![]() ![]() ![]() I re-watched the first two Creed movies right before seeing this one, and I know you worked on Creed II, but you could see a distinction between the fights in this movie and the fights in Creed II. So, we used motion control cameras and high-speed cameras all to kind of emulate that anime vibe. also many parts of the boxing that are kind of told from the boxer's point of view and the boxer pre-visualizes what he's gonna do and sort of studies the body language of the other boxer, and then finds a way to thread the needle and get the punch through the break in the block, and that's all out of anime. It's in the final fight, the second to last round, where they just, you know, the jail bars come in and that kind of thing. It's one of my favorite sequences in the whole movie, and it's something that he said he wanted to do very early on in prep, and we call that sequence The Void. We go into extreme wide-angle lenses, very much influenced by the anime. It's the sound, the natural sound drops out, and kind of just these voices you're hearing, and sheets of sound, and ultra slow motion. It was kind of an all-out battle between childhood friends, and the whole round was heavily influenced by anime. There's and, and there's a very famous shot, now in this movie, that comes from other anime where they're both, you know, punching each other at the same time at the end of round 11, which was a very experimental round in the final fight between Jonathan Majors and Michael B. You know, we watched some anime together. I was wondering, with some of the shots did he give you a list of anime to watch to show you how he wanted some of the shots framed? Jordan has gone on record to say that there are a lot of anime influences in this movie. ![]() For, I think, almost a year he was getting it off the ground before I even got involved, and so, you know, it was one of the great director/DP relationships of my career. So, he prepped for a really long time to make the movie. The friendship turned into a director/DP relationship kind of very smoothly, and he came in swinging with really strong ideas that are in the final movie. And that's kind of how we became friends and have made a connection. The very first time we worked together on Fahrenheit, he was very interested in what I was doing with the camera, and so we immediately had a bond over the camera and his interest in it. He's been on set since he was 16 years old. He was so dialed in with this character, with this story, and he was so dialed into filmmaking because I think he's in the closet and studying to be a director his whole life, you know. KRAMER MORGENTHAU: I knew MBJ, this was, I guess, my third movie with him, and his first movie as a director, and it was a natural progression for him, I think. Jordan because you worked with him before on Fahrenheit 451, and then obviously worked with him on Creed II, but what was it like now that he's directing instead of just acting? I wanted to ask about collaborating with Michael B. For me, seeing it on the big screen, the fanboy in me was like– it was my Avengers, I'll just say. I have the poster for the original just right beside me, so just congrats on this movie. He also discusses the ways Jordan took inspiration from anime, and how that medium shaped such pivotal moments as the final fight scene between Adonis and Jonathan Majors’ Damian Anderson, how they approached the iconic montage scene, and what he’d love to explore if he joins Creed 4.ĬOLLIDER: So first off, I need to get it out of the way, I'm a massive Rocky fan. In an interview with Collider's Nate Richard, the DP speaks on his working partnership with Jordan, saying the experience on Creed III was “one of the great director/DP relationships of career."ĭuring their conversation, which you can read below, Morgenthau tells us that returning to the threequel allowed him the opportunity to learn how to tweak things in a “similar space,” and offered a challenge to do even better than on the previous film. To continue this legacy, Jordan enlisted cinematographer, Kramer Morgenthau, the man behind the lens of Creed II and Fahrenheit 451, to team up once again and capture an all-new feel to the franchise that has spanned half a century. Jordan makes his directorial debut with the next chapter of Adonis Creed. In the latest installment of the Rocky series, Creed IIIstar Michael B. ![]()
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