He does a pass, a slash.
He comes out here, does another slash and controls here.
Note that he's behind the person, he's not only flanked.
He's completely behind his assailant.
And using the assailant's body as a shield against the other assailants.
Hello People of The Internet!
Welcome back to another episode of Scenic Fights' Fight Scene Breakdown.
I'm Logan Lo
And I'm Chad Vázquez.
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So, today's episode is actually probably our most requested episode.
Yes. Yes, it is.
So, we've gotten Instagram messages about it.
We've gotten Facebook messages about it.
Some scary text, I don't know how you guys our number.
Some scary text, that's been scary.
But we're really excited about this, this is actually one of my favorite films.
The Man from Nowhere (2010)
And it's so good, that there are actually two great knife scenes that we'll be doing.
The first one is going to be the melee fight scene with the protagonist, Cha Tae-sik
against a group of individuals
so let's get right to it.
Yup let's do it!
Let's do it.
[Logan] Alright nice, fight's beginning.
[Logan] Good
[Logan] Oh
[Chad] Boom, forward roll
[Logan] Nice
[Logan] Good, dragging.
[Logan] I like that.
[Logan] Just the very beginning of this, there's lots of things that I like.
The first thing I like is that, he's not hunting the body.
You see that a lot in movies where people are always trying to hunt the body.
But as a lot of you have comment before, about my saying
"Oh, make mincemeat of the person"
Which I would never do, in real life
But if I was in a fight, you want to cut the extremities first.
One thing that he did was that he cut tendons here.
So, he's cutting tendons to weaken the man's grip.
Because again, this is how you grip.
You grip with this side of the arm
and then you open with this side of the arm.
So, he cut here so that the man was no longer to grip
and after he was done doing that, knowing that the danger is out of the way.
He then proceeded to do the killing blow here on the wrist.
Really like that.
Why expend the energy to reach the body if the arm is available for you.
Now you see they're coming to him so he doesn't have to chase them
so he does have to back up for distance.
[Logan] He's keeping his eyes on the other assailants
[Logan] Parry, attack, parry, attack
[Logan] Very good!
[Chad] Oof!
[Logan] Oof! Yeah that is brutal.
[Logan] Okay, let's talk about this real quick.
One thing I really like about this is that they make use of angles.
You'll note that the camera man is not just staying in one place
because the characters are all moving around so much.
That's a real fight. Right, Chad?
Like you never stay in one place.
No.
It's also never linear
So, he's flanking immediately and attacking from the flank.
You know what!
Let's break that down right now.
In the melee scene,
All of the attackers came in a linear way
and then Cha stepped out
by parrying with his blade in the icepick grip,
and by doing this, other targets were open up for him
For example, the armpit. He comes in here and slashs the armpit.
Note that I'm in a position of safety, I'm either flanked our behind the person
Whereas the assailant is now in a place of grave danger.
[Logan] Good pass. Look he's always trying to get to the back.
[Chad] Nice
[Logan] Cut underneath the armpit, we need to talk about that.
[Logan] Oh, he's in safety behind the guy.
One of my absolute favorite scenes, is where Cha finishing the off the Man in White
As of the Man in White comes in Cha passes here
He does a slash
Notice he comes around here and slashes the throat.
So, by slashing the throat here, or capturing, he's now behind the person,
and then he's able to stab him from behind.
This is an ideal position.
His enemy is in front
He's using another enemy assailant as a block for himself
While also finishing him off from a position of safety.
There is no way, that he can hurt me in a meaningful way,
whereas Cha have killed him in a meaningful way.
[Chad] Oh nice [Logan] Okay, Okay
[Logan] Oh! That looks like an armlock.
[Chad] A Kimura.Yeah!
[Logan] Kimura, okay.
[Logan] Now you'd note that it didn't work,
The Kimura. The arm control that he was in,
that arm control would've worked had Cha not been armed. Correct?
[Chad] Yeah, the guy let go the moment he was stabbed in the leg.
