Scene: Gabriel Yulaw vs. Gabe Law in The One (2001)
Actors: Gabriel Yulaw (grey): Jet Li, Gabe Law (black): Jet Li.
Stuntmen: Sam Kai-Sen Huang and Jian Yong Guo. These stuntmen were used more for filling in for Jet Li while he was playing the other part. Huang was his Yulaw double and Guo was his Law double. As Jet Li himself is a master martial artist.
Scenario: Law and Yulaw meet at a warehouse for the climatic battle over who will be The One.
Style: Martial arts.
Genre: 2 expressionistic, 2 dramatic.
--The fight is between to super powered men. So there is a lot of wire work to show the powers. So its expressionistic, because its obliviously not realistic, but still not a dance. The fight is very serious as both realize they may not come out of this alive, so dramatic.
Three Rules: As both character are important to the story and both are evenly matched. Also most of the the rules apply to them both. In this film, there a multiple alternate universes. Each with a different copy of a person. Now when one of those copies die his life force (strength, wisdom, and energy) is split up a give to the other copies. Now if all of one copy die the last surviving copy will receive all that power. Now Yulaw and Law being the last of their copies make them extremely powerful.
Objective: Yulaw wishes to kill Law becoming the last of his copy, thereby becoming "The One". Law wants to stop Yulaw from becoming "The One" but in order to do so must beat him and take him alive.
Tactics: They are both well trained fighters as both were in some form of law enforcement. Both vary from defensive to offensive. Yulaw is at first taken back by Law's fierceness and sudden control over his powers. But begins to toy with him and ultimately gain the upper hand.
Obstacles: Each other, as both are trained fighters and have equal strength and speed. However, Yulaw has more experience handling this power.
Other Info: In this film, there a multiple alternate universes. Each with a different copy of a person. Now when one of those copies die his life force (strength, wisdom, and energy) is split up a give to the other copies. Now if all of one copy die the last surviving copy will receive all that power. Now Yulaw and Law being the last of their copies make them extremely powerful.
Why I chose it: I chose this fight because it is a great martial arts battle. Also its Jet Li vs JET Li. But also I have fond memories of watching this movie with my father.
Sorry, I had trouble uploading the video but here is the link to the youtube page to watch, enjoy.
(Zeeo88)
This post was very well put together and informational. I also remember watching this movie several years back and how it was one of my favorites at the time. I found the background story you provided interesting because I wasn't aware of the whole multiple Jet Li's thing and why one was trying to kill the other. The fight was obviously my favorite part of the movie but its also interesting to see it in a new light. Even though we're not too far into the course, watching this fight scene after knowing some knowledge of stage combat really helps in analyzing why cameras might be angled a certain way and how they were able to wonderfully choreograph the fighting seamlessly to make it look convincing.
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