whats the best way to shoot a fight scene?

[OmegaK2099]

Kinda like this. I like fights that aren't really clean but messy.

Yeah sometimes you have to pay respect to the directors as well as the actors involved for being able to capture the action while performing in a close quarters type of environment. The camera movement in the daredevil series is insane the way they were able to capture the shots necessary to make a fight in a hallway and stairwell look dynamic.

 

[David_TheMan]

It depends on film genre and film to be honest.
I hate waste film noir eque films and then the fights turn into bullshyt as hong style fights that don't fit..
Winter Soldier and Civil War an the Russo style of fights withs with their style, love them.
Donnie Yen put in work with the fight choreography for Blade 2, which I still think is the high water mark for comic book films.

That said I thought the mixture of 80s western fight scenes and hk style choreography in The Exxpendables 1 and 2 are the height still for western action sequences.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

I think it depends on the movie or kind of fights.

You cant film a JC fight and then the BvS fight the same way

 

[ORDER_66]

Dat Daredevil S2 Stairway fight tho.... I remember when everyone watched that internet was going crazy over that episode...

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

i'm kind of digging a lot of the creative licensing some films are taking with fighting scenes. although some scenes take on a non realistic appearance, those scenes i find difficult to enjoy, others manage to just slight exaggerate dynamic movements and turn them into beautiful works of expressive art within the fighting. but, i also need a story just as driven and as riveting

 

[Spiider]

Dat Daredevil S2 Stairway fight tho.... I remember when everyone watched that internet was going crazy over that episode...

Season 1's hallway fight was better imo

 

[Jello Biafra]

There is nothing worse than a fight scene shot too close/tight with constant quick cuts.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Season 1's hallway fight was better imo

I agree...the hallway fight scene was great. That S2 stairway fight scene was indulgent and over long.

 

[OmegaK2099]

The fight in lethal weapon had close ups and quick cuts but we could still tell what was going on, have any other directors pulled that off?

 

[TrebleMan]

Other well done examples of multiple attacker fight scenes done well:

























The next one I know for a fact will take the thread.

Raw, brutal, realistic, no plot protection.











Nothing fancy and also a realization of knowing no matter how skilled you are, you can get outmuscled and that'll be that.

 

[OmegaK2099]

In batman begins i thought the first couple of fight scenes were good to show off how bruce wayne fights but as soon as he becomes batman it looked like they were making batman as more of a creature than man or they borrowed a page from ridley scotts style of shooting a scene involving a xenomorph attacking a whole group of people. He switched up styles for the sequels and honestly the fight scenes didnt age very well and i think it was him doing the whole "reality" based thing that kind of pulled down the action scenes.


i thought Snyders style of portraying a comic character like batman fit better minus all the killing. I heard it was because batman was supposed to be like the dark knight returns version where hes a borderline sociopath, but i just dont see the connection since bruce is still young and hasnt gotten to that age where he starts thinking like the punisher.

 

[OmegaK2099]

Damn How many cutaways and edits did rza need for this sh1t?