Born to Fight (Thai: เกิดมาลุย, Kerd Ma Lui) is a 2004 Thai action film directed by Panna Rittikrai. It followed Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, on which Panna served as martial arts choreographer, and featured more of his "no strings attached" stuntwork. Many of the actors in Born to Fight were Thai national athletes. The film was a remake in name only of Panna's first films, a B-movie action movie that he made in 1979. While the remake contains a c...
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Born to Fight (Thai: เกิดมาลุย, Kerd Ma Lui) is a 2004 Thai action film directed by Panna Rittikrai. It followed Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, on which Panna served as martial arts choreographer, and featured more of his "no strings attached" stuntwork. Many of the actors in Born to Fight were Thai national athletes. The film was a remake in name only of Panna's first films, a B-movie action movie that he made in 1979. While the remake contains a couple of similar stunts to the original, the two films are otherwise vastly unrelated.
The most memorable stunt sequence is in the beginning, where the hero, Diew, battles some thugs on top of two truck trailers rolling side-by-side on a dirt road. As Diew is hanging on to the trailer on the right while the final thug is kicking him, he pulls the thug by the leg, sending him flying towards the trailer on the left before crashing on the road - his head just mere inches away from the right trailer's rear wheels.
Diew, an undercover cop, having...
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