Seeking Source Suggestions: Women doing violence

[paxpinnae]

Hi!  I'm working on a multifandom vid.  For one section I need clips that have women fighting/ otherwise doing violence in a non-stylized way - think Cally Tyrol biting that dude's ear off in Battlestar Galactica, not Kahlan spinning around in a white dress tapping people with knives in Legend of the Seeker.  Unfortunately, most of the sources I have on hand focus on the pretty happy shiny violence, not the ugly bloody brutish violence, which is why I need help.  What sources, preferably shot in 16:9, have a lot of women beating the crap out of people in a non-sexualized way? 

oh god I sound like a psychopath. I'm not, I promise.

Comments

[thingswithwings]

It's interesting how hard this question is to answer, isn't it.

28 Days Later is the first one that comes to mind for me - a lot of stark, bloody violence in that one, much of it committed by Selena, and it's sort of necessary and grim.

You could try The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Sarah's sexualized in that ubiquitous tv way where her t-shirts are kinda tight, but there are lots of shots of her just doing violence/holding a gun/crashing a motorcycle/etc where it's classic action, not classic lady-action. Actually - even better might be Terminator 2: Linda Hamilton is BUFF, and seriously beats people up, and goes a bit nuts trying to kill someone at one point.

And perhaps Ace, from Doctor Who? It depends on the kind of violence you want - is beating up a dalek with a baseball bat, then killing one with a rocket launcher, the kind of thing that suits, or do you want a bit more human-on-human violence/gore? Ace generally likes hitting things and blowing things up, but she never runs anyone through with a sword.

Scully on The X-Files shoots people all the time (memorably, she once shoots Mulder for his own good) and as far as I can recall that violence is never sexualized; it's more like, she's wearing her business suit and doing her job. Similarly you might try gritty cop shows that are actually gritty - Homicide: Life on the Street (maybe, maybe not; I can't remember if Kay Howard ever beats someone up in the interrogation room), or The Wire, or Southland.

Good luck with this! I'm interested to see what kind of vid it ends up being.

[amalnahurriyeh]

Re: The X-Files, the episode you probably want is Orison, from s7, wherein Scully kills a serial killer in her apartment; it's probably the dirtiest kill in the entire series. If you need source, and you can work with stuff that comes from Handbrake, I can pull it for you.

[paxpinnae]

Oooo. If you could do that, that would be great, as I don't have any X-Files. Handbrake is fine; my e-mail is paxpinnae at gmail dot com. Thank you so much!

[paxpinnae]

It really is. :D

Snoop from The Wire and Lydia Adams actually started this whole business, and I'm looking for something a little more visceral than what Ace gets up to, but I have no knowledge of things Terminator or 28 Days Later and will therefore have to check both of those out.