Slow Moving Torture Chamber
We are having a very interesting week.
August 13 Dani and Jac went in the torture Chamber
August 16, is Dani’s birthday!
August 17 presidential elections in Bolivia.
Things are moving into the future, for sure.
Jac is slowly moving on the task of torturing the long suffering tremendous actress, Dani, in his very dark Torture Chamber. After a couple of weeks of unrelated activities, they finally met on Wednesday the 13 of August, the year of our crucified lady 2025, to shoot some angles of Dani’s nailing to the crossbar.
It takes time to make those shots because of what it involves. Each individual action, like the nailing of one hand, requires many takes and each take requieres work because of the effects. The nail, the blood, the reactions to the hitting of the hammer… all of that. Not easy. And it’s even more difficult when the same person, Jac, is the Actor, the Cinematographer, the Director, the Gaffer, the Special Effects person, the Make up person, the Catering Service, the Set Designer, the Cleaner, the Medic and the rest of the crew.
The nailing scene begins where the previous scene ended, in this case after Dani is lowered to the ground, where she’s sprawled over the cold tiles, all naked, after much torture.
The first action in the scene is the tying of Dani’s wrists to the wooden crossbar. To achieve the full effect of the scene Jac needs medium shots of the positioning of the crossbar, the securing with ropes of Dani’s wrists to the extremes of the wood followed by close-ups of the tying of the wrists, shots of each individual wrist, followed by a medium shot of Dani already tied to the crossbar.
Each shot of every individual action, like the tying of wrists, has to be consistent and has to be done over, and over again.
Jac has to move around the space, a tight space, not very lit, so it’s hard to see what’s on the ground. He could easily step on Dani’s hair, or even her head.
Once Dani’s wrists were tightly secured to the crossbar, Jac prepared to hammer a nasty looking thick nail through her wrists and into the wood. The decision to nail the wrist rather than the palm of her hand, like Jac normally does, came after a nice discussion where Dani suggested for the wrists to be nailed, “it will be a different thing to do, I think”, she argued.
So, it was decided. As Dani laid on the cold tiles, Jac set up the camera for the first few shots of the nailing of one of her wrists. He prepared the effect, the blood, the two versions of the nail, the big full one and the head of the nail that will show after it’s all of it into Dani’s wrist. He grabbed the nasty looking hammer and off he went to make Dani scream in pain as the thick nail broke through her flesh, opening its way through her bones and into the wood, as blood flowed out of her wound.
After nailing both wrists, Jac set up the camera on top of Dani for one last moment for the scene, the raising of the suffering victim towards the camera to end of the scene, which will continue in the next scene where Dani will suffer the Flagelum on her back while on her knees, her body kept from falling by the ropes pulling the crossbar that hold her in a most painful position.
Nasty, if you can visualize it.
But they are not done with the scene. They will return to the set, after the presidential elections this coming Sunday, to repeat all of the actions but now with long shots. The scene will move from the nailing the the flogging while nailed to the crossbar. The scene will take a couple of days to complete, after those awful and extremely painful tortures, Dani will suffer another, nastier set of tortures.
crucifixion1979: I didn’t expect this comment to please Dani. I didn’t really expect it to reach her at all. She’s my diva and muse. The film Cruxtreme III is beyond the scale of the championship. I’ve seen all her films. They are wonderful, but Cruxtreme III is outstanding.
CruXtreme III es Dani’s favorite. She said so in an interview. There was a time, a few years back, when everyone was under quarantine because of Covid, Dani and Jac had all the time on their hands to work. She lived near Jac, a few blocks away, it was easy for her to walk to his place and get to work. No one else could do that so they took advantage of that period of time to work a lot, it was inspiring.
Dani was Jac’s muse those days, weeks, months… he was inspired to come up with all kind of situations to put Dani through. It’s harder to do the same these days because with the props at hand and the way the set is, the work can become repetitious. Jac would need a lot of new things to come up with brand new ideas, they did so much back then. So many movies.
At one point back in those days, Mila joined the team, they worked on CruXtreme IV with her, the set up was very dramatic, Dani was assisting the work, sometimes working the camera. After setting Mila on the Ladder, after stripping her, Jac whispered to Dani who was leaning on him “I feel like doing this to you now”
Soon after they were done with Mila’s film, the trio moved on to make a number of films where both, Dani and Mila, share the extreme suffering.
Cruxlover24 Dani is such an amazing actress, no doubt she is outstanding, but so real in her performances. She is not only beautiful, but extremely talented. It would be amazing to have her in a really strong lead role. It would be so hot to show her as a slave who frees herself from her master after, of course, suffering all sorts of perils. And, at the end she kills her master so she can be free. I bet a lot of people would like a story like this
Jac has a couple of stories with a subject like that, in one of those dramas the slave is freed by her master, with gifts and gold coins. The freed slave goes away happily. In a nasty twist the master’s wife kills him and blames the slave, accusing her of killing her master, stealing clothes, gold coins and jewels and running away. She’s caught as she boards a ship. She’s dragged to the authorities who condemn her to be crucified.
In another story, a slave resists her master’s advances, killing him. She scapes, becomes a fighter, and she’s finally caught in a battle. You can guess what happens to her.
In some way, these two stories, with some changes, are now part of the Crucified Four project.
