Talk:Parkour in popular culture

Free Runners

Britain's Got Talent (2007) -- called "Free Runners" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF6dQHIh_DA 199.214.26.8 19:13, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Bit of a stretch

You know, a lot of these are kind of a stretch. I mean, going by what's in this article now, you could pretty much add anything that had some kind of acrobatic movement in it.--24.22.234.213 20:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I fully agree. Running, jumping, and climbing do not equal Parkour. This is like making a "Karate in popular culture" article and naming every movie that had a fighting sequence in it. Anything that is not directly Parkour must be deleted. 77.49.195.211 03:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Original research

All of the uncited entries are original research and must be removed. Please find a citation for each entry where it is specifically described as parkour. This is a good example of what we should be looking for here. *** Crotalus *** 21:47, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Chuck

Near the very beginning of the pilot for the television show chuck (tv series), a character, Brice Larkin does Parkour to avoid security guards. Contralya (talk) 05:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Content from Parkour

Just leaving this here in case some of it is not in this article. --Izno (talk) 04:44, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Film and television

• House M.D.: In the episode Brave Heart from Season 6, Donny Compson and other officers are chasing a freerunner in the opening sequence.
• The Simpsons: In the episode Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes Ned Flanders is trying to catch Homer because they have become bounty hunters and Ned's final mission is to take down Homer.
• American Dad features an extended, highly exaggerated parkour scene in the sixth-season episode Stanny Boy and Frantastic, when the middle-aged central characters Stan and Francine are suddenly invited by their much-younger new friends to engage in an impromptu run across the rooftops of urban hi-rise buildings, culminating in Stan suffering a severe fracture of his Tibia.
• Casino Royale has a parkour chase scene near the beginning of the film where James Bond chases a bomb maker (played by freerunner Sébastien Foucan) into and through a construction site.
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop The group of people that take over the Mall use skate boarding and Parkour to traverse their newest "heist".
• Banlieue 13 & Banlieue 13: Ultimatum features parkour and stars David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli.
• The Australian version of 60 Minutes featured a segment of parkour on September 16, 2007, which featured Sébastien Foucan on a trip to Australia, and French traceur Stephane Vigroux.
• Top Gear Episode 7 (and The Challenges DVD) has James May racing two parkour athletes across Liverpool in a Peugeot 207.
• My Playground, a documentary film by Kaspar Astrup Schröder, explores the way parkour and freerunning is changing the perception of urban space and how the spaces and buildings they are moving on are changing them
• Jump Britain and Jump London are freerunning/parkour documentaries.
• Jonas Brothers: Living The Dream featured an episode where the brothers took parkour classes.
• The US incarnation of The Office includes an episode, "Gossip", in which several characters climb on desks and jump off chairs in an attempt to emulate parkour.
• Yamakasi, a 2001 movie which centers around a group of traceurs in a Parisian ghetto.
• Used by Dave (Seann William Scott) in Cop Out (2010 film)
• WWE superstar John Morrison is known as The Prince of Parkour and he wrestles in a parkour style.
• A sequence in an Indian Movie Tezz (Fast) around a canal at the end of the chase which covers half a dozen different locations
• In the film, The Other Guys, robbers move in Parkour style against The Rock & Samuel L. Jackson.
• In the movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the Prince makes use of parkour extensively.
• In the anime/manga Durarara, characters Izaya Orihara and Shizuo Heiwajima battle using parkour moves.

Video games

• Super Mario 64 as well as Super Mario Sunshine utilize freerunning in wall-kicks, muscle-ups, and precisions (long jumps), along with back and side flips.
• Assassin's Creed 's protagonist Altaïr and Assassin's Creed II 's and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood 's protagonist Ezio use parkour (although the action is referred to as "free-run" while in-game).
• Tomb Raider Underworld 's protagonist Lara Croft uses parkour to scale walls and old buildings. It is also possible to do tricking movements.
• Mirror's Edge is about a gang of outlaws called "runners," who excel and specialize in parkour.
• Prototype mentions parkour by name and it plays a vital role in the game.
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland has several techniques the player can do while not on the skateboard: free-running (although it is called parkour in the game), wall-run, wire-grab, and other parkour movements.
• Brink emphasized parkour as part of its S.M.A.R.T. (Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain) system.
• Infamous's protagonist Cole uses parkour extensively.
• Tron Evolution producer, Alex Peters, said in an interview with GameSpot (Pre-E3) that Tron's basic movements and combat were based on parkour and capoeira. Interview from Gamespot
• Crackdown 2 Agents use parkour and other agility movements to clear obstacles and buildings.
• Free Running, just as the title implies, is a free running game for PSP and PS2.
• Left 4 Dead and its sequel feature the Hunter, a zombie modeled after practitioners of parkour, whose clothes are battened down with duct tape to prevent wind resistance. When controlled by a human in multiplayer mode, it is possible to perform parkour from one wall to another.
• The Saboteur is a video game set it the Nazi occupied France where the protagonist Sean Devlin uses parkour/free-running to climb buildings, slide through wires, etc.
• Uncharted is another video game in which the player must climb many different obstacles and, in one chapter of Uncharted 2, jump from one truck to another to avoid being killed.
• Prince of Persia also incorporates the use of parkour when playing as the main protagonist, the Prince. The player can control the Prince to jump from rooftops, climb walls, vault over obstacles, and perform other elements of parkour.
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series includes parkour moves like the turn vault, simple vault, cat leap etc., which can be used as stealth movements.
• Lugaru is a fighting game featuring anthropomorphic rabbits and wolves. The player can wall jump, climb obstacles, body roll and run "animal style"
• Freejack is a free Parkour Racing mmorpg. Players can do missions and have racing competitions against other players online in which parkour techniques are utilized as the player's avatar makes it was through the obstacle course of the race.

Comic books

• Nightrunner, aka Bilal Asselah, is the Paris-based member of Batman, Inc., and a practitioner of parkour.
• Saltando al vacio (Jumping into the void), is a Spanish production containing five comic books. The story is set in Barcelona, and tells the story of three teenagers who do Parkour.