This fight scene seemed much more real with how sloppy it was. no fancy martial arts or slams, just a bunch of awkward fumbling followed by a vicious beatdown.
+Drew Andrewnowski I always thought this and the end fight scene in "Pride and Glory" were the most realistic fight scenes I had seen. Fights are so frantic, especially when it's for your life, usually one guy gets lucky from a misstep.
Thats why you skip the bullshit... Shoot the fker arrest his son so the son can get fked in the ass and bada bing. But that wouldnt make a great show huh...
That's why you cuff him first then taunt him that way if he gets crazy and out for blood he can't do anything with his hands cuffed from behind when will the feds learn the cops get it right but the feds never learn
The Eli plotline was by far the most interesting of season 4. Eli really changed a lot as a character, by the end of the show I sympathized with him the most. Not a good guy by any means but he had humanity. I hope Shea Whigham gets his own starring role in something soon.
@@tylerphillips6523 Doing in with Season 6 before it happened, so Vinyl could replace it, was a missed opportunity. They could have picked up with Eli's struggles, had some passing mentions about how "Mueller"/Van Alden's family have been doing since he bit the dust, what happened to Tommy, some scenes with Al in prison, and some more focus on Lucky, and or, Murder Inc.
Apparently, Eli Thompson's true life counterpart and his family survived and lived a relatively peaceful life, outside of Eli's dalliance with organised crime, until his passing during the 1960s.
Wow! And I thought I'd instantly recognize anyone who had even a small part in the Sopranos. You're right, it's him... that's why he looked a little familiar in Boardwalk.
@@mistertaz94 pretty sure fathers are just like this today as well, go threatan to hurt a tough dads son, dont be suprised when you get beatan to death or at minimum hospitalized too, where the tf do you idiots come from lol ? Pleasantville? lol
Very true, he's always in the shadow of the other actors' flashier performances, but he might be the unsung mvp of the series. Pretty cool that Eli survives all 5 season, he grew into one of my top 5 characters after watching the series twice.
Couldn't agree with you more. I liked his character development too. In the early seasons he was quite annoying in the fact that he was always trying to compete with his brother (which is only natural, I guess), but that lessened as the seasons went on.
He is Eli to me, i don't see the actor when i watch him. First time i watched the show i completely missed how amazing he was because when i watched him act, i was so drawn in that i couldn't think about anything but the story.
That's how it goes when your adrenaline is through the roof. One time, my neighbour held me under the water in my pool for at least a minute, when I was somewhere between 10-12 years old. I'll never forget what happened after I came up from the water. I punched him 5 times in the head, all hooks from a square stance (had no skill). The dialogue on the beat of each punch was as follows; -bitch -bitch, you -son of a -fuckin' -bitch. He took a few steps away and then turned around, and I could see the shock on his face. I said "Your nose is bleeding", in a matter-of-fact tone. He checked for the blood with his hand, and then looked at me with an even more shocked expression (I imagine the pool water dilution would have exaggerated the quantity of blood, but it looked like a lot). He hopped out of the pool, walked over to his front door in silence, and told his mum he had accidentally overshot his butterfly stroke, and slammed his nose on the rim of the pool.
I find these kind of scenes far more terrifying and disturbing then any knife or bullet to the head execution scene, this is literally two guys beating one another and one killing the other with his bear hands, it is messy, disturbing, exhausting to watch and quite pulse racing material.
“Shot caller” has a brutal stabbing scene where the guy who plays the punisher from the punisher and the asshole best friend from the first couple of seasons of walking dead gets shanked hard.
When he says “My son..my fucking son!” As he’s choking him..I got goosebumps lol such a well acted out performance..makes you feel his rage perfectly and understand how much he loved his son/family
@@thomasjust2663 Eli was tough as fac, had heart, balls, charisma an was zero bullchit Which makes him a MUCH better person than knox Knox had none of those traits
A guy gets hit in the head with a vase and the vase stays intact...none of the attacks are coordinated or slick...no cheesy one-liners in the middle of the fight...most of the audio is simply hyperventilation... Realism: 10/10.
@@aambriiz idk crystal vases are pretty thick and they were hitting each other with the bottom so it wouldn’t necessarily break, but I’m sure on that last one it should’ve broke lmao
@@beesonbandit6639 nah trust me ones like that are much harder to break than you would expect. There are certain weak points and if you hit it with something that concentrates the force (like glass breakers on the end of tactical knives) it is more likely to break but using it like shown here it would very likely stay intact.
