Bao Tran on indie action filmmaking and comedy (Action Talks #18) from Action Talks with Eric Jacobus

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Bao Tran on indie action filmmaking and comedy (Action Talks #18)

2 hour 10 minutes Posted Jul 20, 2023 at 7:50 pm.

Working in TV

Long Form model of filmmaking

Childhood

Old World of Vietnam

Talking about the past and love languages between Bao and his parents

Vietnamese and Chinese cultures

Confucianism and Imperialism

Introduction to Hong Kong Cinema

What made Bao pick up a camera for the first time

Learning how to edit in-camera

First time realizing he could make a "moment" with editing

Watching wuxia as a child

Genre in US and HK; reality in films

Carmen's Virtue

Tricking and HK filmmaking in the late 90's

Action design for Carme's Virtue

Creating action on the page or on set

Room for improvisation?

What can stunt performers learn from actors?

Did your Computer Science education help your filmmaking?

Testing audiences to see what works

Test screenigs are visceral

Social media comments

Bookie short film

Being in Seattle

The Challenger

Thinking of action; is it classical music or jazz?

Influence on sound design in HK films

Corey Yuen's response to Challenger

Jazzy style of martial arts for Paper Tigers

Doing an improvisational style in a fight scene

Actors pretending to not be in shape

Movement of action today compared to 20 years ago

Fun action films

Post-Handover HK films

Bourne style of action

Legend of the Wolf

Jackie Chan's "no stunt doubles" and wide shots

Chinese vs American perception of action

Real violence

Does creating and designing fight scenes help one understand real violence?

As a writer, he has a higher tolerance of being uneasy

What Bao is watching these days

Seeing real bodies do stunts is freaky

Can't step in the same river twice; HK style was then, so what do we do now?

Movement Language

Monkey dance

Chambara style of action

How much time is needed to design and execute action scenes

Action Directing in India

Sammo vs Jackie editing and filmmaking style

Jackie Chan's directing kung fu movies

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Bao Tran is a action film writer and director known best for his latest

action comedy The Paper Tigers. We talk about Hong Kong movie

influences, comedy, and indie filmmaking: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2041318/

Edited by Joey Min

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