Great Movie Fight Scenes - The Quiet Man
@arthurchappell (44941)
Preston, England
October 9, 2016 4:16pm CST
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Much of this fabulous 1952 movie is an arrow pointing to the hilarious climactic fight between John Wayne and Victor McLagen.
As the fight finally engages, the entire sleepy village springs to life. The clergy put bets on. So do the police. People leap from their sick beds to watch. Whenever one of the men falls down a bucket of water is thrown over him to revive him to keep the legend growing.
The fight (initially sparked over Wayne’s marriage to McLagen’s sister, Maureen O’Hara), ceases to be for the men but for everyone around them instead.
It is one of cinema’s longest and funniest fights. The scrappers even stop for a drink part of the way through, chiefly to give time for neighbouring villagers to be bussed in for the spectacle too. The beauty of watching the film is that we get to enjoy every hilarious blow, kick and punch in painless comfort.
The fight scene on Youtube
Arthur Chappell
Probably the best movie in the world,as Orson Welles may have said during his later work doing lager adverts for carlsberg
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@WorDazza (15826)
• Manchester, England
10 Oct 16
The best fight scene I've ever seen is from the film Oldboy, the 2003 Korean original not the crappy 2013 remake.
It's particularly impressive as it was done in one continuous take and also has plenty of humour in it.
The corridor fight scene took seventeen takes in three days to perfect, and was one continuous take -- there was no editing of any sort except for the knife ...
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
10 Oct 16
Oldboy is a great movie - not seen the remake
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
10 Oct 16
@WorDazza it is sad that the publishers and film makers rely on existing formulas with so much great unpuublished creative talent in workshops and among online writers - there should be no excuse
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@WorDazza (15826)
• Manchester, England
10 Oct 16
@arthurchappell Can't imagine why anyone would consider a remake. The original is almost impossible to improve on, in my opinion.
Although I suppose they probably felt they should do an English language version for those without the concentration span to read subtitles!!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
15 Oct 16
John Wayne was in some great movies.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
16 Oct 16
@Jessicalynnt he was a great actor - The Searchers is my favourite of his movies
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
10 Oct 16
I loved that movie! I did not watch it at the cinema but had the luck of watching it a couple of times on TV. Red headed Maureen O´Hara plays well her role too as the country girl that wanted to be won as men have to fight
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
10 Oct 16
@marguicha Yes O'Hara is terrific in this film too
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Oct 16
A classic Ford picture.
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