The Making Of "EVEREST" Behind The Scenes

the story of the disaster that happened  on everest in 1996 really captivated me   there's something so gripping about it and so  fascinating it's one of the great mysteries and   moments on everest anybody who climbs anywhere  in the world knows that and has theories and   opinions on what happened and there is a sense  of responsibility in terms of doing justice to it   everyone associated with this film has been deeply  concerned about its authenticity and honoring the   characters we filmed in kathmandu and actually  all the way up to almost 16 000 feet near the   base of everest so that was very very authentic  and we were in the place where it happened there was a natural progression which i  think really helped us all get into our parts   the foreignness of nepal the religion you know the   the music the sounds the food and  then you get out into the mountains looking at one of the most spectacular views  i've ever seen i just saw a village up there   frozen waterfall right there one of the most  incredible valleys i've ever seen right there   i just went through the town of probably  the kindest people i've ever experienced nepal is a world unto its own it's a beautiful  place but the infrastructure is not set up for   typical movie making most of what you see is  you're hiking up that's been carried up by   hand and by yaks to think about an entire crew  getting up there every morning and the logistics   that it takes to do that is extraordinary there  are times where you have helicopters flying over   one unit to the next unit transferring an  actor to a stunt scene or then bringing   them back for something else or bringing food  to the second unit it was a sight to behold i've calculated we had over 190 to 200 individual  helicopter landings in the approach to mount   everest it totally eclipsed any other logistical  effort i had made in the himalayas i don't think   anybody really knew the magnitude of what we  had to put in place when we got to kathmandu   we couldn't get to the mountains so we were  sitting in the airport and after like two days   we were day and a half behind so we had sort  of batten down everything and just get up to   the mountains and shoot our way out seeing the  crew up there on the mountain every day was the   part that really kind of blew me away i think we  were like 15 000 feet and that's that's pretty   high man it was hard to breathe you would  walk and you take 15 20 steps you're like it's so hard to walk there people don't realize  even in the hills up towards everest you get this   mountain sickness and it's just like every step  is like three times harder than at home it was   dangerous for going up to the memorial and going  too high too fast and having altitude sickness so   you have a camera guy sitting there and you know  he's starting to feel like he has the most severe   flu he's ever had and you're trying to do another  scene but you don't even know your name because   you're so altitude sick the crazy thing is you  know you're feeling those headaches and you're   feeling all that that pain at night and in the  morning and yet you can't wait to jump back in   the helicopter and go up and see the most amazing  things you've ever seen and then realize that   you're still only halfway to the top of everest  and you feel like that if you look right through   that gap there's the summit of everest it is 100  real it gives the film an absolute grounding and   because we shot it at the beginning the actors got  that too so they had a recent immediate experience   of trekking up towards base camp that they  could then use for the rest of the film   with 2 000 feet 600 vertical meters to camp  for it's roped all the way so i know you guys   can do it okay i want you to enjoy yourselves  this is going to be a nice walk up the hill   after leaving nepal we moved straight to northern  italy in valsanales right on the border between   northern italy and austria there's only very few  places you could go to that were going to match   the rock and the landscape under the bright  blue skies because that intensity of light   at everest is what we were hoping for the  cinalis was a really amazing place it's   very cold it's windy a lot of times you  don't have to act you're just trying to   stay on the mountain during scenes yeah these  these are pretty uh windy blustery conditions   it's blowing about you know up to 40 50  kilometers an hour outside here at times   uh pretty miserable a lot of fresh snow blowing  around the temperature is 7.7 degrees centigrade   we have wind that's gusting from 10 to 15  to 20 kilometers per hour it's really hard   on exposed hands and explodes flesh especially  for the camera team and the grips that have to   grip bare metal it's just kind of like arctic  filming conditions it took them three days to   get the wind machine up and uh when it came to  it we didn't need the wind machine it was brutal   it was serious with avalanche warnings and you  know having to move and our sets getting buried   and sherpas having to dig them out and yet you  know we uh we persevered and we got some hardcore   stuff pull up rob back back oh it takes him boom  we had this phrase that i said you know please no   acting you know we are going for the visceral but  the reality of it not putting on a character being   somebody on a mountain we do takes on this movie  15 minute long takes you know balthazar likes to   roll and likes us to experience the elements  and has pushed us in that way i love that   getting as close as you can come to the real thing  is always fascinating there's no substitute for   how an environment really impacts upon  you and whether that's freezing wind or   you know driving sleet and snow and your inability  to to see properly and breathe properly i'd rather   