I'm the director of 'Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs &

Shaw.'

So the goal here was to really define these characters

quickly for the audience.

A lot of people know Hobbs and Shaw

from the previous "Fast" films, but I

wanted to do something really specific.

So you can see, using this split screen technique,

we got to have these fun vignettes with the characters

obviously demonstrating Shaw being more precise and more

methodical and Hobbs just being a rough and tumble,

get-it-done kind of guy.

You know, the idea that they're different

but they're the same was sort of the subliminal message I

was trying to get.

So to achieve that, I worked with cinematographer Jonathan

Sela and David Scheunemann in production design

to create these sets that were perfect in size

and focal lengths that were exactly the same.

"Where?"

So we could create this, and it

was sort of a painstaking process,

even to that drone shot that you see,

the top shots of the cars.

Like, we really were particular in how

we measured focal lengths to make this happen.

The use of color was really specific as well,

especially in the beginning of the montage,

you see defining Hobbs's world as a little bit more warm,

a little more jovial, a little bit more

human I guess and maybe making Shaw's a little bit

more standoffish and sterile and cold.

The visual nature, again, going back

to this sort of very graphic composition that

is telling us that these guys are the same,

ultimately they just have different ways

of achieving their goal.

We thought it'd be really interesting if we could not

only do something graphically,

but then the first time we hear them speak,

they have these sort of iconic, classic, action star

catchphrases.

"Who the hell are you?"

"Oh, I'm what you call a nice, cold can of whoop ass."

It sort of demonstrates how alike they are but again,

how different they are.

"Who the hell are you?"

"I'm what you might call a champagne problem."

We made sure we defined their fighting styles very

precisely and made sure those fighting styles

define their characters.

So Shaw is obviously more of a technician, more

of a refined martial artist.

So we got to have some fun with some found objects

in the champagne bottle.

You look at Hobbs' side, he's using found objects as well,

but it's in a very different way.

He's taking that tray and just smashing

guys over the head with it.

And it is sort of indicative of who these guys are

as characters, and we wanted to make

it happen as quickly as possible to get

into the movie.

"Would have thought that would have broke."