“Well made action pictures, the action sequences don’t exist in a vacuum. You don’t have enough time in the telling of the tale to have character scenes a lot of times. So you’ve got to have your character building during the physical action, which is hard to do.”
– Jonathan Hensleigh (Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Jumanji, Armageddon, The Punisher)
Great reminder. Who doesn’t get bored witless in those car chase sequences that go boom at the end? Will think about sequences where the character is building at the same time. Hmmm…