Films about fights came into fashion with the era of Bruce Lee. The famous fighters with his participation “Fist of Fury”, “Exit of the Dragon”, unfortunately, appeared already at the end of the short but vibrant life of the Master.
Only 32 years - so much God measured Bruce. To this day there are legends that the actor’s death was not accidental, that mafia structures avenged him. In the footsteps of his father went the son of Lee Brandon. He also chose films about fights as his role. He flashed in "Showdown in Little Tokyo" along with then taking the first steps on the screen, Dolph Lundgren. Then the son of a legend wanted to gain a foothold in
this role by playing the musician Eric (the mystical action movie Raven), and he himself became a legend, dying on the set. The artist, who mortally wounded him, will probably not forget the moment when the bullet turned out to be far from being a props by negligence of props ... Many saw this as a sign, the “consonance” of two deaths — father and son — was too obvious. Rumors about these ridiculous early deaths have not yet subsided. Brandon was 28. He was buried next to his father.
The "flag" of Bruce Lee was picked up by an artist from Hong Kong Jackie Chan, who later moved to Hollywood. He managed to mix genres, turning banal films about fights into a mix of comedy and action. Virtuoso Chan became famous not only for the early “Drunken Master”, but also for the later “Armor of God”, “Tuxedo”, “Shanghai Noon”, and the rush hour franchise, where African American Chris Tucker made a worthy couple .
Luminaries of the genre
Sylvester Stallone made his word in the action genre. His hero - the boxer Rocky does not imagine life without fights, this is one of the best images of Sly. The veteran decided to shake the old days with his colleagues in the film The Expendables and his sequel. It turned out very well.
The best films about fights are those in which Jean-Claude Van Damme starred. Starting with Bloody Sport in 1988, an unknown Belgian, the son of a flower girl and an accountant, became one of the main stars of this direction in the cinema. “Kickboxer”, “Double Strike”, “Difficult Target” - in these tapes, Jean-Claude was able to reveal his talent. No wonder he was engaged in five types of martial arts (and after all, he almost became a ballet dancer, but then he changed the machine to a black belt in karate).
Not a single standing action movie is complete without melee, but it was the luminaries of the 90s, which include the artists mentioned above, as well as Chuck Norris, Mickey Rourke, Don Dragon Wilson, Jet Li and others who made movies about fights as art.
At the beginning of the XXI century
The 2000s put tough paintings with the participation of Briton Scott Edkins “Undisputed 2” and “Undisputed 3” in the piggy bank of the genre. In them, the Englishman appeared as a sort of genius in prison battles without rules. He has every reason: Scott has black kickboxing and taekwondo belts, and is fluent in five more martial arts. An excellent partner and the main antagonist of the hero of Edkins, Yuri Boyko, in the triquel was the textured Chilean Marco Saror (one of his last works is the role in the Rodriguez thrash “The Machete Kills”).
One of the main Oscar "losers", who claimed in 2003 as many as 10 nominations and did not take a single one, may well lead in the list of "Films about Street Fights". But in vain: "Gangs of New York" - the epoch-making thing of the legendary Scorsese with excellently played sworn enemies Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio.