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edher08	Fight Choreography Book	Lead	[-]
Posts: 24 (04/22/08 13:22:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Hi, does someone here have the book name "Fight Choreography: the Art of non verbal Dialogue" by John Kreng Just wanted to know if it worth the money or not. link: http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Choreography-Art-Non-Verbal-Dialogue/dp/1592006795/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208898105&sr=8-1
gcdx		#1	[-]
Posts: 1 (04/22/08 15:09:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've bought the book from amazon when it was available. well I've read a good 100 pages of it so far and it explains the origins of combat cinema between western films and eastern films. Interesting for me because I'm somewhat of a history addict. Now I haven't read the whole book yet, I've been reading little by little when I have the chance, but by skimming through through parts of the book has some interesting stuff. Now will it be worth your money? well it depends. Don't expect the book to teach you how to exactly fight. The book explains the logistics and meaning when it comes to fight sequences. Sure 2 guys trained in Karate may look cool in a movie but it won't always fit certain genre's (then again it depends) It does have some neat facts when comes to having a martial artist on screen compared to a person who has been trained for the role because its part of his/her character. but yeah as I have said before I haven't read the whole book but its good to know the idea on how a fight scene forms. I may post more about it in the future.
RobP		#2	[-]
Posts: 201 (04/22/08 17:37:56) Extra Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I read a review yesterday which basically stated that the book was sort of an instruction manual for the retarded Hollywood directors who couldn't choreograph a fight scene to save their lives. ...due to my hatred of Hollywood I think I'll buy 100 copies of the book in support of it. There's a good review of the book up on kungfucinema.com if you want to read that. Man On A Mission Films If you work for a living why kill yourself working?
pete		#3	[-]
Posts: 2240 (04/22/08 18:59:42) DONDE ESTA MI ELEPHANTE!?!?!?" Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	if you can read Chinese, Ang Lee's book on his films had a giant chunk dedicated to his experience with Yuen WoPing, and Yuen WoPing's philosophy on fighting. Most of the stuff I say probably comes from his book.
naikanomtom		#4	[-]
Posts: 28 (04/23/08 10:42:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have a friend who's trying to break into more fight choreography recommend the book to me, and I read the review about it in kungfucinema.com....anyways, it seems great, but I'd like to see more of the author's films to have an idea of what he said too. Do you guys know of any recommendations?
paul51484		#5	[-]
Posts: 2168 (04/23/08 20:35:22) Action Hero Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm very interested in hearing what John Kreng has to say, but I'm more interested in adding it to my field of knowledge than treating it as some "How to" or choreography Bible. Much like Jackie stated in My Stunts, I think one should learn from a lot of different sources and then create their own style.
VJVLAD	THe book	#6	[-]
Posts: 10 (04/24/08 11:58:46) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Joeric, who is GREAT friends, with John, told me that John interviewed pretty much everyone (Ping, Sammo, etc) before writing the book. I'll probably pick up the book some time next week.
Rising Tiger		#7	[-]
Posts: 334 (04/24/08 13:33:12) Fall Guy Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Man, this book was supposed to come out a while ago. Nice to see I can finally be able to check it out.
alexarcher		#8	[-]
Posts: 68 (04/25/08 21:45:53) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts
Ulrik fC		#9	[-]
Posts: 1479 (04/26/08 01:48:02) Action Hero Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Kenji Tanigaki wrote a book about stuntwork and fight choreography, sadly its only avaiable in japanese .. but there are some rare pictures of donnie, jackie etc. in the book

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