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Robert Rodriguez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And that moment you cut it so that you're like, I wonder if he's going to make it right. So I go home, I cut it before I even have the visual effects in. I just cut it that night. because I cut my own sound effects. I cut my sound effects in. You can already tell it's going to work. You can already see, even with the bullets not there, you can tell by the sound where they're going to be.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

It's going to work. I call them up and say, dude, this is going to work great. So then I go to the effects guys and I go, okay, there's bullet in this frame and the next frame is here. Cause I used to animate in the next frame. It's there. Then it hits the barrel and then it starts bouncing this way. I want it that clear.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

It's going to work. I call them up and say, dude, this is going to work great. So then I go to the effects guys and I go, okay, there's bullet in this frame and the next frame is here. Cause I used to animate in the next frame. It's there. Then it hits the barrel and then it starts bouncing this way. I want it that clear.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

It's going to work. I call them up and say, dude, this is going to work great. So then I go to the effects guys and I go, okay, there's bullet in this frame and the next frame is here. Cause I used to animate in the next frame. It's there. Then it hits the barrel and then it starts bouncing this way. I want it that clear.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

So we can follow that a bullet was supposed to go in and that it bounced way over there. And then this bullet bounced way over there and they, they send it back and a bunch of bullets come down. No guys, listen to this. I'm going to show you again. I'm going to draw it to you again. Just, The sound will play like there's multiple bullets flying.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

So we can follow that a bullet was supposed to go in and that it bounced way over there. And then this bullet bounced way over there and they, they send it back and a bunch of bullets come down. No guys, listen to this. I'm going to show you again. I'm going to draw it to you again. Just, The sound will play like there's multiple bullets flying.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

So we can follow that a bullet was supposed to go in and that it bounced way over there. And then this bullet bounced way over there and they, they send it back and a bunch of bullets come down. No guys, listen to this. I'm going to show you again. I'm going to draw it to you again. Just, The sound will play like there's multiple bullets flying.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

I don't need to see all those bullets or the eye's not going to know where to go. So then they got it right. Brilliant. And then check this out. I'm going to show it to you twice because you're not going to believe it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

I don't need to see all those bullets or the eye's not going to know where to go. So then they got it right. Brilliant. And then check this out. I'm going to show it to you twice because you're not going to believe it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

I don't need to see all those bullets or the eye's not going to know where to go. So then they got it right. Brilliant. And then check this out. I'm going to show it to you twice because you're not going to believe it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

wow well done you don't even see that in a feature film much less a tv show just as a director well done oh thank you here just one more time and i'll show you something you didn't notice both times

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

wow well done you don't even see that in a feature film much less a tv show just as a director well done oh thank you here just one more time and i'll show you something you didn't notice both times

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

wow well done you don't even see that in a feature film much less a tv show just as a director well done oh thank you here just one more time and i'll show you something you didn't notice both times

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And like this, you got minutes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And like this, you got minutes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And like this, you got minutes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And it's not like you have this whole plan figured out ahead. You're literally in the moment. It's coming through you. But you're seeing it though, right? I'm seeing it because I've done it enough. That's why you really want to learn all those jobs because it becomes a moment like this when the shit's fucking hitting the fan. You got to know how to pull it out.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And it's not like you have this whole plan figured out ahead. You're literally in the moment. It's coming through you. But you're seeing it though, right? I'm seeing it because I've done it enough. That's why you really want to learn all those jobs because it becomes a moment like this when the shit's fucking hitting the fan. You got to know how to pull it out.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And it's not like you have this whole plan figured out ahead. You're literally in the moment. It's coming through you. But you're seeing it though, right? I'm seeing it because I've done it enough. That's why you really want to learn all those jobs because it becomes a moment like this when the shit's fucking hitting the fan. You got to know how to pull it out.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

You could have gotten all those people together and they never would have figured that out. You had one person that had to see it all the way through.