Who decides which moves and which fights get into the film?
There must be some friction when one person’s big fight scene or stunt is scrapped in favor of something else during shooting or editing. A. The choreography process is organic. Unless it’s otherwise dictated beforehand by the director or someone in charge, anyone participating in the action (cameraman, actors, stuntmen, director) could have a say in what goes on camera. Some of us are more experienced in action choreography than others, and ideas will trump other ideas, but there’s rarely friction because the choreography that looks the best wins out anyway. There’s playful competition on set to see who can do the craziest fall or best move, but we all help each other in these things because in the end it should be safe and benefit the film more than anything. Sometimes a fall or a move is scrapped in editing, but these things happen and it’s never personal. He/she can always use it for a demo reel anyway. I can think of only one instance where we had this problem. Q. We were really b
