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And that film was shot in 1992, long before CGI allowed such destruction to be faked. John Woo’s Hard Boiled included a 3+ minute single-tracking take known as the “hospital scene.” It’s a wild piece of Woo’s signature balletic gunplay that is off-the-rails ballistic and explosive. These recent one-ers stand on the shoulder of past ones, so cherished by action fans that some have their own nicknames. Director Ryan Coogler delivered some gripping long-take scenes with the Casino fight in Black Panther and Adonis’ first fight in Creed. That franchise is directed by Chad Stahelski whose background is in stunt work.

Recent Hollywood action movies have embraced long take fights with films like the Keanu Reeves John Wick films. Although there is a place for good wire-fu, martial arts fans have the highest admiration for fight scenes grounded in reality so when actors can pull off long complicated fight scenes, it’s a testament to pure skill. This makes action one-ers shorter, but far more intense, especially from a technical standpoint. Even with regular action sequences with plenty of safety edits, stunt people can get injured, even killed. Making the Cut Before Someone Gets HurtĪction one-ers are the most challenging because so much can go wrong in fight choreography. It was such a remarkable achievement in filmmaking that it was recognized by Cannes. He topped that with a convoluted 59-minute one-er in his last film, Long Day’s Journey Into the Night, in 3D no less. Standing out among the rest is rising director Bi Gan, who blew his entire budget for his second film Kaili Blues just to create a complex 42-minute long-take sequence. Asian cinema has also been delivering some impressive one-ers. The extensive long takes in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman and Sam Mendes’ 1917 have won international acclaim, Oscars, and other notable awards.

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Plus they had to shut down the 110 Freeway to film it.

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For example, the short one-er that opens Lindsay Vonn’s new Amazon Prime reality game show series The Pack only runs a few minutes and is split by a cut in the middle, but it took 26 hours to prepare, film, and strike the sequence. Setting up a long take scene is exponentially more challenging than a normal scene with cuts. Talented filmmakers strut their stuff because the technical skill behind a good one-er demands next-level directorial and choreographic mastery.

But a 77-minute one-er? That’s just crazy.

The longer the scene, the more chances of an accident. When it comes to action choreography, any long take sequence that lasts more than a few minutes is an achievement.

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