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selenak

Fannish Five: Five Favourite Action/Fight Sequences

Sep 23, 2006 16:49

From penknife, while I'm busy savouring all the great fanfiction produced by the 1602ficathon

Five Favourite Action/Fight Sequences:

1) The Anakin/Obi-Wan duel from Revenge of the Sith. This was probably one of the most anticipated scenes of all time, and even if you don't like the prequels, you have to admit Lucas did deliver. If you do like the prequels, as in ( Read more... )

blade runner, buffy, meme, astonishing x-men, highlander, star wars, multifandom

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honorh September 23 2006, 17:28:37 UTC

Totally with you on everything except X-Men, which I never saw. The Blade Runner one, though, reminds me that another of my favorite fight sequences also involves Rutger Hauer--the climactic swordfight in Ladyhawke (sort of a cult movie, one of my favorites). It's the perfect combination of murderous rage and desperation as two characters who hate each other intractably fight with swords and occasionally stop to beat each other to a pulp inside a cathedral. It also reverses the usual cliche by having the hero in black, on a black horse, wearing a cape with red on the underside; while the villain is in white and gold. Plus, it's not even the confrontation the hero was looking for (although he no doubt expected it), so it's all ramping up to the climax.

selenak September 23 2006, 19:01:31 UTC

I'll make you read Astonshing X-Men yet. It's terrific. Joss writes it! The characters are great, the dialogue is snarky, he makes us smile and then puts them through hell - what more do you want?

Ladyhawke: love that one, too, agreed.

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selenak September 23 2006, 18:59:48 UTC

Re: Revenge of the Sith: Well, I suppose it's a case of eye of the beholder - to me, it delivered, to you, it didn't. We'll neither of us be able to convince the other because it's an emotional response.

Re: Xavier - though andrastewhite who is the Xavier expert to beat all Xavier experts would undoubtedly point out Charles did morally ambiguous things even in the 70s and recite chapter and verse of the issues in question. I, who have a very spotty canon knowledge and some additional one through fannish osmosis, can only appreciate what I know, and that is that of course Xavier is prone to make questionable decisions with the rest of them; the intriguing thing about Charles, though, is what he doesn't do, even though he could. It has to be a constant temptation and an ongoing struggle, which sometimes he loses.

viciouswishes September 23 2006, 22:25:15 UTC

Claremont cured Xavier as well. In fact, there's a whole sequence of Xavier playing basketball. It's one of the more wtf moments in his writing.

selenak September 24 2006, 05:50:31 UTC

Et tu, Chris? Alas. Anyway, this makes the writers who didn't the more laudable.*g*

The problem with Xavier alara_r September 25 2006, 18:42:39 UTC

On the metalevel, Xavier being a physical cripple is important to the character. But on the internal story level it makes no sense. You have characters who heal people, his girlfriend is the Empress of a culture that has the technology to make clones and to force-grow people to adulthood, you have all kinds of advanced technology and cybernetics running around, so why can't anyone fix Xavier's back? It's not like it's crippled because of weird science; currently it's just snapped (the earlier time, it had been crushed, so he had sensation in it but could not walk ( ... )