Last time, Pigo explained the "Top Ten Textbook Fights" selected by the world-famous magazine "Black Belt" for action movies.
This ranking is mostly for 90s films, and many of the wonderful action scenes in the films after 2000 were not selected, which also makes many fans regret.
Therefore, Pigo today combined the opinions of all aspects of the fans to comprehensively select a new action film "Top Ten Textbook Fights"
The selected films are all post-2000 films, and take into account the action movies of Southeast Asia and Hollywood, but "in the eyes of a thousand people, there are a thousand Hamlets", you can see if there are any favorite movies selected -
10
"Uncle" (also known as "Lonely Hero"): Yuan Bin broke into Longtan alone
"Uncle" is a retired work of The Korean male god Won Bin, written and directed by Lee Jung-fan, released in 2010.
Telling the story of a retired agent who kills a neighbor who is kidnapped by the underworld, the film introduced the Chinese mainland on September 16, 2011, and changed its name to "Lonely Agent".
South Korean men are required to perform compulsory military service when they reach conscription age. Yuan Bin enlisted in the army on November 29, 2005, refused to apply to be a literary soldier and volunteered to go to the front.
Due to his hard work in the army, he suffered a knee ligament injury and was discharged from the army early on June 7, 2006, after which he underwent 13 months of rehabilitation.
Perhaps it is this service experience that has significantly improved Yuanbin's skills, and in the film, he breaks into a scene of the underworld's lair alone, relying on a dagger to kill all sides.
In the face of a group of underworld minions, just like a tiger into a flock, first use a gun to kill the first few, and then use a knife to stab the minions to death one by one.
After solving the little minions, Yuan Bin has to face the Thai bodyguard with the strongest fighting ability.
This character is played by Thai action star Tanahyong Wang Trakul, whose weapon is a claw knife.
Tannaryon Wang Traku was 40 years old at the time, but he looked like he was in his early 30s, and his agility impressed the audience and created this classic action scene.
9
"Mission Impossible 6: Total Disintegration": Brother Tang, Da Chao VS Yang Liang toilet close-quarters hand-to-hand combat
In Tom Cruise's 2018 episode of Mission Impossible 6, there is a toilet fight scene. It's a Chinese-style close-quarters hand-to-hand combat.
Brother Tang and "Big Super" Henry Cavill hit each other in two and one, and were both beaten to death by a killer played by Yang Liang. And this drama is also what Yang Liang won.
Yang Liang learned martial arts at the age of 8, won the second place in the National Wushu School Competition in 1995, and joined the Heilongjiang Acrobatic Troupe in 1996. In 2004, Yang Liang settled in the United Kingdom, opened a martial arts museum in the local area, and got a qualification certificate within 2 years, joined the British Stunt Actors Association, and began to work as an action director and stand-in in Hollywood, and served as a stuntman in many film and television works.
As a result of his participation in 2014's Edge of Tomorrow, Yang Liang became acquainted with Tom Cruise and was invited to serve as the action director for Mission Impossible 6.
During filming, the director and producers felt very stunned after seeing Yang Liang's action demonstration, and Brother Tang himself decided to let him star in the classic toilet fight scene in the film.
The action design of this fight scene contains a lot of Chinese kung fu elements, and Yang Liang's movements are extremely fierce, and he does not fall behind with one enemy and two enemies. Although the figure and the two strong men are not dominant, they are agile, which catches both of them off guard. In the fight, the setting in the toilet was also dismantled and used as a weapon, as if seeing the shadow of Jackie Chan's movie.
8
Rush 3: GearIng Up: Keanu Reeves Weapon Shop Battle
Keanu Reeves was 55 years old when he starred in "Rush 3", but his skills are still in good shape.
In 2019, the release of "Rush 3: Fast And Ready" with an investment of only $75 million ended the box office succession of "Avengers 4", and then collected $316 million in the screams of fans around the world.
The most burning fight scene in the film is the antique shop battle in which John Wick, played by Keanu Reeves, is eaten alive by the killers in New York.