You can tell Knox regretted a little like right when he realized he was gonna get choked out he thought to himself damn, can’t talk about peoples kids 😅
Lets not forget that Eli went to prison, put up with Nucky's shit, then this... I mean he was a ticking timebomb. Can't wait to see him on season five.
The thing is with season 5, at the beginning there's a time jump to the early 1930's during the Great Depression... So everything's kinda different now. Eli shows up in season 5 already tho (been 2 episodes), he's working for George Mueller aka Nelson Van Alden, who works for Al Capone. They haven't shown much of him, nor revealed what happened after he killed Knox. I am liking season 5 so far though, I'm sure the rest will be great. Also they have flashbacks to Nucky's childhood in 1884 which is very interesting. Gillian's also in some kind of mental facility.
Shea Wigham irradiated rage to one of the most realistic extents I have seen from any actor. His first fight with Nucky, when he attacks his son for dropping out and this scene. Guy absolutely owned it.
Absolutely. Wingam continues to be one of the most overlooked actors in Hollywood. I've always enjoyed every role he's in. He always brings a large amount of nuance that makes even the smallest characters he plays stand out. I really enjoyed his role in the Agent Carter tv show.
My respect for Eli increased tenfold after this scene. I thought for sure he'd become a pussy cooperator and eventually would enjoy ratting on Nucky. Now he's instantly jumped in my top 3 characters on this show.
I would have died because I would have needed to call a timeout and look for a cold drink from the fridge after panting for 5 minutes, slumped over with my hands on my knees.
some of the best actors were cast for this and Sopranos hands down. even a movie cant entertain this much at times. a real fight scene doesnt get more realistic than this. bravo actors and director
Even though I've seen this before and know how it ends my heart still races watching it. This may be the most emotionally intense murder I've even seen on film. I wanted eli to keep him alive long enough to fully think about why he's about to die.
Absolutely not. There were multiple fight ending shots that landed that had little to no effect. He had a gun to his head and somehow he manages to turn around and load up his punch? It's entertaining but not realistic
Exactly, it's entertaining as fuck but face first through the glass furniture and massive blunt force trauma etc they would have both been vegetables or deid in a timely fashion
Agent Tolliver at one point had an understandable objective of taking down Organized Crime, but goddammit dude when you get yourself involved with someone's family and the possible threat of destroying their well-being, you don't deserve to be alive.
The guy was never a straight law enforcement officer, he was also a criminal himself. During the scene where they intercept Lansky's heroin shipment he flat out murders that one truck driver.
I’m the man WHOS GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU! This whole scene is what makes boardwalk empire so goddamn good. Every scene feels realistic and when it came to the fighting it got disturbing which is what it was meant to do. Eli granted he wasn’t the most loyal he was always the one to protect his family.
This is one of my favorite all time tv fight scenes and it even surpassed Bobby Vs Tony IMHO. Shea Whigham is such a badass actor! He deserved an award for this performance alone. Those of us who watched this show as it first aired years back had waited all season to see this. Knox got destroyed!
Whoever this guy is in real-life, he played the fuck out of his character because I could not stand his ass! ( That's how you know he is a good actor.)
@@cesarg2768 Beat me to it. Eli used to flex and abuse his authority as well. and it was mostly because he was Nucky Thompson's brother, i.e. someone that actually ran things.
S4 brought a lot of life into Boardwalk Empire, by infusing more life into Eli, Richard's, and Chalky's stories. Eli really became one of my favorites towards the end of the year. One could sympathize with his position in a lot of ways. Backed into a corner, damned if he does or doesn't. I can't wait to see him and Nelson Van Alden together this sunday!
Knox gets off on feeling powerful. Watching him crumble and suffer after he's lost the upper hand, knowing he is powerless to stop the violent and bloody end that's coming, that's cruelty. But it is karma at it's most basic and brutal.
lol everyone's arm chair killer in the comments. in reality, you would just stare at your feet, don't kid yourself. not that it's a bad thing, murdering people over threats we wouldn't have lasted long.
I always felt that this was the most exciting and tense fight scene in the entire series. Chalky vs Dunn from Season 4 is a very close runner up. It's almost a coin flip but I give the prize to this scene because his family being there bring the tension up to 11! I mean really! Imagine Your Husband, or Father engaging in a fight to death Right before your eyes .
