Saturday, 26 January 2013

combat choreography versus 1 step 1 kill choreography

Well...well...well.... having watched way too many lightsaber fights over the past eight or so hours... I'm just gonna list the really good ones off YouTube below (not just for saber skill but also for ideas and techniques as well as stunts and so forth):

Ryan vs Dorkman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NE5elL30w4
CONCRETE HUSTLE lightsaber duel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZM4Hkw5CPk
Ferocity - LCCX's Winning Lightsaber Duel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faQO57Iwlo0
Star Wars Lightsaber Duel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dykGRGzzVA
RvD2: Ryan vs. Dorkman 2 -- HD - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATMJ8JH1qo
Chad vs. Jason - Lightsaber Battle Royale! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XI0e1C-0u4
Denial of Self - lightsaber duel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMxGbBZOYc
Jedi Ninjas Ft. Team2X - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF9Qk6m_b74
Limit of Error - Lightsaber duel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ityky7D_uhk
 Roommates Senior Year: Lightsaber Duel (HD Star Wars Fan Film) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VbAX51oi0c
Lake Central Lightsaber Battle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isMwsQiQrg

I've come to the conclusion that I am probably hovering somewhere between "just plain nuts" and "completely and utterly insane." I have no doubt that I can find a partner and put together a Choreography in a few weeks time. The question is: Can I get the force powers on film, and edited together in time for a single choreography?

I'm having doubts about this at the moment.... and I'm toying with the idea of doing something a little different that having a choreography of a 1 vs 1 fight: The one-step-one-kil routine. I can't find decent videos of these online to really showcase what I'm talking about but you can get the idea of it here from Chronicles of Riddick. That links you to a step by step analysis of the one-step-one-kill routine on the prison planet Crematoria. now something along those lines, to showcase Force Powers would probably be easier to do... if I can find enough people willing to be mooks to get beaten up - that, and enough lightsabers to go round....

But another look at a similiar concept can be found in Blade (the infamous slaughterhouse rave sequence) and again at the Ritual Site at the end of the movie, and Blade 2 Bloodhunt (the blood bath), Blade Trinity (as he fights his way through the building single handed to face Dracula).

A similiar concept has been applied to Lord of The Ring, the Fellowship of the Ring, and is most clearly visible at the end of the first movie where Aragon then Boromir stand and fight their way through an entire horde of Uruk'Khai singlehanded until the later gets killed.

So the question that remains now is which one I can pull off in a few weeks. I'm think this new approach might work a lot better because one man against an army of foes, is in itself a demonstration of power in and of itself, as opposed to a fight with two people litreally just beating on each other until one of them wins.... what do you all think?

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