Van Helsing

790 00:41:18,768 --> 00:41:20,133 He's doing the right thing. 791 00:41:20,228 --> 00:41:23,641 And, of course, it was awful. Anyway, it's fixed now. 792 00:41:24,065 --> 00:41:28,104 I write the scripts that I'm directing, and between Bob and I, 793 00:41:28,528 --> 00:41:32,192 we worked so diligent on the scripts. Our scripts are very tight going in. 794 00:41:32,281 --> 00:41:35,148 We've thought of every possible hole and problem. 795 00:41:35,243 --> 00:41:38,281 You can't think of everything, but you're trying to because 796 00:41:38,371 --> 00:41:42,490 So many movies are forced to do days and weeks of re-shoots and pick-ups 797 00:41:42,583 --> 00:41:47,043 because of problems, that we try to all the way along, get it while we're there. 798 00:41:47,130 --> 00:41:49,622 Because doing re-shoots costs so much more. 799 00:41:49,716 --> 00:41:52,708 And, when you get into post, you have everything. 800 00:42:02,270 --> 00:42:06,434 Not to make this the sequence about problems with continuity 801 00:42:06,524 --> 00:42:08,731 but this is slightly interesting. 802 00:42:08,818 --> 00:42:12,027 Pay attention to the sequence and watch Kate's hair. 803 00:42:12,113 --> 00:42:15,822 Her hair changes a lot in the sequence, and this was the very first stuff 804 00:42:15,908 --> 00:42:18,149 that was photographed with Kate. 805 00:42:18,244 --> 00:42:22,078 I'm going to be honest about it Kate didn't like her hair in the movie 806 00:42:22,165 --> 00:42:24,782 and it got changed a couple of times. 807 00:42:25,001 --> 00:42:27,368 She addressed this up front. 808 00:42:27,462 --> 00:42:29,999 It got changed while we were shooting the sequence 809 00:42:30,089 --> 00:42:34,754 So you can see the many hairstyles of Anna in this sequence. 810 00:42:35,636 --> 00:42:38,344 See where Kate picks up the gun, and she cocks it. 811 00:42:38,431 --> 00:42:40,092 She was being really delicate about it. 812 00:42:40,183 --> 00:42:42,424 She kept picking up that gun and gently cocking it. 813 00:42:42,518 --> 00:42:43,883 By about the fourth take, I said, 814 00:42:43,978 --> 00:42:46,811 "Kate, when you pick that up, I need a bigger cock.” 815 00:42:46,898 --> 00:42:50,141 And she looked at me and said, "Stephen, don't we all.” 816 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,193 Can you put that on the DVD? I don't know if that's possible. 817 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:58,148 Here you go, look at the straight hair. It changes throughout the scene. 818 00:42:58,242 --> 00:43:01,451 Then again, it works. I guarantee you, unless we pointed that out, 819 00:43:01,537 --> 00:43:05,326 it's not something that you would ever notice, but the fact of the matter is 820 00:43:05,416 --> 00:43:08,249 -her hairstyle changes... -Now, these are Kate's first scenes 821 00:43:08,336 --> 00:43:12,455 and she wasn't trusting us on the hair, and then she got into the spirit. 822 00:43:18,179 --> 00:43:22,218 Of course, when you see shots like this, maybe she was right, the first week. 823 00:43:22,308 --> 00:43:25,642 Yeah, there may have been a hair malfunction in that shot. 824 00:43:25,728 --> 00:43:28,140 We were having some hair problems that day with Kate. 825 00:43:28,231 --> 00:43:29,847 Then we got over it and were fine. 826 00:43:29,941 --> 00:43:32,023 Oh, my God, you're alive. 827 00:43:34,112 --> 00:43:36,570 This was actually Will's first scene also. 828 00:43:37,031 --> 00:43:40,990 Again, you get this incredible benefit from his background, 829 00:43:41,077 --> 00:43:42,567 on the stage as a dancer, 830 00:43:42,662 --> 00:43:45,700 because these contortions that he goes through 831 00:43:46,374 --> 00:43:51,289 and his ability to apparently climb a wall really does come from the actor. 832 00:43:58,511 --> 00:44:03,005 I think that this shot is very cool, because it's very organic. 833 00:44:03,141 --> 00:44:07,260 There's a guy crawling up the wall. It's a very well accomplished shot. 834 00:44:08,604 --> 00:44:13,314 There's some old movie trickery here also, because this set is actually on the floor 835 00:44:13,401 --> 00:44:17,395 and the camera is put in a position where it appears like it's the wall. 836 00:44:17,905 --> 00:44:22,570 So again, using many old-time and new-time techniques all within the same shot. 837 00:44:24,203 --> 00:44:27,161 When I was thinking about the werewolf when I watched movies 838 00:44:27,248 --> 00:44:31,162 and I didn't want him to just grow hair. I thought of these creatures logically 839 00:44:31,252 --> 00:44:34,711 and said, "A werewolf is like an alcoholic or a drug addict. 840 00:44:34,797 --> 00:44:38,756 "He could be your neighbor, best friend, brother. He's very noble during the day 841 00:44:38,843 --> 00:44:42,086 "but at night, when his demons come out, when the full moon comes out, 842 00:44:42,180 -...