Laziness
Taking advantage of my two days off to rest my shoulder, I've been watching lots of DVDs. I'll put in some full reviews later, but I just gotta say, after re-watching the first bits of The Bourne Identity; how down and dirty hard is the fight in his Paris apartment? With the pen stabbing, and the hands-free spring-up and all the up-close sticky hands stuff.
All right, I know it's Kali, rather than Wing Chun, so the term 'sticky hands' may not be entirely appropriate, but jeez it's still just so frickin' cool!
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It's a very good fight scene. Movies have to make their fight scenes increasingly realistic (depending on genre), and it's a phenomenal balancing act of what you want to see vs what actually happens.
BI conveyed this efficient style punctuated by sweaty grunts and occasional gristle-cracks really well. I just hate directors who decide the audience won't catch it so they wave the camera around wildly so no one sees anything at all. But at least there's lots of techno in the background. That makes a good fight scene right?
What got me when we were rewatching it is how really less-than-stellar an Intelligence Agency those guys were being. Seriously, about nine times they should have just cut their losses and initiated 'Operation Leave Jason Bourne The Fuck Alone'. Notice that despite their worst fears, Jason only (or mostly, I missed bits) really caused any trouble to them, at junctures triggered by them! Of course, this is probably the same mindset in all the other films that builds an unstoppable killing machine then gets surprised when it goes around killing and they can't stop it. Whoops!
Oh, and that bit where Jason's picked up at the beginning? Straight out of Hercules in New York. Really. Go look and see.
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