On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 5:24 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note to self: Stay at least 500 yards away from Doug before ticking him > off > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 2:13 PM Doug Fields <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As a Marine Corps vet (who qualified at the highest "Pistol Expert" >> level) I can pretty much vouch for that. Even military-trained marksmen >> would never be expected to reliably hit a moving target with a pistol from >> more than about 10 yards away. The USMC qualification test back in my day >> was ridiculous: part of it was 15 rounds at 25 yards in a 10-minute time >> limit, among other scenarios. And, again, that's a non-moving target. >> Since I left the service, it's been modified to make it more realistic, and >> now involves 40 rounds at various distances up to 25 yards, in 5- to >> 12-second increments. But again...still a static target. And that's what >> Marine Corps *experts* are expected to reliably do. >> >> >> Now rifles are completely different animals, on the other hand. Don't >> piss me off and stand out in the open anywhere within 500 yards of me when >> I have an M-16 in my hands. One shot, one kill, as the kids in camouflage >> like to say. >> > All combat/fight scenes are staged to match the narrative and not to be realistic. Stage actors learn stage fighting with swords and (not actually having seen the real thing, thank God) I doubt a real sword fight would resemble what we see on stage or in a movie. Wu Shu, the Chinese martial art (renamed Kung Fu in Hong Kong), was developed in the Peking Opera and most Chinese movie martial artists trained there. As a kid I watched men fight on TV in westerns and detective shows and quickly learned that real fistfights look nothing like that. Gun fights are the same way. The writer writes how the scene develops and turns out and the director brings it to the movie/TV using camera blocking, timing, close ups, etc. It doesn't have to look real as much as it has to convey the writer's and director's vision for the scene. When I lived in Israel I remember a combat veteran saying Platoon had realistic battle scenes. He said Stone did a good job of showing how it's total chaos. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
