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You know when the guy jumps from the window and lands on the car?


Why did the car alarm go off, when someone was already inside the car. This made no sense whatsoever, but would have got away with it if noone had infact been in the car, but you can clearly see someone get out and run away after he has landed on it. Just an observation.

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Strange, there was no car-alarm in my version...

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The car got pretty banged up and it probably damaged the car alarm making it go off. It's not unlikely that car alarms go off at the strangest things. Here at new years car-alarms always go off at loud bangs of fireworks and such.

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Haha, there was no car alarm in my version either..

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omfg, i immediately thought that to myself. wtf????

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another strange thing about that scene is how they filmed it. it went from tun looking at him out the window, then him jumping and tun running over and looking down at the car smashed all in one shot. my question is where did the guy go if it was really him when he jumped off or was it just cgi or shot in shot

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it went from tun looking at him out the window, then him jumping and tun running over and looking down at the car smashed all in one shot. my question is where did the guy go if it was really him when he jumped off...


This has been bothering me as well. It didn't look like it was CGI. If I'm mistaken and it is really CGI, then I say "Bravo!" to the guys who were responsible for it.

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It's probably a hidden cut just when the camera tilts downward. It's a quick camera movement, and it would'nt be too difficult to make it look like a continous take. That's what I think, anyway. It was well done, no matter how they did it.

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True, I'd have to rewatch it just to see it closely but you're probably right.

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The car alarm is in the version on Netflix as well. I thought it was either tripped on due to the collision or one of the cars next to it.

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No alarm from car when I watched this movie.


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There was no alarm going off. If there was though, it would obviously be the one next to it.

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There was no car alarm in my English subtitled version. That scene was technically very impressive. A convincing single take with no CGI. Anybody know how they pulled this off?

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It could have been a stunt man on the ledge jumping into a net on a frame protruding from the flat below. When he lands in the net they haul him in. They tend to take crazy risks in Asian films and quite often people end up in hospital.

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That sounds incredibly dangerous. I think they cut when it looks out at the scenery.

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Instantly reminded me of the window jump from The Man From Nowhere (2010). Excellent film making.

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I just saw the hi-def Thai version (subtitled). Yes, there absolutely is a car alarm, which'd make sense for when someone would fall on a car, the energy would rock the car, and set off the alarm - even trucks rolling by do that to some alarms.
As far as the (really good) camera work, I ain't a cinematographer but I'd guess 2 cameras rolling in synch, #1 doing the shot of the actor jumping off (onto airbags), following him to the edge - then camera 2 kicks in later, showing the staged body on the car roof. Good shooting regardless.


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