Greatest Fight Scene?

[Johnny Canuck3]

Honourable mention:

 

[The Groke]

The one in Oldboy, in the corridor is pretty damn good.

That would have been my vote too.

Brilliant in every way.

 

[stavros]

Itchy & Scratchy to thread please.

 

[Andy the Don]

This scene from Raging Bull..

Jake La Motta v Sugar Ray Robinson..

"you never knocked me down.."

Brutal..

 

[DJ Squelch]

Custard pie fight at the end of Bugsy Malone.

 

[subversplat]

Fast Show's The Long, Slow Punch-Up

 

[cybershot]

The fight scene in Anchor Man wins hand's down imo.

 

[The Groke]

That would have been my vote too.

Brilliant in every way.

In fact, here it is:


w00t etc

 

[alsoknownas]

The hand-to-hand in the new Bourne film is pretty good (the one in Morrocco).

 

[Maggot]

The one in Kill Bill.

 

[T & P]

The one in Kill Bill.

Which one?

 

[Maggot]

The one where Uma Thurman takes on hundreds of blokes.

 

[norwood]

The wanderers huge brawl with the ducky boys, http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=srTiP71Jz3k

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The one where Uma Thurman takes on hundreds of blokes.

I already posted it up. It's the battle with the Crazy 88.

 

[subversplat]

I already posted it up. It's the battle with the Crazy 88.

Psst. I think it was a joke *nudges with elbow*

 

[gsv]

The wanderers huge brawl with the ducky boys, http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=srTiP71Jz3k

I raise you !
Wimps!

For pure technicolour Queen-scored cheesy brilliance!

oh I'm sure there's another...


GS(v)

 

[Badgers]

Monty Python - King Arthur & The Black Knight

The Princess Bride - Westley & Inigo Montoya

 

[gsv]

Top Secret - bear in mind this is in an Elvis-vs-communist-nazis film

The Living Daylights - the fight in the kitchen with the electric carving knife
(the shit in Afghanistan is just embarrassing though)


GS(v)

 

[Donna Ferentes]

The No Trainers thread is currently a decent-standard fight scene.

 

[agricola]

The Princess Bride - Westley & Inigo Montoya

Best line maybe, but the fight is crap.

 

[Dj TAB]

The Scene in John Carpenters "They Live" where the main dude is trying to get the big black guy to try on his special glasses..

A blackly comic slug-o-rama with some really dirty fighting...

 

[Maggot]

I already posted it up. It's the battle with the Crazy 88.

But you never label your links, so how was I to know?

 

[stavros]

Monty Python - King Arthur & The Black Knight

Seconded.

Also, how about the final scene from Blackadder Goes Forth? That always touches me whenever I see it, but are we counting war as a "fight"?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

But you never label your links, so how was I to know?

By looking at them?

 

[Gavin Bl]

The one in 'Bottom' where Eddie hits Richie around the head with a frying pan, and slams his head in the fridge door for about 5 minutes. I wasn't a big fan of the show overall, but those two could really do comedy violence.

 

[soulman]

 

[Orang Utan]

By looking at them?

exactly! I prefer it when links aren't titled so it's a nice surprise

 

[LDR]

The fighting isn't the greatest but the filming of it is.

The director calls this "the most dangerous long take scene ever." A 4 minute stedicam shot featuring a variety of martial arts.

The crew spent over 1 month preparing and choreographing before they were able to get a perfect shot. When it came time to shoot, they could only do 2 takes per day because of the set repairing and prop replacement that needed to be done. It took 5 takes to get it right. A foreign cameraman was needed because the stedicam mount was built for american / european operators who are typically much larger than asian operators.

The foreign operator they hired could only do two flights of stairs at a time and simply gave up. They decided to use a Thai stedicam operator who physically prepared for a month for this job.

The reason the shot is 4 minutes is because reels of 35mm film are only about 4 min in length.

They shot the first take which had a number of problems with stuntmen cues, and even a stuntman bumping into the stedicam operator. After choreographing more dynamic action, an increase of extras and improving the set, the next take they did was 17 days after the first take.

The second take was better but when the stuntman was supposed to be thrown from the 3rd story, the safety mattress was not completely in place yet so Tony Jaa stopped the shot and saved the stuntman's life.

The third take was just about perfect but just before Tony Jaa was supposed to bust through the last doorway, the film ran out. The director finally decided that instead of simply cutting there, they would try again for perfection.

They thought the fourth take was perfect but after review there were some parts that weren't as good as the pervious takes. They decided on one more try.

On the fifth try, it was almost perfect. But there were 2 miscues. On the 2nd floor, Tony Jaa slams a door into the head of a stuntman and the small glass window on the door was supposed to break. It failed to do so, so they used CGI to fix this. The 2nd issue was the fight just before the sink gets thrown. The timing was off as planned but the end result looked natural so they decided this was the take to use in the final film. Simply amazing.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

That Tony Jaa sequence is stunning, but the opponents seem to have trained at the Imperial Stormtrooper Dojo (motto: 'always attack the hero one at a time')

I'm thinking the greatest fight scene ought to be something that looks like it was a more of a contest, if you know what I mean?

A couple of my favourites have already been mentioned, e.g. some of the classic Bruce Lee fights (although nobody has mentioned Lee vs Norris yet that I noticed and that's still one of the best in my book)

Here's one that you might not think of, because it's got Jackie Chan in it, from the atrociously shitty 'Meals on Wheels'. He's not clowning around quite so much as usual 'cos he's fighting full-contact world champ (in some lighter division than Norris) Benny Urquidez and it looks like they're really going for it in places.

 

[Bernie Gunther]