“Hit me ... I don’t want to die without scars!”: 8 legendary movie fights
We recall the most spectacular fight scenes from films: from Edward Norton, who stuffed his face, to Uma Thurman, who finished off the 88th Yakuza. The screening of the film continues, and the audience is unaware of what has happened.
Genre: Drama Director: David Fincher Cast: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
What can you know about yourself if you have never fought, Fight Club asks us? In response, he also wants to ask a couple of questions - for example, about what you can learn about yourself if you fight with yourself. The film, however, will not tell about the spiritual benefits acquired with the help of such an act - but it will list the material ones without hesitation: telephone, computer, fax, salary for 52 weeks and 48 coupons for paying for flights.
Genre: Action / Thriller Director: Quentin Tarantino Cast: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine
Not including Kill Bill in the top is a sin, because the fights in this film can be reviewed endlessly. The way Uma Thurman makes 88 bloodthirsty yakuza is a real art. Fountains of blood, furious action and a deep bow to Bruce Lee. No matter how many times you watch it, it still takes your breath away at the end.
Genre: Detective / Drama / Thriller Director: Park Chan-wook Cast: Choi Min-sik, Chi-tae Yoo, Kang Hye-chung, Chi Dae-han, Oh Dal-soo
Probably never before has the concept of philosophizing with a hammer (well, okay, at least with a hammer) received such an exciting cinematic embodiment as in this scene from Park Chan-Wook. And it doesn't even matter that there is only a crowd of Koreans in the audience, armed with sticks and knives - a hammer will help to convey the main idea even to such a public that is not very receptive to philosophy.
Genre: Action / Thriller Directors: Chad Stahelski, David Leitch Cast: Keanu Reeves, Mikael Nykvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, Dean Winters
At what point do we know that John Wick badass and jokes with him are bad? When does the head of the Russian mafia get nervous on his behalf? Or when he scatters the bandits who came to his house without knocking? The moment of realization comes when we hear Kaleida's 'Think', and John, in the neon lights of a nightclub, goes on the hunt for the guy who killed his dog. Oh, how we do not envy the extras that got in his way.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Thriller Director: David Gordon Green Cast: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson
It's called "as you sow, so shall you reap." If you make the hero of an action movie with shootouts and evil drug dealers comedian from Judd Appatow's team, then you will get the corresponding final fight - bad in your head, wildly funny, terribly ridiculous, but at the same time strangely true.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller Director: Terence Young Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw
James Bond has always been no fool for kicking someone's sides - almost from the very beginning of his busy life in cinema. Only the second film - and Bond is already setting an example of hard hand-to-hand combat in a closed space to the whole world. It is possible that guys like Jackie Chan or Corey Yen watched carefully and made notes in a notebook.
Genre: Action / Science Fiction Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronnie Cox, Michael Ironside
In Paul Verhoeven's films, the issues of the battle of the sexes were often considered through the prism of a first-class massacre. The family sparring of the heroes of Schwarzenegger and Stone in the hotel room brought new colors to the expression “Lovely scold, only amuse”, and also gave a strange idea that, if desired, a girl can pile on Schwartz himself well.
Genre: Action / Thriller Director: Richard Donner Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitch Ryan, Tom Atkins
The epic final showdown between hero and villain is a must for any self-respecting action movie. But in few places this fight reaches the degree of epicness that in the first "Lethal Weapon". There, Gibson and Busey are first around the Christmas tree, then on the hood of a police car, then on the lawn in the rain, and then somewhere in the background, where all the other characters (and the viewer too) no longer pay attention to them.