You can only push a man that far. It doesn’t always have to be this dramatic but the principle stands. Keep that in mind when you’re pushing someone’s buttons for your own amusement.
It was so satisfying to watch Knox get tortured and beat to death. He deserved every bit of that. I hate how Eli's character flipped flopped so much. The amount of chances Nucky gave him and the amount of times he screwed up is crazy. Nucky gave him life by the balls and somehow he always messes up. I hate that about shows. When they make characters do the dumbest things
Doug Spizman ummmm.... yes. One thing they get wrong are the head shots. While some head shots will result in a straight clean drop others will result in a lot of involuntary spasms (think - chicken with its head cut off). All of the head shots in this series drop the victim quietly.
@@dougspizman6751 As someone who works as a sound designer for film productions pretentious morons like you are the reason why we don't get enough credit. Yes we take our jobs seriously especially when we improvise and create our own sound effects. Just shut up and stop pretending you know things.
@@Pulang_Diwa i didn't suggest any of the things u stated. Nor am i the reason u dont get credit. Ur obviously taking out ur anger on the wrong person. However if i offended u that wasnt my intention.
I think we ALL fantasized about doing that to Knox. The epitome of the arrogant "I'm-A-Federal-Agent-And-Can-Do-Whatever-I-Want" FBI guy........which WAS pretty much standard in the post-WWI anti-Red hysteria. But this is as much due to the acting ability of Geraghty as well. KUDOS to Brian Geraghty, you magnificent SOB! lol. You're right up there with other 'villains' you just want to mangle and kill. 😁
If you wanna get technical, the anti-Red sentiment didn’t really gain traction until after the second war. Yes, it was there beforehand, but nowhere near as permeated through the zeitgeist of the 50’s onwards.
This fight scene is one of the most realistic I've ever seen,especially towards the end when he is trying to get the gun and you can feel the desperation
One of the most satisfying deaths in the entire show. Never before have I found myself audibly screaming at the TV: "FUCKIN KILL 'IM, ELI! FUCKIN' MURDER 'IM! KILL! KILL! KILL!"
Damn!! This scene always get me!! At first it makes me wanna cry, then I get happy when Eli overcomes and then chokes him and then continues to smash his face in
He only did that because he was a sniveling coward who had a gun to Eli’s head so he thought “I could say anything to this asshole and he can’t do a damn thing!” But he definitely wasn’t expecting Eli to fight back. If knox wasn’t a complete moron and handcuffed him properly before talking shit to him then maybe he’d still be alive.
This was such a good scene... just the noses the actor Eli plays makes, it’s not just a life or death fight, for him it’s personal. Especially when he gots on top and starts given him some
I think that it was personal that started the fight, but what compelled them to fight so hard was that it was a life or death fight once it started. If Eli hadn't killed Knox he would have most likely killed him or worse put him and his son in jail for the rest of their lives.
That is one solid ass vase, that definitely wasn't bought off wish, that's old world construction built to last. That thing took 2 solid hits and then crushed a mans skull, genuine cyrstal
I love that Eli interrupted the little shit in the middle of his speech. He was just another cowardly bully who thought that being cruel somehow made him special.
"Do you think I'm crazy, Eli? It's okay, you can say it." That line was referencing the scene from The Sopranos where Christopher Moltisanti asks him if he looks like a pussy. Which is fitting since Moltisanti shoots him in the foot after he was shot in the foot himself by Tommy in Goodfellas. The cycle of violence continues.
This fight scene seemed much more real with how sloppy it was. no fancy martial arts or slams, just a bunch of awkward fumbling followed by a vicious beatdown.
Drew Andrewnowski Reminds me a lot of Tony Soprano fighting Ralph Cifaretto in that kitchen.
+Drew Andrewnowski I always thought this and the end fight scene in "Pride and Glory" were the most realistic fight scenes I had seen. Fights are so frantic, especially when it's for your life, usually one guy gets lucky from a misstep.
One of my fave fights right up there with the Tony/Ralph in the Sopranos and Dan/'The Captain' in Deadwood.
This is one of my favorite fight scenes in decades!! They should have way more like this in movies
Poetry in motion; just beautiful.
Nothing like the savage fury of a father protecting his son.
I absolutely love this scene!
Redcom001 Savage fury indeed
Thats why you skip the bullshit... Shoot the fker arrest his son so the son can get fked in the ass and bada bing. But that wouldnt make a great show huh...
Except the savage fury of a father protecting his daughter.
