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You just completed some directing on Spider-Man, and you admit in your book you werent a big fan of the preceding Spider-Man trilogy. What makes the new film different and, hopefully, an improvement?
I think the trilogy up until now was starting to lean far too heavily on CGI for the flying and the action and everything else. It was starting to get away from its silly to say realism of Spider-Man, because what kind of a man can stick on to a wall and spin spiders webs? But, theres a certain amount of reality to it, like there is with Indiana Jones and like there is with Bond. And I just felt like it was getting a little too CGI. My brother Andy and I we work together all the time; hes a stunt coordinator and director as well weve been working very, very hard to work out the flying process. Weve gone back to the basics more basic flying. You see Spider-Man flying for real, and I think it gives the movie a whole new grounding really. It is more grounded than the others were.
Andrew Garfield is a very good actor he is very much in the Daniel Day-Lewis method of getting totally into it, so weve integrated him into as much of the flying as we could, and as much of the action, the poses and the body movement. So youve got all of these really organic movements. When you see somebody flying for real, its far different than a CG one. You see the G-force come on as they change directions, and their arms straighten out, and then their legs flex, and then they pick up and swing again. Its got this whole rhythm to it.
How game was Andrew Garfield to do his own stunts? Could you break it down to a percentage of whats him versus a double?
Andrews very, very game. Weve done a lot of different actions on this some that hes not capable of doing. Weve had to have specialists for movement for parkour and various things that weve been doing. But Andrew is 100 percent game, and if hes not shooting on the main unit, hell be on my unit. Even if hes not called! Hell be on my unit looking at what were doing. We discuss it, and we talk about the Spider-Man poses and thing. Percentage-wise, Id say its probably 60 or 70 percent of Andrew in the movie in the action moments.