Question by Catherine: Can a fight between a tall model like woman and several men be made realistic?
I’m preparing for a role in a small budget independent film. Since this is such a small budget film, they don’t have a fight choreographer. I do martial arts and am an amature in kickboxing and have had some MMA lessons so they ask me to help with the choreography. I play a business woman sent to straighten out a well site/base for a large Oil and Gas company. The setting’s in northern Canada in the winter months and we’re about to film an important fight scene.
The back story is that I’m there to demand production and will be firing many of the rig hands. An arguement starts and many of the rig hands start a fight with me. The fight starts outside the rig in the snow as I’m walking away to a hellipad after firing many rig hands at a town meeting. I’m attacked by three middle aged man in the snow. It’s suppose to be a very brutal fight where I’m tackled and thrown into the snow, against equipment, and very beaten with a lot of blood. However, in the end I’m suppose to win the fight and humiliate the three men by beating them convincingly in front of their friends, children, and wives. My question is how I can make the fight brutal and still as realistic as possible. There should be a lot of blood, broken bones, and absolutely no martial arts.
The back story on my character is that I’m an high level executive that is also an extremely trained athlete. I’m about 5’11” and am suppose to be an imposing figure though I’m model thin at only 135lbs. Though the scene will be filmed in the snow, I’ll be in a black business dress suit and in heels. I’m about 6’3″ in the rediculously high heels they’re asking me to wear so I should look very imposing on film.
My thought is that I would be tackled and thrown against the drilling equipment. The screenplay has me being beaten up with several punches until I’m very bloody.. this happens for about a solid 1 to 2 mintues of the fight. I’m suppose to get thrown down a flight of stairs. While the men walk away, I get angry and walk up the stairs in a sexy was and confornt them by fighting back. I do so against the men by slugging it out with them using hard kicks and knees. I won’t be kiccking any men in the crotch and there won’t be martial art style attacks from me… just pure slugging and a majority being kicks and knees.
How can I put together a 8 minute fight scene that would be realistic. Would it be hard to make a fight between an extremely in shape woman in her late twenties and three out of shape but extremely large men in their 40’s realistic?
Best answer:
Answer by rick c
I applaud you for realizing how fake all these movies look that have a usually scrawny woman beating the crap out of multiple men that are usually huge and fighters or even killers. Really stupid to me. But the only way I figure you can make it realistic and still win the fight is if you visibly use every dirty tactic in the book. Bite one in the ankles when you’re down, jam your thumb in another guys eye, kick another guys crotch as hard as you can! And then follow-up by getting a 2×4 or other pick of readily available hardware like a hammer or crowbar and going to town on them.
I know it might sound dirty, but you wanted to be realistic and to me that is the only way a single woman is going to beat up multiple (I am assuming big) men. A combination of fighting skill, ruthlessness, and even a bit of luck. You would still be the good guy because you didn’t start the fight.
Sorry about the reference about kicking in the crotch. Didn’t read that part. No disrespect intended. Still I just don’t see how it can look realistic unless you make the men extremely out of shape or you fight dirty. Which there is no shame in if they start the fight and you are outnumbered.
Do I get credit of you use my advise? What movie is it so I can eventually see it? Let me know rickcardona@msn.com
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