MORTAL KOMBAT 1995 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2021

[Music] in this modern day of filmmaking video game adaptations have become more and more frequent being received with mixed reactions back in the 1990s however there were only a handful of adaptations out there including the ever infamous mortal combat film series while the movies have fans and include one of the greatest opening themes of all time there are some issues that simply can't be ignored certain moments that were once minor now stick out and are harder to look at than a fatality you are watching a new episode of how they changed and here are some interesting things from the mortal kombat movie sean connery was the first choice for the role of raiden connery however turned down the role as he wanted to play golf and wasn't interested in a physical role christopher lambert his fellow cast member from highlander 1986 and highlander 2 the quickening 1991 got the part instead danny glover was also considered for the role the locations in thailand were so remote they were only accessible by boat cars crew and equipment had to be transported by long canoes an outhouse was built in a secluded area near the set so that the crew didn't have to make constant trips to and from the mainland onset injuries were surprisingly minimal despite the amount of action involved consisting mostly of painful bruises and some broken ribs the worst injury was when lyndon ashby johnny cage mildly bruised his kidney in his fight scene with scorpion chris casamassa kerry hiroyuki tagawa was the filmmaker's first and only choice for the role of shang tung he came to the audition in a costume and read his lines while standing on a chair shan soon was depicted as relatively younger in the film in order to avoid the excessive makeup that would have been required to duplicate his aged appearance in the game [Music] since paul s anderson had no experience filming fight scenes he shot the first fight sequence in wide continuous shots after multiple takes the actors were completely exhausted so robin's show lou kang told anderson the secret of the trade white shots are generally used for only a few seconds whereas the rest of the scene is filmed as a series of short close-up shots filming the fight scenes became easier after anderson realized his mistake [Music] originally the character of kano was japanese american however ed boon one of the creators of the computer game and john tobias were so impressed with how trevor goddard portrayed him that they retconned cano's history in future games to make him australian which they thought was goddard's nationality they later learned that although goddard gave kano an australian accent goddard himself was actually born in england but he claims to be of australian [Music] descent the film was originally due for a may 1995 release but was pushed to august after test screening audiences locked with this saw but thought there weren't enough fights extensive reshoots were done to extend the johnny cage vs scorpion fight as well as add in the fight between lu kang and human reptile in the original card of the film johnny cage was supposed to defeat scorpion with the shadow kick in the forest as opposed to being sucked into a portal created by the latter this is most evident in the novelization of the film when the fight does indeed end with the aforementioned cake even early tv spots of the film show cage making contact with scorpion and no portal appearing as for the reptile scene it originally ended with his reptilian form being sucked into the gargoyle body as seen in the final cut but not actually morphing into the green ninja basically this implied that the gargoyle had become his tomb and no actual fight took place also confirmed in the novelization ironically these two fights are considered to be the best of the film most likely because robin shu was the exclusive fight choreographer for the reshoots as opposed to the credited choreographer pat e johnson for these fights shu used wirework martial arts techniques that he had employed as a stuntman in hong kong although these techniques became mainstream following the release of the matrix 1999. mortal kombat was actually the first big hollywood film to use them at around six minutes of the original movie steven spielberg an avid fan of the mortal kombat series was set to make a cameo appearance as the director in johnny cage's first scene however scheduling conflicts forced him to back out nonetheless the director character in this scene does resemble spielberg which is most likely a reference to this director paul w s anderson was so nervous for the movie's premiere that he went on a holiday to hawaii ending up in the middle of absolute nowhere to get away from potentially bad news he quickly regretted this when he read that the movie opened at number one after a 23.3 million weekend the second biggest august opening in history at the time but he chose to stay since the trip had all been paid for the movie enjoyed a three-week run at the top of the u.s box office the producers were rejected by both sony and virgin records for producing the film's soundtrack they wanted to use electronic dance music whereas the record companies insisted on popular artists like van halen and janet jackson the producers finally went with tvt records a relatively small record company at the time and the soundtrack became the first platinum edm record ever in history [Music] the original screenplay for the film was more faithful to the game in that it had graphic violence and strong language making it a r rated script however the deal that the producers had with new line cinema included that they deliver a pg-13 movie to keep the film accessible to the target audience mostly teenagers director paul w s anderson credits christopher lambert for smoothing over his first job on a big movie lambert a veteran of several hollywood blockbusters never got overwhelmed by the large scale of the production and his laid-back attitude positively influenced the other less experienced people on the set even ed boone co-creator of the original video game admitted that lambert did a great job despite not being asian like the character's depiction in the game since lambert was the most expensive actor on set the production could only afford him for a few weeks of close-ups in an la studio a stand-in would be used for the wide shots filmed in thailand however lambert believed that the movie would be better if it was him all the time so he came to thailand for no extra charge he even paid for the rap party afterwards the coined phrase flawless victory a match where the vector sustains no attacks from their opponent was used regarding four matches in the film however only two of the matches meet the criteria sub-zero's first match against a henchman and johnny cage's match against goro scripted but not filmed was a scene where chanson allowed the combatants a knight to bury arthelene and mourn his loss they buried him in the garden of statues underneath the statue of kun lao this is the only place where kun lao appears in any of the movies also scripted but not filmed was a battle between sonia blade who wins naturally and jade another of shan tsun's bodyguards after seeing the first two mortal combat games producer lawrence kasanov who nicknamed it star wars meets and the dragon was convinced it would make a great movie and perhaps even television series however due to the commercial and artistic failure of previous game adaptations especially super mario bros 1993 and double dragon 1994 his enthusiasm was shared by very few people and that's all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with friends take care

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Length: 10min 5sec (605 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021