LadyKatina
Dreamer
Hey guys.
In my outline for my current WIP, I have a fight break out between four opponents, on two "sides." The good guys are trying to capture/subdue bad guys. The setting is a turn of the century traveling circus.
The match up is as follows:
Good guy: lightweight circus knife thrower with heavily implied street knife fighting experience.
vs.
Bad guy: circus strong man, obviously a big, intimidating guy
Good girl: illusionist/stage magician, agile and strong from working behind the scenes for years.
vs.
Bad girl: aerialist/acrobat, older, still pretty fast, strong and ruthless--has killed before.
I'm trying to find film and television reference materials to help me block this fight scene. The two fights are going on simultaneously, either in the midway or under the big top. Possibly ranging across both.
My husband said that Jason Statham's character in The Expendables movies is a good example of a knife expert. I'm feeling like River Tam in Serenity is a good example of the bad girl acrobat/aerialist. Illusionist good girl is basically very similar to DC Comics Zatanna: a stage magician with some limited real magical ability.
Can anybody recommend any movies or television shows that can help me get a visual sense of these different fighting styles and how they'd play out? I feel like if I can visualize it, I can verbalize it; but right now I'm having a hard time visualizing it.
In my outline for my current WIP, I have a fight break out between four opponents, on two "sides." The good guys are trying to capture/subdue bad guys. The setting is a turn of the century traveling circus.
The match up is as follows:
Good guy: lightweight circus knife thrower with heavily implied street knife fighting experience.
vs.
Bad guy: circus strong man, obviously a big, intimidating guy
Good girl: illusionist/stage magician, agile and strong from working behind the scenes for years.
vs.
Bad girl: aerialist/acrobat, older, still pretty fast, strong and ruthless--has killed before.
I'm trying to find film and television reference materials to help me block this fight scene. The two fights are going on simultaneously, either in the midway or under the big top. Possibly ranging across both.
My husband said that Jason Statham's character in The Expendables movies is a good example of a knife expert. I'm feeling like River Tam in Serenity is a good example of the bad girl acrobat/aerialist. Illusionist good girl is basically very similar to DC Comics Zatanna: a stage magician with some limited real magical ability.
Can anybody recommend any movies or television shows that can help me get a visual sense of these different fighting styles and how they'd play out? I feel like if I can visualize it, I can verbalize it; but right now I'm having a hard time visualizing it.