The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' fight coordinator reveals how the vampire fight scenes were created

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Countless tales about preparations for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse's fight scenes have been told by and from the perspectives of the actors involved in those sequences, but the words of the coordinator, Jonathan Eusebio, are new.
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Eusebio about his conceptualization of the film's fight scenes, and he admitted finding them to be a bit difficult to coordinate.
Film fighting, he revealed, is "an entirely differently monster than actual, real fighting," and it's more "like choreography, like a dance between the two combatants."
Particularly, he claimed, when it comes to vampire fighting.
"Everything is exaggerated. So when they throw someone, the impacts are huge. When they chase somebody, they're super fast. When they jump, they jump a little higher," he explained. So, he utilized a mixture of "of gymnastics, street acrobatics, running and precision jumping. There's a lot of stuff going on in there. It's not a martial art, but we tried to incorporate its physicality."
Eusebio also explained that the stunts were partially prepared for with in-house equipment, including videotaping the motions on a small camcorder and showing it to director David Slade for approval long before shooting began.