00:00Are you in gear? I'm in gear. Okay. Okay, ready? Now gently apply. Wait, I'm going to put my seatbelt
00:05on for real. Fuck you. I don't trust you. I do not trust you.
00:09Now slowly apply acceleration. Oh man, this thing's got some go. What a really big, important scene. We have this
00:17epic montage where I just put Alan through the absolute paces in the film, right?
00:21That's right. Yeah. I put you through the absolute paces and it builds towards a climactic moment, which is this
00:27scene here in the pool.
00:30And this is 81 as he walks along the bottom of the pool holding weights. Now I found this exercise
00:37in research and I thought, oh, that's really interesting. Beautiful storytelling device.
00:41Because the fun fact about this exercise is that no one is the winner, right? It's essentially is to see
00:50how far you can go. What is your breaking point?
00:52And then that's the ultimate test that these candidates are faced with. So it's to push yourself as far as
01:01you can go before you come up there.
01:03The only problem is, is that this scene became a visual representation of 81's inner turmoil because he's driven by
01:12Shane.
01:12So while these other candidates are coming up, 81 keeps going. Now the fun fact about that, the fun fact
01:22about that setup is that when we set this shot up, I had Alan in the pool and I told
01:28him, I said, listen, I'm going to, I'm going to shoot, I've set up a camera operator.
01:32We're underwater and he's at the halfway mark. I don't expect you'll get there, right? I'll show you the exact
01:39shot here because you can see it on his face.
01:42This shot here. Yeah. That one right there. That's the moment there. So Alan, I told you, right? I said,
01:49Alan, jump in. See how far you can walk.
01:51He goes, I'll cut it up for you. You know, don't worry. If you have to give up and we
01:54do this in a couple of takes, feel free to give up.
01:56Yeah. And I was just looking for the shot, right? And then Alan jumped in and then he walked so
02:02far in that pool, literally like it was almost a two minute take,
02:07that he ended up walking the entire length of the pool and walked straight into my camera operator here, this
02:13shot here.
02:14So if we pull up the rushes on that, he's walked so far up the pool. My camera operator was
02:19backing up with an underwater housing and then we couldn't communicate with Alan because he's underwater.
02:24Alan can't see because he doesn't, he's not wearing goggles and he ended up walking straight into that camera operator
02:30who backed up all the way back into a far wall and ran out of room.
02:35I was channeling 81 that day for sure. I know. I was like, I cannot repeat that.
02:39I can't repeat that.
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