It's so GREAT. I "hated" Agent Knox
Ummmmm, threatening a former cop by telling him his son is gonna get raped in prison is an interesting tactic.........
a former cop who also had been to prison himself. pretty sure he had heard some rapes goin on . lmao great tactic indeed
That's why you cuff him first then taunt him that way if he gets crazy and out for blood he can't do anything with his hands cuffed from behind when will the feds learn the cops get it right but the feds never learn
@@hello-4503 that was just a trash agent. There are ways to play your CI. Not like that.
If he had told his mom the fight wouldve been over in 1 minute.
revolutions have started from threatening a mans family
Knox had the most punchable face and attitude in the whole series by far.
I call your Knox and raise you Valentine Narcisse.
Agreed! He’s had this coming especially after driving poor Eddie to his death
No that was Narcisse.
And it was
Gyp Rosetti
The Eli plotline was by far the most interesting of season 4. Eli really changed a lot as a character, by the end of the show I sympathized with him the most. Not a good guy by any means but he had humanity. I hope Shea Whigham gets his own starring role in something soon.
Him and Michael Shannon were so great together in Take Shelter.
Highly agree. His transformation made the season watchable. They had done everything with Nucky already at that point.
@@tylerphillips6523 Doing in with Season 6 before it happened, so Vinyl could replace it, was a missed opportunity. They could have picked up with Eli's struggles, had some passing mentions about how "Mueller"/Van Alden's family have been doing since he bit the dust, what happened to Tommy, some scenes with Al in prison, and some more focus on Lucky, and or, Murder Inc.
Apparently, Eli Thompson's true life counterpart and his family survived and lived a relatively peaceful life, outside of Eli's dalliance with organised crime, until his passing during the 1960s.
The way Eli finished his sentence “I’m a man who’s gonna fucking kill you” is one of the coldest things in television
Agent knox is really not lucky with the mob, remember he got shot by Cristopher in his foot (Sopranos)
Wow! And I thought I'd instantly recognize anyone who had even a small part in the Sopranos. You're right, it's him... that's why he looked a little familiar in Boardwalk.
Off course Christopher shooting the dude in bakery was homage to his scene (as Spider) with Pesci in Goodfellas.
Nino Gaggi He was also the soldier in The Hurt Locker.
I'm pretty sure he was on Chicago P.D. for awhile too.
Andre, THAT'S WHERE I reconized him from!
I bet when his wife saw them fighting she was probably like “Wow, he really didn’t want to buy that insurance policy.”
lol!
That’s a good one haha
I am sure that's how most people view insurance salesman.🤣
The rage only a loving father knows.
Lots of the fathers in this show are like this. Just look at how Al reacted when people made fun of his son being deaf.
@@mistertaz94 pretty sure fathers are just like this today as well, go threatan to hurt a tough dads son, dont be suprised when you get beatan to death or at minimum hospitalized too, where the tf do you idiots come from lol ? Pleasantville? lol
@spim randsley lets hope so
@@FranklinSninsky ok, badass.
when the guy's already dead and your still risking breaking the bones in your hand from beating on his face. THAT, my friends, is hate.
More like rage.
*hatred
More like both
😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅
the emmys always ignored the actor who plays Eli. shame.
Shea Whigham
Gretchen Mol as well, she should've won multiple awards for how well she embodied Gillian
Very true, he's always in the shadow of the other actors' flashier performances, but he might be the unsung mvp of the series. Pretty cool that Eli survives all 5 season, he grew into one of my top 5 characters after watching the series twice.
Couldn't agree with you more. I liked his character development too. In the early seasons he was quite annoying in the fact that he was always trying to compete with his brother (which is only natural, I guess), but that lessened as the seasons went on.
He is Eli to me, i don't see the actor when i watch him. First time i watched the show i completely missed how amazing he was because when i watched him act, i was so drawn in that i couldn't think about anything but the story.
Does anyone else love how eli screams "FUCKING KILL YOU" at 1:57
That's how it goes when your adrenaline is through the roof. One time, my neighbour held me under the water in my pool for at least a minute, when I was somewhere between 10-12 years old. I'll never forget what happened after I came up from the water. I punched him 5 times in the head, all hooks from a square stance (had no skill). The dialogue on the beat of each punch was as follows;
-bitch
-bitch, you
-son of a
-fuckin'
-bitch.
