The movie “G.I. Joe – The Rise of Cobra” (2009) has fight scenes that make the guys in “The Matrix” look like a band of rheumatic old grandparents.
In a tribute to the Pan Kids tournament, we dug up scenes from the “first meeting”! Between a white ninja and a black ninja, action figures every kid in Brazil in the 1980’s wanted to have.
Spotlight on the fight’s moral lesson, where the defeated becomes the good guy and the haughty winner turns into the sinister villain… Learn from them, kids!
These days, Jiu-itsu is a character all its own in Hollywood action flicks with a bit part (“Matrix,” “Avatar,” “Hulk,” G.I. Joe,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Inception” - you fill in the rest), as a supporting cast member (“Sherlock Holmes”) or even as the leading man (“Red Belt”).
