Genre/Fight Research PP#4
Storyboards are about 60% done, and with that, I have reached the fight scene. I talked about this before in a previous post, and it is indeed tricky, so some research regarding not only the fight scenes but action genres, in general, must be done. Let's do this.
The first order of business is to evaluate a couple of movies within the action genre, which is most related to my film. I guess one could argue that mine is sci-fi considering how there is a technological/VR aspect involved, however, I believe that since the main focus of this narrative project is the fight, it'd be most practical to look at this as an action scene, and therefore look at some action movies. A couple that immediately came to mind were The Matrix, Nobody, and John Wick. All these movies have their own sorta subplot genre mixed in with their overarching genres, like The Matrix is no doubt an action movie, but also has sci-fi mixed in there. Same with John Wick, which is famous for its action scenes, but also has some thriller elements as well. I want to follow the same theme in which my main genre would be action, and have other genres, like sci-fi mixed in as well!
Looking at these movies, they all somewhat follow the idea of the hero's journey. The most explicit can be seen in The Matrix, in which Neo travels to unknown territory with the aid of a supernatural force, and comes back to the world he's familiar with. The same can somewhat be seen within John Wick, in which John Wick embarks on a mission to avenge his wife and dog, and proceeds to head home with a new pitbull after a job well done. Now although my film is a lot shorter than these films mentioned above, mine would most definitely follow a somewhat similar format. The main character would garner supernatural object, which then forces him into a new world. He explores it, fights the tutorial, and ends up dying at the end (I've been thinking of an ending for a while, I'll update when it is fully fleshed out, however, I believe the main character would actually die >:D). But yeah, these movies within the genre are the ones I planned to follow. Now time to research some fight scenes.
Up until now, I've actually only seen tutorials and YouTube videos regarding fight scenes, but I actually haven't delved into them in terms of movies. So now I plan to look at a couple of fight scenes and analyze them in order to see what I could learn and potentially utilize within my film.
One of my favorite ones is the bathroom brawl within Mission Impossible: Fallout. Click here if you wanna check it out, it stars Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill going up against their enemy within a public bathroom, somehow being one of the coolest scenes in the entire franchise, despite being taken place... in a bathroom. But there are actually a couple of takeaways from the clip.
Firstly, in a couple of the shots, you can actually see some padding interwoven within their clothing, which was most likely implemented since the individual with the gray suit takes some pretty rough hits. But mainly what I wanna focus on is the fight itself. A lot of the fights here are stacked, and they seem to be heavily planned as Tom Cruise weaves some of the hits toward the end as he crashed into a cement wall with his enemy. A large portion of this fight scene, and what I believe makes it so good, is the fermented realism it has. These men fight really slowly, but not in a bad way! They have tons of power within their punch, which is a lot different than other fight scenes, like ones from Jackie Chan which tend to have more speed and agility. I think I'd want to find a balance between the both. I want the hits to be large and powerful, but since the actual setting of where the two of my characters are fighting is a video game, it could be fast while still emphasizing power because it's a video game!
The next one I wanna check out is this one from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, click here. One part that I really love about this scene in particular is the use of slo-mo, along with the action of the camera. The camera and setting feel ultra tight, which I feel adds the idea that the viewer is along for the ride and is actively involved in the fight. I like this, and most likely will implement it into my film. And the slo-mo seems really cool, and doesn't actually disrupt the flow of the fight.
-Noa
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