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booming straight down directly over
Black Cloud's upturned face as he
lies prone in the ring. Gainer created
the move with a Super Technocrane
mounted on parallel scaffolding
above the action. "If we'd used
mal

jib

a nor¬

it would've
difficult to move the cam¬
era
straight down because the arm
would've had an arc," he says. "The
Technocrane allowed us to expand
arm or crane,

been very

contract

or

the

arm

down, so we could do

as

we

a true

went

straight-

down motion."

boxing scene set earlier in
the film relied upon less technical
derring-do for dramatic visual effect.
one

of Black Cloud's lowest

he is taunted by his train¬
Bud (Russell Means), in the prac¬

moments,
er,

tice

ring

on

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his idols, with whom he regularly
rubs shoulders in his capacity as

originally planned to light
practi¬
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usual. He shot the
lit it with

scene on

5245 and

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bursting through the gym window.
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fill because you're using that con¬
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the reservation. The

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rent of punches on his mentor, final¬

ly extinguishing the poisonous anger
was
holding his talent back.

that

there

approaches the level of

the

ASC

Museum.

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hour," he jokes. "My dream is to say
[affecting a refined European
accent], 'Today we light, tomorrow
we

shoot.'"

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