New "Sherlock Holmes" trailer

[peredur_glyn]

Hell yesLooks like stupid-but-fun entertainment. The portrayal of Watson (by, um, Jude Law) feels much closer in spirit to the ex-military man of the books, and the oft-ignored mischievous side of Holmes himself suits somebody of Downey Jr.'s exuberance. Of course, it could simply rape the hell out of everything Conan Doyle ever wrote, but I'm

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[dyddgu]

I am amazed that knirirr has yet to join in this thread to point out that a) we know the fight choreographers from MA circles, and b) they do proper authentic Victorian Bartitsu, and have incorporated much of it into this film.
I will have to do it for him.

[peredur_glyn]

Yeh, I was going to comment on how 'proper' the bare-knuckle business looked, but assumed one of you two would pipe up anyway ;)

[dyddgu]

There's a tidy representation of it also in the Jeremy Brett Holmes, "The Affair of the Solitary Cyclist."
We're hoping to do some Bartitsu at some point in the future...

[peredur_glyn]

Cool!

I recall the trailer showing some people hitting each other in the face a lot. Accurate? I had understood that this happened rarely in this style of fighting, given that it would result in broken fingers? Hence why gloveless BK boxing was statistically safer than modern boxing...?

[dyddgu]

Well, you wanted to hit in the face in order to tap the claret (=make the nose bleed), which stings like the blazes (ask me how I know), and cut the eyes so that your opponent couldn't see. Conversely, of course, it bloody hurts to punch someone. Head shots are the most trained, and the best to do, but you just hit less hard with bare knuckles. Case in point - last night at Savate, knirirr hit me with shots he says were pulled far more than we do them at LSD. However, as he was wearing 12oz gloves, my head really rattled from them, and I was dazed at several points in the evening. Also by someone else I got my nose punched, and a shot to the side of my jaw, which twisted my head.
I guess the other thing with BK boxing, is that any force you apply is more concentrated, because p=f/a, and wearing gloves spreads that a good deal. BK, you can deliver powerful shots to specific points, such as the nerve that runs to the mid point either side of your mandible, which will knock you out.
*looks back at post*. I scare me sometimes.

[knirirr]

It looked fine to me, and I noted the correct depiction of a vertical fist. His "chasse frontale" kick was a bit dastardly, though, being French.