Very exciting especially when the chap in charge orders that they be left alone. I recall another similar fight also in a fort but it had the added attraction of the fight being watched by a group of excited woman, always a thrill for me. Whether a film fight or a real one, I watch the fight and then rerun it watching the female spectators and their reactions.
When you. Look at fights in big budget films or soaps, the credits list a fight arranger and then stunt women. In some productions then have even, shamefully had stunt men dressed as women. I know this seems like sacrelidge but even though, in interview, Martine Beswick said the director was shouting for them to really go at each other, the fight in 'From Russia'. Is heavily choreographed from begging to end. They were rehearsed and rehearsed for every position, hold, facial expression etc. To be expected and an excellent end result, no question. Looking at the older films, the less takes the better, no fight organisers and probably no stunt women, if the winner was irrelevant because it was going to be broken up, I wonder I'd the director just said 'Right, fight!
