If you felt wan after the face-smashing scene at the start, reach for the smelling salts.
Mr. Tighe, who here brings to mind a sleepwalking Lee Marvin, is right to choose understatement over old-codger caricature, and he is all the more effective when he lets rip in the bone-smashing scene.
For this, he spoke to Gaspar Noé and asked him how he did the head-smashing scene in Noé's Irréversible (2002).
The climactic action of the revolt is not entirely unlike those city-smashing scenes out of something by Marvel: all bravado, very little of the spirit.
Most of these films were certified 16+, including Irreversible, which contains notorious 11-minute rape and fire-extinguisher-head-smashing scenes, the latter of which is embedded below to illustrate my point (BUT DON'T WATCH IT, OBVIOUSLY).
I cried right through the curious, troubling scene of Sarah smashing her daughter's picture with a bottle; right through Laura disappearing and Coop listening to her disembodied screams.
If you can't show the humanity — let's say, the battle scene at the beginning of 'Gangs of New York' — then you have to find a way to do the violence in a non-graphic way, so that it doesn't become literally just scene after scene of people smashing each other across the head.
Following their debut show in December, Hammercult stormed stages all across Israel, smashing into the local scene and garnering a tremendous amount of fans in a minimal amount of time.
Nearby Ravensworth Nurseries, in Richmond, had thousands of panes of glass in its greenhouses smashed, leaving a scene of devastation.
She gave pointers to the understudies: when smashing an egg on your scene partner's head, make sure the yolk doesn't get in his eyes.
Will Cameron's Britain ever inspire a scene like Scumbag College smashing their way through the floor to take on the poshos from Footlights College (Elton, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry chanting "Rah, rah, rah, we're going to smash the oiks!")?
