#practicing stunts

[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD practicing stunts for "The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012, dir. Mark Webb) is so stimulating! Shake off Sony's hard drive!

Andrew and his commitment and love for the character and his story is so touching 🥺

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[fantastic-nonsense]

honestly we really should talk more about the fact that the Mustafar duel didn't use stunt doubles and wasn't sped up in any way. Hayden and Ewan were just that good at dueling each other

[mo-ok]

guys hELP

[paunchsalazar]

neck and neck in the bottom awards

[howtofightwrite]

In real sword fight, kicking the sword to the enemies is just plain impossible right?

No, it's completely possible, it's just a terrible idea.

So, there's a practical stunt, where one performer picks up their opponent's discarded weapon and tosses it to them with their foot. That is completely doable. It's a popular, and fairly easy, stunt to perform. The actual motions could easily be executed during a fight by a skilled duelist, though, you wouldn't want to do that.

You also probably wouldn't want to throw a sword to an ally mid-fight, since there is a risk of them missing the incoming weapon, and being hit by a flying sword, or catching it poorly and injuring themselves. Cuts to the hand and fingers are really nasty in a fight, and something you'd want to avoid if at all possible, but if it's a choice between a risked injury, or death, you might decide to take the risk.

Passing a weapon to someone who is actively trying to kill you is not an appealing option for, what I hope are, obvious reasons. In case they're not: Your foe is trying to kill you. You just gave them a weapon that will help them kill you. This is a bad thing. Things were better when you had all weapons and they had none. Don't kick their sword to them, pick it up and kill them with it. You're both there for the same reason; just get it over with; kill them before someone gets seriously hurt.

This is a fairly common element in duels where the hero returns their enemy's weapon to them after they've been disarmed. It's supposed to illustrate how noble and principled they are, however, in a serious fight (which these almost always are), it's a show of dangerous naivete. If you've ever read something to the effect of, “why is good so dumb!?” this is an excellent example of the behavior which provokes that question.

In a formal dueling environment, or during training, this kind of maneuver starts to become less self-destructive. If this is, “a proper duel,” and killing an unarmed foe would be grossly inappropriate (and criminal), then yes, kicking their sword to them becomes a reasonable middle ground between handing them the weapon and resorting to murder. Especially because the risk of hand injuries turns into a boon rather than flaw. (Actually, flipping the script a little and having the villain return the hero's sword this way, specifically with the intent of letting them catch the blade, is a dick move with reasonable deniability.) Of course, in a proper duel it would probably be better form to hand the fallen weapon to the seconds, let them shuffle it between them, and return it to the other duelist by hand.

In a training environment, particularly with non-sharpened blades, a teacher could easily kick the weapon back to their student to maintain tempo. It's a little unusual, but not that out there, and learning to safely catch a blade without suffering injury isn't the worst trick to have up your sleeve. You'll probably never need it, but there's no downside to being able to catch a thrown weapon by reflex.

It should also go without saying that simply kicking it across the floor is another option. In my experience, kicked weapons don't tend to travel quite as far as you think they would. Obviously, if you practice kicking weapons around, this isn't going to be a problem, but why would you practice that?

This whole scenario tends to be a bit contrived, one of the participants in a duel is disarmed, by some means. This exists to extend the sequence and, in theory, let the characters express themselves a bit, but that expression suffers from this being a fairly rote sequence, rather than behavior that is unique to that character.

So, can it be done? Yeah, it's absolutely doable, however, in serious combat, it is a really bad idea.

-Starke

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[of-fear-and-love]

Top Secret! (1984)

[puppyeared]

[sunshineandlyrics]

[aboxthecolourofheartache]

If anyone’s got some reassurance to spare, I am Having A Day, and it looks to be shaping up to spill into the weekend.

[hanitje]

Darby Allin Kicked Anthony Bowens Down (Stunt Practice)

[thankyou-taeyeon]

 💪 😭

[thevalleyisjolly]

It's impossible to describe the experience of watching Total Forgiveness to people, like how do I explain that this is one of the most compelling shows I've ever watched and it's even one of my comfort rewatch shows but also I cannot rewatch a good third of the series because it makes me so viscerally uncomfortable and this would absolutely never be greenlit by the Dropout of today but it's also essential viewing for understanding not only the development of the company but the public personas of many of the key people involved in Dropout. It's funny and then it's painfully dark and then at the last minute it's hopeful and heartwarming again but damn if it isn't raw all the way through. From the crushing pressure of living under late-stage capitalism to the severe toll on personal relationships that the very premise of the show enables. Also there's a jaunty little soundtrack. 11/10 will rewatch again and again. Except the MLM challenge. I am psychologically unable to watch that again for any sum of money on this planet.

[thefloatingstone]

Seriously tho what a fucking stupid mindset.

"We must prevent children from experiencing difficulty through fictional work!"

WHAT A GREAT IDEA THAT IS, SUSAN.

And how exactly do you expect this child once they grow up to handle difficult and complex situations involving experiences, ESPECIALLY with other human beings with different perspectives and experiences, when you have literally prevented them their whole lives from even being AWARE that life and people are a lot more complicated and messy and sometimes bad things happen to good people and sometimes bad people pretend to be good and sometimes good people can do bad things????

HOW DO YOU THINK THESE ADULTS WILL RESPOND TO ENCOUNTERING COMPLEX ISSUES???? WHEN THEY HAVE LIVED THEIR WHOLE LIVES KNOWING ONLY COMPLACENCY AND NOTHING EVER CHALLENGING THEM??? WHEN THEY HAVE 0 EMOTIONAL TRAINING BUT NOW HAVE THE POWER TO ACTUALLY AFFECT THESE THINGS?????

HOW DO YOU THINK THAT'S GOING TO GO, SUSAN?????

[transminimoffs]

i’m watching the fnaf movie extras and i’m just. the practical effects. they had multiple real animatronics. the pizzeria was a full set, as in fully combined. augh.

[moregraceful]

Did not fall at ice skating AND I sweated all my rage out at one of my specialists 😎 He gets to live another day and I finished my first session at this rink! I think I made it hmm 6 out of 10 lessons which isn't GREAT, but also. What can you do in these unprecedented times. I remain as ever unable to do a crossover, however a friend I made in class decided the two of us are going to try the next group up in the next session. So at least I'll be learning new stuff and not be bored failing at the same things I've been failing at since 2018. I get to fail at new stuff!

I do think my parents maybe missed the mark not forcing me to do sports as a kid...appreciate them encouraging me to be a sensitive and tenderhearted poet and I think I excel at it, but every time I go ice skating for an hour or go hiking for a couple hours or just move my body in a way that creates endorphins I'm like damn, you guys hear about this?? If you move your body, sometimes it clears your head and makes you feel more hopeful about life?? What?? Amazing.

Anyway, excited to start the next session in July. And if work does change my schedule and I no longer work Saturdays I'm thinking of trying a softball clinic 🤔

[greenmenace]

"IMPRESSIVE!"