>>101047638Okay let me explain because this is rude.
I know the video came out around when Monty but genuinely speaking, Monty's camera work came off like someone who had seen that one video by Every Frame a Painting and thought that was it.
The issue with his camera work was that Monty wanted to show us too much while knowing too little. The magic of Jackie Chan was that the man began in live performances and understood when something was going to go bad or look bad, or look fake and how to play to a crowd. It was also physical.
Monty's understanding of body mechanics was bad. It was honestly kind of godawful. And his sense of timing was worse.
So he would give us a shot where we can see everything in terms of the fight. But with no real plans for how the fight would go beyond going with the flow, he would have to throw in cuts or resets to give him the opportunity to go to the next sequence. Some cuts would be jarring. Some cuts would make no sense in terms of where the digital actors were. Some cuts, actually a lot were too late or too esrly.
The resests were worse because it would be a complete stop to allow everyone to stop exchanging and let the other actor go.
Monty was not lazy by normal standards. But by the standards of what he's commonly seen as, he was lazy. Perfectly willing to make everything he wanted to make, quanity for quality, but not willing to really look at it and do the hardest bit which is trim it down and sew it together.