The behind-the-scenes hero of this wonderful action scene is naturally Inseparable Keanu Reeves's good friend "Tai Chi Man" Chen Hu, who was his action director and martial arts instructor when he starred in the "Matrix" series.
Since then, the two have formed an indissoluble relationship, Keanu Reeves created "Tai Chi Man" for Chen Hu, and Chen Hu has paid a lot for the "Fast Pursuit" series.
However, in this film, Chen Hu, who has lost the aura of the protagonist, received a bento not long after appearing, and was stabbed to death in a struggle with John Wake.
The fight at the antique shop played a lot of tricks, such as John's modification of an old Remington 1875 pistol to kill people.
He also transformed into Xiao Li Flying Knife and took the antique knives in the shop to shoot at the enemy. This kind of hand kung fu is quite like Jackie Chan action movies, but the degree of bloodiness is even greater.
7
Night of the Lovers: Iko Uas vs Joe Taslim
After The Raid, in 2018, Ico Uas teamed up with Gareth's good friend Timo Tahayato to launch Headshots and Night of The Man.
In "Night Of Love", Iko made his debut as the villain Arian, and Joe Taslim, who played the SWAT captain in "Raid", played the male protagonist Ito.
The two have a large-scale action scene at the end of the film, which continues the bloody and violent fighting style that has been followed since the "Raid" series, and its excitement is jaw-dropping.
In this action scene, the fighting techniques used include stabbing the heart with a knife, kicking broken bones, locking the throat, shooting a headshot, etc., and the "weapons" they use in the fight are various, such as chainsaws, paper knives, iron nails, pushpins, water pipes, and so on.
This is also a new attempt to localize and improve Jackie Chan's creative concept of using all the tools around him to fight.
6
Ip Man 2: The Legend of the Grandmaster in the ring battle between Zhen Zidan and Darren Sahrawi
After entering 2000, with the rise of MMA mixed martial arts, traditional martial arts faced great challenges.
Young people no longer believe in martial arts in action movies, which is also an important reason for the gradual marginalization of domestic action movies.
However, in this situation, the extremely "retro" "Ip Man" series has still stood firm for 11 years, creating 4 canonical and 1 outgoing movie.
Among them, a ring fight between Zhen Zidan and his English apprentice Darren Sahrawi in "Ip Man 2: The Legend of the Grandmaster" is the best choreographed action scene in the entire series.
Darren Sahrawi, a british-Iranian mixed-race boy who grew up in Hong Kong, learned martial arts at the age of 7 and studied Chinese martial arts under Zhen Zidan in London, England in 1989.
In 1993, Darren Sahrawi entered the Hong Kong film industry as a stuntman, and was later discovered by Yuan Heping, playing a villain in Wu Jing's "Kung Fu Kid Breaks Through".
In 2010, when Zhen Zidan launched "Ip Man 2", he invited him to join the film's villain "Tornado" Tyley Miller.
The highlight of the film, "Ip Man vs Tornado", is a ring battle between Wing Chun and Western Boxing.
I believe that many people will think that in reality, Wing Chun cannot fight with Western boxing.
In fact, Wing Chun is a martial art that requires close range to exert its power, and only by fighting closely with the opponent and using its own explosive power to hit the opponent can it have a chance of winning.
5
"Boxer": Tony Ja's birth
In 2003, 27-year-old Tony Ja proved himself with the action movie Boxer, using taekwondo and Muay Thai he learned at Mahabharata Sport University, and also introduced Thailand's Buddhist culture to the world.
The story of the film is extremely simple, and the orphan Tianbadu, played by Tony Jia, travels to the city to find the lost Head of the Buddha, Ambak Buddha.
In the film, Tony Jia made a stunning and difficult action with his amazing martial arts skills and physical fitness.
Among them, the final Muay Thai duel between Tianbadu and Sha Ming is a textbook demonstration of modern kung fu movies, and the fist-to-flesh attack between the two shows the fierce and domineering characteristics of Muay Thai and the thrilling viewing.
