Fight
Long ago, while standing in a crowded New York City bus I was violently shoved from behind. I spun around in a fighting position. My mugger turned out to be a terrified elderly woman clutching a bag of groceries. She fell into me when the bus jerked to a sudden stop. Fortunately, my defense was [...]
First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string With feathery sorcery; muzzle the note With hurting love; the music that they wrote Bewitch, bewilder. Qualify to sing Threadwise. Devise no salt, no hempen thing For the dear instrument to bear. Devote The bow to silks and honey. Be remote A while from malice and from [...]
Phony Fights Are Fun Rocky vs. Apollo Creed, Luke Skywalker vs. Dearth Vadar, Achilles vs. Hector. Martial artists are thrilled by movie duels…brawny mano y mano encounters between armed or unarmed fighters engaged in a deadly dance. Awesome. Then there’s the legendary martial art duel between Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris. Here hand-to-hand combat is [...]
The fight scene in HBO’s Deadwood between Dan Dority (W. Earl Brown) and Hearst’s goon and body guard Captain Turner (Allan Graf) is one of the most realistic screen fight scenes filmed. Be forewarned it is brutal and ugly, like real fighting. Allan Graf was also the stunt coordinator for this fight (and several other [...]
Pow. Crunch. Crack. We all love movie fight scenes. Remember those awesome fights in Sherlock Holmes, Roadhouse, Bourne Identity or Enter the Dragon? During my life long martial arts journey, I had the opportunity to design fights for films in the U. S. and Hong Kong. But that was years ago. The passage of time [...]
