Death Race: Filmed by Running Cameras Over

In an epoch when most stunt - driven blockbusters are really half cartoon , Death Race ’s director Paul W.S. Anderson insisted on keeping the action real . The shot philosophy was something along the tune of , “ why fuck up up a phoney railroad car when you may blow up a tangible one ? ” So the film feature of short ton of material cars packed with real armour plating and veridical machine guns really crash . And during an interview withio9 , Anderson revealed how he ram down these freak cars into cameras without smashing his film equipment into lilliputian bits .

I want to get the machine to motor into the camera at high stop number , so we build one of my favorite rigs . We built a getup that had a camera and was whole ringed with basketballs . So it was this big giant ball . We beat it in the center of the road , and the car would drive at it . There is a shot in the very first race , when the original Frankenstein drives , where the car slides around the corner , and it looks like it hits the camera , and it does . And then the continuance of that is really comical because the camera just rolls away , bounce away , and it hits the wall .

I do n’t know about you , but I just got a lot more interested in the movie . Read the full interview with Anderson over at io9 . [ io9][Image ]

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