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Free Running

If you are in the mood for fast chases you can't go wrong with District B13, a French film from 2004 that's set far in the future (2010 heh). There's a plot, but what is most fun is the free running that takes up about 97% of the film.

Update for Ed: David Belle is the "inventor" of a type of urban jumping called Le Parkour - and what he does is more or less what he does in the movie. It's about thinking/moving at top speed using whatever is there - which might be an opening, a rope, a ledge - to improvise a route.

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- 10:47 PM

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Woot!

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Dale Innis : 25 August, 2009 06:19

Good thing about that rope just happening to hang there! When I do this sort of thing, seldom are ropes that convenient.

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Edward Manray : 25 August, 2009 07:04

Threre's a trick to it, Ed. You have to be in a movie ;-D On the other hand the free running ordinary people do is just about as amazing.

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Osprey : 25 August, 2009 10:11

I wonder if the game "Mirror's edge" was inspired by this movie

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candide : 26 August, 2009 12:15

I dunno, but I think they are both just a result of the popularity of the real life phenomenon.

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Osprey : 26 August, 2009 20:10

ok so i watched teh moovie and the initial chase is good (it's what you see in the trailer on youtube) but the free running more or less stops after that, sans some quick scenes towards the end.

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candide : 27 August, 2009 14:06

I didn't mean to exaggerate - that's just how it felt to me. Did you like it at all?

# posted by

Osprey : 27 August, 2009 16:02

The silent film "Beloved Rogue" keeps popping up in my head - I haven't seen it for decades but I seem to remember rooftop scampering.

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Osprey : 28 August, 2009 09:11

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