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Rapturous Action

Top: The crew
shoots a fight
sequence
between Rila
Fukushima and
a stunt fighter
at a Buddhist
Temple.
Bottom, left
and right:
Wolverine
teams up with
a young fighter
named Yukio
(Fukushima),
whose
employer is
Yashida, a man
Wolverine
saved long ago.

ence. This had the added benefit of also
lighting the greenscreen. “For the direct
sun source, we used two 20Ks, each on
an 80-foot Condor, for coverage,” says
Emery. “In front of one of the 20Ks was
a rotating propeller blade to simulate
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[the effect of ] going under bridges.” A
track system allowed for black curtains
to be brought in as negative fill or white
curtains to provide bounce fill from
several 20Ks.
Spicer used 23' and 37' Super
Scorpio Technocranes to capture fast,
sweeping shots on wide lenses alongside
and over the top of the mostly prone
cast. “I also wiggled the wheels for the
duration of each shot to add some
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roughness, and occasionally Ritter fans
would be aimed at our cameras and at
the actors and stuntmen,” he adds.
One of the film’s largest and most
complex fight sequences pits Wolverine
against dozens of motorcycle-riding,
sword-wielding ninjas. Shooting took
place on an exterior set called the Ice
Village, ostensibly a snow-covered
mountain village. The set was
constructed on a 107,000-square-foot



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American Cinematographer - August 2013
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Wild Horses
Production Slate: The Hunt • Berberian Sound Studio
Big Guns
Battle Bots
Rapturous Action
Shattered Past
Post Focus: Under the Dome
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Stuart Dryburgh
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