{"id":1606,"date":"2004-08-25T12:53:27","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2010-07-12T09:15:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:15:55","slug":"great-and-memorable-fight-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Memorable Fight Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I referenced <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0045061\/\">the John Wayne film <i>The Quiet Man<\/i><\/a> which has, to my taste, one of the funniest and most memorable fight scenes I have ever seen in a movie.<\/p>\n<p>It involves an entire group of townspeople, all fighting with one another, and the fight <i>moves<\/i>, the group moves <i>as one<\/i> &#8211; over the green hills of Ireland &#8211; They fight up and over a hill, they fight over the stone wall, they fight through the farmlands, they fight through fences, through fields of sheep, they dump each other into cisterns as they all fight by &#8230; The first time I saw the film, I had the impression that the fight scene was literally half an hour long.  It&#8217;s probably much shorter &#8211; but it feels like it goes on forever (and that&#8217;s a good thing &#8211; it&#8217;s <i>highly <\/i>comedic &#8211; especially because it is a fight between 10 people.  They all move as one, fighting with one another, together &#8211; a squabbling crowd fisticuffing their way through the pastures).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it got me to thinking about great fight scenes in movies &#8211; ones that stand out from the pack as superior (either because of the stunts involved, or the context of the fight scene itself).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obviously quite easy to film a boring cookie-cutter fight scene, because we see them in every other movie.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this?  Great fight scenes, anyone?  Bring it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I referenced the John Wayne film The Quiet Man which has, to my taste, one of the funniest and most memorable fight scenes I have ever seen in a movie. It involves an entire group of townspeople, all fighting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1606\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[603],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17371,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/17371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}