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Real life fights look sloppy and chaotic. A fight director has to stage fights that are realistic, safe, and still tell a story. Fight director Greg Lloyd talks about the evolution of fight scenes in American films, and explains that when it comes to storytelling, it's the victim who's in control.
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Real life fights look sloppy and chaotic. A fight director has to stage fights that are realistic, safe, and still tell a story. Fight director Greg Lloyd talks about the evolution of fight scenes in American films, and explains that when it comes to storytelling, it's the victim who's in control.
Transcript
Seven of last weekend’s top ten grossing movies have fight scenes. Every fight scene has to be carefully choreographed by a stage fighting director. Jesse Dukes of the program With Good Reason spoke to a master of stage combat.
Greg Lloyd’s favorite movie growing up was the Mark of Zorro with Tyrone Powers and Basil Rathbone.
Lloyd is an actor and fight director for theater, and he teaches young actors how to fight on stage at Christopher Newport University. He says stage fighting has evolved in America—in the early days—the good old fashioned punch-up ruled the screen
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Now, a much more martial arts inspired style of fighting is popular in the movies.
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This used to be something we just saw in imported movies from Hong Kong or Japan. But now, all sorts of films have this style of choreographed violence.
But no matter the style of fighting, Lloyd says there...
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Timing and Cues
In Cue: Narration: "Greg Lloyd's favorite movie..."
Out Cue: "In Virginia, I'm Jesse Dukes"
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David Schultz
Posted on December 04, 2009 at 10:42 PM | Permalink
Wonderful!
Greg Lloyd is a dream interview subject - he does his own sound effects! This story is great. It didn't just grab my attention, it made me hang on Lloyd's every word, or rather, onomatopoeia. Really lively, punchy feature about a topic most people never consider. Kudos Mr. Dukes!