Oof! Pow!

May 3, 2020 8:58 PM

Stuck at home and feeling a bit punchy? Stuntwoman Zoë Bell was. So she challenged a few friends to a little Boss Bitch Fight Challenge
posted by Mchelly (21 comments total)

There’s more of a few of these now, does anyone know which of the videos started this?
posted by sideshow at 9:06 PM on May 3, 2020

Some of the little touches are great, like the grocery bag and puzzle pieces showing up in the next segment. And of course Margot Robbie would choose her baseball bat!
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:26 PM on May 3, 2020 [1 favorite]

Ha! I knew that had to be Florence Pugh, since nobody else looks like Florence Pugh.
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 9:36 PM on May 3, 2020

The dog-lick attack was the best.
posted by Windopaene at 9:56 PM on May 3, 2020 [2 favorites]

I've seen a couple of these, but this one was by far the best, primarily because of the humour, and also the fact that a lot of these people seemd to have a lot more fun than usual making this.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 1:36 AM on May 4, 2020 [2 favorites]

There’s more of a few of these now, does anyone know which of the videos started this?
The earliest was this one, by students of Campus Univers Cascades, a stuntpeople school in Cateau-Cambresis, France.
posted by elgilito at 2:56 AM on May 4, 2020

Rosario Dawson delivers the same kick she used to finish off Kurt Russell at the end of Death Proof.
posted by cazoo at 4:09 AM on May 4, 2020 [3 favorites]

So many pools.
posted by benzenedream at 4:53 AM on May 4, 2020 [1 favorite]

Rosario Dawson delivers the same kick she used to finish off Kurt Russell at the end of Death Proof.

Hey, if you'd figured out the way to kill a dude who'd survived Lo Pan and New York and Los Angeles and the OK Corral, you'd stick with it too.
posted by Etrigan at 7:19 AM on May 4, 2020 [19 favorites]

The meme that pre-dated the fighting version was the Don't Rush Challenge.
posted by explosion at 7:38 AM on May 4, 2020 [1 favorite]

I like this. Better humor and continuity than previous versions I've seen.
posted by tdismukes at 8:43 AM on May 4, 2020

The parent YT link is only 360p, but the video was separately uploaded in 1080p format.
posted by xigxag at 10:54 AM on May 4, 2020 [2 favorites]

I thought that was Lucy Lawless! Gotta re-watch with the names.

I really liked that the two girls weren't punched (but did punch back).
posted by JawnBigboote at 12:16 PM on May 4, 2020 [3 favorites]

Scroll down in youtube and someone has posted who is at what timestamp - handy because lots of them are not obvious to me.
posted by leslies at 3:06 PM on May 4, 2020 [1 favorite]

Yeah, even though I should recognize a lot of those, the only one I did was Lucy Lawless. Don't know what that says about me. They were all great, though.
posted by biogeo at 3:11 PM on May 4, 2020

I just love Heidi Moneymaker. That’s her tumbling down the stairs after Halle Berry punches her in the face.
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 6:14 PM on May 4, 2020

And then Heidi takes out Scarlett Johansson, which I love because Heidi is ScarJo’s Black Widow stunt double!
posted by angeline at 7:20 PM on May 4, 2020 [1 favorite]

I like the one where she attacks WITH A PUPPY.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:53 PM on May 4, 2020 [1 favorite]

Okay, seriously, I love the 3-D aspects of this as well. And the pool flip.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:56 PM on May 4, 2020

One of the things I liked about this, and I think it ties into also not recognizing a lot of them on the first watch (or multiple watches), is that most of them are wearing minimal to no makeup, which is something we never see with some of these actresses. The whole video just feels really freeing for me on a bunch of levels.
posted by Mchelly at 6:44 AM on May 5, 2020 [4 favorites]

I was about to come in here to talk about the minimum/no makeup thing too. They all look like normal people. On the first viewing, I thought, "Well, some of them look a LITTLE familiar, maybe they've gotten to do a little dialogue along with their stunt work?" Yes. Yep. A little dialogue.

Florence Pugh epically made the most of her bit.
posted by rednikki at 2:46 PM on May 5, 2020 [1 favorite]