The legendary B-movie director made peanuts look like a five-course meal.
Imagine if he didnt have to.
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Albert Pyun is the recipient of Vultures first ever Stunt Award: Lifetime Achievement.
Read about the winners of the inaugural celebration of stunt professionalshere.
In 1990, J.D.
His films were the experimental ground upon which a future of stylized action would be built.
Maybe it doesnt matter.
The magic of a Pyun picture, though, is that feeling of ideas bursting from the seams.
(In fact, two completed movies: He madeNemesis 3andNemesis 4from the same shoot.)
It ends up playing like a big-budget power-ballad music video.
(The Dark Knightco-writer David Goyer also wrote two Albert Pyun films:ArcadeandKickboxer 2.)
The film itself is a prolonged chase sequence culminating in one of Pyuns more astonishing creations.
Sue Prices Alex, holding a goon, falls from a massive structure and shootsthroughthe man shes holding.
The stunt clearly had so little money behind it, and yet Pyuns team pulled it off.
The human body simply intoxicated Pyun.
To me, Pyun didnt sound like a hack at all, Decloux writes.
He sounded like a driven filmmaker who fought tooth and nail for every project.
Imagine what he could have done if he didnt have to fight.
