Kill and Kill Again (1981) - Bullet Scene

Kill and Kill Again is a 1981 South African/American action film notable for being the first live-action film to use the visual effects known as bullet-time.

The bullet-time scene occurs at the end, when Marduk has died and his chief guard is about to kill Dr. Kane while Steve is climbing up the outside of the building they're in. The guard fires his gun (at 1:36:10) and the bullet comes out very slowly and moves across the screen in a recognizable (but low-budget) early version of the famous scene in the Matrix. After ten seconds of the bullet flying across the room, Steve Chase has gotten up the building, gets inside the room, and deflects the bullet with a metal ashtray. This very low-budget "Bullet-Time-Slice" sequence was achieved very simply indeed, totally 'in-camera' with no post - production effects added at all. The first shot of the bullet exiting the barrel of the gun was shot in close-up with the barrel removed from the frame of the gun locked-off pointing downwards but with the camera also turned on its side, framing the barrel horisontally, but pointing down toward the floor. ( When viewed 'upright,' this would then appear to be pointing at the subject in a correct manner.) A bullet, smaller in diameter of the inside of the barrel, was then dropped down thru the barrel with the addition of a puff of smoke from a cigarette also down the barrel shot at 120fps to create the desired effect. The "Matrix" shot following, of the close-up of the bullet clearly rotating in front of the lens with the camera moving with the bullet and the victim ahead was executed as follows.- A large circular piece of clear Plexiglass was rigged to the camera dolly directly in front of the camera lens with a bullet fixed to the middle of the circular sheet of Plexi. A small electric motor was used on the outer edge, out of frame to rotate the Plexi and of course the bullet. And by then simply dollying the camera with the entire rig down the room gave us the shot of what looked like the camera flying along directly behind the bullet travelling thru the air toward the target....By carefully 'lighting out' the reflections on the Plexi,the shot was accomplished.-( Tai Krige s.a.s.c - Cinematographer ). - Filming Low budget 'indie' type movies do have their advantages,...One has to come up with ideas to try and make the shots work without the use of expensive post production effects....The opening credits seq. with the large orb of the sun behind the Hero going thru his moves was simply shot in the studio with him shot in sillouette against a large silk scrim with a lit red sun ( lots of red filters over the lamp ) from behind the scrim and by lowering the lamp stand it looked like the sun dropping down behind him. The 'wavy' credits were all shot on stills film and projected on to a white silk cloth which was physically waved by hand with the type, or names then shot at 120fps appearing to magically wave around....Dissolves in and out,from one credit to the other edited in finished the effect.

- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_and_Kill_Again

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• James-Ryan
• matrix-effect

[withershandp]

Greetings, this is Shan, I am James Ryan's son. I was wondering where you got all these clips from and if you have any more from his other films? Please let me know, thank you.

[spatulacity1138]

I found the DVD on eBay, and pulled these clips from it. And I do not have any of his other movies, sorry...

[wellthatisgr8]

Not .Bullet .Time .

[elv923]

the best looking guy in any movie .. sooo loved watching him ... of course .. my BF at the time was alittle jealous .. but that was ok ! ...LOL .. NOW .. I am showing these clips to my grandson ....the legend lives on

[Technopunkster]

this guy was the first MATRIX!!!

[kevinflo]

It was my understanding that the term "bullet-time" refers to the use of multiple still cameras in sequence whose images are stitched together to create a circular pan. This is not bullet time, it is a bullet in slow-motion.

[Eddie62070]

one of those cheesy..but..fun..martial arts movies

[kingdarko]

FUCK YEAH STEVE ! 

[ahambrama]

Hey there Shan, tai krige here. These clips postd here are mostly from ZHUDENE & SPATULASITY1138. They must have the DVD I am sure...Its awfull image quailty thoo, but I am sure they coud post more clips since they do seem to be popular. Isnt it ridiculous that none of us who made the movie seem to have copies hey. What about James Ryan, your father? Amason had way back, but terrible quality. We shot it on Kodak 35mm film stock & the image quality was excelent.

LOL & big hugs to James.

[MrWhiskytango]

HHHHAAAYYHaAyHayyyYYYaAaaA. Love it

[Girbegurba]

Is it only me... or is the bullet really bouncing of his FINGERS?! :O

[Manthing32]

im old