- [X] Jackie Chan himself had come in, wanting to direct the movie, surprisingly enough. He wanted to make it... just a fun martial arts movie.
You decided to take Jackie Chan himself on as the director of the Iron Fist movie, he'd certainly make it a lot more fun.
Danny Rand/Iron Fist (Garrett Hedlund) Screen Presence: 115!
Garrett had done perfectly as Danny Rand and Iron Fist, you were honestly shocked by his quite frankly, legendary performance as the character.
Editing Reroll: 98.
The editing had come out practically perfect, thank goodness!
SCU: The Editing Process
When you first heard about
Iron Fist, you'd been in your sophomore year and a
massive comic book fan for year, having been caught up in the initial wave after the Raimi movies had hit, rewatching reruns of the Spider-Man cartoon every Saturday morning as a kid, reading the official digital scans of the original comics and finding that above them all, Spider-Man was your favorite.
Fantastic Four? They were fun but you didn't remember Doom the the way you did Goblin.
X-Men? Wolverine was the only interesting one and he was
way different from either of the cartoons you'd seen.
Hulk...well, you really didn't get what the big deal was, or what that smoke monster was supposed to be. And
Iron Man? The comic was kinda interesting but you
loved the movie, the movie version being your second favorite hero.
You'd always wanted to know more about the comics, but you never had the allowance to get into them...so you were forced to do the unforgivable and read the summaries instead of the actual comics. It kinda...divorced you from the sense of nostalgia that came with the old stories, but the only physical copies you owned were all of Spider-Man's most important titles, from two or three reprints of the original run, the Night Gwen Stacy died, an old copy of Venom run after Secret Wars, a few of the Avengers comics that had him a member of the team alongside Wolverine, one or two Spider-Girl titles, the initial Spidey 2099 that you found in the bargain bin and a good chunk of the Ultimate Spidey run.
So when they rebooted Spider-Man in the wake of the MCU, you were left kinda heartbroken...and then fell in love with the character all over again, as you finally got to see him in a completely different light. You were happy that Gwen and Felicia were finally done justice, completely blindsided by Luke Cage and Ghost Rider, having by and large failed to get into them despite their compelling storylines in the case of the latter and completely failing to recognize the former...something that happened again when you saw Iron Fist in
Black Cat.
At first you'd been completely underwhelmed with this dude, feeling like you were just watching another version of this dude's character in Tron...and then you watched the movie and lost your gorram mind. Not only had the appearance of freaking Shredder completely melted your mind (Splinter too, but after the fact), but somewhere in the sauce you completely missed how that
Jackie Chan had been the one to make the movie, something you were so
grateful for, remembering all those Saturday mornings you and your brothers rewatched
The Medallion and the
Jackie Chan Adventures...you were obsessed with the action this man's attention to the editing process, something you'd very much began looking into with enthusiasm; for example, whereas the MCU's strengths thus far had been in terms of casting and characterization [even, strangely, the panned Thor movie which wasn't
that bad in the grandscheme of things,
especially if you stitched the deleted scenes in] the Spider Cinematic Universe's strengths had layed in its kinetic editing process their directors tended to favor, making the series genuinely feel like a comic book had come to life.
From what you'd seen,
Edgar Wright had set the overall tone of kineticism that had played well to Garfield's take on Kirby's Peter Parker, giving Spider-Man a sort of manic energy rarely seen in other portrayals.
Tarantino had taken that baton and carried it through to Luke Cage, making them a veritable font of barely restrained rage at the powers that be that felt
earned, making you sympathize with the character.
Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, seeing the work of their compatriots had refined that process the two had set up and made it their own, taking the characters and refining their actions to a honed edge, especially in light to the sheer force of will that Johnny Blaze actually
was as the Ghost Rider.
Guy Ritchie...hadn't quite lived up to the same standards that Stahelski and Leitch had set, unfortunately, but he had managed to take the kineticism that had been displayed thus far and utilized in a thusfar unorthodox method, by taking the action into a purely mental field, showcasing a greater knowledge of the methodologies, and similar traits, a cat burglar would need. And Jackie Chan, having seen the work of his American contemporaries, had taken it as a personal challenge to refine the process even further, channeling it into one of the greatest martial arts movies you have ever seen.
You hadn't realized it that first time, too wrapped up in the action to notice, but on rewatching the movie a second and third times, you slowly began to realize that Jackie Chan had done far more than make a great movie...he'd made the film a philosophical discourse on the virtues of martial arts, of Chinese culture, and ignited a renewed interest in Kung Fu [and martial arts in general] throughout the globe.
So here you were, just barely into your junior year and already thinking about film school...but beyond that, you were
very excited to see what they did with the
inFamous show. Rumor had it, that Chris Miller and Phil Lord were gonna be the directors, and given what they did with
21 Jump Street, you had high hopes for this one...