He took a few steps away and then turned around, and I could see the shock on his face. I said "Your nose is bleeding", in a matter-of-fact tone. He checked for the blood with his hand, and then looked at me with an even more shocked expression (I imagine the pool water dilution would have exaggerated the quantity of blood, but it looked like a lot). He hopped out of the pool, walked over to his front door in silence, and told his mum he had accidentally overshot his butterfly stroke, and slammed his nose on the rim of the pool.
I fucking absolutely hated Knox, and I loved watching him get his face smashed and splattered
Seeing that little piece of sh*t Knox crawling desperately towards his gun while Eli drags him back was seriously awesome.
@@samm1809 excellent story my good fellow.
Lol ok sam
I find these kind of scenes far more terrifying and disturbing then any knife or bullet to the head execution scene, this is literally two guys beating one another and one killing the other with his bear hands, it is messy, disturbing, exhausting to watch and quite pulse racing material.
Nothing like a good ol fashion beat down to the death
“Shot caller” has a brutal stabbing scene where the guy who plays the punisher from the punisher and the asshole best friend from the first couple of seasons of walking dead gets shanked hard.
@@InVinoVeratas that didn't fuck with this
MAnnaconduit1 bare
Bare hands
When he says “My son..my fucking son!” As he’s choking him..I got goosebumps lol such a well acted out performance..makes you feel his rage perfectly and understand how much he loved his son/family
most satisfying scene in the finale lol
Def. One of them
along with Narcisse's death
@@remek_ember I kind of liked Narcisse lol. He was one of those cool villains.
Why, Eli was responsible for many deaths, he was just as bad or worse than the agent
@@thomasjust2663
Eli was tough as fac, had heart, balls, charisma an was zero bullchit
Which makes him a MUCH better person than knox
Knox had none of those traits
A guy gets hit in the head with a vase and the vase stays intact...none of the attacks are coordinated or slick...no cheesy one-liners in the middle of the fight...most of the audio is simply hyperventilation...
Realism: 10/10.
Probably a crystal vase, very popular in those days. If you ever handled a real crystal vase, then you would see why it wouldn't shatter lol
@@aambriiz of course crystal would break...non sense...Just thick pyrex glass vase that's it !!
@@aambriiz idk crystal vases are pretty thick and they were hitting each other with the bottom so it wouldn’t necessarily break, but I’m sure on that last one it should’ve broke lmao
@@beesonbandit6639 nah trust me ones like that are much harder to break than you would expect. There are certain weak points and if you hit it with something that concentrates the force (like glass breakers on the end of tactical knives) it is more likely to break but using it like shown here it would very likely stay intact.
Them crystal vases are no joke. My grandma has a cabinet full of these things, they're thick and heavy af. Could probably crack a skull with one.
Although Eli did turn on Nucky before, I have nothing but respect for him. Knox underestimated him by telling him that story.
Eli is a violent family man psycho.
@@bjornervig3795 every man becomes a psycho the moment you threaten his children.
Knox thought he owned Eli and could do whatever he wanted. Thought wrong.
@@bjornervig3795 he's not a psycho lmao. Not even a sociopath really.
One of the most enjoyable homicides in TV history.
You can tell Knox regretted a little like right when he realized he was gonna get choked out he thought to himself damn, can’t talk about peoples kids 😅
I thought the same the actor portrays pain and intense fear very well. He's probably also thinking " *if only I grabbed my gun* "
Reminds of that fight in the kitchen between Tony and Ralph in The Sopranos
or dan vs the captain in deadwood. Fucking brutal.
Funny how they are all made by hbo
I think this one was way more intense
Minus the can of Raid.
both epic that one was more funny due to the kitchen accessories , this was just brutal.
Bit of a strange coincidence, I just watched that scene, and in the side in recommendations was this video.
you don't threaten a mans son in his own house in front of his wife like that
I hated that Weasel Knox, so satisfying to see him go.
Lets not forget that Eli went to prison, put up with Nucky's shit, then this... I mean he was a ticking timebomb. Can't wait to see him on season five.
The thing is with season 5, at the beginning there's a time jump to the early 1930's during the Great Depression... So everything's kinda different now. Eli shows up in season 5 already tho (been 2 episodes), he's working for George Mueller aka Nelson Van Alden, who works for Al Capone. They haven't shown much of him, nor revealed what happened after he killed Knox. I am liking season 5 so far though, I'm sure the rest will be great. Also they have flashbacks to Nucky's childhood in 1884 which is very interesting. Gillian's also in some kind of mental facility.
