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PhD @PittFMSP | The Action Scene column @mubinotebook: https://t.co/O2xM6HwmuB | Email: [email protected] | https://t.co/HGZXvgl9ei
Joined May 2012
Excited to share my Best Action Scenes of 2024 roundup for @mubinotebook. What a year. The following is a thread of GIFs from the scenes I discuss:
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What's your favorite gunshot from a film? Not your favorite shootout, but your favorite single discharge of a firearm?
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Rewatched HIGH AND LOW. The staging in this scene is unreal.
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Didn’t expect A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: THE DREAM CHILD to have a full-on Tsukamoto-style freakout. What a wonderfully bonkers series.
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It's Michelle Yeoh's birthday today, so time to give another shout-out to one of my favorite fight scenes of all time.
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Experienced the WINNERS & SINNERS pileup for the first time last night.
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THE SNIPER (Chris Huo, 2021) . Fans of HUNT THE WICKED and BLIND WAR, you all should check out this film, which is my current favorite Chris Huo flick alongside THE KING OF SNIPERS. Both are listed as “The Sniper” on iQIYI.
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Scott Adkins in EL GRINGO. Really dig the freneticism of this scene.
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What are your favorite fight scenes set in tight spaces?. Tweet inspired by a recent rewatch of UNLEASHED (2005).
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Director and star Frankie Chan, sweeping the floor with his opponents in OUTLAW BROTHERS
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Finished BLOODHOUNDS. This fight in which two boxers are ambushed by a small army of thugs might be my favorite action scene of 2023 so far.
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IRON PROTECTOR (Yue Song, 2016). Some pulverizing action here
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Impressed by this shootout from SNIPER: VENGEANCE, which is streaming on iQIYI. Especially appreciate the roving camera and extensive z-axis staging.
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FIERCE COP is paced like a bullet and abounds with blistering fights courtesy of the great Kenji Tanigaki. Contains some of my favorite action of the year so far.
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Showed some 87Eleven clips in yesterday's class for a discussion on the "intra-auteur," or the idea that people other than the director leave their stylistic imprint on films. There were audible exclamations when Adkins executed this move.
An even more recent example: Scott Adkins doing some fancy gun-fu acrobatics in DAY SHIFT:
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Since RAGING FIRE hits U.S. theaters this Friday, here's a thread of appreciation for the blistering, back-breaking action in Benny Chan's INVISIBLE TARGET, which I watched for the first time last week.
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Watched SCREAM 3 for the first time last week and keep thinking about how lovely its ending is as a coda to the original trilogy. The future remains open but the fear is gone.
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THE RAID 2 in theaters with my brothers and a bunch of friends back in 2014. The way the climax progressed from one set piece to the next and the kitchen fight itself crescendoed into its bloody knife-flurry finisher made me literally clutch my head in ecstatic disbelief.
Hey #ActionTwitter - today I want to talk about visceral, emotional responses to action beats. Below are some examples in movies that I can only call “action climaxes” where the action crescendos in such a manner that my personal response is either to be just out of breath or cry
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If were in charge of choosing the next pair of detectives for TRUE DETECTIVE S4: who would you like to see?.
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Thrilled to share my second annual @NotebookMUBI action-scene roundup, in which I survey some of the best action set pieces of 2021. The following thread supplements the article with GIFs highlighting illustrative moments from the featured scenes.
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Seriously impressed by the visual dynamism of this chase scene from NEW JACK CITY, which I watched for the first time last week.
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There are at least two, more famous fights in SPL II, but this early showdown between Wu Jing and Tony Jaa absolutely rips.
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Thinking about this oner from Eric Jacobus' CONTOUR. Such dynamic, swing-for-the-fences microbudget action filmmaking.
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Watched Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW for the first time last night, the blocking in this is next-level.
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If you're looking for something to watch tonight, this is currently streaming on Tubi and Prime. The film's basically five back-to-back set pieces featuring some of the most dynamic and kinetic large-scale action design I've seen in recent memory. Worth checking out IMO.
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This scene from THE GRANDMASTER in which Chang Chen demolishes a bunch of dudes in the rain is so good.
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Excited to share my Best Action Scenes of 2023 roundup for @NotebookMUBI, in which I discuss my favorite action set pieces of the year. Here's a thread with GIFs from the scenes and (where available) credits info on stunt/fight/action coordination:
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Rewatched THE RAID 2 last night and was struck by how much this restaurant fight rips.
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What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?
what actor's expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?
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Today marks one year since I started my column on action scenes for MUBI's Notebook, so I thought it'd be fun to create a thread of my current 50 favorite action films.
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ROAD HOUSE 2: LAST CALL (Scott Ziehl, 2006). Stunts coordinated by J.J. Perry
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The climactic fight in SNIPER G.R.I.T. - GLOBAL RESPONSE & INTELLIGENCE TEAM really swings for the fences.
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The climactic duel/dance in Lee Myung-se's DUELIST is one of the most extraordinary scenes I've seen in recent memory. Excerpt below:
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The final shot in FULL CONTACT exudes pure, unadulterated vibes the likes of which would make most films instantly better.
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Really dig the lateral camera movement in this moment from JUDGE ARCHER.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHANGHAI (Wong Ching-po, 2014). Action design by Yuen Woo-ping and Yuen Cheung-yan
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Rewatched this last night. It rules. McQuarrie brings slick, clean direction and bursts of curt, nasty violence, finessing the PG-13 rating with the dexterity of a Code-era pro. It's a tough, brutal bit of pulp that harks back to THE WAY OF THE GUN.
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This moment from LOVE ON DELIVERY (1994) is one of the funniest things I've seen in recent memory.
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has there been anything in this current era of anemic 'bring out your dead!' IP excavation that has actually been really worth it? . twin peaks the return is the shining star. & nu beavis & butt-head comes to mind, a rare treat. the munsters too, full-tilt sincere nostalgia.
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Love this one too
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@TheBrickovich THE QUICK AND THE DEAD too. Still some Raimi I need to catch up on though, where's the clip from?
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It's Stephen Chow's birthday, so here's a brief thread of his cinematic hijinks:
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Absolutely thrilled to share my @LAReviewofBooks debut, a deep dive into the action cinema of John Hyams:
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He's very good in JW4, but my favorite Donnie Yen fight of 2023 is this one-against-many beatdown from SAKRA. Here he is, dishing out palm attacks like they're point-blank shotgun blasts.
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Very excited to share my @NotebookMUBI action scene roundup for 2022, in which I discuss my favorite action set pieces of the year. The following thread supplements the article with GIFs from the scenes I talk about.
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Another tactile favorite
5. MAGNUM FORCE. Director: Ted Post.Second Unit Director: Buddy Van Horn.Year: 1973
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FIERCE COP is streaming for free on Plex. Check it out if you want to see some of the best action of the year:
FIERCE COP is paced like a bullet and abounds with blistering fights courtesy of the great Kenji Tanigaki. Contains some of my favorite action of the year so far.
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SAFE (2012) is on Netflix. Great Statham beatdowns galore, totally worth your time.
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