suffer through that knowing that it's going to  look authentic and amazing than be comfortable people get bored of nice times you know that's  like sitting in the sun for for two months you   just get bored you know first day of shooting  minus 30 celsius i mean you could hardly think   it was so cold you know you get through it  in a weird way you know and it looks great   on film you know breath coming out of them  and then the coldness in their their faces   you have to come together when you're  uncomfortable you have to you know and   there was enough chaos on the set and chaos in the  mountains that we all came together we were on an   expedition we were a team you know from day one we  bonded very quickly i mean i can honestly say that   i made friends on this and i know for a fact that  they will be friends for the rest of my life and   i think a lot of that has to do with the fact that  we really went through something together you know   you see the personalities of the characters  come out but you also see the actor behind   it going through a massive amount of emotions in  my own way i got to watch these actors go through   a trajectory of severe emotions damn listen  mate i've checked twice okay i'm telling you   they're only okay half full it was an immersive  experience i think that's what people enjoyed you   know we're able to get through the tough hours and  then and you know and the length of the shoot and   the difficulties these types of films and these  types of shoots don't come around very often   so you know we all went off on a very big  adventure together we all had a very good   time we had a really good time together  and um it's not like an usual film set   if you're gonna make a movie about people  climbing up the highest mountain in the   world you need some sort of rugged individual  to to be the leader of that balthazar cormacker   is the perfect mix for the movie there is a  fearlessness to him he wants this movie to be   massive he wants this movie to feel dangerous  he wants you to feel exhilarated in the process   yet at the same time there's a  huge beating heart underneath it that looks good that's the best  one i call bald the horse because   he's like the he's like the strong man you know  he's he's extremely competitive works so hard   he's not going to put you through anything  that he wouldn't do himself he's a great   leader in that aspect i trained a lot myself  bicycling in a snowstorm at home you know   like just getting myself into physical and  mental state of being able to sustain focus   through this kind of adventure his approach is  so sort of gung-ho he really doesn't want to hear   that you can't do something and i think the fact  that he was an actor first and foremost before he   became a director his sense is like you know i've  been an actor i know what i know what it's like   and let's just do it he's really interested  in not just what he thinks he needs but what   the actors might bring beyond what he thinks he  needs so we're encouraged to bring something new   on every take and once he has what he needs roll a  couple more times and see if things come out that   that he might think were more interesting than  things that he might have thought could be part   of the scene cut for me in the end of the day  everest is a metaphor for any kind of ambition   whether it's making movies whatever it is you know  this is this is the most clearest picture of that   there's only been one other movie before  this film that i've made in my career that   the environment of shooting has been similar  to and beyond anything even more so than the   movie itself the relationships we have  all made together have been incredible   this movie this mountain deserves that i think  universal and working title know that and i think   they are working as hard as they can and have  for so many years developing this project   because they want to do service to all the people  who perished and those who have been up there   somebody to come down safely and  those who wish to in the future   part of being human is reaching out to  try and conquer different things there's   something in the human being who wants to  do what jake does in the movie which is   to touch the top of it i think we've  gone a long way towards doing that there are a lot of my friends now  who haven't got a voice anymore   i want to stand up and speak for them  so that their story is told as well as   possible i believe that those who tell  stories you know are have a responsibility   of doing it the best way they can we went to  new zealand to meet the loved ones of the the   characters in the story jason came over  in september 2013 with the producers   and with balthazar kumqua the director  they all impressed us with their stated   aim to try to make as authentic a production as  possible yeah what are we doing in the planet   everyone i met the first thing they said  was tell me more about this person how did   they act on the mountain how do they speak how  do they move it was really quite extraordinary   i'd never heard there you know this side or  met these people and heard their experience   of it and their thoughts on it all jason  was taking his role as as playing rob really   to heart he wanted to know so much more than  just about rob as it happened in the story   i was working as a doctor in a high altitude  medicine clinic and rob hall and his climbing   partner gary ball were trekking through on their  way up to try and ascend everest rob invited me   not out to dinner but to go and climb with him  in alaska so that was our first date so to speak   so that was that was rather wonderful  he was a natural leader and a gentle man   not prone to making snap decisions he  was a man that i would have followed   in the mountains everybody in our group held him  in very high