***** Watched the first two episodes as they came out. Very dissapointed.
***** Yep.
Just a man drinking himself to death
Watching Eli beat Knox absolutely senseless is one of the most satisfying scenes of tv I had ever watched
3:21 That's why people in confrontational roles (police, security etc.) wear clip-on ties.
Do they really?
KuostA yes, and lanyard, if you have to wear a badge for CID or whatever you should have a clip on lanyard.
@@joelangley7974 Yes indeed, there is a plastic interconnection at the top of the lanyard where the lanyard rests at the back of the neck.
Iftk Hin yeah
Wonder if this was an intentional metaphor here - agent is choked with his own tie - a symbol of the system that gave him power...
Shea Wigham irradiated rage to one of the most realistic extents I have seen from any actor. His first fight with Nucky, when he attacks his son for dropping out and this scene. Guy absolutely owned it.
Absolutely. Wingam continues to be one of the most overlooked actors in Hollywood. I've always enjoyed every role he's in. He always brings a large amount of nuance that makes even the smallest characters he plays stand out. I really enjoyed his role in the Agent Carter tv show.
My respect for Eli increased tenfold after this scene. I thought for sure he'd become a pussy cooperator and eventually would enjoy ratting on Nucky. Now he's instantly jumped in my top 3 characters on this show.
One of the few who survives as well
Who the other two alongside eli on your top 3 characters
Lucky Luciano and Al Capone
Reminds me how out of shape I am
🤣🤣🤣
I would have died because I would have needed to call a timeout and look for a cold drink from the fridge after panting for 5 minutes, slumped over with my hands on my knees.
Knox learned a lesson: Don't threaten a man's son with prison rape.
some of the best actors were cast for this and Sopranos hands down. even a movie cant entertain this much at times. a real fight scene doesnt get more realistic than this. bravo actors and director
"Without a gun and a badge, what do ya got? A sucker in a uniform waiting to get shot." - Eazy E
Mess with a father who loves his son, this is what you'll get.
Even though I've seen this before and know how it ends my heart still races watching it. This may be the most emotionally intense murder I've even seen on film. I wanted eli to keep him alive long enough to fully think about why he's about to die.
I’d call that self-defense/justifiable homicide, not murder.
He knew why!
one of the greatest moments in the season,i don't like Eli in general but Knox brought this on himself .
Hands down one of the most realistic fight scenes there is.
Lol hell yeah
Absolutely not. There were multiple fight ending shots that landed that had little to no effect. He had a gun to his head and somehow he manages to turn around and load up his punch? It's entertaining but not realistic
@@disturbed157 k
Okay Dana white
Exactly, it's entertaining as fuck but face first through the glass furniture and massive blunt force trauma etc they would have both been vegetables or deid in a timely fashion
Eli was an underrated character. he was a mess but his character had alot of depth
That gave me the warm and fuzzies
Agent Tolliver at one point had an understandable objective of taking down Organized Crime, but goddammit dude when you get yourself involved with someone's family and the possible threat of destroying their well-being, you don't deserve to be alive.
The guy was never a straight law enforcement officer, he was also a criminal himself. During the scene where they intercept Lansky's heroin shipment he flat out murders that one truck driver.
@@RCAvhstape he kills someone in cold blood in the first episode he appears in. I believe it was the 'still Eli and Doyle run.
This is the most haunting fight scene i have ever seen on a screen. Fucking wow that intensity is insane
I’m the man WHOS GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU! This whole scene is what makes boardwalk empire so goddamn good. Every scene feels realistic and when it came to the fighting it got disturbing which is what it was meant to do. Eli granted he wasn’t the most loyal he was always the one to protect his family.
That's probably the most intense fist fight I've ever seen on a tv show
"MY Partner thinks im crazy... Do you think im crazy?" What a thing to hear from a cop putting a gun to your head.
Probably one of the most satisfying deaths in Boardwalk Empire
This is one of my favorite all time tv fight scenes and it even surpassed Bobby Vs Tony IMHO. Shea Whigham is such a badass actor! He deserved an award for this performance alone. Those of us who watched this show as it first aired years back had waited all season to see this. Knox got destroyed!
Sucking up to Tony Soprano has done wonders for the Bakery Guy Chris shot, i go away for while and he’s a tough guy.
Whoever this guy is in real-life, he played the fuck out of his character because I could not stand his ass! ( That's how you know he is a good actor.)
