I’m compiling a list of movies that include head butts for a staff report. The list might as well include tv shows . Here’s what I’ve got so far:
La Balance (1983)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Kindergaten Cop (1990)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
One Good Cop (1991)
Batman Returns (1992)
Internal Affairs (1990)
The Hard Way (1991)
Hook (1991)
Star Trek VI (1991)
The Commitments (1991)
Black Rain (1989)
Red Eye (2005)
I’d appreciate any additions you folks can supply.
Heh. I’d intended to check that, but forgot about it. Thanks. As you note, though, it doesn’t appear to generate a comprehensive list, so I’m still glad I started this thread.
Okay then, so is there anything before 1980 (The Road Warrior)? You often see the headbutt used in period dramas (okay action flicks), but did anyone use them in fights 40-50+ years ago?
IIRC, there’s a mean head butt in Trainspotting. I’d want independent verification, though. It’s been a few years.
Accidental, and non, head butts happen all the time in boxing matches. The recent Hopkins-Wright fight had a head butt that opened a nasty cut, if you’re looking for some footage.
TV shows are fair game? Then I think in one episode of Black Adder Goes Forth, a loudmouthed fighter pilot character gives a potent head butt to Captain Darling.
I didn’t add it because it’s a show, not a movie, but in the History of Ballooning episode of Monty Python’s flying circus, King Louis the 14th or so (played by Michael Palin with a strong Scottish accent), head butts one of the Montgolfier brothers when he questions whether he’s really the king.
I’ve been wondering the same thing, even though that’s not really the focus of the staff report. One of my sources for the staff report is a New York Times article that says it was rare before the mid-1980s.
If it’s just “on TV”, I saw a wicked head butt on some compilation show like “Totally Outrageous Behaviour” not long ago. A basketball ref was knocked out cold by a head butt from a player. Not sure If I would be able to nail it down though.
In the “Wonder Woman” TV show, she head-butted an alien during a fight. It was in the episode “The Boy Who Knew Her Secret, Part Two” from season three.