[Logan] Let's take a look at that. Let's break that down.
So, here Chad is going to put me in a Kimura please.
Okay and I'm going to try and not let him.
We're going to go slow, but I'm not going to let him do it.
Yeah, I couldn't get out of that
But!
The dynamics change with a knife
I am now armed.
Chad you're going to do the same thing.
Yup!
I'm going to resist.
Alright so now I'm resisting as we're going here
Yeah, that's not going to work.
The introduction of a weapon
changes the dynamic of things.
So, if this was a street fight
and Chad was fighting me
But did not know that I was armed with an edged weapon,
he's in danger,
because something that should work,
it will no longer work.
Totally realistic.
And we've actually done some training where you guys have a knife there
and I'll tell you right now, when we tried that
Weapons changed a lot.
When it comes to hand to hand combat
so that for sure is a real thing.
So far everything about this scene I love.
It's all textbook knife work.
[Logan] Oof! Brutal.
[Logan] Okay some flailing.
They're committed to the job; I'll be out dude.
I would be. What!
After the fourth guy.
I'm gone.
They might have good dental.
Alright
Good point.
[Logan] Good! Good!
[Logan] See!
[Logan] Now that show's his character.
This is a man that has been trained.
That man has been trained.
That's a killing blow.
Now in this film, the protagonist is a trained special operative.
This particular killing scene is...
When I saw it
I was really taken aback, because it's so accurate.
Without getting into too much of the gruesome details.
Most films you see someone's throat being sliced.
Here that didn't happen.
He stuck the knife straight through the neck.
That is something that is rarely seen.
I don't I've think ever seen that in a film.
But it is definitely taught in special forces.
Now there is some grappling involved, I'm going to Chad take over from here.
Guy is attacking
Cha is dodging and he gets two point of connection.
One on the elbow and one on the neck.
I'm guessing because he's coming in so fast
that with this connection on the neck
he starts pulling down his opponent to the floor.
Now remember this rule
Where the head goes, the body follows
It's a very common concept you see in different grappling arts
Especially in jitsu, wrestling, sambo, judo etc...
So, I have my connections here, I feel momentum
so it seems Cha is moving out and pulls the guy down to the floor with this grip.
So, we're over here, we're landing
and he falls on to his left shoulder.
Now this next part is really quick, but here is what we see.
The right leg, steps over, the armpit that's based on the floor.
I'll demonstrate
Back step
to control the wrist.
And it seems like he's using his leg to trap the arm.
This allows Cha to use his thumbs to push off the knife.
Hold on to the hand and the wrist to make sure the arm doesn't get out.
And now he's with a free hand
with a weapon
to deliver the killing blow.
And just a quick comment on the killing blow
It's done in a very efficient way that really captures how he's a trained operative.
He's not slashing the throat
He's just delivering a straight thrust to the neck.
Very efficient.
Thank you so much for recommending this scene.
I understand
I get it.
It's an amazing film.
I watched it as a fan myself.
I'm so glad I had the opportunity to review it.
This is a perfect scene.
One of the things about this scene that I really enjoy
Was how it built up Cha a this operative.
You can see that he received some world class training to be a special operative.
That's apparent in how he moves.
He retreated when he needed to retreat.
He attacked when he could attack.
And he constantly tried to improve his position
while being safe.
And that's something that is very important when it comes to weapon's work.
In this entire scene, Cha kept himself safe.
He kept his assailants in front of him.
He made sure that he wasn't flanked
while flanking
And he attacked the extremities first before finishing off the bodies
each time.
It really made you feel this guy knows what he's doing and he's doing it in a very professional
orthodox
efficient manner.
I as a practitioner of Kali, I'm not sure how I can improve upon it.
And that's what I look for when I grade things.
Like, if this was a real-life scenario situation, what would I have done differently
to protect myself or press the attack further
I'm not sure I would've done anything differently.
I have to give this an A+
It's a perfect scene.
Honestly, great work by the fight choreographers and the director.
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