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Apr. 26th, 2006 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethLadyhawke would be better with different music, imho.
The first fight sceen is a great example of telling character through fights. Phillipe and Navarre on the same ground against the same opponents. Phillipe sees everything as a way to run or hide, up and over or down and crawling, hides under blankets, tries to be tricksy. He injures one by accident and says sorry! But Navarre, same set, sees everything as a weapon. He stays on the horizontal, normal floor, but he grabs up things Phillipe wouldn't even notice and exploits their offensive potential. He knocks a man into the fire, sets him aflame, but then has a quiet emotional moment over the body of a fallen comrade. While the man in the background is screaming.
Lovely few moments to tell you about the both of them.
Fight scenes should never be filler. And they should never be generic. A well designed fight could only be those characters in that place at that time, and tells you much about them all.
The first fight sceen is a great example of telling character through fights. Phillipe and Navarre on the same ground against the same opponents. Phillipe sees everything as a way to run or hide, up and over or down and crawling, hides under blankets, tries to be tricksy. He injures one by accident and says sorry! But Navarre, same set, sees everything as a weapon. He stays on the horizontal, normal floor, but he grabs up things Phillipe wouldn't even notice and exploits their offensive potential. He knocks a man into the fire, sets him aflame, but then has a quiet emotional moment over the body of a fallen comrade. While the man in the background is screaming.
Lovely few moments to tell you about the both of them.
Fight scenes should never be filler. And they should never be generic. A well designed fight could only be those characters in that place at that time, and tells you much about them all.