Cops love to feel power over u. Sometimes someone like Eli comes along to remind em how fragile their power really is.
Eli was also a cop
@@cesarg2768 Beat me to it. Eli used to flex and abuse his authority as well. and it was mostly because he was Nucky Thompson's brother, i.e. someone that actually ran things.
S4 brought a lot of life into Boardwalk Empire, by infusing more life into Eli, Richard's, and Chalky's stories. Eli really became one of my favorites towards the end of the year. One could sympathize with his position in a lot of ways. Backed into a corner, damned if he does or doesn't.
I can't wait to see him and Nelson Van Alden together this sunday!
It's a shame what happened to Richard at the end of S4 tho. He was one of the best and most interesting characters on the show too.
Knox gets off on feeling powerful. Watching him crumble and suffer after he's lost the upper hand, knowing he is powerless to stop the violent and bloody end that's coming, that's cruelty. But it is karma at it's most basic and brutal.
1:56
Agent Knox: "I'm the man who's gonna... "
Eli: " *FUCKING* [punch sound] *KILL YOU* !!!"
The acting in this scene definitely took guts.
Shea Whigham kills it
3:35 is the look of pure unadulterated "it was at that moment, Agent Knox knew, that he fucked up..."
The look of fear on a pussyass coward bitches face before they're about to die
I'd do the same thing to protect my kids
I don't think there's a man alive that wouldn't do the same thing
lol everyone's arm chair killer in the comments. in reality, you would just stare at your feet, don't kid yourself. not that it's a bad thing, murdering people over threats we wouldn't have lasted long.
@@twisted_nether373 you shouldn't project your weakness on others.
twisted_nether speak for yourself and only for yourself boy
@@twisted_nether373 Lol IKR alot of bad TH-cam gangsters here.
I always felt that this was the most exciting and tense fight scene in the entire series.
Chalky vs Dunn from Season 4 is a very close runner up. It's almost a coin flip but I give the prize to this scene because his family being there bring the tension up to 11!
I mean really! Imagine
Your Husband, or Father engaging in a fight to death
Right before your eyes .
You can only push a man that far. It doesn’t always have to be this dramatic but the principle stands.
Keep that in mind when you’re pushing someone’s buttons for your own amusement.
Eli went full assassin mode with that chainsaw
That heavy smoker wheezing at the end is so accurate
It was so satisfying to watch Knox get tortured and beat to death. He deserved every bit of that. I hate how Eli's character flipped flopped so much. The amount of chances Nucky gave him and the amount of times he screwed up is crazy. Nucky gave him life by the balls and somehow he always messes up. I hate that about shows. When they make characters do the dumbest things
Nothing like the son of a father protecting his fury savagely
Felt every bit of emotion going through that fight. Wouldn’t have stopped there just thinking about what I’d do for my son.
That suction sound on the second to last punch is a real sound when the skull is extremely fractured, someone did their research.
LOL okay bro. They got reasearch on the sound a skull makes if u punch it until it fractures?
Doug Spizman ummmm.... yes. One thing they get wrong are the head shots. While some head shots will result in a straight clean drop others will result in a lot of involuntary spasms (think - chicken with its head cut off). All of the head shots in this series drop the victim quietly.
@@dougspizman6751 As someone who works as a sound designer for film productions pretentious morons like you are the reason why we don't get enough credit. Yes we take our jobs seriously especially when we improvise and create our own sound effects. Just shut up and stop pretending you know things.
@@Pulang_Diwa i didn't suggest any of the things u stated. Nor am i the reason u dont get credit. Ur obviously taking out ur anger on the wrong person. However if i offended u that wasnt my intention.
@@dougspizman6751 Yeah it was the way you said it sounded sarcastic and negative, the LOL okay bro.
Just to let you know where you sounded different.
I think we ALL fantasized about doing that to Knox. The epitome of the arrogant "I'm-A-Federal-Agent-And-Can-Do-Whatever-I-Want" FBI guy........which WAS pretty much standard in the post-WWI anti-Red hysteria. But this is as much due to the acting ability of Geraghty as well. KUDOS to Brian Geraghty, you magnificent SOB! lol. You're right up there with other 'villains' you just want to mangle and kill. 😁
Well let's not pretend the "anti-Red hysteria" was unjustified 👀
If you wanna get technical, the anti-Red sentiment didn’t really gain traction until after the second war. Yes, it was there beforehand, but nowhere near as permeated through the zeitgeist of the 50’s onwards.
