One could argue that the dubbed in scream at the end while the stuntman is taking a fall and then a bump on the ledge isn't perfectly cut but I argue that it's cut exactly at the right place to let you hear the guy go ARRRRRGH with the WEHH at the end being the cherry on top.
Isn’t that lady the lady from honor and glory? I swear, she looks familiar. I think she also started a movie with Steve McQueen son. Both of which were very kung fu heavy
yes madam's runtime consists of like 5 percent immaculate, jaw dropping feats of fight choreography with a debatable amount of care for stunt crew safety, and 95 percent legitimately exhausting comedy that's very hard to sit through.
This fight scene in particular should always be accompanied by a clarification that you have now seen approximately 50% of the kick-ass Rothrock/Yeoh content in the movie. The rest is more accurately described as an 80's Hong Kong take on the Three Stooges (Absolutely WILD final 90 seconds, though)
I just watched Cynthia Rothrock’s Q&A on her youtube channel about the filming experience. It’s amazing that the martial arts filming is about taking what the human body can do to its limits. That being said, oh my god the action is sold so well because the actors are in genuine pain😭😭
No GIFs yet, so I'll try reproducing my breakdown without: The visual phrase dedicated to Rothrock's fight ends with a back kick to Dick Wei's face. With Yuen, when a visual phrase ends, contrast is used to kickstart the next one. We left Cynthia on a horizontal slomo shot, meaning we jump to...
Michelle Yeoh's fight with a standard-speed, low-angle shot. The images contrast, but the movement is continuous: the last Cynthia frame and the first Michelle frame are similarly composed in terms of blocking, and the momentum is never lost. This creates a sense of continuity through...
...the kinetic aspect of the images. Things are moving and we're jumping around, but everything remains crystal clear because each shot maintains complete legibility, and the editing uses contrasted parallel cuts to transition between places. Then, most importantly, each shot...
...leads into the next, and a different set-up is used for every shot. This is absolutely essential, and Corey Yuen used to do this often. Not one set-up is used twice (or if they are, very rarely, then far apart). There is no master shot split up by inserts and close-ups: each..
...unit of action is given its own shot. The result is an impression of overwhelm. The brain registers every change in set-ups and associates it with one action (or one action unit = one meaningful sequence of hits and parries), which feels more eventful than a long series of...
The audio limitations of that era make me wonder if there's modern sound designers cherry picking scenes like this and applying modern foley tricks like variations and simulated room tone.
Yet another YouTube channel idea I'm not qualified to make!
it gets worse... during filming they had a long break during that scene, and as this was one of her first roles she decided to try and impress people and she just stayed up there for the entire hour pause. Definitely regretted it later
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So many happy memories of her kicking asses. <3
I thought most video post were limited to under 60 minutes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdyB_0Cd26w
That last shot is nuts, there’s no way that dude didn’t break something
Me in my 30s: Oof that guy at 0:56 better have had good health insurance.
The audio limitations of that era make me wonder if there's modern sound designers cherry picking scenes like this and applying modern foley tricks like variations and simulated room tone.
Yet another YouTube channel idea I'm not qualified to make!
https://youtu.be/3Dffy6CP3-A?si=l-wrHdjvwj6lAsis