Marvel's Iron Fist: 44 Easter Eggs & Reference You Must See

20. The Obligatory Corridor Fight

Daredevil Corridor Fight
Netflix

This wouldn't be a Marvel Netflix show without some corridor fighting action, and we get that a couple of times in the show. Improving on the corridor fight in the first half of the show, which has an impressive shot from above mini-sequence (and which SHOULD have been the entire sequence's aesthetic), there's another right at the end that flirts with a split screen as Danny and Colleen simultaneously bring the hurt.

The axe gang who appear in the first sequence are a staple of kung fu movies too, having had a memorable sequence in Drunken Master 2.

At one point in that first sequence, there's also an excellent little fight scene in an elevator, which wasn't long or stylised enough, but which definitely felt like it was added in homage to this classic scene from Ip Man...

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