and the action in a way that will be truthful to the story? The camera will end up in the best location to capture the action for at least how I want the audience to see it organically. “Well, the second is 21 minutes and seven seconds… but who's counting?” Hargrave said as he threw his arms up and gave a smirk.īut with a longer and more ambitious sequence comes more challenges. I told Hargrave during our interview that I knew it was longer than the first one, but I was so glued in that it could've been 15-20 minutes and I wouldn't have noticed. Extraction featured a 12-minute long take that followed the action from an apartment complex through the streets and even transitioned between cars in one of the coolest action sequences in recent memory.Įxtraction 2 levels up and includes an even longer one-take. One of the defining traits of these films has become the one-shot. ![]() Led by the great Chris Hemsworth and directed by one of the most experienced stunt coordinators in Hollywood, Sam Hargrave, both films have knocked it out of the park in terms of giving audiences a movie with visceral action sequences and engaging visuals. Netflix's two Extraction films are amazing throwbacks to the action films of the past.
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