extent he's just a great guy had a   sense of confidence not just in himself but also  that this whole group was going to come together   and function well as a team our bodies will be  literally dying and i mean literally dying so   the game is can we get you up to the top and down  to the bottom before that happens you sure can in   the 96 year the team that we had was a really  good one everybody got on well they were a team we did not know that that storm was coming go to rob you've got to get yourself down a storm  coming at you is different than a storm coming up   underneath you and so you're in great shape  one second two or three minutes later it's   trying to blow you off the hill weather was  bad and there was still more than 20 people   out at nightfall they're out there i  need help i didn't really think i was   going to live through it i was absolutely  certain i was dead everest during the day   and everest at night are two different places  and one of them you really don't want to be on i have no idea why i opened my eyes as i awaken i can see my wife and children   as if they were just standing in front of me and it drives me to my feet when it came right down to it i just wasn't ready  to die and i was gonna keep moving and keep trying   until i was taken down uh but one way or the  other at that point i was absolutely confident   whatever was required i was going  to walk out of this place back   early in the morning of the 11th of may i heard a  voice and i said that's rob and i just scrambled   to the radio rob you've got to get moving you've  got to come on down i talked with him and at that   instant i knew he was going to die the chance of  rescue if you collapse above the south summit is virtually zero rob used to say  might as well be on the moon he said to me don't worry too much and i hugged my  33-week pregnancy and didn't feel alone   when they all came back to new zealand  i was given a letter signed by all the   sherpas the base camp ones and the  mountains they wrote dear dr jan we're sorry we couldn't rescue rob too much  windy on south coal and then all her names   i've been to everest base camp um when i was  10 so in 2007. when i met people that um knew   my dad i was really overwhelmed by the love and  the feelings they had towards him i did find it   a moving experience because i knew that this  was the closest that i'd ever be to my dad rpg it turned out to be maybe the best thing  that's happened to me in the last 20 years it   saved my marriage it saved my relationship with  my kids i now live much more in the present i am   much more at peace if i knew every bit of pain  every bit of loss i do it again in a heartbeat   i think we do need to shine the lights on people  who do extraordinary things and that is my hope   that people see those things and  think we can do extraordinary things there she is well the film happens in areas where it's very  inconvenient to shoot you don't want to take   axes up there and um you know it's not called  a death zone for nothing once you get above a   certain height so we needed to figure out what was  the best way to do it justice in pioneer studios   the top of it is what we're dealing with the  upper 3000 feet is mostly what we deal with on   the bond stage south coal to climb up to the  southeast ridge the balcony the south summit   the hillary stump where it all fell apart for doug  and rob and then the summit let's do it there's a   thousand photographs of it you know so  everybody knows what it is so you can't   fudge a location to make it work we had to make a  composite set that kind of worked for quite a few   different sequences whether it's a ridge or it's  the summit or the hillary step up to the platform we've got storms we've got snowfall there's people  falling it's big emotional and dramatic acting   sequences so you know it needs you to be in a  controlled environment did you happen to catch uh   the fact that he put pads on i'll just have it be  known when i did my stun on the ladder there were   no pads i just kind of winged it for the summit  you've got to be so specific you want so much   control the reality when people go up ever is they  can only get certain times of day it's all about   how the shadows fall on the mountain and to where  the sun comes from therefore in order to replicate   it you need to be able to recreate the light  it gives sal much more potential to control the   light because during the ascent it's a beautiful  crisp spring morning and that's the whole kind of   gist of the story that it's all so perfect all so  well but you know it obviously ends quite badly the salt we used for the snow in the studios  was brutal i had a lot of scenes with josh uh   so we kind of go through the same experience  and man i mean he's he's a strong man but   he would say how harsh it was you're resorting to  imagination more than the reality of what you're   going through and yet you've already created this  this core group and this core feeling that you can   rely on the mountain timing award it was really  a sum of its parts it's a set that you shoot from   five or six different angles to be five  or six different moments on the mountain i like to call it the hair  extension way of doing it because   doing it all in pan would  be awake you know but like   mixing the the real stuff with things of course  we couldn't do it really because it's too high   really makes for both not only visually but also i  think for the performances makes it much more real   daddy the visual effects supervisor is going to  blur the edges and just sort of gel it together   the way we had really wanted to achieve this was  by building a 3d model of the entire everest area   we would match move the cameras and we would then  take those cg cameras and we would put them in the   actual location on our 3d