It seems that the new thing in martial arts fight scenes are the incorporation of tricking. So far I've only seen mediocre attempts in this (Dragonball and Tron, I'm looking at you) it is very rare that I see a a fight scene that integrates fighting and tricking so well in a big budget production. Every time I do see choreography that combines the two its always from groups that have an interest in martial arts and have a martial arts and tricking background. Usually on YouTube.
It may be that the performers are not tainted by big budget movie studio's who spot trends and apply them to their movies just for the sake of being current. For example, the beginning of Casino Royale. Daniel Craig was chasing a freerunner. At the time Casino Royale was released free running and parkour were becoming popular in the mainstream. So what better way to show that the movie is current then to put a freerunning chase scene in the opening of the movie.
This is apparent with tricking now. Any Western martial art movie puts tricking in the movie for the sake of it. In the 2010 movie Tekken, Jin (who is not Japanese in the movie for some reason seeing as his parents are) does a lot of tricking. Yes I understand using tricking can make the fight scenes more flashy, but when its done just to put tricking in that's when I have a problem. I could go on about how the games Jin does not use any tricking elements in his fighting style and how the movie sucked, but we would be here for awhile and plus I got things to do today.
This leads me to the purpose of this post. If your are going to put tricking in a fight scene, it needs to be done right.
These guy accomplished this in spades. Every movement seemed like it belonged. Execution was not forced and overall the fight left me want more. Choreography was outstanding and fluid and you can tell that these guys understand the craft of martial arts, tricking and film making.
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