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just curious trey what did you shot it on? Red Mx?
No idea. More importantly, did you hear Teague drove 97 mph in a 10mph DWP/Handicapped Children's School Zone? While drunk? In his car that had broken glass and socks filled with bars of soap dangling from it?
Plan 9 is one of those movies that SOUNDS like it would be fun. Try actually watching it. My Dad owned it on VHS and the novelty wears off very quickly. Sorta like the Star Wars Holiday Special.
I am serious. And it's spelled SHIRLEY.
As a fight fan, I like fights where all ranges are utilized and seemlessly transitioned from and to. A great stand up exchange with a dramatic takedown, a scramble, near submission, and recovery to the feet is one of the most exciting things to watch, for my money. I look forward to a day when fight choreographers and performers understand this and can have fights that are not just specifically one thing.
Well, as a practitioner of said style, I do like watching it on film, with the caveat that some of the choreo in Redbelt was a bit stiff. I actually think there is a way to make sub-grappling exciting on film, and have toyed with it in some of the choreo that I do. I think as MMA becomes more widespread we'll see more examples of exciting grappling exchanges and therefore give choreographers a better frame of reference to choose from.
That's refreshing to hear. Not a lot of people do. Even those in the Jiu Jitsu world are mixed on it. What's crazy is just how long they wanted to do it. Renato Magno was my original coach at the Machado Jiu Jitsu school, and almost as soon as he opened his own school, David Mamet became a student. This was in 1999. I give Mamet credit for making a good movie that is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as fuck, and using many real fighters (Randy Couture, Rico Chipparelli, Frank Trigg, Johnny Machado, Dan Inosanto) as window dressing. I also give Chewitel Ejifor a ton of credit...his Jiu Jitsu didn't look horrible in this.
Cinematically, its very much a Mamet film, but also a throwback to a western or a classic noir in some respects. A solid little movie.
It got brought up during 2012, but I'd like to do Redbelt. That movie has a few levels of interest for me, since my old instructor was the fight choreographer for that movie, and I've actually trained or fought (gotten my ass kicked by, more realistically) many of the people in that film.
Man, that guy un-ironically loves The Asylum.
Um yeah, Greg. Having your own production company doesn't mean you self finance. He still has to get money from distributors to largely bankroll his movies. You can make the argument that because his movies do well that he can get financing, but don't say he's spending his own money when he's not.
***He beats Voldemort in the end***
end spoilers
I LOVE Officeer and a Gentlmen. The first 8 minutes is some solid ass expository writing.
I actually have a slight personal connection to Private Benjamin. Astute DiF listeners might know.
No dude, I was quoting Stripes.
Settle down, Francis.
During the commentary you will undoubtedly hear me sing the lyrics to every song on the soundtrack. And I'm not just talking about "You're the Best," or "Cruel Summer."
Oh, I'd like to self correct as well. I (correctly) stated that John Huston is a renowed film director. Where I scerwed up is in saying that some of his earlier films were with John Wayne. That was John FORD I was thinking about (Director of Stagecoach) and not John Huston. JH directed Treasure of Sierra Madre and Maltese Falcon, two of my all time favorite films. I can't believe I made such a silly mistake.
John Huston actually did a lot of VO work later in life. He's also the Narrator in The Black Cauldron.
Punching someone in the jaw knocks them out because it pinches the vagus nerve that sits laterally behind the jaw line. The vagus nerve delivers sensory information from various organs to the brain including the heart.
At least that is my understanding.
That certainly is the most common way. I've seen guys get knocked out from just a glancing blow to that area. THis is what in the fight world we call getting hit, "On the button."
With that said, getting hit behind the ear can knock someone out, or in my case during the 1996 Team USA Shidokan tournament, getting a knee just north of the temple was enough to put me away. There's no set way to do it, but the Vagus nerve is certainly the most common.
Walking Dead is easily in my top ten comic arcs of all time. It's so consistantly good.
I'm the....not quite sure what- one.
Looks fucking awesome.
The blu-ray of apocalypse now is especially awesome.
It's like how GNU stands for Gnu's Not Unix.
Hey everyone.
If you are LA based and available on either the 19th or the 20th of October during the day, I may need you for roughly 2 hours for a shoot my company is doing for a sizzle reel. No pay, and knowledge of comics is a plus. You don't have to be an actor.
Email me at
ed@bciitv.com
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