Recently, I’ve been mindful of how long fights are in movies.
Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords. Maybe even walking around each other. I don’t think that’s how a real sword fight would look.
Fights where it’s mostly talking. Talking and talking. Nobody would fight like that.
Fist fights without a smack and dead. It’s fancy movement - only because of the shaky camera and cuts of course. Give me back Jackie Chan or smack them once and they fall over.
I also dislike noticing the wire-guided movements. Fast acceleration and you can see them balancing in the air lifted by wires. Wires removed after-the-fact, but it’s such unnatural movement.
And of course, the classic gunfight where nobody hits anything.
Or any monster chase or fight. If a giant monster chases you it’s faster and instant-kills you. But not in movies.
Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords. Maybe even walking around each other. I don’t think that’s how a real sword fight would look.
I think the movie was called The Duelist it had some of the best sword fighting in a movie. Both fighters where super cautious care with each move so that half the scene was them waiting and measuring followed by a quick exchange and then back to caution and circling.
Recently, I’ve been mindful of how long fights are in movies.
Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords. Maybe even walking around each other. I don’t think that’s how a real sword fight would look.
Fights where it’s mostly talking. Talking and talking. Nobody would fight like that.
Fist fights without a smack and dead. It’s fancy movement - only because of the shaky camera and cuts of course. Give me back Jackie Chan or smack them once and they fall over.
I also dislike noticing the wire-guided movements. Fast acceleration and you can see them balancing in the air lifted by wires. Wires removed after-the-fact, but it’s such unnatural movement.
And of course, the classic gunfight where nobody hits anything.
Or any monster chase or fight. If a giant monster chases you it’s faster and instant-kills you. But not in movies.
It’s certainly prevalent.
Akira fucking Kurosawa, on the other hand…
I think the movie was called The Duelist it had some of the best sword fighting in a movie. Both fighters where super cautious care with each move so that half the scene was them waiting and measuring followed by a quick exchange and then back to caution and circling.
This one?
“Or any monster chase or fight. If a giant monster chases you it’s faster and instant-kills you. But not in movies.”
Monster: struggles to catch a running humans
Monster in next scene: catching up with a car pretty easily
Speed always kills me in things.