Ray Mendoza

Um, yeah.

Yeah, there's a lot of components to how I came to this. to that. Just wanted to make this way to answer your question. I think it starts with how I got into the movie industry, which is with Act of Valor, which is like the Navy's essentially attempt to grow the SEAL teams.

Yeah, there's a lot of components to how I came to this. to that. Just wanted to make this way to answer your question. I think it starts with how I got into the movie industry, which is with Act of Valor, which is like the Navy's essentially attempt to grow the SEAL teams.

Yeah, there's a lot of components to how I came to this. to that. Just wanted to make this way to answer your question. I think it starts with how I got into the movie industry, which is with Act of Valor, which is like the Navy's essentially attempt to grow the SEAL teams.

At the time, in 2000, right after Red Wings with Marcus, we were losing a lot of SEALs, whether that's them getting out or just dying. So we were gaining, I think, once in a year at the time. It wasn't enough to expand the SEAL teams by any means. So it was like, we got to get the word out. We need people to join the Navy. So yeah, it's active element. That's where I got introduced to filmmaking.

At the time, in 2000, right after Red Wings with Marcus, we were losing a lot of SEALs, whether that's them getting out or just dying. So we were gaining, I think, once in a year at the time. It wasn't enough to expand the SEAL teams by any means. So it was like, we got to get the word out. We need people to join the Navy. So yeah, it's active element. That's where I got introduced to filmmaking.

At the time, in 2000, right after Red Wings with Marcus, we were losing a lot of SEALs, whether that's them getting out or just dying. So we were gaining, I think, once in a year at the time. It wasn't enough to expand the SEAL teams by any means. So it was like, we got to get the word out. We need people to join the Navy. So yeah, it's active element. That's where I got introduced to filmmaking.

I met the stunt coordinator, Scotty Wall, Basil Coy, who, you know, stunt guys turned movie makers or the directors met them met a bunch of other stunt guys other producers Yeah, I started like day playing as a stuntman. And then Lone Survivor came around. Marcus Trowell gave me a hoot. Hey, I'd love you to train the cast.

I met the stunt coordinator, Scotty Wall, Basil Coy, who, you know, stunt guys turned movie makers or the directors met them met a bunch of other stunt guys other producers Yeah, I started like day playing as a stuntman. And then Lone Survivor came around. Marcus Trowell gave me a hoot. Hey, I'd love you to train the cast.

I met the stunt coordinator, Scotty Wall, Basil Coy, who, you know, stunt guys turned movie makers or the directors met them met a bunch of other stunt guys other producers Yeah, I started like day playing as a stuntman. And then Lone Survivor came around. Marcus Trowell gave me a hoot. Hey, I'd love you to train the cast.

And that was my first experience behind the camera, which that's like a whole different world. When you're in front of the camera, especially for the act of valor, everyone's catering to you. You don't really understand how things work. But on this, I saw how it all just like dovetailed together.

And that was my first experience behind the camera, which that's like a whole different world. When you're in front of the camera, especially for the act of valor, everyone's catering to you. You don't really understand how things work. But on this, I saw how it all just like dovetailed together.

And that was my first experience behind the camera, which that's like a whole different world. When you're in front of the camera, especially for the act of valor, everyone's catering to you. You don't really understand how things work. But on this, I saw how it all just like dovetailed together.

And what was very attractive to me was the structure, which was multiple department heads working in kind of concert with each other to achieve one thing. In their case, it was a movie. In our case, it's typically a mission. And so just that was just like, oh, this is very similar. There's like the pressures of time. Someone having to make a decision. For them, a movie making time is money.

And what was very attractive to me was the structure, which was multiple department heads working in kind of concert with each other to achieve one thing. In their case, it was a movie. In our case, it's typically a mission. And so just that was just like, oh, this is very similar. There's like the pressures of time. Someone having to make a decision. For them, a movie making time is money.

And what was very attractive to me was the structure, which was multiple department heads working in kind of concert with each other to achieve one thing. In their case, it was a movie. In our case, it's typically a mission. And so just that was just like, oh, this is very similar. There's like the pressures of time. Someone having to make a decision. For them, a movie making time is money.

We're talking millions of dollars. um some people don't like making those hard decisions uh i do i'm like thriving that shit uh i want to be the guy to make the big decision this is awesome i love this shit um and so yeah it was like just a cool medium to tell stories uh that's probably where you know so then this is 2014 um When this first happened, Elliot doesn't remember what happened.

We're talking millions of dollars. um some people don't like making those hard decisions uh i do i'm like thriving that shit uh i want to be the guy to make the big decision this is awesome i love this shit um and so yeah it was like just a cool medium to tell stories uh that's probably where you know so then this is 2014 um When this first happened, Elliot doesn't remember what happened.

We're talking millions of dollars. um some people don't like making those hard decisions uh i do i'm like thriving that shit uh i want to be the guy to make the big decision this is awesome i love this shit um and so yeah it was like just a cool medium to tell stories uh that's probably where you know so then this is 2014 um When this first happened, Elliot doesn't remember what happened.

So when he woke up, obviously he had a lot of questions. No matter how many maps we drew and how many times we answered his questions via email, it just almost raised more questions. I think because he didn't have that core memory visually, it just raised a lot of questions from big picture questions of why, what, to the little questions of what color things were.