I'm Gareth Evans, the writer-director of The Raid.
I'm gonna talk to you about one of the scenes...
...which we call "the hole-drop scene."
I wanted to borrow certain elements from different films...
...where it's all trapped in one location and the idea of needing to escape.
I watched Escape from New York and there was a moment...
...where Kurt Russell uses a machine gun...
...to kind of weaken one of the walls and burst through it.
And I decided I'd do the same but using an ax...
...to cut through the hole and drop down into the next room.
We knew we didn't have a big budget for a lot of extras...
...so I had to borrow different elements from, you know, Carpenter again.
If you look at Assault on Precinct 13 there's so much used with sound.
So we feel like there's people outside in that corridor...
...trying to get into the room.
They're under attack from above, below, left and right without seeing anyone.
So a lot of it was kind of created using, like, Foley work...
...and creating a narrative through use of sound.
Our approach to shooting the film was to treat it like it was a documentary.
We wanted the camera to feel like it was over the shoulders of the SWAT team.
We were with them through this experience...
...from the moment they go in to the moment they leave.
When we knew lko had to drop in through that hole...
...and we wanted to transition into that room...
...we decided that we had to follow with him.
We had to take the camera all the way into that space.
We had to do it on a low-budget technique.
So we didn't have enough money to do expensive rigging.
So we had one DOP up on the top floor...
...and we had the camera on a Fig Rig.
And so as lko dropped down through the hole...
...the first DOP would kind of follow with him...
...and push half of his body through the hole, himself.
And then, as he turned the camera...
...the second camera operator stood on a table, waiting for him to come through.
And so then he was able to sort of take the camera...
...from the first operator and continue the movement.
It took us a while, about 12 takes, but in the end we got there.