10 Movie Scenes With Unexpected Influences

10. The Fight Scenes Were Influenced By Anime - Creed III

If you know much at all about Michael B. Jordan, you'll probably be aware that he's a huge fan of anime, and so when he took to the directing chair for the recent Creed III, he opted to impart a little anime influence on the movie's stylish boxing fight scenes.

For the fight choreography, Jordan looked to the likes of Megalobox, Naruto, One Piece, Hajime No Ippo, and Dragon Ball Z to give the brutal slug-fests a more heightened, surreal look.

One memorable example occurs during the final battle between Donnie (Jordan) and Dame Anderson (Jonathan Majors), where Donnie takes a colossally hefty gut-punch from Dame, as is framed to resemble the episode where Goku delivers a devastating Meteor Smash to Frieza.

Jordan has also confirmed that the beat where Donnie and Dame punch each other in the face at the exact same time was lifted from Naruto, where Naruto and Sasuke have done the very same thing to one another numerous times.

And yet despite this unexpected and outlandish influence, Jordan thankfully doesn't end up making Creed III's fight scenes too cartoonish for their own good.