Gan-kata ( eng. Gun - “firearms”, “gun”, yap. “ Kata ” - “system of combat movements” or “body position”) - the fictional martial art of Tetragrammaton clerics in the film “ Equilibrium ”, invented by scriptwriter and director Kurt Wimmer [1] and representing martial art using small arms.
The gan-kat technique is based on the fact that the positions of the participants in the shootout and the trajectories of their fire are statistically predictable. As a result of this, one person trained in gan-kata and knowing a number of “standard techniques” for different locations of opponents can resist a whole group of shooters, knowing their locations and shooting without aiming. Since the flight paths of bullets are also predictable (although a person, of course, cannot see bullets and dodge), the shooter can also evade enemy fire while remaining unscathed. In the film "Equilibrium", the vice consul of Libria Dupont, giving a lecture to future clerics, calls the following numbers: for a person who owns a gan-kat, the overall efficiency of fire increases by 120%, and the number of fatal hits - by 63%.
Gan-kata can act as a technique of meditation and self-concentration, it also teaches how to disarm an armed enemy.
In the real world, such a martial art does not exist and, as many believe, cannot exist in principle [2] . A battle involving firearms includes cover, disguise, lines of fire, is determined by the landscape and is unpredictable in nature [3] . Nevertheless, in reality, there are special methods of mastering ranged weapons, such as shooting in motion, shooting from unstable positions, aimless shooting, shunting and others, but they are quite different from those shown in the film, and group combat implies the first the turn or defeat of a small number of targets within a small viewing angle in a minimum of time, or the rapid transfer of fire to large angles, but not an intentional battle with a superior enemy (on the contrary, in the attack and the decisive role is played by massaging) [4] . Of the techniques that exist in reality, the technique closest to the gang-kata is the " Macedonian shooting " technique.
In other films
The Gan-kata in Equilibrium is a hybrid of Kurt Wimmer’s own gang-kat style (which he opened in his backyard [5] ) and the film’s choreographer style. Wimmer saw the gan-kat smoother, lighter and more flying, while the choreographer wanted to make it harsh and cruel. As a result, in the film for the most part you can see the gan-kata of the choreographer. You can see the gan-kat “from Wimmer” in his other film “ Ultraviolet ”.
One of the scenes of the Russian film “ Paragraph 78 ” (Goodwin’s fight with the Festival) uses the technique of “Sticky Hands”, which is very similar to gan-kata [6] .
Notes
- ↑ Gun Kata: the action & fight style of Equilibrium
- ↑ 5 Movie Fighting Styles Too Awesome to Actually Exist
- ↑ United States Department of the Army. FM 3-22.9 RIFLE MARKSMANSHIP M16A1, M16A2 / 3, M16A4 and M4 CARBINE . Date of treatment April 20, 2008.
- ↑ Melee weapons , ISBN 5-8189-0443-1
- ↑ From DVD Commentary: Kurt Wimmer
- ↑ Axler, Alex. Fantastic action movie "Paragraph 78" (Paragraf 78) . exler.ru (June 13, 2007). Date of treatment February 5, 2010. Archived March 2, 2012.
Links
- Guns of Equilibrium
- Hall of Mirrors , gan kata modification for Max Payne 2