Tiago Rodrigues
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Remember ALIAS? Well...Season 2 had its season finale exactly 20 years ago. Yeah...we're old and tired.
I was thinking about this show earlier today as i heard it's now available on Disney + in the USA...and this scene was the first thing i thought about. (that's really the reason why i mentioned spoilers in the title...maybe you always wanted to see this show...if so, go away cause it's a huge spoiler)
In a time most of Hollywood relies on fast cuts, dramatic music, random slowmo shit, etc...these two actresses committed and did a lot of the fight by themselves instead of leaving most of it for their doubles.
Why was this remarkable for its time?
1. This was peak JJ Abrams, he knew what he was doing with ALIAS (before he left for LOST that is) and this scene was the peak of a huge plot point: Sydney finally realizes that woman that was living with her was sort of a clone of her best friend which was most likely dead.
5. The amount of stuff happening while the fight is unfolding including Sydney finding her best friend in the bathtub and them using random house objects to improvise the fight, since none of them was ready for that to happen.
5. Notice how there's quite a few long cuts, no music during the first half of it...nothing. They just kept it simple. Just a brutal fight happening, punches and kicks being thrown around with some sound effects that may or not have aged in a weird way.
The fight in question:
The making of:
Anyone remembers this?
Trivia: JJ Abrams gave Tom Cruise the DVDs of the first 2 seasons of ALIAS back then when he was trying to direct Mission Impossible 3. After Tom watched it all, JJ Abrams was hired and they started their partnership that is still in place nowadays. A lot of ALIAS influences on MI3 actually.
I was thinking about this show earlier today as i heard it's now available on Disney + in the USA...and this scene was the first thing i thought about. (that's really the reason why i mentioned spoilers in the title...maybe you always wanted to see this show...if so, go away cause it's a huge spoiler)
In a time most of Hollywood relies on fast cuts, dramatic music, random slowmo shit, etc...these two actresses committed and did a lot of the fight by themselves instead of leaving most of it for their doubles.
Why was this remarkable for its time?
1. This was peak JJ Abrams, he knew what he was doing with ALIAS (before he left for LOST that is) and this scene was the peak of a huge plot point: Sydney finally realizes that woman that was living with her was sort of a clone of her best friend which was most likely dead.
5. The amount of stuff happening while the fight is unfolding including Sydney finding her best friend in the bathtub and them using random house objects to improvise the fight, since none of them was ready for that to happen.
5. Notice how there's quite a few long cuts, no music during the first half of it...nothing. They just kept it simple. Just a brutal fight happening, punches and kicks being thrown around with some sound effects that may or not have aged in a weird way.
The fight in question:
The making of:
Anyone remembers this?
Trivia: JJ Abrams gave Tom Cruise the DVDs of the first 2 seasons of ALIAS back then when he was trying to direct Mission Impossible 3. After Tom watched it all, JJ Abrams was hired and they started their partnership that is still in place nowadays. A lot of ALIAS influences on MI3 actually.