Tony Jia's martial arts moves are based on Muay Thai and taekwondo. Each of its moves has Muay Thai skills, but many of the kicks come from taekwondo, especially the 720-degree slalom kick and the aerial kick are from taekwondo moves.
Therefore, the martial arts action in the film combines the flamboyance of taekwondo and the fierceness of Muay Thai, which makes the audience pleasing to the eye.
To be sure, Thai action movies aren't keen on using WAIA. The difficult moves made by Tony Jia were personally completed without the use of Wea's assistance and without the use of a stand-in, compared with Jackie Chan and Jet Li, this is really valuable, and the reason why he can attract the attention of the world.
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"Fuse": Zhen Zidan, Zou Zhaolong mixed martial arts against Muay Thai
Zou Zhaolong has been arrogant in recent years, saying that Jet Li and Zhen Zidan can't beat him.
Not to mention whether he is talking big, but he has indeed worked with most action stars in the film industry, leaving a classic fight scene, and has also broken into Hollywood to participate in the "Matrix" series in place of Jet Li, it is said that because of the copyright, he can still get a commission from the network broadcast revenue.
Zou Zhaolong was born in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province, he lost his father at an early age, learned martial arts since childhood, proficient in taekwondo and Muay Thai, and entered the Hong family class at the age of 18 with Hong Jinbao as a teacher, from image to skill, it is close to perfection.
In 2007, when Zhen Zidan was preparing to shoot "Fuse", he wanted to find an opponent who was proficient in Muay Thai, and the first thing he thought of was Zou Zhaolong, and under his hard persuasion, the two hit it off.
In the film, Zou Zhaolong uses authentic Muay Thai, while Zhen Zidan's techniques are more comprehensive, using a large number of Brazilian jiu-jitsu wrestling, locking techniques and joint techniques, which can greatly damage the opponent's attack rhythm.
The iconic cross-entrench in jiu-jitsu is also used, but the opponent is not completely locked due to the needs of the plot.
After hitting from upstairs to downstairs, Zhen Zidan made several sets of actions in succession to beat Zou Zhaolong. One of the three kicks in the air has a switching shot, which makes some kung fu fans think that this set of actions carries water, but in fact, Zhen Zidan himself can indeed make this kind of action. And Zhen Zidan finally used a naked hanging to end the battle, which is also quite creative.
3
"Kill the Wolf": Zhen Zidan, Wu Jingshi brothers street battle
2005's "Kill the Wolf" is like a kung fu action movie version of "The True Colors of Heroes", And Ip Wai Shin, Zhen Zidan, Hong Jinbao, and Wu Jingjing hold their breath and want to regain the glory of Hong Kong action movies in the past.
This film also achieved the second spring of Zhen Zidan's acting career and changed Wu Jing's inherent image in the film, all because of a street fight between the two in the film.
Jet Li, Zhen Zidan, Wu Yanzu and Wu Jingjing were brothers who had studied martial arts with Wu Bin at the Shichahai Sports School in Beijing.
This duel is also the first cooperation between Zhen Zidan and Wu Jing, the brothers of the division, some people on the Internet take the shooting tidbits of this fight scene to talk about things, adding fuel to the rumors of how Wu Jing was bullied by Zhen Zidan, and further rumors that the two discord.
In recent years, Zhen Zidan and Wu Jing have had to come forward many times to clarify and post intimate photos to refute the rumors.
In fact, the emergence of these rumors also proves from one side that the fierceness and realism of this fight really shocked the audience.
This fight in the back alley of the short knife has long become a classic duel in action movies.
According to What Wu Jing later said in an interview, many of the passages in this action scene are improvisations between the two, and in order to pursue the realistic effect of fighting, some of the actions are "real fights".
Due to the best efforts of both of them, the shooting process was discounted by several sticks, and it was this dedicated creative team that created this action scene that is still worth remembering.
