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Mike Smith has directed all of the second-uit fight sequences...
...and along with Kurt, choreographed...
...and worked out every detail in all the fights in this movie, and we have many.
All of them, different style of fighting.
Some with guns, some with knives...
...some with guns that have knives.
They're highly choreographed...
...highly designed. And Mike and Kurt worked hand in glove to create them.
-Good. -What we tried to do was just say:
"Well, let's do something different...
...that's very unique and very cool. And do a martial-arts film...
...that was based on different concepts."
We incorporated all the different martial arts.
It wasn't just one style. Each one is very different and very unique.
Violet's basically a comic-book character...
...and so we get to do all kinds of fun stuff.
Sound speed.
I'm very proud to be a part of this production...
...because of the quality of the stunts that we're doing.
I've never been involved in a movie...
...with this much complex manoeuvring...
...when it comes to the stunts and the fights.
My favourite was the library fight.
When she starts moving, she never stops.
And the sets are so beautiful...
...and the movement is so beautifull and so complex.
And it's less to do with kicking and punching...
...and more to do with dodging and just deflecting.
It doesn't matter about the punch-punch, kick-kick.
It's more about the movement, the flow of everything.
There's just-- The moves in this fight are so cool.
I have to say it's my favourite.
And truthfully, a lot of the sword moves in this movie were derived...
...from rhythmic gymnastics.
Kurt and I were watching rhythmic gymnastics.
And I thought to my self, I go: "Wow, they do some amazing things...
...with these batons and balls and different apparatus...
...that no one really has ever utilized before."
So Kurt and I hired several rhythmic gymnasts.
We'd say, "Here, take your batons and perform."
And there's a move in the chapel fight...
...where Violet whips the sword around her hand horizontally.
End her.
We were shooting guys from China and Hong Kong.
On that move, they were like, "Wow, I've never seen that before."
Well, of course they haven't. It was a rhythmic-gymnastics move...
...that we came up with.
So basically, we were trying to create...
...out own style of sword-fighting or...
It's just something different.
It's inventive. Mike Smith has really come up with....
...a new, interesting combination...
...of different styles of sword-fighting.
And he should be proud of what he's done.
Milla wields a nasty sword.