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Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is amazing, and it features the best action scene in any guardians movie, and one of the best in the MCU: the hallway fight. We are going to break down this halfway fight frame by frame to show you these insane details you missed.
But also, I’m going to talk about why Gunn chose for this to be a one-take hallway fight, and how this whole sequence works so well because it is built around the characters. . And I’m also going to briefly talk about the history of hallway fights and take action scenes, to really give you some context for how this fight was put together.
See, hallway fights inherently work because they compress all of the action into a narrow space. The rules are simple: I am here, I want to go there. Hallway fights force the heroes into a fight or flight situation, where they have to overcome overwhelming odds to chieve, a straightforward goal-to get to the end of the hallway.
I’ve always thought they were partially inspired by side scroll gaming, which only presents the characters with one option-to move forward. I mean hell, Star Wars opens with a hallway fight. Terminator 2 featured a kind of hallway fight with Sarh and John running away from the T-1000 and being rescued by Arnold.
Doug: you just inspired me, I’m gonna quit this job and write a screenplay. Or a novel! Yes, a novel.
What’s it about?
Doug: No idea. Now quiet person, I am writing.
Good luck with that.
Now, back to what I was saying. In the 21st century, Hallway fights have become a showcase of choreography-both fight choreography, and camera choreography.
The very best sequences in a fight, or a dance, turn the camera into an indispensable member of the action. Especially if you;re going to pull off a one take action sequence.
Most people point to Old Boy’s side scrolling, one take hallway fight as the inspiration for this modern obsession with the format. It is a masterclass of one take action choreography, and since then we’ve seen an explosion of hallway fights. The Indonesian martial arts film the raid, Inception-and inception;s was even more tricky because that hallway was actually spinning around.
I think that overall, there’s 2 kinds of hallway fights. There’s the monster at the door, like in Terminator 2-o really, any horror movie where the last girl tries to get out of a house. Darth Vader in Rogue One is a perfect example of a monster at the door hallway fight-excpt in this case, we’re all actually rooting for the monster [clip.``].
But the other hallway fight is more like old boy-it’s the lone hero against overwhelming odds. This is of course a mainstay in martial arts cinema. But in most martial arts movies, we might wonder why the bad guys are waiting to attack the heroes one at a time instead of rushing them all at once. Hallway fights answer that question-it gives the heroes a chance to funnel the overwhelming odds into a manageable number.
Doug: Like 300?
Like 300. [high five]
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Now, I want to quickly shout out our old firend heavy spoilers, who has also released a breakdown of the hallway fight, where he also goe sinto delta about the state of the MCU, where he makes lots of bad uns. Worth a watch, when you get don with this video. Now, back to hallway fights.
And these days, when I say hallway fight, most people immediately think of this [daredevil clip]. And that fight was amazing. Matt arrives at the building on death's door to rescue a kidnapped child. And camera trickery made this sem like it was one shot. Not for nothing though, the first MCU hallway fight scene was in Iron man 2, but daredevil blew it away. Instead Of quick cuts, the camera stayed on the action the entire time.
They would replicate this trick with the stair fight and Grab castle’s prison fight in later seasons.
I want to highlight this because hallway fights are even more impressive when they’re in one shot. I mena, long takes are nothing new-children of men, goodfellas, bonfire of the vanities-and of course the masterful funeral shot in Soy Cuba.
8 май 2023
