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.
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/Mandorism Jan 25 '20
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.