Stuntmen React To Bad & Great Hollywood Sword Fights

What what? Oh, he's grabbing my rapier, let him go, idiot, is there any use in a lightsaber staff? One of the reasons this fight is so perfect isn't the editing. This episode of double

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s is brought to you by Raycon. Stay until the end. to see how you can get 15 off your first pair Hello everyone, welcome back to another stunt episode. We're joined by Luke Lafontaine, who specializes in

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and gun choreography for film, among other things. Luke, can you tell us a little about yourself? My career started in the late 80's. I was lucky enough to work on Army of Dark Hook, oh I'm sick.

My job as a choreographer is to make sure I choreograph the fight, make sure it's realistic, make sure everyone working on it is happy. and keep all the actors and stunt people perfectly safe Luke the last time I saw you you were in full orc makeup in the middle of Utah you were sweating dressed in blue it was good to see you so guys we have a lot of exciting clips to let's talk about it so let's jump right in, man, young Tom Cruise, this is a nice thing, it's a nice touch with his hands going down the sleeves of his coat and his foot stepping back, he's getting ready, he's getting ready, one of the reasons why this fight is so fluid, it's not.

The editing of this fight took months, these guys replayed this entire fight over and over again because there are so many subtle moments it would have been almost impossible to pull off this fight with less rehearsal and it's not a sacred edit that Tom does it, he's a master. of dedication all I have heard is that he is just a workhorse, he has 2000 dedication and never stops. There are things that are incorrect in this fight in terms of his grip on the

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s, his hands are not spaced very far apart. As much as they need it, there are a couple of cuts where they go back behind his head and then cut forward from where you cut equals time, so all this time back here you could be cutting me until my sword breaks.

The plane, I'm not a danger up to here, but again, there are also a lot of period correct sword techniques here, he supports himself with his back, that's a real Japanese battlefield technique where when you wanted to brace the sword , you pointed the katana. on your forearm because the moon the back edge wasn't sharp Tom has his hand open and flat which is also realistic you know he wouldn't be gripping the blade oh god that's something you want to do with a sharp object that's three and a half foot long one of the things you have to give these guys credit for is that a hand to hand fight is a lot easier to do than a sword fight why are you only responsible for the length of your arm try add three feet so you have to pay attention here where the tip of the sword is.

I could stop poking you in the eye. I don't know if I can avoid poking you with a sword if I'm not used to it. wielding a sword how often do accidents happen on set? I'm not just talking about finger stubbing, but more serious accidents in sword

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, they happen if you have the opportunity to really train your actors, they don't, there's only one thing you can do. hurt someone in a sword fight if you mess up your distance that's how someone gets hit with a sword if I mess up the timing if I'm at my correct distance the blade will still go through you and miss you by two inches but it happens it happens I guess how make you break down and just give me your impression on probably the most iconic sword fight, the saber fight, if you want, in the media, what is the lightsaber fight from episode one, the phantom menace, this fight is incredibly complicated and was choreographed by Ray Park initially with another Czechoslovakian stuntman and that's how Ray got the role.

Ray is really giving 200 in this fight and that's why no one else will be Darth Maul. Is there any use in a lightsaber staff? No, your opinion, no, no, and me. I'll tell you why the problem is that you have now created the simplest and most complex weapon in the history of movies. Have you ever noticed that when all these guys move really hard they do these power moves? The blade is made of light. It doesn't weigh anything, why would you have to swing it hard? The bottom line is that it's a lightsaber, it's a laser, it's made of light, it wouldn't weigh anything, you could fence these weapons, the problem with that is that now you're locked into a very complicated situation. very specific sword fighting style that doesn't always represent drama initially before all the weird subsets the jedi were samurai that's what they meant as the influence of star wars comes from kurosawa films it comes from tashira mafuni, george lucas wanted to cast mifune as obi. -wan wow man initially that was his first choice man this is a good sword fight there are many techniques here they are doing 8 10 12 moves at a time there is a perry that I don't agree with behind the back perry is that's something It's silly, but it's okay because, again, it's choreography, but if you look at the way Ray moves, look when Ray turns his back.

