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- At io9, we love to
talk about first fandoms.

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I want to hear, what
are your first fandoms

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that made you fall in
love with filmmaking,

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and also that kind of informed you?

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- "John Wick's" oozed these things.

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Like, if you can't see
that I love Kurosawa.

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Yeah, I mean, my framing,
composition, storytelling,

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that's what "Yojimbo"
and "Seven Samurais" so,

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even some of his more obscure
ones are in this movie.

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You watch Sergio Leone and you know,

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okay, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,"

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"A Fistful of Dollars," "For
a Few More Dollars More,"

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so we're all over this thing.

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Whether it's John Ford or Clint Eastwood,

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you can see the Western influence.

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You can see Toshiro Mifune in this,

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you can see Shintaro
Katsu from "Zatoichi,"

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you can see...

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I mean, if you can't tell
I'm a Wong Kar-Wai fan

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or Zhang Yimou fan from
"Grandmaster" to "Hero,"

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like, come on, right? (Sabina laughs)

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From Muja, Chinese kung fu
wire work fantasy films,

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to Chanbara Samurai,

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you know, Zatoichi films with,

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any of the great cast members in that.

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To Kurosawa, to, you know

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some of the seventies back from
"Le Samourai" "Point Blank"

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"Bullitt," "The Great Escape,"
Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin.

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These are the things that really just,

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I can't not watch these
movies when they come up.

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I can watch "GrandMaster"
over and over again

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for the blacks.

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I can watch "In the Mood for
Love" again for the reds.

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And you're just like, how does
he tell stories with color?

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And you watch "House of
Flying Daggers" or you watch

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"Ashes in Time" or you watch "Hero"

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and you see, whether it's Wong Kar-Wai

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or Zhang Yimou or Duniya
or Jet Li or any, you just

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how can you not fall in
love with this stuff?

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- Oh, for sure.

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- I mean, how can you not watch

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Tuco and Blondie and Angel
Eyes in "The Good, The Bad,

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and The Ugly" and go, that is epic.

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What am I watching?

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And of course, one of my
first all-time big fandoms,

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I watched "Lawrence of
Arabia" with my dad once,

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and I was like what? I
didn't even understand it.

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I didn't even understand
how something so big, so...

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I mean how a TV..

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I remember I was very young when I saw it.

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Just so influenced by
the shots of the desert

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and the train blowing up and

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Peter O'Toole's performance and the match,

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I remember that cut before I even knew

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what editing and cuts was.

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So now that's why you see
Laurence Fishburne take in.

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And of course, you know I made
the whole production leave

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from Paris when we went to Aqaba, Jordan

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and we shot literally
in the Wadi Rum where

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they shot one of the sequences
from Lawrence of Arabia.

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David Lean, is one of my
all time favorite directors.

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