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Evil
Why award-winning writer-producer Mark Mahon also had to take the helm on Strength And Honour, a story of bare-knuckle redemption.
he most daunting aspect of the film was shooting the day exte- rior fight scenes and making them match. We had two days to photograph the climactic
fight, the location being the moat of an old fort at Kinsale. The sunlight fell into the moat for about six hours a day, and fortunately stayed with us for both days which was unusual for Ireland in October.
Fights are complex things to shoot, and in order to make one punch look convincing, the editor, Kate Coggins, might use three or four shots. I shared the potential matching problems with fight arranger Roger Yuan and kept the fighters back lit as much as possible.
So even when the action moves into shaded areas on the set, the actors’ faces have a consistent look. We shot that stuff with a 3 Perf Arri LT and the Eterna 250D, and all concerned seemed very pleased with the result.” ■
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in any way. If anything we wanted to try to make them gritty, a little dark and as real as possible.”
Keeping it real is one thing. Triumphing against the odds is the stuff of movie folklore, and – for Mark Mahon – the stuff that dreams are made of. ■ ANWAR BRETT
Strength And Honour
was originated on 35mm Eterna 500T 8573 and Eterna 250D 8563
Photo main: Vinnie Jones as Smasher; opposite page: scenes from Strength And Honour with Michael Madsen, Richard Chamberlain and James Brown; above l-r: Writer/Producer/Director Mark Mahon;
cast and crew at the Charles Fort location in Kinsale, Co. Cork; Vinnie Jones in a scene outside the courthouse
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