For 15 years, Terry had been one of Europe's leading film stunt coordinators, designing, planning, budgeting and choreographing action sequences to fit the director's requirements.
After a prologue corny enough to be banned from the Atkins diet, Mr. Yeerum hurls himself through "Ong-Bay Muay" with an expenditure of breathtakingly realized physicality that Gower Champion would love, especially if he were choreographing action sequences.
Her most famous work, though, is Meat Joy, in which four men and four women perform choreographed actions to music in their underwear, then end up writhing on the floor in a heap, covered in paint and scraps of paper, cavorting with raw sausages, chicken and fish.
The actors and their intimacy coordinator practice, over and over, until the choreographed actions become routine.
"The rhythm of movement from the choreographed actions of massed participants becomes a source of creativity in itself, extending perception of the immediate setting," the Vimeo description says.
And it looks like audiences can look forward to some meticulously choreographed action scenes.
The vigorously choreographed action finale remains the author's special calling card.
By that point the director, the astonishingly productive Johnnie To, has crammed in enough terror, tears and choreographed action for a half-dozen films.
Long takes allow conversations and interactions to play out in real time, the camera panning sedately back and forth through the impressively choreographed action.
Disappointingly though, Infinity Ward's latest offering is mostly the familiar CoD routine of boots-on-the-ground combat in long corridors of choreographed action.
Best of all, the scenes of Pollock creating his famous drip paintings offer the same thrill as watching brilliantly choreographed action-adventure sequences (Holden).