Ray's back is turned, but Ray has a sword moving all the time. You have to deal with Ray's sword before you can. you have the opportunity to cut him from behind, so there is a lot of criticism here about how his swords come together in the space between his bodies versus blocking the blade in front of his body and fighting with swords, are you fighting in front of him? to you?

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around you, both martial disciplines are trained to meet in front of you on the center line, but in combat you will see people stopping too early, certain fights became guilty of this later in William Hobbs' career, he had to enact a safety protocol and if you look at Rob Roy, there is a case where you can see the safety protocol in the choreography where they go to the stop first.

This is a really difficult piece of choreography and the only other problem you see here is that all the cuts were done by Tim. two thrusts, the rest are slashes, a transitional rapier is not a super effective slashing weapon in terms of if liam hadn't matched he would have received a very shallow cut to the arm or chest whereas if they had all been thrusts. I would have had a lot more trouble here. Liam is holding his wrist now. Would I really do that? Most likely not because you won't be on guard if you don't have to.

What's on guard for those of us who don't speak French, let me get a prop sword real quick so I can illustrate this better. This may be a little long, but that's okay, so if we were sword fighting on chairs, I'm not on guard right now. You are also not on guard at this time, if you are going to be on guard in a sword fight it is usually to put the sword between you and your opponent. He is playing a lot with the weight of the sword. The sword is heavier than the rapier, but you.

You would keep that sword in the center of your body even if you didn't have the point up, just as it takes a lot of energy to always be holding your sword up high, yeah, let me tell you something when you try your hardest. I'm tired every time I do this I use all the muscles in my forearms and shoulders and that's why sword fights like this are brilliant. It represents the drama of the reality of what a sword fight is. He was already out of position. He's not even in danger of being cut there, look, they're not going to cut him there, four feet were cut from his body, so at what point do you balance the visual effect, the dramatic effect with the realism that the audience doesn't can you catch? that has a lot to do with the director and the actors if the director and the actors have fallen in love with something there isn't much you can do about it since a choreographer rob roy wouldn't be fighting with swords like this look at that giant punch and trip forward they're making them like a caveman here that's not the way they fence those swords there's a problem with this moment drop your sword it's very simple oh he's grabbing my rapier let him go idiot then he won't open your whole chest and leaving a giant 11-inch open wound.

Could you just tear it off? No, no, not really, it's very strange because if I grab your sword, my arm can move too and it takes three or four pulls and so-so most of the time. You're wearing gloves, so if you pull and I go with him, I can still hold your sword. I can't believe you're not subscribed. This is like your 12th video. You've been seeing what the hell is wrong with you, look. I have been in the film industry for over 38 years, this channel and these guys are brilliant, the creativity and the amount of work they put in, you will never go wrong watching this channel, there is always amazing content so subscribe trust me .

I'm glad I did this is for members only you did the fight choreography for Avengement and you're actually nominated for the uh taurus award yeah I was working with a stunt coordinator in England named Dan Stiles Dan had choreographed the fights, yes, they brought me. to modify, fix and change some things that Scott Atkins wanted to change and add this fight scene, we should have had eight or nine days to film it, yes we had two, we filmed this entire fight scene in two days, these were hard rubber and raft. wooden weapons about 96 of the punches in this are all real Scots making contact with all these guys we doubled Scott for one little thing in this whole fight because I kind of demanded that slam be a double there or I was still getting that no that was Scott, really Scott took that hit, that's the only place we doubled Scott, the flip that landed on the table, could Scott do that, yeah, Scott could do that, but you know it was my job to make sure Scott did this, he has another.

Scott really dangerous ended up doing it anyway we just doubled it for that roll on the table, that was doing this in two days is really crazy. Do you think that having eight nine days, what would you have changed? I think, honestly, within eight or nine. Days, the fight actually would have gone on a little longer because Scott is famous for that, when Scott says something, you accept it because he knows better, but we would have taken our time. I think the fight was brilliantly filmed. I think everything works very well. In the end. The product may have been more or less the same because like you, we clearly removed it in two days, well I'll tell you why we removed this in two days.

