Captain America – T. G. Shepherd

Combat As Character

T.G. Shepherd — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 08:22:53 +0000

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is probably the best movie made under the umbrella of the MCU; only Black Panther can really compete for that title. One of the reasons why is that the Russo Brothers know to their bones how to direct action to convey character. The Russos are not flashy stylist directors. Their work is nearly stark in its technical plain-ness; I admit to a fondness for ‘lack of...

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30 Seconds of Wick: On Va Voir (11:11-12:25)

T.G. Shepherd — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 07:54:09 +0000

Hey. Sorry to be away so long. It’s been an astonishingly bad year for me personally, in the midst of a bad year for the planet in general. I’ll probably post about it soonish — it’s a story that needs to be told — but all the matters right now is I’m back, the blog is back and we’re going to ease in with another MCU centered post, a one-off on a single fight from Captain America: The Winter...

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30 Seconds of Wick Chapter 21: The Last Range is the Ground (1:11:30-1:12:00)

T.G. Shepherd — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:30:25 +0000

(Author’s Note: I’m going to try to get several chapters posted today, for release once a day for the next while, then move onto my interim one-off post 30 Seconds Without Fear about one of the most interesting fights in the Netflix Daredevil) My title for this chapter is a bit of an inside joke for MMA/combat martial artists. It’s commonly held there are four close combat ranges: kicking...

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30 Seconds of Wick Chapter 18 (Repost of Chapter 1) Perkins Takes A Bite (58:25-58:55)

T.G. Shepherd — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 03:00:00 +0000

Perkins Vs John Wick (58:25-58:55) This was my inaugural post because of a coincidence. I was asked twice in one month by random people if I knew why Perkins uses her teeth hold her jacket during this fight. It’s a moment that watching it I thought “Maybe five percent of the people watching this are going to know why she did that. Maybe two percent.” By happy chance the sequence also starts with...

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Chapter 7: Shades of Blue and Red 50:00 – 50:30

T.G. Shepherd — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 02:02:28 +0000

The Russian Nightclub is the iconic fight of the Wick movies. Not my favourite—that belongs to my lethal lady Perkins—but there isn’t really any way to describe how instant the impact of this section of the movie was. It’s a seamless integration of gun, knife and hand combat, shot in a kinetic, grounded way. It literally changed, in a breath, how action movies are shot...

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Oh, Captain ….

T.G. Shepherd — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:47:14 +0000

TW: Suicide Folks this one is a little harrowing. It was hard to write and I find it hard to reread. I apologize for any typos or format errors. I couldn’t go over it that many times. I was a lonely child in a house full of living things. Seven siblings, two parents, family friends, members of the Catholic community, big dogs (a succession of German Shepherds), two to five cats, two budgies and a...

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