1. Tony Jaa Repeatedly Performs A Real-Life Video Game Fight
You know how you get done watching a kung fu movie, like Enter The Dragon, and you think to yourself, "That was awesome, but also, I call bull$h*t"? It's improbable to think that Bruce Lee could beat the sweatpants off an entire dojo with nothing more than a devil-may-be-terrified-of-me attitude. And it's impossible to think he wouldn't be a tad winded afterward. But in the case of The Protector, you'll notice that lead actor Tony Jaa is noticeably sluggish at the end of one of the film's key fight scenes. In fact, he's so tired that some of his final punches and kicks seem to be thrown in slow-motion. If, during that scene, you were busy chastising Jaa for being lazy and not putting a little stank behind what are supposed to be devastating strikes to his enemies, you might have missed the fact that this 4-plus minute scene has zero cutaways. That's right. Jaa, a Thai martial artist, performs one of the longest single-shot fight scenes in movie history, beating up bad guy after bad guy while moving up several flights of stairs for more than 4 solid minutes without a single break in the action (unless you count the multiple limbs being snapped). It obviously took forever plus 3 days to film the entire scene. To add insult to so many injuries, near the very end of the eighth take, the film ran out before they could capture the last few movements. And so they started all... over... again. It's practically a guarantee that Jaa broke a few extra limbs that day. Here's a CGI solution: Just have Jaa walk up the dozen or so flights of stairs and add all of his punches and kicks in post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ditPebZ8g Know any more awesome stunts that were all totally real? Let us know down in the comments.
