VaRaces: "A new car chase featurette video looks at Tom’s prowess behind the wheel in some behind the scenes footage of the chase, proficiently powersliding and performing handbrake turns in the substantial slab of American muscle all by himself : "We had a car chase with one great resource - an actor who is a professional driver," director Christopher McQuarrie explains. “If the camera wasn’t in danger, the shot wasn’t worth doing.” We here at VaRaces approve of that mentality."
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Imagine it as a indie film maker, you mess up just a lens and you feel screwed. But also imagine what they do, taking all the precautions to make sure the camera is safe. If Hollywood did that, perhaps lower budgets would appear.
I'm a great fan of classic Hong Kong action movies and they usually had very small budgets, but still managed to outdo their hollywood equivalents by just being ingenious and imaginative...
It can't be that hard to find ways to prevent big expensive cameras from getting destroyed. They even have Go Pro style cameras to fit into places now.
I learned a lot from Bey Logan's commentary in the Dragon Dynasty dvds. Good stuff. :)