Star Wars and the lack of a good fist fight.

Well, there is at least a fist fight between Anakin and Clovis...

but yeah, that's The Clone Wars so I'm assuming it doesn't count.


I guess you're right. I mean I think Han had a few moments, and I think some fights like the Obi-Wan/Jango fight briefly turned to fisticuffs, but nothing specially hand-to-hand really. Would be interesting to see... perhaps if some rumors about something like a stressful Republic/Empire coexistence and tenuous cooperation is true, maybe the two sides get angry during some sort of briefing and resort to an all-out fight?

Would be most interesting to see it used in some way.

 

Well, I have to disagree with you @ Max Rebo because while you're correct that fistfights do often illustrate the brutality of violence in alot of films there's always the more "light hearted" versions that you see in movies like Westerns with the big barroom brawls -- Maverick comes to mind -- where they're more about setting the difference between the good guys (white hats) vs the bad guys (black hats.) I think a Star Wars brawl would end up more along these lines.

All that said, I wouldn't mind seeing it but it would be most likely seen in a Boba Fett or Han Solo spinoff if at all.

 

Yeah, agreed! Those are usually played for goofiness with the over-reactions to getting smashed over the head with bottles etc... It would be a difficult choreography for SW to be sure. Has to have the right balance of tone without getting extremely goofy or extremely violent.

 

Yes, exactly. It's about tone.

That is one thing I hope doesn't get lost with the spinoffs and all these new directors. I have the uneasy feeling they will be more locked-into their own style than trying to emulate tone. BUT for the spinoffs that may be a good thing.

I think we can all agree that JJ has been fastidious in trying to set the right tone for the ST based on the pre-established tone George set.

 

There were very few opportunities during the first six movies for a fist fight, because everyone was always packing serious heat. The prequels have Jedi as the focus the whole time, who fight droids by cutting them down without a second thought. In a new hope, when the weird face guy attacks luke in the cantina (the perfect moment for a fist fight) he totally gets his arm chopped off (which is really some major escalation of force on Obi-Wan's part).

Fist fights are generally for lower stakes, when even if you have a blaster or a lightsaber, you want to fight this person without killing them. There was really never a moment in the first six movies where the stakes were high enough to fight but not high enough to kill.

 

I believe if the Phantom Menace had started with a teenage Anakin a fist fight would have been great. Have Anakin take on some thugs maybe before or after the pod race. It would have been great way to build his character. Show him as cocky but brave, force-sensitive but untrained in jedi ways and hinting at a dark side with his brutality. Anakin growing up in the streets of Mos Eisley would had to be much more tough and hardened then the idealistic and sensitive farm boy Luke. A scene like this would help capture the contrast.

 

There was a deleted scene with kid Anakin in a fight with Greedo before the pod race scene.

 

Just watched the "scuffle". Another reminder why Lucas blow it with 8-year-old "Annie". I also hated the Greedo foreshadowing. Glad it wasn't in the film.

 

Yup. Exactly lol

 

I'd like to see the guy with the cross blade adopt some dirty tactics and headbutts etc
Nothing more imposing than a guy that rips down your defences and starts beating you
It could fit

 

It definitely is a cool idea. If Kylo Ren is still a collector of Sith Relics, his mastery of the Force should be much less than others, and therefore he could get down and dirty for his fights.