BJJ in Film & Television

[Neuro]

I wanted to create a thread to discover whenever BJJ, or any other grappling art, is utilized (in a clear manner) in films or television.

I'll start off:

CASINO ROYALE-- Daniel Craig as Bond chokes a dude out (to DEATH! bonus!) with a RNC, and he gets his hooks in, if I remember correctly. Well done.

INCEPTION-- Joseph Gordon Levitt puts a dude to sleep with a sort of reverse gift-wrap, neck punch choke. Shit was sick.

LETHAL WEAPON-- Which one was it? Either way, this is the most famous one, choreographed by the Gracies, Mel Gibson by triangle.

2 FAST 2 FURIOUS-- Paul Walker attempts some weirdo armbar/omoplata crap and Vin Diesel just smashes the shit out of it (Vin Diesel or Jiu Jitsu? DIESEL FTW, would seem to be the message of this film).

On television over the summer, I saw a dude on a new cop show whip out a RNC on a guy to take him out, but he got his hooks wrong and crossed his feet-- big no-no.


Anyone think of any others? Like the potential of this thread.

 

[West-206]

There was a RNC and double armbar in Sherlock Holmes if I remember right.

 

[Choking Victim**]

ughhhhh my sports getting all mainstream and tainted

 

[nefti]

in blade 3 a dude uses an omo plata

and in inception the guy should have used a collar choke, that would have been sick!

 

[thedoc56**]

There was a RNC and double armbar in Sherlock Holmes if I remember right.

thank guy ritchie for that

 

[Bruce Calavera]

The Expendables has a number of armbars and kneebars.

 

[HomerPlata]

Randy Couture does an armbar in The Scorpion King Pretty gay, really.

 

[Doctor Venture]

Seen two RNC's in Dexter. Season one had the worst choke I've ever seen, season four had a slightly less terrible one.

I saw a bit of grappling in Ong Bak 2. Dont remember if it sucked though.

 

[mxsam34]

Burn Notice, the actor who plays the main dude did BJJ for a year, ive seen him pull guard & take the back a few times...

 

[HEAVY GRAPPLER]

There is an RNC and a sloppy kani basami in the video for I'm Bad by LL Cool J

 

[Solidus Snake]

In Miami Vice (the Mann's movie, not the tv show) I remember Colin Farrell strangling a dude with both hooks in. Only thing, he did the choke with his rifle.

 

[Machete Juarez]

Flash Point.

Ryan Reynolds broke Triple H's arm in Blade 3 with an armbar.

And isn't one of the Boondock Saints a BJJ practitioner?

 

[Junglist]

in bloodsprt 2 i think there was a bjj practitioner wearing a purple belt. i cant remember exactly.

 

[B3ntleg]

Lost: Sawyer holds kate in a guard and the she headbuts him. Also remember Claire doing quite a decent looking mount on Kate.

 

[Neuro]

Seen two RNC's in Dexter. Season one had the worst choke I've ever seen, season four had a slightly less terrible one.

That's right, Dexter is always using that RNC. Dexter is awesome. I bet his character would be beast at jiu jitsu :icon_twis

 

[kahyo]

Flash Point.

Ryan Reynolds broke Triple H's arm in Blade 3 with an armbar.

And isn't one of the Boondock Saints a BJJ practitioner?

Sean Patrick Flanery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There you go dude!

 

[StrongCrappler]

in Spartacus season 1 episode 4.

Spartacus is forced to fight in an underground ring of death and he gets caught in an armbar, he escapes by bicep curling his one arm out against the much bigger opponent and then takes his back and kills him with a RNC

 

[HomerPlata]

Sean Patrick Flanery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There you go dude!

That guy is too successful in too many walks of life. I fucking hate him.

 

[dizzydean]

In Two Towers, Gollum takes Samwise Gamgee's back with hooks in.

 

[Respeezy]

That guy is too successful in too many walks of life. I fucking hate him.

He looks like a guido though with his orange spray tan in the wiki picture.:icon_chee