{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Tracksuit Podcast","title":"RJ Cooper - What the Footage Tells You","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3736,"description":"RJ Cooper — Osmosis, Oners, and Editing Three Movies at Once\nJames's longtime editing partner and secret weapon RJ Cooper finally sits down in front of a camera. A USC film school grad who started out designing posters for Batman Begins and Spider-Man, RJ has cut the bulk of James's directing filmography — Survive the Game, Hot Seat, Fortress, Darkness of Man, The Workout, Boris is Dead, and I Have Proof — and the two have developed a creative shorthand that borders on telepathy. This one gets into the real craft: how editors read footage, fight for the film alongside the director, and keep the heart of a movie alive when producers start circling.\nKey topics & highlights:\nHow RJ and James developed their editing language across seven-plus films — and why the first cut keeps getting closer to what James actually wantedThe frame-blending trick born on The Workout and the Star Wars–style wipe transitions RJ snuck into Boris is Dead over James's objections (and won)Hot Seat's unique challenge: building fake computer screens for Kevin Dillon to react to and fighting for every stock helicopter shotWhy The Workout's extreme multi-camera chaos (15 cameras, cell phones, angles James didn't know he had) ended up changing the way both of them shoot and cut foreverEditing three feature films simultaneously — and how he keeps the worlds straightReading a director's signature: James = performance + action + dark humor; Matt Eskandari = relationships; John Keyes = women against impossible oddsActors who gave him gold he had to leave on the cutting room floor: Antonio Banderas and Alice EveRJ's most panic-inducing job: Hot Seat, with its blank monitor problemHis first feature: Game of Assassins shot in China with Bai LingThree Bruce Willis films with Matt EskandariPre-production involvement on Boris is Dead — hired before cameras rolled, suggesting shots and knowing the film needed heavy needle drops from day oneMusic as craft: temp tracks (Dark Knight, Interstellar, always...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GXB1BrvHtzqPeMy9oPiV4lrEb-REsPl41ZU7xEFTsXU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMzUy/YTMyZDU4YmIxZmY1/ZGY1NGEyZDA1YThk/ZTY2MS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}