How to Cut a Scene Longer

The one sequence that got compressed the most was Gabriel fighting grace. We really did take it down to the bones I would say it's a quarter of what we had originally something like that because you are more interested in Ethan fighting Paris. One of the challenges was making the sword fight between Ilsa and Gabriel long enough so that it was satisfying but not short enough that it was inconsequential. The music cue which felt like she was on top and she is on top for a lot of the fight and then she isn't for a few minutes at all. You do want the music to be telling you this is building to something right rather than she's on top.