The hidden science behind your favorite action scenes - with Eric Jacobus

[@jaredberryman-hivelead]

Loved how you broke down the physics behind those stunts. It’s crazy to think how much goes into making them look so real while keeping everyone safe. Watching intense movie scenes will be even more interesting now knowing all of this

[@leokeiangelos]

Eric, just watched through the whole thing. 20 years later and you’re still dropping incredible wisdom for Stunt/Action Filmmaking practitioners. Thank you!

[@TroysTeam]

It's a nice upload man. It's great to just see you talk and get to know you more in this way. It's a lot of hard work and effort you've put into the industry over the years. Nice one man.

[@RogueOriginFilms]

Awesome Eric! Love this!

[@takeshikitano3]

Eric! Thank you so much for posting this. Was really bummed I couldn't attend but SDCC is a crazy week. Happy you got to do this dude, it was great to watch!

[@thewaywardwarrior]

That was really great, Eric. Thanks as always for your deep insights!

[@ArtSchoolDropouts]

This is great!

[@OslanActionFilms]

This is great info.!! Thanks for sharing! And it's good to have you back on KZbin!

[@b0bbinat0r89]

Simply amazing!

[@lololopez503]

Really cool and entertaining talk, watched it all in a sitting!

[@ehermo]

This is an excellent video!! Thank you so much for putting this up!!

[@rubenpereyra2967]

New Eric Video !!

[@jkrisanda2011]

So brilliant. This speaks to my heart.

[@bproElwin]

Excellent presentation Eric, always fascinating to listen to your stories and deep knowledge and history lessons. Keep it flowing!

[@Erodam]

Outstanding

[@colinsquire7020]

Great video, very interesting

[@EricJacobusOfficial]

@@colinsquire7020 thanks, dig your vid too

[@colinsquire7020]

@@EricJacobusOfficial thank you so much for taking the time to watch it, that really means a lot. I am a huge fan of your work. I have got death grip and contour on dvd, me and my son’s absolutely love your stuff. Fans from the 🇬🇧

[@ashleybecciani]

ERIC OMG, what an incredible lecture! You need to be on TED talks!!!!!

[@paulbrown3rd531]

Excellent lecture. Thank you, Mr. Jacobus. This was very informative.

[@Cuzzys2nd]

This is awesome!! I wish I could've been there live...

[@Badguy292]

Awesome presentation! Love how you describe the different styles and areas of influence.

[@TheRealAlpha2]

When you started discussing this in livestreams a while back I thought maybe it was a bit too heady for me, but this is a way more digestible presentation now.

[@MrLapomme972]

Awesome thank you for this presentation

[@Nytmaer]

Contour is how I found you guys in the early 2000's, been a fan ever since.

[@StuntFiction]

Love the video and topic!! The best elevator fight ever from Merantau was left out tho:P Would love to see more analysis from different countries such as The Raid (Indonesia), Ong Bak(Thailand) or Indie action film making community as a whole!

[@EricJacobusOfficial]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I did a pretty thorough on the movement language of indie action here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpWUgXp8pbGMfJI Not sure what to make of Indonesian movement, but I'm convinced the Karambit was originally for sneaking up on the rice god while farming. I wouldn't be surprised if most of Silat is ritualistic, and was refashioned as a militaristic system when Islam entered Indonesia and outlawed all the old rites. Philippines has a similar history. Thailand, still not very sure about that one, but Buddhism has been more tolerant of ritual forms, so I think that might be why Thai combat is more scientific.

[@alexchung47]

Really enjoyed this, Eric!

[@TheMatthewLavare]

Impressive and Insightful

[@ukmonk]

Great video Eric!!

[@theonlymegumegu]

awesome, i hope you had a good crowd at sdcc! sounds like they were engaged with the content ^_^

[@vjvlad]

"KUNG FU?!?!?! Like Chuck Norris?" - YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

[@radiak55]

This was really informative and inspiring personally. I have always thought that the midpoint of comics and movies is found on how to show action. In many ways both put picture and their assembly to make the movement and what better genre than action to showcase that

[@risingdragon1581]

Loved it ❤❤❤❤ rare info on internet

[@DLMacDonald]

I’m currently watching “Modern Times” and was noticing Chaplin’s movements and thought - boy, some of his small idiosyncrasies remind me of Sammo Hung… I wonder if Eric has thoughts on that. - well I saw this was just posted and you’ve included City Lights. Gonna need to watch the full thing still but perhaps the answers lie within it. Hope you’re doing great!

[@EricJacobusOfficial]

@@DLMacDonald yeah Chaplin nailed that kind of universal everyman movement

[@Itsolaskancke]

I would take this as a college class

[@lilmovieperp3599]

12:55 awesome stuff. i liked how bad city handle crowd control.

[@kevinalmeida7129]

Great presentation, this is my niche nerdy jam! I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the similarities between Hong Kong style action fight scenes and classic Hollywood musical numbers - how they use movement as language to evoke story, character, emotion. Henchmen vs. backup dancers. Interrupting the traditional narrative for long unbroken sequences of stylized movement and sound.

[@StuntFiction]

I would love to see examples of the stick figure animatic/animation used for previz by Zero Gravity stunt team mentioned at 46:40 if it's available!

