hey welcome to green light so today we're talking about
the making of ambulance which is one of my favorite directors michael bay
well i love watching heist movies why do people like heist movies i think they like them because
we all fantasize about being criminals potentially all right what would it be like if you were bad
somehow and could you get away with it you always say could i ever get away with a bank robbery
oh i can outrun these or i can i can be sneaky enough to do this but most so most of the time you
can't you know it's the world's too sophisticated nowadays the police are too sophisticated um there
are a lot of sophisticated criminals but a heist movie because it's it's immediate it's tension
it's happening right now and it could get screwed up very quickly and go in the wrong direction
one one bad decision can just escalate and that's what's interesting about it well i
i think it's very effective for actors when you shoot fast enough and you keep them on edge enough
uh because you're you're consistently trying to keep the tension going and which means you
don't want to spread it across a day so long and hours you want to try to keep it compact
because it's hard for them to keep their adrenaline you let them go back to their trailers
to wait to set up new shots you try to keep them on set and try to get through the scene so that
they can keep that tension otherwise you could see that it's not the same when you go later and later
in the day does that make sense they have to it's like it's literally like a boxer going in a ring
um you can't have a boxer boxing all day you got to kind of use them for windows when you
can really get them to build them up well i mean they're playing a lot of different
levels each each one of them i mean uh they're playing a lot of tension but there's a lot of
like you know fear of death fear of getting caught caring about each other
there's different emotional stuff they're playing all these different levels which is
kind of interesting just trying to keep the reality what would it be like if you're on
on a stuck with a hostage and people want to get away and people want to live it's a good
combination um of people and uh i've never worked with yaya i've never worked with the
three of them um before and they all had something very unique to it and uh i think it was a great uh
triple you know to have reactors to those reactors together
well i mean i've always been a big camera person and shot inventor um and um so we did
a lot of new drone techniques that haven't really been done in these movies before and
you know it's just i like imagining visually how i can tell a story differently
it does have its own identity it's it's it's a it is a mass of people and it's a crowd of people
and the freeways and the traffic and the gigantic buildings um the beautiful sunsets uh it does have
a look about it but and i grew up there as a kid so i know it very very well um and there hasn't
been like a real big la movie in a very long time shot there like la playing as a character the
reality and i i always try to uh put you know real ceo seals in movies or real cia people or real
uh whatever real nasa people in my movies um the different movies i've done
this one has like 50 lapd uh police officers so all the swat is real
the sis special unit those are all real undercover people are real
ellie and some of them have real lapd helicopters there's a lot of real police
tactics in this uh that they gave us when you would have a chase like this in the scenario
uh this makes off it makes it authentic and you can't teach this you can't dress an actor
to look this way they just are that way you know and and so i i put a few actors within this this
massive group of of cops so uh you know same with the emt we had a real paramedic on the set we've
seen everything uh there's a scene that's kind of uh hairy when she's doing something to uh
an injured person on her uh on the stretcher i won't say it for for the audience but
that's completely real we had real trauma surgeons like telling us this is exactly how
you do it we're facetiming as we're shooting it so we just try to keep the reality there
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