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They are short, scrappy and involve grabbing of clothes, wild kicks and punches and flailing body shots.
So why then, in movies, do punch-ups last ages and they act like they're professional stunt fighty dudes?
Utter pony.
One decent movie punch-up is "They Live" by John Carpenter.
Lasts 7 minutes because "I wanted to make the most ridiculous, moron fight scene ever", and it is.
But it always happens.
Except in Fight Club, that is realistic.
Watch the narrator 1st smack Tyler Durden "Ow man, you hit me in the ear!", and they are throwing each other about, grabbing hair and using stuff lying around.
Movie fights are rubbish.
They are short, scrappy and involve grabbing of clothes, wild kicks and punches and flailing body shots.
So why then, in movies, do punch-ups last ages and they act like they're professional stunt fighty dudes?
Utter pony.
One decent movie punch-up is "They Live" by John Carpenter.
Lasts 7 minutes because "I wanted to make the most ridiculous, moron fight scene ever", and it is.
But it always happens.
Except in Fight Club, that is realistic.
Watch the narrator 1st smack Tyler Durden "Ow man, you hit me in the ear!", and they are throwing each other about, grabbing hair and using stuff lying around.
Movie fights are rubbish.
Choreographed fights in boxing movies, now there's something to moan about. I know it has to be interesting, but how about a little realism??
In many of the older films we saw as kids, mostly Westerns, given my Nan's love of the genre, fight scenes involved little more than hugging each other, and rolling around in the dirt, kicking up an awful lot of dust.
Modern TV shows of the time, like The A Team involved punches and stuff.
So we 'discovered' that old fighting was rubbish, and punching is something new to our generation. :-)
I have never, ever seen two blokes circle each other and fly backwards over cars when smacked.
They look stunned and annoyed, then jump at the other person, delivering really really crap kicks.
And it usually ends up with them on the floor, before someone gets up and runs off.
Or, if movies are to be believed:
Punch!
LEAP backwards
Circle each other, shaking head and wiping blood from mouth
Punch!
LEAP sideways
Circle each other
Punch!
FALL through a coffee table, then get up and wipe blood
Circle each other
I mean really...
I don't want to see a pi$$ed up fatty having having his lower back slapped while his t-shirt is pulled over his head and his beer gut is on show, while i'm watching the telly.
Screw realism. If films were like watching real life, they wouldn't make such good escapism.
If I'm watching a fight on tv, then I expect brilliantly choreographed fights between tiny supple chinese people, that have more in common with dance than they do with a "real" brawl.
And those fighting on my tv feel the need to float from roof top to rrof top and run up walls or fight on wooden piles, then so be it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are beautifully choreographed and supposed to be balletic.
I'm talking about the bog standard, hollywood action moron type of fight.
As much as I enjoyed Gladiator, he took some pounding and still won.
Seemed a little suspect to me.