How to Structure a Fight Scene | Video Essay

I don't want to be sexist, but female directors who are directing action films have very weak fight scenes. This included Mulan 2020 remake, wonder woman 1 and 2, Birds of Prey, and well....more but I will piss off everybody at this point.


But I do hope they find this video and learn more on how to structure a fight scene.

Surprised you even got a second of Jet Li Fearless in there without a strike

That 3 seconds between obi and maul is build on 10+ years of storytelling….

Brilliant video analysis, please keep up the great work and spread asian culture to the world

Fantastic video 🔥🔥🔥

This was fuckin beautiful man.

around 2-3 minute what is the name of background music?

Shame, no mention of The Raid movies. lmao

great breakdown thanks

Great content❤🎉

“Fearless” is a masterpiece .

“What is the shape of your arena?
A ring? An alley? Or Jackie Chan?”

LOOOOOOOL

I showed this video to one of my friends, and he enjoys it, he also said that he’s applying this to animation

Great video dude!!!

I swear I almost cried

This sounds similar to the Kishōtenketsu story structure... Interesting!

Love this video!

Will definitely help me a bunch with my fight scenes, thank you guys🔥

I’m man 4 definitely did not come out in 2010

You've been a huge help to me over the years so I just wanted to say Thank You

I'd love to know your thoughts on the fight scenes from Cheng Er's "Hidden Blade" 🤔

excellent.

Have you ever thought about directing a fight scene?

I'm writing a novel with a battle on a navy ship. I have a few questions, but I'm gonna start with a basic one: if I had, say, 60 sailors or so, how necessary would it be to briefly describe each other? Is it okay to randomly label them as "this one soldier" or "another sailor"?

That was the best video I saw about this, It helped me a lot, thank you.

Thanks for this video essay. I had a final fight scene that I was really struggling to start writing and this video and its explanation of Set-Rise-Twist-Tie is really helping me to structure the fight.

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How would you go about writing a fight against monsters who aren't really concious like the opponets in the examples you described?

Set-Rise-Turn-Tie!

You are nothing, just a hater.

Your videos are just like any other Chinese product. Use and throw.

Can anyone tell me how to can i make comedy action sequence in a defence academy its urgent can anyone help me

Legend!

To be honest, when I watch the 70’s 80’s and 90’s Jackie Chan era compared to the 2000’s Donnie Yen Jet Li era there’s no comparison. The newer scenes look stunted and goofy. It’s all so globalized now and the directors think adding expensive cameras, sets, and costumes can cover up the poor quality. The actors do things that are so unrealistic that it’s hard to suspend one’s disbelief as an observer. I understand it’s not supposed to be ultra realistic, but there’s much more art and beauty in what the old school stars did. Anyone can throw some fancy punches and kicks, but even as a martial arts practitioner I knew I couldn’t do the acrobatic stuff nor come up with the cool use of environment for those fight scenes. Modern Hong Kong stars no longer grow up in strict Chinese opera schools. Such schools today and would be shut down for child abuse. The result is softer sloppier, unrefined stunts. Watch Dragon Lord 1981. They don’t make scenes like that anymore.

Taking notes mhm mhm. Thanks man!

This is a very useful - practical - and well thought out analysis. Much appreciated.

-a filmmaker

The staredown in Sanjuro is the MOST intense thing I've ever watched. No camera tricks. No music. Nothing. Just incredible.

I think I hit a road block in the battle story, at first people really seems to love my battles, with high stakes, and rise it higher and higher, risking my hero life more than ones, but now have become stagnant, people known what to expect of my battles and fights, and I have no idea what to do, and two Volumes left to end the Golden Age, and began the truly Dark Ages, where an enemy that even the civilisation with superior technology in my galaxy can beat, and their General, that even my strongest heroes and enemies cant beat, I already did some changes in the status quo, and are more to come, but that not seems enough to keep my audience that I had like five years ago, where my story reached to the peak of popularity.

Take a dive on those old kung fu fight scenes from the 70s and 80s. They are corny as fuck but the choreography and talent on display is amazing. Like the end fight of 7 steps of kung fu or the fight between the ghost face killer and his targets. Especially when it takes both chi tzu tien and ah pao to beat the ghost face killer. Those fight scenes are equally amazing as they are absurd.

I realize the Fight Scene Between Puss in Boots vs. Death the Wolf in Puss in Boots: the Last Wish. It has a Set-Rise-Twist-Tie, just watch it you'll see.

Been watching videos, essays and otherwise, on how to structure a fight scene for my Graphic Novel. Your video is the first one that actually used a conceptual structure that I can put to use. Subbed!

That was amazing I will definitely study off this video thank you for the tips have a great rest of your day

Dude, Abbie Emmons might be your best friend. You two share the exact same mindset that story isn't about what happened, it's about why what happen matter to the characters.

Di music dan iklan ajah dulu ....klu movie ga dulu

Well, I guess this channel has a subreddit now? Whoever created it, thanks!
I posted an AMA thread in /r/AccentedCinema, feel free to drop by!