Robert Rodriguez
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1,180 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Nov
Robert Rodriguez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's going to look like bullets are missing, right? Okay, now I need this part though. I need the part where he's catching the bullet. This little window there. How am I going to do that? With a lens that long, it's going to be all out of focus. It's not going to be slow motion enough. He even knows me and he's like, what the hell am I doing? I say, just lay on the pad and rock up and down.
And as you're coming down, that'll look like you're falling as I'm zooming in. Because I'm operating the camera and I'm cutting this in my head. Yeah. And I'm saying, just do it again. He's like, what is it? Rock up, and then as you go down, it's going to look like you're falling. Well done. Okay, so now you've caught a bullet.
Now, second jump. When you do the next jump, as if we just passed those other moments, you've caught a bullet already. So now you're going to snap it closed and start your turn. It's all you'll get before you hit the pad. Snap, turn, right? So like, okay, this is... I want the cameras to feel like they're dropping with them. That'll give you more of the sensation. So let's actually lower that...
steady cam shot flip it upside down and get a low angle see i look at the sun's right there hasn't gone behind the building yet that and then my camera i lowered my camera down and i got that angle right okay now last jump i bury a thin i said just bear me bring me a thin mattress because i want him to do all the stunts i don't want a stunt guy because he does this himself he just did it in three jumps but the audience will know they'll just be like we believe that this guy can do anything
I want you just to finish by turning and cocking the hammer back and firing before you hit the ground. I'll give you two takes for that. Almost gets it there. Then we do a second take. Boom. That one was probably a little better even though you don't really see it. I've got to go do everything now. I've got to cut it. I've got to add the sound effects myself.
I've got to put the music in myself because music guys would just end up filling it with music and ruin it. Sound effects guys would just fill it full of sound effects and ruin it. I want all the sound to drop out. So as he's jumping, all you hear is the wind in his jacket, the clinking of the bullets as they're bouncing off. So you have this breathless moment, no music, cut the music.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
And like this, you got minutes.
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.
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.
I've done enough times to know that if you don't do it just right, you're going to lose the image. You're not going to know where to follow and you'll miss the point.
Where's their eye? Well, you're drawing it through sound, through picture. I'm going to show you. If you notice, without the sound, you don't really see him clip that thing back.
Watch this. You don't really...
You think you saw it, but you hear it. And so you feel like, see, but watch it. It's actually, he's already finished. You don't really see him do it, you know, but you swear you saw it in a closeup because the sound is in a closeup. I put the sound in a closeup. Now here's another thing you didn't notice. He hits this ground in the first shot. Watch. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
You didn't even notice it because I didn't play the sound there. So if you don't hear it, you don't see it. And if you don't see it, but you play a sound, You hear it and you see it in your mind, right? So check that out now with the sound on and you'll see both those parts play completely different now. Now you hear it. I know you can get away with that because I know editing.
If I don't play the sound, I can go ahead and milk that shot as long as I want. I'll make him be in the air longer, even though he's actually touching the ground by not playing the sound. And that comes from, you said directing, but it's not directing. People can direct and say, this is what I want. But to actually execute it, you need to be a craftsman.
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