They simply dont make fight scenes like that any more, its gold.
Too corriorgraphed for me are the fight scenes today, this one was brilliant, fending off the two men by himself and ending it with the classic punch to the groin, keeping him down.
I liked that flying drop kick. Lee Marvin was bad ass.
shareYeah, I know what you mean its well done and I think its also because of that great music which is playing in that scene. I love how the scene goes on when villains are already laying on the ground but music is still playing then cut to screaming girl then villains again and then Walker in front of the projector...its so great...and that music...
shareI was impressed, too. Been seeing a bunch of '60s movies, and the fight scenes are straight John Wayne, with unblocked face punches and one guy telling the guy he is going to fight him so he can get ready. This was great, winding up on the floor with broken teeth and bruised ribs and pulled hair and ending with a punch in the nuts. Hey, fights get ugly!;-)
shareI remember how shockingly real it all seemed, and the "aural ugliness" of the Screamin' Jack jazz singer made it all the more brutal and harrowing.
Lee Marvin had done some fun fights with John Wayne in "Donovan's Reef"(1963), but he showed himself quite capable of the real deal in "Point Blank." Rumor has it that Marvin had a few pretty brutal fights in real life, too. Bars.
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My fave Marvin fight on screen was his 'Challenge' & 'beatdown' of John Cassavettes in Dirty Dozen--it was fast but did it ever look painful.
I too heard that Marvin, being a drinker AND a former combat Marine was quick to mix it up at the drop of a hat--much to the regret of his 'antagonists';
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What made the scene so great to me was the editing, not the fighting itself. Having the music grow louder as the singer does his screaming behind the not-as-loud fight which is backdropped by the psychedelic color changes; classic.
Awesome flick.
The end of the fight made me laugh out loud. Marvin and I were both Marines, which I'm sure is where he learned that final punch. They teach it in boot camp where the point is, "There's no fair fight, there's just winning."
Haven't thought of that move in nearly 50 years now.