Assignment 4 Reflection 2
This week we start our research project. It is quite hard to choose a topic but I already knew what I had interesting in. So maybe I will get in to the research soon.
Robin showed us some actors running scene in class. About the scene like this, I remember there was a scene in Rocky, Syllvestor Stalone was running on street and someone thought he was the actual athlete and thrower him something and he caught that. That shot was so nature which I thought was planned. Syllvestor Stalone was so professional that impressed me.
I watched a lot of Tom Cruise action movie, a recurring element in his movie, he runs. On screen, it looks like he running so fast. In fact, filming a Tom Cruise running sequence can actually be difficult because it turns out the actor is super fast. Much faster than his co-stars.Action movies tend to be looked down upon by movie critics, in large part due to the fact that there is less “acting” going on, but according to the director of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Edward Zwick, that’s not the case. He tells Screen Crush that even when Tom Cruise is running he has to act, because he has to look like he’s running at full speed, even though he apparently has to pull up a bit in order to run with Cobie Smulders.
With all the practice that Tom Cruise gets running in his movies, it’s not really that surprising that he’s fast. Eventually, if you do something often enough you can’t help but be good at it. Although, it sounds like Cruise is even better than you might expect. Edward Zwick says that Cobie Smulders is pretty fast herself, but Cruise leaves her in the dust when he’s going full tilt. That’s pretty impressive.