model rotate it to  be looking in the correct direction and then   you would have an absolutely correct geographical  version of what you would see what it also gave us   was the ability to do these big fully cg  establishing shots that were inspiring the way in   which you can use visual effects is is incredible  and that that taking an audience to real places   through visual effects rather than to fantastical  places is something that interests me a lot the thing about ball is he knows what he wants  ultimately when he gets there and he's not happy   he'll stop the shoot until it's done right and  that's great because he's a man from the snow and   ice so he knows snow and ice which obviously  makes my job slightly more difficult because   he has a very very critical eye but it's good  because it's always pushing us as a department to   try and get it as as realistic and gritty  and visceral as as the story demands   it's been remarkable to see what can be done  on a big stage i found that really reassuring   and really caused me to have such a  high regard for the quality of this team   and their craft that they could take  a synthetic mount in a big stage   and make it look and feel like the top of  mount everest i'm on the top of everest oh we copy you loud and clear rob it's  wonderful to hear your voice up there   i know that bolt wanted to make it as real as  possible so suddenly we're in nepal it was cold   it was -20. every single person who came out onto  the mountain spent days before learning how to put   ropes on and off and how to cramp on and you know  it's there's a lot of there's a lot of technical   work involved everyone rocks up with their gear  and they don't know how to use it to begin with   everyone to learn and to deal with their their  gear because your gear is what saves you up there   with what looks after you you know you know john  hawkes was amazing you know he'd never even knew   what a crampon was you know and but but it's  it's it's those types of things that gets you   focused you find your character and everybody was  committed you can't be too far ahead of you mate   yeah i'll make it down at half the time we did  a altitude simulation when we were training for   the movie all together as a cast and we went up to  what was you know the equivalent of 30 000 feet we   were there in this chamber for 10 minutes uh josh  brolin and i decided to stay longer we thought we   could handle it you know and then all of a sudden  we got out i immediately just went from laughing   and laughing laughing to being really sad sort  of within 10 minutes of being out and it was this   incredible experiment and realization the power  of being so high up what it does to your mind   i'm pretty sure you're just having another look  no i just have they're not filled listen i saw   like mate i checked twice all right i'm an  outdoorsy guy and i never really climbed united   something that never really even peaked  my interest but then going up to just shy   of base camp there in nepal and you're like  oh man i kind of i might be able to do that   am i able to do this and are they treating us  like actors doing a story or they really want   us to be the thing and they want us to go to  boot camp and are we at war what are we doing   once i said yes we climbed mount whitney we  climbed mount shasta put myself in situations   being a guy who's afraid of heights was afraid  of heights that scared me literally to death as our guides on that we had david brashears who  had been a consultant on the film and has been   up over us many times in a guy cotter who also  features in the film and was up the mountain   in 1996 and now runs adventure consultants so the  cast had two people who they got to know very well   who had been through the real experiences of  what we were about to depict but also ongoing   mountaineering experience to help this cast  get into it there was a lot of preparation for   this project a lot of things to learn luckily we  were blessed with david brashears and guy cotter   and many other excellent climbers who  kind of showed us the ropes literally   we did training for these actors to teach  them how to climb and how to look good and   and they did and i think the way that they  took these roles on really impressed me   i have been so deeply affected and pleased by  the level of commitment from the actors to bring   authenticity and dignity and truthfulness to the  characters and to the story everybody afforded   themselves pretty pretty well though considering  most of us hadn't done anything like that before we were very safe and we had all the you know  guy cotter was there to to protect us and and   you know and actually called a day once and  then an avalanche happened later in the day   in the same place where we were filming guys we're  gonna have to we're gonna have to stop i'm sorry   the never land is coming down here down here  big storm came in and if we'd still been up   there we would have all been stuck so i  had to make a call to leave the mountain   which was really tough because we only just  started filming but at the end of the day   that's not as important as keeping everybody safe  so folks we have an increased avalanche risk so   please safely slowly make your way down you lead  a team like that and you are a team leader you   have to be so charismatic but also so trustworthy  and a lot of the mountain climbers that we've met   like guy carter and david since they're all kind  of similar kind of guys they're just so reliable   but so lovely and really caring and  you would trust them with your life

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Keywords: EVEREST, 영화 에베레스트, Jason Clarke

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Length: 27min 24sec (1644 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 02 2020