Can I holla at yall about the fight scenes in Atomic Blonde ???
Like Keanu has the fluidity, Koji has swag, You know what Theron had...the rage. Every single hit even while missing some of that smooth fluidity is filled with personal rage that informs the character and gives the fight personality...
In a piece I wrote about Tom Cruise I talked about natural ability to show Taking hits just as well as he gives, it's an important aspect that I noticed a lot of action folk whom I actually love aren't very good at...
As much as I LOVE Cruise Charlize takes it to another level. Not only does she give every punch she takes a power that makes you cringe, bit she adds breathing and panting, and a sense of exhaustion which provides a more realistic example of the toll of a fight than usual...
Charlize did the work, and while not being the most natural when it could to the art she brought that acting shit. Which is saying to yourself in a fight how would my character react...in that a kick just isn't a cool kick ita a whole extension of a person..
Then there's the camera work and sound design. Listen...younwill hear every crunch, every wound, every reverb of things clinking aa they fall, it gives it ferocity and brutality, the camera puts you in the shit, that close-up only to fall w/ the guy downstairs..muah
I remember @bybowes pointing out that Charlize looked ( was it stiff??) in the trailers as far as the execution of action went. Whatever it was I remember watching the movie and going oh yeah he's not lying, she was learning on the fly bit she really also made up for it...
And Stahelski and Co really aided like when good coaches make sure to cover thei QB's weaknesses, but did I without hindering her or the action to a degree where it isn't still noteworthy...
What was so good about Atomic was it not only as atmospheric as John Wick in a it's own totally different groove but it grabbed this sensational cast of pure fucking actors for an actually good story I mean McAvoy, Toby Jones, John Goodman..
Add to that that Charlize really got to literally stunt around in high fashion doing cool shit low this and well...I don't know what else you want...
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I don't think men are losing it, I think it was never really there and the collective refusal of women to do what they thought they were "promised" has lifted the very thin veil...
As I watch this noir , when I watch the movies I love from the era you can see what "good behavior" from men was always contingent on the "goodness" of the women which was always about obedience as much as badness was the opposite...
All the "bad women" were women trying to take their one destiny into their hands, trying to be the captains of their own lives. Women who didn't love men just because they walked into a room, but also quite contrarily women who would say they liked a man as soon as he did
Reminds me, The first place I ever lived in LA the roommate that owned the place allowed them to film porn there (which of course he didn't inform me of before I moved in)....Boy did I get a surprise coming home from class.
The first time I found out, my Poli Sci teacher called out and that was my last class for the day so I went home early, got home,put my key in the door turned the knob, and someone slams the door on me...
I started knocking immediately and nobody opens the door, I use my key again, random dude swings open door says "Dude we're filming here QUIET on the set !" and slams it before I could step in and I got HOT..
I remember I was just really starting to get into my cinephila knowing next to nothing and I saw Tom Wilkinson's name called at the Oscars and was like "Who the fuck is that guy?" Hell I didn't even recall when In the Bedroom had came out, and it looked liked something...
I would never watch. It'd be a year later when I did get to see it, on TDY in a hotel in freakiin Romania, never looked back. He and Sissy Spacek absolutely broke me in that movie, but I also learned then that Wilkinson was a monologuer...
He was not a lick of anybody's Carmine and damn sure not Falcone, didn't conquer the accent, doesn't look like one really either, did not matter when your this good everything else sort of falls away like scales off a snake....
I have been SCOURING the internet looking for anything related to Hardy's voice and it occured to me the missed opportunity in this interview to get the two men responsible for arguably the two most recognizable vocal performances of this century talking abt what went into them https://t.co/itx6gDZp9X
And I'm not talking about what they mentioned in this interview Serkis saying that he was mimicking his cat hacking up a fur ball or Hardy talking abt the Gypsy bare knuckle boxer that inspired his, I'm talking about certain decisions I'm talking abt the mechanics, the pitfalls..
When Hardy says "Me and Chris played with it and made it more fluid" THAT'S the stuff right there, THAT'S the meat and potatoes I want to dig into...
The Batman, Maverick, Avatar 2 and even in granted a smaller way The Woman King and Elvis all and each in their own way challenged and proved that the Marvel formula was not the only way to tell stories. I think all coming out in the same year was as important ...
In previous years there was very next to no movies that in any way challenged Marvel in the way of how it brought mainstream audiences to almost universal laudation. ..
The way those movies were received. The way they hit and just reverberated for months after they were out in the public conversation in a way that was palpable even when you were offline ..was the nearest we've seen to those early Marvel juggernauts
Denzel and Chiwitel have excellent chemistry in this I remember
You can TELL Jodie Foster has deep stories for each character, because even tho this is a similar no nonsense woman as Clarice Starling the energy behind it is different