are you attending an enemy's masquerade ball and wondering if your couture is suitable for mayhem
well it might be spoilers for Red Notice if you're a patron or channel member you'll want
to head over there now because I go way more into my theories on fight scene costuming at the end of
the video regardless onward my name is Jill Bearup I'm an actor combatant which means I pretend to
fight people on stage and I make videos about fighting in movies and occasionally costuming
I went in with really low expectations of Red Notice which is probably why I actually enjoyed
it quite a lot in particular I enjoyed what they did with the costuming which is basically just
slightly over the top all the time the outfit I want to talk about is the one that's worn at the
masquerade ball and then in the fight afterwards in this scene. Gal Gadot Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne
Johnson all get into a fight in a vault over the Maguffin a spear and a shield are involved it's
cool and because they've been at a very fancy party the chaps are in tuxedos which because
fight scene were custom made in the same way that you make tuxedos for dancers in Broadway shows for
example in that the armholes of the jacket are cut really high for freedom of movement and there's a
gusset in Ryan Reynolds suit so that when he lifts his arms he doesn't take the whole jacket with him
and he also has stretchy lining in the fabric of his jacket there's a very interesting interview
with the costume designer on this among other topics and there is a link in the places that
you might expect a link to be but let's talk about Gal Gadot's slinky red number full disclosure I am
also keen on red dresses that you can fight in but mine does not say Versace on the tag because
I don't have that kind of money it does say John 3:16 though no no I'm entirely serious yeah also
statistically speaking my dress is older than about 60% of my TikTok followers but like it's
vintage okay vintage anyway in spite of the super slinky dress Gal Gadot and her stuntwoman are
still high kicking and throwing chaps around and spear fighting because while the dress is floor
length the slit which Versace custom altered for her when they custom made her the dress they sent
a seamstress to measure her and everything means that her legs are free for kicking to paraphrase
the costume designer if you can kick over your head why would we not enable you to do that?
The construction of the top part also manages to accommodate the fight choreography just fine
although I did wonder about how they took care of the girls as Harley Quinn would put it. Having
asked a sewing type of my acquaintance her opinion she concluded that there was definitely some kind
of structural underpinning integral bra in the top part of the dress which I suppose is one
of the things you can have when Versace custom makes your dress for you and the straps are nice
and wide well relatively speaking and so that will help with keeping everything in place as
well. it should be noted that Gal Gadot is not particularly generous of chest and so you don't
need a lot of undergirding just a little bit of structure and decently sized straps will probably
keep the hatches safely battened so to speak. the top of the dress is also one of those occasions
where less coverage can actually be your friend especially if you don't have to do
a lot of falling [falling]
take it easy I mean yes but that's one fall and it's
not particularly high I'm just saying anyway no sleeves on your dress means you don't have to mess
around with gussets or armscyes like they did for the men's tuxedos and canonically since it's meant
to be a 'look smoking hot' outfit rather than a 'go into battle' outfit no one's gonna mind if
it's a little bit impractical now is it going to be the most comfortable thing to fight in I don't
know I would say that's mostly going to depend on the fabric like how breathable is the fabric how
stretchy is the fabric and that will tell you how comfortable it's going to be to fight in
but overall I really love this costuming choice for this scene I think it works really well with
the character it works with the scene it looks amazing and since the bishop is 100% an over
the top look at me I'm so beautiful i'm going to dazzle you with my charm don't worry I'm
robbing you blind but you won't even mind kind of character and because Red Notice is a deliberately
over-the-top campy non-serious movie it works. Now practically speaking Gal Gadot did say that
she had a couple of awkward moments when fighting with Ryan Reynolds and yeah I...I can imagine.
I did wonder while watching it what kind of underwear you could have on under there and so
I made a youtube short about it and various people said shorts in the same color and fabric as the
dress and one person sent me a link to a youtube short where a stuntwoman does a backflip on the
red carpet in heels and a dress it was amazing there is a link to that below too. I don't need to
do many backflips and I also don't have a wardrobe department to back me up so I just tend to wear
tights shorts leggings or some combination of the above underneath dresses then again I'm also not
a Hollywood movie star so I don't imagine anyone cares very much about my opinion as for the rest
of the ensemble I was pleased to note that the bishop kicks off her shoes before mixing it up
even though shortly thereafter there is just gonna be a lot of broken glass everywhere so I
don't know maybe it might have been a good idea to bring a pair of flip-flops or something but
it's probably still better than those hideous wonder woman wedge-heeled sandals that I hate
so much that it's basically a meme at this point. my mother called me the other day to tell me that
she saw someone wearing an armor dress on the red carpet and thought of me and also while on
the phone she said do you think she's wearing wedge heels under there? hi mum glad you're
watching the show but having partially ruined the practicality of the moment where she takes
her shoes off by putting broken glass all over the floor we then completely ruin it by taking
her hair down why I mean I know they mostly do it because it's easier to hide her face and so it's
harder to tell whether it's a stunt woman or Gal Gadot and it's the same reason that superheroes
have capes and Thor always has long flowing hair it gives you much more movement in the scene
but it still sticks out as kind of a stupid moment but it doesn't stick out too badly because it's a
comedy whereas I remember watching iron man 2 and Scarlett Johansson's black widow taking her hair
down while putting on her sexy spy catsuit and I was like girl seriously that said given the
constraints of the comedic moment as it were we don't actually want to give her too much time to
prepare for the fight so just having enough time to kick off her shoes and take her hair down seems
about right if you're interested in how to balance fanciness with practicality in a fight scene then
I do recommend watching red notice because I think they do it really well in this scene in particular
and I really enjoyed the costuming in the rest of the movie actually it is as the kids say on point.
do the kids still say that? if you'd like to see the extended version of this video then you can
go to patreon.com/jillbearup or hit the blue join button beneath this video or if you'd like to see
me make the perfect murder dress then that option should be on the screen for you too. see you soon!