Combat in film

Cinematic fight choreography or staged fights in cinema include performances of archery, classical fencing, historical fencing, martial arts, close combat, and duels in general, as well as choreography of full-scale battles with hundreds of combatants. Martial arts movies and Hong Kong action cinema The 1970s in Hong Kong saw the rise and sudden death of international martial arts and film superstar Bruce Lee, who is known for popularizing Hong Kong action cinema. He was succeeded in the 1980s by Jackie Chan, who popularized the use of comedy and dangerous stunts in action films. Hong Kong-based fight choreographer Yuen Wo-ping is famed for his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Matrix trilogy, in which the often unrealistic fighting techniques are complemented by directorial techniques such as bullet time. Ching Siu-tung is particularly noted in the field of Hong Kong action cinema for his use of graceful wire fu techniques. Notable Asian martial arts choreographers: Yuen Wo-ping Ching Siu-tung Yoshio Sugino Bruce Lee Don Wilson Jackie Chan Yayan Ruhian Donnie Yen Sammo Hung Yuen Biao Panna Rittikrai Tony Jaa Dan Inosanto Corey Yuen Iko Uwais Notable Asian martial arts actors: Bruce Lee Jackie Chan Donnie Yen Jet Li Ji Chang-Wook Tony Jaa Iko Uwais Yayan Ruhian Sammo Hung Yuen Biao Don The Dragon Wilson Michelle Yeoh Golden Horse Award for Best Action Choreography Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Choreography With the introduction of advanced editing techniques and of filming outdoors, modern films have a much wider palette of possibilities for depicting violence, including single combat, brawls, and melees as well as large-scale battles. From the 2000s, computer animation has come to play an important part in cinematic visualization of battle scenes, chiefly through the use of computer-generated imagery to simulate very large battles appearing to involve thousands of individual combatants and coordinated activities, which would otherwise be logistically difficult or prohibitively expensive to depict (see MASSIVE and crowd simulation).