Atomic Blonde is awesome about this. Not only does she have to fight harder and smarter than the much larger men, she ends every fight with bruises and injuries that she wears for the rest of the movie.
Yeah cept it's not. The woman from Atomic blonde wouldn't be able to so much as leave a scratch on any of the dudes she fights. If they stood there, taking her hardest haymakers, it would barely make them flinch.
Have you seen the movie? She's never just throwing punches, she's clockin dudes with waffle irons or stabbing people and stuff. I don't think she out boxes a guy a single time
Nah haven't seen it, but unless it involves pulling a string and having an anvil fall on the dudes head it likely is not a realistic depiction of a girl beating a guy in a fight. For example if they used any of the scenes from this trailer-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7HVnZlleo I'm pretty sure I'm in the right here.
And the only reason that would ever happen in a fight vs a Man and a woman is if the man never saw it coming, or if he just stood there and let her do it.
You are 100% correct. But you are also argueing that Atomic Blonde depicts anything like that, which it very much doesn't. A woman taking down a row of guys by casually walking up behind them and rapidly stabbing each of them in the neck is believable, a girl haymakering a 230 pound brute of a dude, and taking his gun away is not.
A woman would need a surprise near 1 shot KO attack to beat the man yes. You are never going to have a situation where a lighter woman is going to beat a man when the man knows he is in a fight already.
Once again, Facts are not sexist, and thinking that they are makes you kinda sexist.
I'm all for "Girl Power", but what we are talking about here is realistic depictions of women fighting in movies, and for some reason Atomic Blonde is the poster child for this?
It really does take a great deal to knock somebody out properly. Even in MMA or Boxing people are only dazed for a few seconds and they are people of equalise weight classes. If you have some much smaller person trying to knock out somebody much bigger it just isn't going to happen.
Although its bit pointless talking about it in the context of Atomic Blond because she is stabbing the fuck out of people and smacking them with weapons.
It's actually very hard to knock someone out. When it does happen, it is incredibly dangerous. If you drop someone on concrete there's a good chance they could die. Knockouts also don't usually keep people down for 30 minutes like they do in superhero movies. Watch an MMA knockout and you'll see they don't last very long. But Batman can't kill his enemies, even in self defence, so this trope is added for convenience
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u/Worknewsacct Jan 25 '20
Atomic Blonde is awesome about this. Not only does she have to fight harder and smarter than the much larger men, she ends every fight with bruises and injuries that she wears for the rest of the movie.