i can kind of see her in action movies
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mikebourkefan — 13 years ago(March 23, 2013 01:06 AM)
Danielle could pull off a tough girl role. I remember in Hatchet 2 when she killed Victor Crowley smashing his skull MANY TIMES with an axe then yelling "FUVCK YOU" it looked badass
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mikeflw1 — 12 years ago(April 02, 2014 02:43 AM)
Get real please
ScarJo is a lot taller.
That usually translates into a longer reach, and just in the one example of boxing, reach usually beats strength kinda difficult to hurt someone (hand-to-hand) that you cannot reach.
I have been noticing that suddenly so many of the (kindly put)
petite
women want to be badazz. If you look back to BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, and C238HARMED, (Alyssa Milano), Those two characters were made to look good through the magic of good camerawork, CGI, and some creative imaginations.
Sarah Shahi in PERSON OF INTEREST is another of my list of "you gotta be kidding" actresses, but she has moved more to shooting people, which can be done by the
petite
.
When you want to go with an actress that is
4-ft 11-inches tall
, and talk about marshal arts, that is REALLY beyond belief
I will say she is very well proportioned, and can be made to appeab68r taller, but stand her against an actor like the newest Conan the Barbarian, (Jason Momoa), and I suspect she would have to punch upward to hit him below the belt, and
couldn't
knee him where the effort would be worth the attempt even assuming he wasn't wearing a "cup" like Gibbs did in NCIS. smile
Think of the action movie COMMANDO, staring Arnold (not pumped up like Conan) and Alyssa Milano, and you get the idea of the size comparison. (Alyssa is listed as taller than Danielle.)
A previous poster left a comment that you
CAN
see Danielle in THE LAST BOYSCOUT, filmed while Bruce Willis still had his hair. She played a kid in that movie, but she wasn't that young, just that small (Saw that on TV last night.) -
Boneduster77 — 11 years ago(April 09, 2014 07:07 AM)
You've obviously never seen111c any of Danielle's films where she often battles men 10 times her size. Since when did size ever matter when it comes fighting. Some of the best fighters in the world, both male and female, are featherweight sand very petite in stature. Just look up female mma fighter Felice Herrig, and your point is invalid. Danielle could easily pull off the role of a bad ass kick ass action hero. She's done it before but playing the string damsel in horror films that has fight off homicidal killers. So there's that.
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mikeflw1 — 9 years ago(June 10, 2016 04:26 AM)
Yeah
The MMA people have weight classes too.
And the featherweights look 'so mean' because they are small enough to appear faster than someone larger than they are. The 'magic' of the cameras allows the viewers to imagine you are seeing a "normal size" person, but you are not. Just look at the way some women move Think Sigourney Weaver of the ALIEN series (at 5' 11 3/4" tall), or Bridget Neilsen in RED SONJA / CONAN at over 6' tall. Also consider the world class gymnasts, pretty much all well under 5' 4". And (former) ballerinas, like Finola Hughes and Jane Seymour, plus a former NFL dancer, Sarah Shahi who has already been mentioned in this thread.
Sad to mention Ali since his recent death, (and his memorial service is later today), but he had about a full foot longer reach than his closest heavyweight opponent. He was the greatest, and no small part of that was his reach. As has already been stated, you can't hit what you can't reach.
Good camera work and your own mind combine to create the optical illusion that a "petite" person (and I'm thinking of the show WALKER, TEXAS RANGER star, Chuck Norris too) is soooo fast, when it is only an illusion.
As far as the physical fights go, the choreography 'leads viewers down the garden path'. That means all fights are "not real", any more than magicians tricks, and they exclude things (punches, kicks, moves) that would spoil the illusion they are intended to create.
Just by example, Entertainment Tonight (ET) had a short interview with the cast of NCIS just before the exit of the Tony Dinozo character. Included in that segment was some 'down time' for some of the NCIS cast, and one striking image was agent Bishop sitting on one of "very special agent Dinozo's" shoulders. It was pretty striking, and the actress playing agent Bishop is not particularly short! (Look it up here in IMDB to check.) That would not, and did not, ever appear in the series, because it would shatter the illusion
