Vulture Finds Out About PINES Stunts
For New York Magazine's culture blog Vulture, Mina Hochberg spoke with director Derek Cinafrance (at the Toronto International Film Festival) about THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, and the realistic filmmaking that went into creating this propulsive action epic. In it Ryan Gosling plays a motorcycle stunt driver turned bank robber. In order to keep it real, Gosling learned how to ride a motorcycle to handle some of the stunts. For director Cianfrance, this was both a blessing and curse. As he explains:
It had to still feel like it was in the real world. My inspiration was America's wildest police chases. And we were doing a lot of long takes in the film, because I always think whenever you cut, there's a lie. So we would have these long takes where Ryan would have to park his bike, go into a bank, rob the bank, get on his motorcycle, go into traffic, be pursued by a police officer, and go into an intersection and narrowly avoid 36 cars. And we had to shoot that scene 22 times. Every time we went through the intersection I felt like he was gonna crash, you know?
For New York Magazine's culture blog Vulture, Mina Hochberg spoke with director Derek Cinafrance (at the Toronto International Film Festival) about THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, and the realistic filmmaking that went into creating this propulsive action epic. In it Ryan Gosling plays a motorcycle stunt driver turned bank robber. In order to keep it real, Gosling learned how to ride a motorcycle to handle some of the stunts. For director Cianfrance, this was both a blessing and curse. As he explains:
It had to still feel like it was in the real world. My inspiration was America's wildest police chases. And we were doing a lot of long takes in the film, because I always think whenever you cut, there's a lie. So we would have these long takes where Ryan would have to park his bike, go into a bank, rob the bank, get on his motorcycle, go into traffic, be pursued by a police officer, and go into an intersection and narrowly avoid 36 cars. And we had to shoot that scene 22 times. Every time we went through the intersection I felt like he was gonna crash, you know?