2
Tom Yin Gong", Tony Jia's 3 minutes and 56 seconds action long shot
Tony Jia's "Tom Yin Gong" released in 2005 is obviously a higher quality work than "Boxer".
Director Plachia decided to further upgrade the shooting method, and the actors also added several heavyweight action stars such as Nathan Jones, Latif Crowder, Nguyen Mingzhi, etc., making the film a benchmark for kung fu movies in the new century.
The film also features the longest action shot in the history of world cinema. This long shot was shot 6 times during the shooting, and the scene had to be rearranged for each reshoot, which was extremely difficult to shoot.
Two photographers carrying bulky cameras followed Tony Jai from downstairs to the top floor.
In order to maintain a constant state of excitement, Tony Ja had to use olfactory salts.
At that time, there was no reliable special effects production in Thailand, all the shots were real shots, and it was this craftsman spirit that created this 3 minutes and 56 seconds long fight action long shot that fans talk about.
Of course, other action scenes in the film are also remarkable, such as the wheel battle between Latif Claude, John Finn and Nathan Jones and Tony Jay.
At the end of the film, Tony Jia defeats the minions with a Shaolin grappling technique similar to the ancient Thai boxing method of the Minions, which is also quite tragic. Tony Jia uses a martial art called "Smashing Elephant", which is an extremely fierce style of ancient Muay Thai, in fact, the concept of fighting is to use heavy blows and smashing to break the joints and bones of the opponent.
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Raid 2: Mob: "Kitchen Wars" by Ico Uas and Brother Claw
In 2011, Ico Uais stunned the world with a shocking "Raid", and since then, with the success of the film, they have more funds to create a sequel, Raid 2: Rioters.
Interestingly, this more expensive sequel, with a full 49 minutes longer than the previous one, not only has a story that is not well told, but also loses the fluency of the previous game.
But the more mature action scenes in the film still set a new benchmark for action movies around the world.
Pigo couldn't hide his preference for the film, because the highlight of the film, Ico Ués and Sessep Arif Rahman in the kitchen, was the most fluidly choreographed peak showdown in the world since 2000.
This action scene is characterized by a tortuous process and a climax, the two from empty-handed hand-to-hand combat to knife and soldier, as the battle becomes more intense, the degree of blood gradually increases, and finally the two sides fight until the stomach is opened and flesh and blood are flying.
The entire fight lasts up to 7 minutes, and in addition to the complex action choreography, the camera movement and capture are also credited with just the right amount of time.
Sessip Arif Rahman, who is proficient in Southeast Asian martial arts Pencak Silat, is not tall, but he is agile and has a deep martial arts background.
The claw knife he uses is a commonly used personal weapon by Indonesian fighters, its shape is similar to an eagle claw, characterized by hook and stab and easy to carry, over the years with the popularity of Indonesian martial arts, this weapon has also become a hot collection on the Internet.
The above is the "top ten textbook fights" in the movies after 2000.
Over the years, with Jet Li retiring, Jackie Chan retiring to the second line, Zhen Zidan aging, Wu Jing transforming, Zhao Wenzhuo, Fan Shaohuang, Xiong Xinxin, Qian Xiaohao, Shi Xiaolong, Xie Miao and other action stars addicted to online movies, the Chinese film circle seems that no one in the Chinese film circle has carried the banner of kung fu action movies anymore.
Remember when Jet Li joined the "Matrix" series to talk about collapse, he claimed that he was afraid of the computer motion capture technology used in the movie and would learn his kung fu.
Over the years, we've seen fight scenes in Hollywood blockbusters, more and more like the Action Movies of Hong Kong in the 90s, and the things we were once proud of seem to have been learned.
This is the inevitable result of the globalization of movies, and a large part of the "top ten" selected by Pigo are foreign movies, precisely because over the years, foreign action movies have made great progress, while our action movies have stagnated.
Hopefully, in the future we can see the revival of our kung fu films again.
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