Sometimes the best things only come after a little reflection.
“That was why it was added to be another sequence that involved them and her.”
They prepared to shoot the sequence with the same meticulous planning that defined the stunts throughout the filmmaking process.
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“We made lenses that would particularly draw the audience to staying with Yifei,” she explains.
“Sometimes we’d be on her face and we’d push the background out of focus.
An extra complication here was the nature of their shooting space.
“We didn’t pull that set apart,” she elaborates.
We worked within the structure of it.
“That was the hardest to choreograph.
That was a really tricky one.”
“It’s against gravity, so you have to learn how to walk,” Liu said.
“It’s not like you’ve got the option to just naturally walk or run.
I smashed into the beam on the wall.”
Despite the accident, Liu powered through the scene.
The bruise always comes afterwards.
I iced it, we came back, and we got the shot.”
“I always say to Niki, ‘It looks like spiders going up the wall!’
So, then you see her do something absolutely amazing to get through all that.”
It was that moment that informed Walker’s approach to the entire scene.
“I want the audience to feel like they’re with her.
One more wrinkle was the sequence’s fluid sense of time.
It jumps between moments of slow-motion to normal speed and then even occasionally includes a more rapid frame rate.
This choice also tied to giving audiences a window into Mulan’s emotional state.
