Apart from that, I really enjoyed my fight scene with Jet Li because we work together in complete harmony and the movements are very fluent. Thats such a good feeling. I havent had that feeling for over 15 years. Its the same feeling I used to have when I worked with Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao and its good to have it back again. No matter what the rhythm, tempo, low moves, high moves, hard punches, soft punches, kicks, etc. we can master it quickly. Although this was the first time we worked together, it seemed wed been working together forever. Thats why every shot was finished without more than five takes and some were done in only one take. This is an amazing feat when youre filming action.
Maybe you dont know that normally I have to speed up the camera speed to shoot action with other actors in order to make the fight look faster because not all the actors can fight so quickly and fluently. However, this time Jet and I were going faster than the normal speed of the camera. Thats why the director of photography wanted to slow down the camera speed because we were fighting TOO fast. I told them not to; that we would fight more slowly. As we went along, Jet would punch faster and faster; I would block faster and faster. I wondered if this was a case of us trying to show off to each other. I think, though, that it was more a case of respecting each other. I want to ask Jet if he had the same feeling. Just kidding. Ha ha!
