Hello, I'm Adrian, and welcome to the latest episode of Fight Scene Breakdown!
On this series we take a look at your favorite fight scenes from various forms of media
and analyze them from a martial arts perspective. Today we're examining Winter
Soldiers awesome nightmare fight scene from The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
Without spoiling much, this fight happens very early on in the series. The Winter Soldier,
or more aptly put, Bucky Barnes, is having a very difficult time adjusting to a "normal life" after
everything that he's been through. He's been seeing a counselor who has advised him to try
to amend his past actions in order to avoid the nightmares. In terms of a story perspective, not
only does this nightmare give the series an excuse to show Winter Soldier at full power so to speak,
it also lets the viewer know what Bucky is seeing. And though the stakes may not be at
an all time high since we're dealing with a fight that has a bygone outcome, it's still
fun to see. It's also dramatically important to Bucky's character development later on.
Before the fight begins we get a couple of establishing shots to see the scenario it's
going to take place in. The lighting is very warm, giving the viewer a false sense of security before
the fight starts. Suddenly we cut to that iconic metallic arm smashing through a wall
and subsequently removing the guard. A couple cuts later and the Winter Soldier starts going
to work immediately. The scene is shot in a style reminiscent of Captain America Winter Soldier
with mostly wides to appreciate the action, just with an accelerated cutting pace.
For example, in order for the Winter Soldier to land on the bottom floor we have a quick shot
of him about to start rolling over the railing, which cuts to another wide of him rolling over it,
and then we cut to him landing. Each shot takes less than a second, but you still
get a sense of the action in this instance. This is the only scene in the entire series
that truly presents Bucky at full power. Sure, we get a snippet of this when he's pretending
to be the Winter Soldier at a nightclub, but it's nowhere near as brutal and efficient as
he has the potential to be. As such, most of the choreography in the scene is lethal,
which makes sense considering the Winter Soldier doesn't have time to disable his enemies via
multiple strikes and instead goes for the most efficient way to take them out, whether it's
using hand to hand combat, the environment, or weapons. Let's take a look at each one of them.
The first guard goes down with a simple pull. The second guard
receives a quick dropkick. The third guard is eliminated with a throwing knife to his neck.
The aforementioned second guard also gets a blink and you miss it knife to the neck,
taking him out of the equation as well. Naturally after this everybody panics and either runs or
shoots at the Winter Soldier. But without a moment of hesitation the Winter Soldier
takes out guards number 4 and 5 with some lethal and accurate shooting. The sixth guy receives a
direct impact from Bucky's vibranium arm aided by a bit of gravitational force considering he just
dropped in from the floor above. A shot and knife later, and guards number seven and eight are out.
The last one is eliminated with a quick one armed choke, leaving only his main defenseless target.
What's interesting to see in this choreography is that we're dealing with a character who is
not only a straight up villain in this scenario, but one who has superpowers, is fully trained,
and ruthless. Several scenes involving a scenario of one vs many have already been analyzed on this
channel. Whether it's Daredevil's hallway fight scene, or Captain America's elevator fight scene,
or even Spider-Man dealing with common criminals. But the difference here is that
unlike them, The Winter Soldier is a villain at this point. And he doesn't mind using his
weapons to their fullest extent. So the choreography in this scene reflects that.
Unlike other characters, he doesn't use hand to hand combat virtually at all.
It was cool to see a different kind of fight choreography, as well as the Winter Soldier
unleashed. He actually had weapons this time, unlike his Civil War breakout scene. And he
wasn't just trying to get away like when he was escaping the apartment complex in that same film.
Instead he was at peak form, with nothing holding him back. It was awesome too see,
and I only wish we had gotten more of that in the series.
If you enjoyed this analysis and would like to see more of them, I invite you to check
out the Fight Scene Breakdown playlist as I've already analyzed virtually every fight
in Captain America The Winter Soldier as well as Captain America Civil War.
I've also broken down the fight between Bucky, Sam, and John Walker's Captain America.
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