The way they shoot Hong Kong style hand to hand combat will have continuity errors on every shot. This is intentional in order for your eyes to make it seem like every hit is harder. Also in HK, they shoot the fights one shot at a time. In the US they use to shoot a whole fight with multiple cameras and they edit after, but you end up getting some really strange looking shots because not every camera angle will look good. In the US, they cut everything in continuity because that's just the way they have been doing it. The only issue is that is that it doesn't quite work for action because our eyes can't keep up with the action and it ends up looking like everyone is just flailing around. The white shirt continuity error was intentional to give Jackie's double kick a bit more power even though it's the most "egregious" continuity error. Every Frame a Painting's video on Jackie Chan gives a good explanation on how they edit in Hong Kong.
Yes, I remember learning about that. There are positioning changes, etc. that are designed to flow in such a way that it sort of tricks the eye/brain into seeing the impact differently. Sometimes a shot will be captured a few different times so that you see the hit itself a few times, and when done well, it works to sell the action. I was trying -- though maybe not succeeding -- at pointing out how the two shots could not have possibly been of the same single take/execution due to the simple positions/physics of things, as I thought it was a pretty cool quirk of this kind of cinema.
The way they shoot Hong Kong style hand to hand combat will have continuity errors on every shot. This is intentional in order for your eyes to make it seem like every hit is harder. Also in HK, they shoot the fights one shot at a time. In the US they use to shoot a whole fight with multiple cameras and they edit after, but you end up getting some really strange looking shots because not every camera angle will look good. In the US, they cut everything in continuity because that's just the way they have been doing it. The only issue is that is that it doesn't quite work for action because our eyes can't keep up with the action and it ends up looking like everyone is just flailing around. The white shirt continuity error was intentional to give Jackie's double kick a bit more power even though it's the most "egregious" continuity error. Every Frame a Painting's video on Jackie Chan gives a good explanation on how they edit in Hong Kong.
Yes, I remember learning about that. There are positioning changes, etc. that are designed to flow in such a way that it sort of tricks the eye/brain into seeing the impact differently. Sometimes a shot will be captured a few different times so that you see the hit itself a few times, and when done well, it works to sell the action.
I was trying -- though maybe not succeeding -- at pointing out how the two shots could not have possibly been of the same single take/execution due to the simple positions/physics of things, as I thought it was a pretty cool quirk of this kind of cinema.
I think that isn't jacke doing that epic kick downwards roundhouse
You might be right... 🤔