The creative minds behind the animated anthology series dive deep into all the action crammed into the eight-minute short.
Repetition is fundamental to the gaming experience.
You fight, you die, you respawn, you learn, you take another crack.
‘Sifu’ episode of ‘Secret Level’.Amazon MGM Studios
Its also core to the narrative ofSifu, the popular beat-em-up game published by Sloclap in 2022.
They just built that into their mythology.
So then the whole story gets warped around Daves desire to do a fight.
Younger MC in ‘Sifu’.amazon
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Because no one will let me shoot it in live-action!
The thing that I like aboutSifuis its not just about repetition.
Its about the price of repetition," he adds on a more serious note.
Older MC in ‘Secret Level’s ‘Sifu’ episode.Amazon MGM Studios
“Hes trading knowledge for years.
Thats straight from the game.True Detectivealso became an unexpected reference.
I was like, Well, f—ing yes!
MC tracks down his father’s killers in ‘Secret Level’s ‘Sifu’ episode.Amazon MGM Studios
“The irony is no stunt man will shoot on a glass floor,” Wilson says.
And there’s nowhere to hide the wires, it’s possible for you to’t rig up.
I asked multiple times and the answer was always no.”
Not so much a problem with animation, though.
They prevised it up.
Their fight is three times longer.
I told them, ‘Wayne!
I got two minutes.’
The first fight was like six minutes and there were eyeballs popping out of heads."
Secret Levelpremieres on Amazon’s Prime Video streaming platform Dec. 10.
