Bad Assed moments in fight scenes (or just the whole scene)

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The Presidio, Sean Connery’s character, a Lieutenant Colonel, is having a drink in a bar with a SFPD detective (Mark Harmon) who he is working with. A drunkard begins to give the Lieutenant Colonel shit, talking smack about him and calling him “Major” repeatedly (context for those of you not famiiar with military officer insignia, both a Major and a Lieutenant Colonel wear a set of Oak Leaves for their rank insignia, the color of the insignia tells them apart)

Anyhow, attempts to talk the drunkard down fail, and finally Sean Connery stands up and informs the man that he is going to beat him senseless using only his right thumb… because his left thumb is far too powerful. Fight commences, and Sean Connery proceeds to beat the man senseless using (mostly) only his right thumb and various judo-type moves, using the drunkard’s considerable size against him and sending him careening into tables, the bar, and other patrons.

At one point, the drunkard’s buddies rush in to help him, and the detective draws his gun and waves it in the air, asking that they keep the fight fair, and the drunkards back off.

By the end of the fight, Sean Connery has the drunkard pinned up against a wall by pushing his thumb into a pressure point on the guy’s neck.

“See these oak leaves here? They’re silver. That means I am a Lieutenant Colonel. If they were gold, then I’d be a Major. Do you understand?”

“Yessir!”

“Now, the next time you see an officer of the United States Army, you’ll be able to recognize his rank, and you won’t piss him off and risk having him accidentally hurt you. Do you understand?”

“Yessir!”

Sean Connery jabs the guy in the throat with his left thumb and drops him on the floor

Just an utterly awesome badass scene. :smiley:

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I liked the last fight in the Four Muskateers between Michael York and, I think, Christopher Lee.

Marc

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Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.

Paul Newman striding up to a dagger-wielding Ted Cassidy and dropping him with a swift knee to the balls. Chickenshit and badass at the same time.

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From Aliens:

“Get away from her, YOU BITCH!”

I practically stood up in my seat and cheered at that point. :smiley:

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I remember that, its at this point that Harmon says something along the lines of “I just want to let you know that my intentions toward you daughter are strictly honorable”

some great ones in here. any format is fine. as I said in the op I was just watching a great fight scene, one that really leaves an impression and wanted to see what else was out there that people liked.

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Oh, one of my favorites from Due South, season one episode, The Deal, after Don Zucco has had Constable Fraser beaten to within an inch of his life, both because Fraser, in his very polite Canadian way, told off the Don, and in order to warn off Detective Vecchio, who had been interfering with the Don’s attempts to have a shoemaker killed for some minor offense. Ray goes to talk with Zucco, having a one-on-one game of basketball with him (b-ball is a recurring theme in this episode), and wants to talk privately with Zucco, who has his men step out for a minute.

Once Zucco’s men have left, Ray tosses him the ball, and when Zucco reaches up to catch the ball, Ray punches him as hard as he can, and proceeds to administer one of the most brutal beat-downs in Canadian television history. Various plotty stuff happens after that, but the beatdown itself was great, and like the beatdown Fraser suffered earlier, was rather brutal for Due South, which normally played as a feel-good buddy cop comedy show.

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Pretty much the entire final act of Hot Fuzz, beginning when Sgt. Angel kicks the old woman in the face, up to the intense fist-fight with Simon Skinner (Timothy Dalton) in the model village.

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Travis Bickle’s one-man assault of the brothel in Taxi Driver.

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From The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny, from the fight scene between Corwin of Amber and his older brother Benedict. Corwin ( who knows from the start he’s way overmatched ) tries retreating into a stand of trees to hamper Benedict’s longer sword. Without slowing down, Benedict just swings his sword as he walks and slices down the trees in his path.

THAT was the scene this thread immediately made me think of.

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Rome. Next to last episode of season 1, when Titus Pullo had to fight for his life against a bunch of gladiators. The whole scene was awesome, but my favorite part was when he took the shield from one of the fighters, beat him with it, and then when the guy was on the ground, used the shield to cut his head off. Freaking awesome.

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The Zatoichi series are incredible. my kenpo karate club in the 1970’s used to go to Japan Association movie showings to watch these.

i vote for the final fight scenes of both Yojimbo and Sanjiro. mifune Toshiro was freaking amazing.

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In the “mass combat” category, the first battle in Braveheart. Whatever other failings it had as a movie, you can’t say they prettied up and sanitized Medieval warfare.

“The mud and the blood,” indeed.

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Jackie Chan Goodness:

Drunken Master

Drunken Master 2

Mel Gibson in Patriot was pretty bad ass.

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The fight scene in They Live.

If you’ve seen it, you know what I mean.

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The Jackie Chan scene this thread made me think of is the final fight(s) in Who Am I.

Found it.

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IMO it is the finest fight scene ever performed or choreographed. I’ve frame-by-framed through the entire sequence and the timing and performance is flawless. Every facial expression, emotion, reaction, technique, and edit is unbelievable…two of the most perfectionist actors combined with the most perfectionist director and fight choreographer in the business. This is true storytelling and characterization through fighting.

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Cannonball Run, IIRC. Which also had Jackie Chan, BTW.

The Last of the Mohicans, had a scene at the end where Chingachgook is charging Magua (being upset that Magua had just killed his son, Uncas). It’s all Hawkeye can do to keep the intervening combatants from killing Chingachgook while he charges. First, I thought it was pretty badass that Hawkeye didn’t miss a shot. Second, the fight between Chingachgook and Magua was great - I was sure that Magua would kill him out of hand and as soon as the fight started, it was clear that he wasn’t even in Chingachgook’s league.

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I watched both Kill Bill’s this weekend and am surprised that nothing has registered for this thread.

[spoiler]
… Plucking out Darryl Hannah’s other eyeball in KB2 is probably the best moment in all the fights.

… In KB1, while the Bride is fighting Copperhead in her living room… and the school bus pulls up.

… Also in KB1, spanking that lone surviving member of the Crazy 88 “This is what you get for hanging around Yakuza’s!”

… In KB2, Pai Mei tossing the sword back into the rack without looking at it.[/spoiler]

ETA: Added spoiler box because the first moment is so unexpected that it bears non-spoilering.

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In the anime series ‘Golden Boy’, which is pretty much played for laughs and fan service, there’s one punch… I don’t remember the -exact- circumstance, but the main character, seeing (IIRC) a girl getting molested in a car, hauls the molester out of the car and one-shots him, fist-to-face. The badass-ness of it all is because there’s pretty much -no- other non-comedic violence in the entire series. The stark contrast of that one punch makes it very, very clear that Kintaro (the main character) was pushed over the line, and he damn well could do something about it.

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That’s what I came in to post about.

Is this the best example of one against many fighting in film?