@vyhozshu How edgy
This scene was deeply satisfying on every level! That bitchass agent has been practically begging for it since he first showed up.
This fight scene is one of the most realistic I've ever seen,especially towards the end when he is trying to get the gun and you can feel the desperation
Dude i always felt bad for Eli. He went thru some terrible shit.
Isn't that kind of awkward how the wife just went back upstairs while they continue to fight LMAO
Nah just a REAL WOMAN who knows her man and the best thing is to keep kids from seeing it
Sometimes, recognising shit you don't wanna have any of, and deciding you ain't havin' that shit, is a virtue.
I think she's going up to make sure that her kids don't come and see what's happening.
yeah , just put it out of sight and crossed her fingers... thanks babe
The 1920’s!!
Bro shea whigham is so underrated. Looked as if he was really fighting for his life
Eli better have his own show after Boardwalk Empire is finished.
And yet, here we are.
life's a journey
One of the most satisfying deaths in the entire show. Never before have I found myself audibly screaming at the TV: "FUCKIN KILL 'IM, ELI! FUCKIN' MURDER 'IM! KILL! KILL! KILL!"
This is one of the most violent scenes I've ever seen on TV. And I loved it.
I wonder what he did with knox's body, because we learn in a scene where the Fed's raid the club that they found it.
one of the top 10 fight scenes in television history...no doubt
The agent graduated from the school of Hard Knox.
That is the most satisfying thing I've ever seen in film history
I dont care that Eli was a criminal, seeing Knox get it was the most satisfying moment that season
Taunt a man’s family like that, what did he expect Eli to do? Just stand there and let him clap him in irons?
1:57 “ imma a man who’s gonna fucking kill you “😂😂
Damn!! This scene always get me!! At first it makes me wanna cry, then I get happy when Eli overcomes and then chokes him and then continues to smash his face in
Implying a man’s son will be molested is a bad idea.
He only did that because he was a sniveling coward who had a gun to Eli’s head so he thought “I could say anything to this asshole and he can’t do a damn thing!”
But he definitely wasn’t expecting Eli to fight back. If knox wasn’t a complete moron and handcuffed him properly before talking shit to him then maybe he’d still be alive.
Never bring a gun to a vase fight.
Eli gave the most severe beatings on this show.
Watching this scene for the first time was so tense, I had no idea who was going to win
"I mean, it's crazy! We finish eachother's-"
"-FUCKIN' KILL YOU!"
"That's what I was gonna say!"
That has got to be the TOUGHEST crystal vase I've ever seen!
No, just the only accurately portrayed vase smashing you've ever witnessed. They don't break in one hit like in all other media.
@@crupt1023yeah the glass in the jar looked thick asf
Hand saw. Eye gouge. Vase to the face. Yup. Passes the realism check.
One of the most brutal fights ever put on film
World’s strongest vase right there
The best Eli scene ever.
Loved Eli btw
One of the most realistic fight scenes. No glamor or choreography just raging/fighting for life
That was FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
Surely, at some point, through all the rehearsals and filming, someone had to have gotten really hit doing this sequence.
This was such a good scene... just the noses the actor Eli plays makes, it’s not just a life or death fight, for him it’s personal. Especially when he gots on top and starts given him some
you mean noise's right?
I think that it was personal that started the fight, but what compelled them to fight so hard was that it was a life or death fight once it started. If Eli hadn't killed Knox he would have most likely killed him or worse put him and his son in jail for the rest of their lives.
To anybody on this entire planet!
You're whole entire body can be a weapon, without any weapons!
easily one of the most satisfying deaths in the whole entire show
DON'T SCREW WITH MY KIDS!!
DON'T DISRESPECT MY HOME!!
A masterpiece, the acting (Camera Work/Direction/writing) was AMAZZIN.
That is one solid ass vase, that definitely wasn't bought off wish, that's old world construction built to last. That thing took 2 solid hits and then crushed a mans skull, genuine cyrstal
One of the most satisfying deaths in the show
I love that Eli interrupted the little shit in the middle of his speech. He was just another cowardly bully who thought that being cruel somehow made him special.
"Do you think I'm crazy, Eli? It's okay, you can say it."
That line was referencing the scene from The Sopranos where Christopher Moltisanti asks him if he looks like a pussy. Which is fitting since Moltisanti shoots him in the foot after he was shot in the foot himself by Tommy in Goodfellas. The cycle of violence continues.