It’s a really great celebration of low budget filmmaking for the first minute and a half.
MVWire: How were the martial arts impletmented into the fight scenes?
This whole film dances around being cartoonish, but isn’t afraid to go over the top. I was trying to find some sort of fusion between the biker world and the precision of martial arts. The bikers don’t necessarily do martial arts, but the bikes are choreographed like martial artists in terms of where they go and how they move on screen. For the fights, I was trying to find some sort of down and dirty way of brawling so you would believe that white guys fight like this.
MVWire: Who did you work with to accomplish all of the stunts in the movie?
JK: Lance Gilbert did all the stunts. When you work with stuntmen and you get to know them you are certainly afraid for them. One of the worst things you can do as a director is become friends with your stuntmen, which I did. I felt responsible when I saw those guys risking their lives doing those stunts, because I didn’t want anyone to get hurt. |
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| Gary Davis, the stunt coordinator on this movie, is kind of the real Cary Ford (the main character in Torque played by Martin Henderson). He was the 2nd unit director on Terminator2 and a few other movies and a huge motorcycle rider. In fact, historically he was Evil Knievel’s main competitor. There were lots of design shots and CG stuff in the movie but there are quite a few real stunts, too. There is so much CG in most action movies that you miss the fact that there are lots of genuinely dangerous stunts going on with no margin for error. Gary Davis is such a bad ass legendary bike rider himself, that he pushed the young stuntmen harder. There is no way in hell I would ever say, “I don’t think that bike jump looked very good, can you do it again?” Gary would say, “That bike jump sucked, I could do much better than that, you better put another 6 feet on top of that jump. |
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