X-Men Origins: Wolverine

00:36:42,367 --> 00:36:46,406 with a very stiff neck for a few weeks. 618 00:36:46,496 --> 00:36:48,976 So, that poor actor had to do that same take quite a few times. 619 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,953 And I told him quietly, "Listen, mate, when he grabs you, 620 00:36:52,043 --> 00:36:55,661 "you better be loose, because it's powerful.” 621 00:36:58,675 --> 00:37:01,963 Went AWOL. He said he was coming after all of us. 622 00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:04,628 You didn't come to warn me, 623 00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:07,010 you came to save your own ass. 624 00:37:07,475 --> 00:37:08,577 So what's your plan, Captain? 625 00:37:08,601 --> 00:37:13,220 <i>HOOD: This is one of the greatest simple scenes that Don McAlpine lit.</i> 626 00:37:13,314 --> 00:37:16,056 And I wanna talk briefly about Donald McAlpine, the cinematographer, 627 00:37:16,151 --> 00:37:18,233 because he's such a wonderful, wonderful man. 628 00:37:18,319 --> 00:37:20,401 He lights so beautifully. 629 00:37:20,488 --> 00:37:23,571 This is just such a simple location, Just a corridor. 630 00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:26,137 And yet, there's something about the way the light plays at the back 631 00:37:26,161 --> 00:37:27,947 and the way that Hugh is lit here. 632 00:37:28,037 --> 00:37:31,120 I think this next close-up is just one of the best in the movie, 633 00:37:31,207 --> 00:37:35,326 the close-up on Hugh at the end of the corridor. 634 00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:36,706 Here. Right there. 635 00:37:37,964 --> 00:37:41,002 The eyes pop perfectly. 636 00:37:41,092 --> 00:37:43,504 Sometimes lighting a close-up can take more time 637 00:37:43,595 --> 00:37:45,586 than lighting a wide shot, 638 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,513 <i>just because you're looking for this perfect balance</i> 639 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,137 in the actor's eyes and the depth behind. 640 00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:54,352 So I really am very grateful to Don 641 00:37:54,439 --> 00:37:58,603 for the wonderful work he did in terms of the way he lit the movie. 642 00:37:58,693 --> 00:38:03,859 A wonderful dramatic location here, actually shot in New Zealand 643 00:38:03,948 --> 00:38:07,361 at a place called Milford Sound, I believe. 644 00:38:07,452 --> 00:38:11,241 This waterfall was something we saw on a scout. 645 00:38:11,331 --> 00:38:15,950 And in the scene where Logan escapes that's coming up soon, 646 00:38:16,044 --> 00:38:18,661 he escapes from this Alkali Lake facility, 647 00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:21,873 <i>jumps, as you'll know, down that waterfall.</i> 648 00:38:23,468 --> 00:38:26,631 Peter MacDonald sent up the second-unit cameraman 649 00:38:26,721 --> 00:38:29,713 Just to photograph that stuff. It wasn't originally scripted. 650 00:38:29,808 --> 00:38:32,300 It was originally just scripted to run out of the facility 651 00:38:32,393 --> 00:38:33,804 and disappear into the woods. 652 00:38:33,895 --> 00:38:36,683 But when you see something like that on a scout, 653 00:38:36,773 --> 00:38:38,413 I was like, "This is how we gotta do this. 654 00:38:38,441 --> 00:38:41,354 "We gotta find a way to jump him off that waterfall.” 655 00:38:41,444 --> 00:38:44,732 But more about that later on. 656 00:38:44,823 --> 00:38:49,693 So, here we are in the Alkali Lake facility now. 657 00:38:49,786 --> 00:38:51,072 This was an interesting scene, 658 00:38:51,162 --> 00:38:53,494 because there was much debate in pre-production 659 00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:57,370 about whether this scene needed to exist at all. 660 00:38:57,460 --> 00:39:01,169 Because of course in X2, there is a flashback 661 00:39:01,256 --> 00:39:06,422 to where Logan had the Adamantium skeleton attached to his bones 662 00:39:06,511 --> 00:39:09,048 and there are flashback moments that show him in the tank 663 00:39:09,138 --> 00:39:11,175 and rising up out of the tank and so on. 664 00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:12,409 So there was much debate about 665 00:39:12,433 --> 00:39:14,595 whether we had to replicate that set exactly, 666 00:39:14,686 --> 00:39:17,724 whether we needed the scene at all. 667 00:39:17,814 --> 00:39:21,933 I felt quite strongly that we just needed to make it our own, 668 00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:23,357 that the scene was important, 669 00:39:23,444 --> 00:39:25,856 because although it had been in the other movie, 670 00:39:25,947 --> 00:39:27,529 it really was just a flashback, 671 00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:31,358 and how would we find that he'd been bonded, 672 00:39:31,452 --> 00:39:34,194 you know, with Adamantium if we didn't do the scene right. 673 00:39:34,289 --> 00:39:39,705 So, I'm grateful to the studio for giving us the money to do this scene, 674 00:39:39,794 --> 00:39:42,252 because I know that there was much debate about 675 00:39:42,338 --> 00:39:45,922 whether to have it at all, given