How can you tell if the fight scenes are good? We barely saw anything of them. Not that I want to be the negative nancy here, but it is kind of easy to make a collection of poses look good.
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
I dunno, just something about them, I guess. Can't really say what, but I thought they looked good.
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The actual NYCC audience got more than just the trailer — they got five scenes, which included fight scenes of Danny fighting an axe gang. io9 has a good writeup here.
They say that Danny's fighting style is more ballet-like, while Colleen Wing's fighting style is just brutal.
Ballet like? oh, I love that idea!
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
Ah, so Danny is the enemy of the Hand here.
Hmm...not sure how I feel about that...
Everything else sounds great, though.
edited 9th Oct '16 9:52:58 AM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!
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To quote A genius troper from the Marvel Cinematic Universe thread:
edited 9th Oct '16 2:13:42 PM by HandsomeRob
One Strip! One Strip!
What's the best Iron Fist story that explores what the adaption is trying?
A Danny who spent his life in a monstrosity that to the rest of the average Joes on Earth sounds descriptively far fetched. Since 10 years old, the rest of his life, up until he came back to New York, he was raised under vastly different conditions the western world finds too hard to accept. He’s supposed to be the champion of an other dimensional, mystical civilization predating most places historical sights. K‘un-Lun's formidable traditions and very rigid sense of honour and duty is nigh-unbearable for a normal human being. Danny only knows how to behave under K'un-Lun's context. He doesn't have the mindset for dealing with western society yet apart from the obvious stuff he knew before he went to K'un-Lun.
This is how Finn handles what the script gave him, which isn't new to the character he plays but I can't think of a story where that's the main driving theme. Yeah Danny is a fish out of water as we all know. He's Tarzan. What Iron Fist comic dives deep into it?
edited 12th Oct '16 10:04:19 AM by RulerOfImagineverse
Rainmaker
The two runs I'd recommend is the Immortal Iron Fist by Matt Fraction and Iron Fist: The Living Weapon by Kaare Andrews. They both explore the lore K'un Lun and Danny role of being the hero of two worlds.
Warning though: those runs are pretty diametrically opposed. Immortal Iron Fist is an incredibly fun series that is kind of like the Marvel equivalent of Mortal Kombat, while Iron Fist: The Living Weapon is a darker, more angst-filled story that, uh, tends to be divisive.
I'd give a counter-recommendation of not reading Kaare Andrews's Iron Fist unless threatened with actual torture. It shits all over IF canon to make a bootleg Frank Miller story.
But I second Fraction's run in that regard, I'd also recommend the follow-up to Fraction's run, written by Duane Swierczynski. One of the antagonists of this show (Zhou the supernatural Iron Fist-killer who killed most of the previous Iron Fists) hails from that run.
That run also centers a bit more on IF's relationship with the western world, and how he feels a bit alineated by it at times. It's something of a running joke in that run that Danny tries to Kung Fu his way out of every situation, but you can't really maneuver around, say, Capitalist shenanigans in your company with Kung Fu.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
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Will agree that Andrews run is divisive and very different from what Iron Fist typically is defined by. But I figured for the idea of Danny Rand as "Tarzan in a superhero world" it does address a lot of points on how Danny feels isolated in the regular world.
There should be a CMOF where Danny gets his first car and, nervous, drives ridiculously slow, pissing off every driver behind him.
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By the way, did anyone else notice The Bride of Nine Spiders is in the Iron Fist trailer?
IMMORTAL WEAPONS HYPE
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
YES YES YES.
Bride of Nine Spiders for the win!
Have her live. Do Spider-Island as the second or third Spider-Man movie. Put the Defenders in it. Make it so.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Mweheheh
The Defenders will be only eight episodes long.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Kind of relevant here: There are rumours that Disney will buy Netflix. I wonder how that will impact the Netflix programming...I don't think that it would change that much, but with the Disney money in the background, Netflix could become even more adventurous.
it's a living
Still no Iron Fist thread, huh? That probably doesn't bode well.
At this point it doesn't mean anything.
It's not until the show is actually released that it merits it's own thread. I believe it was the same deal for the other Marvel Netflix shows.
Usually we wait until the final trailer or somesuch.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
Yeah, before there is something spoilery to talk about there is no point.
EW's site never works properly for me. What's the video about?
Crow: There's a plot?
A lot of people on the MCU subreddit are praising how they made the fist look.
Like, no joke, there's like forty or so comments along the lines of "OMG, the fist looks awesome, Marvel did it right!".
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