how crazy is Claudio!
he is an amazing cameraman but is so stupid its actually humurous,
how the hell did he not see that rock he hit! it was massive
can you imagine him just driving along then ploughing straight into it!
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He isn't a clown and it is easy to lose focus and to crash into rocks especially when you are around scenery like that, you just want to look at it because I can imagine it is a bit tedious looking at gravel and your motorbikes front wheel for 8 hours a day
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I think Claudio had the hardest job. Don’t get me wrong I love the series but imagine you have to do all that the 2 actors have do, yet stay switched on and film them both. Often he would plan filming, drive bys and cut scenes etc! What a guy!
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Claudio is Awsome, Obviously I have never ridden that far but have been around a bit and to go from bike test to world traveler overnight and be able to get such great shots is simply amaizing.
shareIt is a little unfair to judge Claudio like this, he has to drive a lot faster than the other two so that he can get them driving past. He doesn't get a chance to stare at the scenery long so he does when he gets the chance. Not entirely his fault that the rock was infront of him. Plus it was downhill.
shareI was more shocked that they chose him after he had the wrong driving licence, no passport (just how did he get to England by the way?) and then he got his box lost, broke his bike?!?! FOOL! Though he was quite amusing to watch, especially at one point on the extras when he talks to the camera as Ewan and Charley drive off.
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I love Claudio, he seems so laid-back and just a very easygoing, cheery person. He's hilarious too.
shareI think Claudio was great. Whenever I watch the show and I see some beautiful scene (like the sunset or a great shot of the guys with a gorgeous background) I have to remind myself that this wasn't a film shoot and Claudio did all of that himself. Pretty much everything we see on that show is due to Claudio's work. I think they did a great job of finding someone who could ride a bike (though not an expert obviously) AND film the whole thing.
Claudio also seems genuinely like a nice guy as do Ewan and Charlie, and that goes a long way in my book! Way longer than motorbike skills..
Russ said he just needed to get a new passport as Claudio didn't have enough room in this existing passport. Plus it's likely Claudio has been in London for a fair few years.
share no passport (just how did he get to England by the way?)
He did have a passport. It was just used so much that there were no blank pages for visa stamps for the trip. He had to send his passport back home, get a new one issued and then his mother brought it to London.
It wasn't that he didn't have one, he just had travelled soooo much that he needed it updated, more or less.
lol yeah i realised that he said that the next time i watched it, should have deleted my criticism :o)
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Cluadio is NOT a clown. I agree that he probably had the hardest job of all. Not only rideing the same bad roads that Ewan and Charley had to ride, but to film it also. And, what a beautiful job he did. Wonderful pictures and he captured Ewan and Charley doing all sorts of good things. The two guys didn't want to film it themselves and I think they found,in Claudio, a very down to earth, eaisy to get along with, talented camerman. So he made a few mistakes. Ewan and Charley made their share of mistakes, plus falling off their bikes.{many times}. That is what made this journey so interesting. Nothing was made up. It was all for real. Claudio deserves much more credit then he got. Jim Simak, the other camerman, did a great job also. Those in the background always seem to get forgotten. Great job by everyone concerned.
shareClaudio may have been somewhat of a clown - but you have to remember that he was just a cameraman that they dragged out of obscurity, to ride along with them. He also may not be the motorcycle enthusiast that Ewan and Charley are.
I was watching it last night, and it seemed that we saw less of him in the last segment – almost like he wasn’t there any more. He obviously was still there, filming, but wasn’t really part of the adventure any more.
Claudio deserves a lot of credit in my opinion. And he did ride the same terrain and distance as the other two.
I do have to laugh at the tagline:
“2 men, 2 bikes, 20,000 miles...”
It should be “3”.
You´re right about the tagline.
Actually I think some people forget that it was 3 guys. Sometimes i forget and then it just comes back to my mind that there was a third man filming all this. And I think he´s done an amazing job. If you consider he wasn´t experienced in motorcycling and then doing this you can excuse all the driving-mistakes he made.
Also his accent is so funny :)
PS: Excuse my English...
That's right, Claudio.
shareI totally agree.
I do like Ewan and Charley, but like you said the tagline is a bit of a contradiction. My admiration goes out to the two, it truely does, but no less does it go out to cameraman, Claudio.
If you watch the DVD extras they include a little segment called 'Claudio's Story,' where we find out that [perhaps] the most serious injury probably belonged to Claudio (not forgetting Vasilly, Russ, Ewan and Charley's).
Claudio in the extra's also mentions that he tried hard to 'stay out of the way' in the sense that it was a story of '2 men, 2 bikes, 20,000 miles...' I respect him for that - but it is easy to forget that apart from the little mishap with the Driver's Licence and his injury, he was present, living through the same scenes, rescuing and aiding Ewan and Charley in more ways than just recodring and meeting the same people they did.
Another person I felt deserved more gratitude than was shown was the Russian, Vladimir, who assited the motorcyclists and support crew through the array of 'impassable' rivers meandering through the Road of Bones in Russia. That guy deserves credit. Credit, that lacked.
But, back to the cameraman. True he did not 'think-up' the idea (of the journey) and put it in motion; he was an accessory to Ewan and Charley's story, but nevertheless an important one, which I find deserved much more appriciation/gratitude than shown. He is a man I truely admire, for recording is not an easy job, especially riding a motorcycle through bogholes in Mongolia. He is a charcter I did find amusing to watch, but far from stupid. No, I must say, he'd be my favourite character in a two man idea/story of '3 men, 4 bikes, 20, 000 miles...'
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