We knocked this out in two days because of Scott, any other actor couldn't have done it. I did this in two days, they just couldn't. You just turn the power on every time you just turn the power on to 200 and keep going, take after take, after take. You know, I'm assuming you want to avoid just slipping and getting. a knife in your eye, so it's mainly Scott that's actually holding the doll and the other guy is basically a lot of what's called reverse tension, the actor with the knife is actually walking away and the other actor is holding them there , so if the actor holding it slides the knife goes away from you, not towards you, but you get all the muscles, all the muscles shake and everything, yeah, it's super cool, yeah, okay, it's time to ask for feedback, This is what I'm looking for from you guys, I want all of you to suggest the best vehicle stunts you can think of: car chases, plane chases, train chases, whatever, leave a comment below with your stunt based on favorite vehicles and we will take them and create a build for our next specialist.

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, I am very proud of this fight now we all worked very hard on this fight again this fight should have lasted three, four or five days this was one day it was not even a full day it was a three-quarter day We had to do this whole fight it's crazy. I confronted you with the exception of the exhibition. I feel like it's like Jake's knife and that's a cold steel xlr spotter that we dulled and invented an action weapon, but you see it as a knife fight. I'm really trying to achieve that line where it looks like they're really trying to cut each other.

These guys are so close, man, that stab is so sketchy that I was turned off, I was kind of turned off, but this is Scott's move too. Scott stayed there, yes. They may have scraped it off, there's the problem, there's the homage that was stolen by Game of Thrones, man, that camera work was solid too. One of the things that helped with this fight scene was that we had almost 360 degrees that we could film, so that's good in terms of it. From what we were seeing, we could use almost everything, but you know we had to maintain continuity and we had to stay on the right side of the line.

You know, I really liked it when we took wide-open shots. Scott was always really good. Fundamental in terms of talking on camera, Scott is brilliant in terms of knowing how he should appear in a film he should direct. I think it's just a matter of time, it's just a matter of time before Scott directs the whole movie. Scott knows what works. and these fights wouldn't have turned out this way if it weren't for scott you know when you work with the man you see that hemakes it all work this fight isn't brilliant because of me this fight is brilliant thanks to scott and marco their physical performance and their acting here really tell this story but the brilliant thing about these guys is that they know themselves in front of the camera , you know what works, a knockout is coming thanks to director jesse johnson, it's not over yet. he cuts out his liver and he's going to feed it to him wow, look at me, oh he's going to eat it, he's not, he's being different himself.

What Jesse Johnson came up with was this and it was a brilliant moment because he surprises the audience, he stays with you, hey. Everyone, I would like to thank Raycon for sponsoring this video that you may remember from the last sponsor segment with Raycon i. I mentioned that I will be sending a pair to my dad. He answered me and told me: Nico. I'm really enjoying these everyday e25s. In fact, these are the things I enjoy about them. I'm enjoying the fact that they have a perfect design. Bluetooth connection I am enjoying its elegant and stylish design I am enjoying its sound quality with the fantastic extra bass that it has.

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Hopefully I'm saying this without asking Luke, but I'm assuming you'd be willing to come back and we'll look into it because there are a lot of good sword fights. Just gotta talk about it Luke, it was super cool that you shared these stories. I loved getting the perspective of someone who can really talk about gun fighting on the show. Thank you very much for joining us as always. A

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time, it's

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to see you and thanks for having me. I hope they know I didn't bother anyone too much, I don't think, but I hope it was enjoyable and, again, I had a great time.

Thanks for being here. If you would like to see more of Luke's work, you can visit his website at war studios.com. There's a link in the description below, as well as a couple other things Luke has worked on, so check it out. Send him some love. Thank you very much for being on the program. Hopefully we'll see each other sometime in the future. I will see you soon.