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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1509098" data-attributes="member: 812">Yeah, the end fight in TPM is one of my favourite fight scenes of all time, and it's a perfect representation of why you need GOOD ACTORS to produce great fight scenes. What sells a fight scene more than anything is the performance of the people doing the fight. We have to believe that they're trying to kill each other, that they're desperately avoiding certain death, whatever. Without that conviction on the part of the actor, the best choreography in the world is just Ice Capades. Who cares?What makes, say, Jackie Chan so great isn't that he's a better martial artist than anyone. Of course his skills are amazing, and that's important, but what really makes him the legend that he is is his ability to connect with the audience WHILE he's executing these incredible moves. Take Donnie Yen -- maybe just as good physically, but not as good an actor and so -- not the legend that Chan or Jet Li are.And in that final fight in TPM, Ewan MacGregor and Liam Neeson give us so much in their performances, and Ray Park's skills are so strong that the whole thing is really a great, great sequence. After Qui-Gong dies, the reaction of Obi-Wan is goose-bump-causing. And it's that reaction that makes that final confrontation so powerful.I've watched TPM many times just for that sequence. That, and the moment when Darth Maul ignites the second end of his lightsaber. I love that moment.</blockquote>

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