Will Leitch
Will Leitch
William F. "Will" Leitchis a writer and the founding editor of the Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin. Leitch is a senior editor at Sports on Earth, a contributing editor at New York, critic at The New Republic, culture writer for Bloomberg Politics, contributor to The New York Times, GQ, Fast Company and Slate; and has published four books, Catch, a novel, Life as a Loser, a memoir, God Save The Fan, a book of sports essays, and Are We Winning?,...
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You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
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The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.
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Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.
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People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.
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Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.
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He has the ability to bring other justices with him. He has the real potential to be a leader on the court, in the sense of building camaraderie and coalitions for various results.
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If they had come in eighth we would have been tickled to death. They have the talent. They were the most talented pair team in the competition, it's just that with them being young and inexperienced, you never know what's going to happen under stress. And with young teams, the judges tend to not give out good marks. But they skated brilliantly. They were sort of the talk of the competition.
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I did the same as my mother would have done me in a situation like that.
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Her job was to turn everything upside down to see what might fall out.
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He understands that this is a different kind of process, and he's committed to working through it. That doesn't necessarily mean he enjoys every part of it, or that he is taking anything for granted.
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Being among those who carried him into the court for the last time was an indescribable honor.
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But right after we got out of surgery, we walked around Munich. The next day, I was pedaling a stationary bike. By the third day I was jogging and around Day 5, I ran 5 miles.
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No one is getting paid and the actual program and the system is chaotic,
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There's no doubt it's a viable fuel for generation. But it's no better or worse than any other kind of gas, and there's a question mark over gas generally, while coal remains cheaper without a carbon tax.