[@EricJacobusOfficial]

See my Action Talks interview with Larry Leong: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGiVfXVvacycjbM&pp=ygUYYWN0aW9uIHRhbGtzIGxhcnJ5IGxlb25n

[@Artesian_mirage]

KZbin will probably block the link to a page I'll send in next message, but if so, Google - Capoeira Basics Geocities

[@kloa4219]

22:20 That's an interesting angle, is that why villains don't attack during transformation/henshin sequences in stuff like Sailor Moon or Power Rangers? Amazing how language can subtly choreograph action in different countries

[@EricJacobusOfficial]

I don't think language dictates this. There's something further "upstream" in Japanese culture. For example, Yakuza Japanese appears to have a more flexible grammar: learningnihongo.livejournal.com/3278.html, this is either a product of the Kansai region, American influence, or both??? At any rate, there are lots of ways to "think" through a move in Japanese, as there are ways in American English. I would argue that lower-class American English dialects like hick and AAVE are better at avoiding violence and getting to the point to combat interruptibility.

[@coorooegan4508]

I'd be curious where the movie equilibrium would fit into your categorizing system (my social crowd refers to it as gun-fu). Western movie with quite long/flashy/posing gun scenes, but where the sword fights are minimalistic (Japanese style). Whatever the case, brilliant talk, loved it.

[@theonlymegumegu]

so i was thinking more about the language comparisons you made, especially since i know Japanese, and the Japanese sentence structure actually allows for dramatic interruption. very specifically i remember a samurai comic where one guy says, "you don't think you can take us out with that little sword, do you?" and the hero responds "i do!" but it's much more dramatic and to the point in Japanese because the hero finishes his opponent's sentence for him in the positive. which is also very efficient. almost like the one syllable he said ("-RU!") foreshadowed the efficiency with which he was about to dispatch them all. it also has a much stronger feeling of asserting dominance. i had mostly just thought of it as an interesting quirk of the language before, but your panel def is making me think about more deeply.

[@EricJacobusOfficial]

@@theonlymegumegu ah that's interesting. But you can only interrupt at the end right?

[@theonlymegumegu]

@@EricJacobusOfficial for now, by the examples you gave, i guess i would say yes (given that the verb is the critical point to interrupt). but now that I'm thinking more deeply about it, i wonder. especially japanese often truncates sentences, using context to fill in the gaps. the subject is frequently cut out and sometimes you can cut straight to the verb if it's reasonable to expect that the object is understood. and frequently you can just use the subject and expext the situation to cause the other person to complete the rest of it. like to ask "where is the toilet?" all you really need to say in japanese is "toilet is...?" (toilet wa...) I've also been wondering if this ties into the cultural construct of "kuuki yomi" or "reading the atmosphere". it's certainly similar to "reading the room" in american culture, but full of japanese nuance. i do have to admit, the SOV order of japanese has long been a difficulty for me. it especially makes long sentences difficult to follow because for me i may have to back up and reread or rehear the sentence if i couldn't hold enough of the beginning in my head before getting the verb. though when generating a japanese sentence, it's interesting because I'm my head i already know my verb and am creating the rest of the sentence with that in mind already. i wonder now how that goes for a native speaker.

[@THECAM200]

This is brillian5 and not discussed nearly enough

[@rodroeq7956]

Any plans for future conferences in Las Vegas? I'm living here now and I would love to go to one of this in person.

[@EricJacobusOfficial]

I just need a venue.

[@ukmonk]

Doesn't matter how many cuts IF the camera is clean and clear and the action makes sense. Look at some of the best fight sequences in anime, somethings are used for 1 or 2 frames, but there is a method to the madness. The Bourne fight was terrible as they just shot loads of coverage, camera was all over the place just trying to get something, then they try and make it work in the edit as none of it was played for that particular camera angle. Choreo of course is important, but its more about angles and moments... Love your stuff Eric J!

[@Moveset-Mastery]

My man

[@nateragland1218]

You should interview Leo Howard

[@picvajzpikcers]

We're so back

[@HalfCracker4life]

Amen 🙏🏾

[@SomeOne-wl6wp]

About that born fightscene : Im have the same opinion but my fan brain now with in its 30s created its own fanfiction. What if we witness Bornes experience from another perspective ? He doesnt remember his past but his movements felt oddly respeponsive and the director maybe wanted to visualize it with shaky cam comparable with short fast thoughts. I know he prob. did not thought so far, because shaky cam and short fightscenes shootings were a thing, back then. Still an interesting thought tho. Thanks for sharing ,Eric. P.S:: There is also a thing with how many emotional expressive words a language has ( growing up bilingual ), which has an affect, but thats another story.

[@kloa4219]

OHHHH you should used the Elevator scene from Die Hard With a Vengeance as an American example, that was really good 🤓

[@EricJacobusOfficial]

totally forgot that one

[@ZeZwede]

i mean this in the most positive way: you are one glorious nerd.

[@weixinlin446]

Holy shoot, Prof Eric Jacobus can speak cantonese?

[@mmartinez9802]

Hey brother... big fan. I have some questions i wanted ur opinion on. thru the influences of hk, jp, ufc. Bruce lee( cuz he isnt hk) i believe the american eye has/ is catching up to a quicker movement state. I think arnold is an evolution of john wayne. But keanu/ tom is an blending of us style and upgrading it with ufc and close quarters combat, like silat or krav maga.. and u see it in the marvel movies.. and then u have people like scott and zaror. Who are evolution of jcvd(And you are in there too).. do u think arnold would had success now. Or syl.. now with that john wayne style?... who in my opinion are the father of modern action movies. 2. My buddy growing up i tried soo hard to get him like jc, donnie and jet and he never did.. said fighting never has 300 moves for 1 hit. And he was a wwe fan which i use to laugh at and say.. who slaps a man chest and calls that a fight..but he did like scott and michael and thennn donnie once he saw flashpoint. My question is. Once the fighting felt more real, like real stakes i think thats when alot of non martial arts fans started to get martial arts movies. Do you think thats true in a way.. i dont knownif im phrasing that right. And i was gonna ask about Indonesian and thai movies what u think of them. Do u see then more of a hk styale blend or do they have something unique.