The Raid: Redemption
Iko Uwais ' debut movieMerantaupoisedThe Raidfilms for success in several key means . secrete in Indonesia in 2009 and releasing internationally in 2010,Merantaufollows a young man refer Yuda ( Uwais ) , who ventures from his tiny settlement to Jakarta and encounter a human trafficking operation . Armed only with his skills as a Silat exponent , Yuda must fight down to stop the annulus ’s overlords Ratger ( Mad Koudal ) and Luc ( Laurent Busan ) and save the captive Astri ( Sisca Jessica ) and her brother Adit ( Yusuf Aulia ) .
Written and guide by Welsh - born movie maker Gareth Evans , Merantauwas a big hit , but it was his and Uwais ’s follow - up movieThe Raid : Redemptionthat genuinely inject them both to stardom in 2012 , with Evans and Uwais re - teaming again in 2014 forThe Raid 2 . Everything from the Bruce Lee - based seriesWarriorto Marvel’sDaredevilhas been influenced byThe Raid ’s impact on natural process motion-picture show and fight stage dancing . However , the constituent that madeThe Raidfilms successful can be traced back toMerantau . Here are the four style thatMerantauset upThe Raidmovies for the success they would achieve .
4Merantau Made Silat Mainstream Before The Raid
While Silat has been use in the combat choreography of natural process movies before , Merantauwas the first mainstream martial artistic creation plastic film to really showcase it on an outside scale . Merantauopens with Yuda training in Pecak Silat forms and having a sparring match with his father before his difference to Jakarta . In both its intro and the subsequent soldierly arts fight of Yuda battling the flick ’s human trafficking villain , Merantauplays great forethought on being as reverential as potential to Silat as a soldierlike artistry at every stage .
The Raidwould benefit from that withMerantauhaving provided a kind of Silat starter forward of its release . In doing so , this gaveThe Raidlicense to essentially derail flat into the action with only the most canonic of circle - ups needed for its plot . The Raid 2 ’s fight sceneswould after also profit with Silat - based fight choreography progressively mainstream by the clock time of its 2014 vent , which gave it the luck to enjoin an even grander crime - storey with Silat action . Moreover , Merantaualso made action aficionado take observation of Indonesia as a climb territory in the martial arts motion picture world , whichThe Raidmovies were capable to capitalise upon .
3Merantau Brought Together Key Players Of The Raid Movies
InThe Raid , Yayan Ruhian is both chilling and enchant as the villainous Mad Dog . Alamsyah also yield in a more striking role inThe Raidas Rama ’s comrade Andi , with the two face Mad Dog inThe Raid ’s marrow - race two - on - one face-off . The Raid 2later not only saw the return of Evans , Uwais , and ( albeit concisely ) Alamsyah return , but also Ruhian as the blade - wield henchman Prakoso , with Abbad graduate to the cosmic string - pulling gangster Bejo . In assuming the cast ofMerantau , Evans was able-bodied to draw players both major and small intoThe Raidmovies as the character who made the pic as engaging as they were .
2Iko Uwais' Merantau Role Helped His Onscreen Persona In The Raid
As he is introduced inMerantau , Yuda is a naive unseasoned man stake into the obscure , and whose billet becomes far direr than he had ever opine . Though Yuda is a highly - skilled Silat exponent , what he anticipates as a simple ritual of enactment becomes a harrowing fight against human traffickers . Yuda at last terminate up name the ultimate sacrifice in dying to make unnecessary Astri and Adit , and his everyman appeal and whiteness make the first - time leading man ’s death vista a true tear - jerker . It also determine the guide for the kind of hero Iko Uwais would go onto portray inThe Raidmovies .
Though Rama is better fix for what he ’s getting himself into than Yuda , he is still head up into an arguably far more dangerous situation of fighting an entire apartment composite of killers and criminals inThe Raid ’s TV game - comparable scenario . Rama ’s commission requires even greater personal sacrifice inThe Raid 2when he is ram to go undercover ( using the pseudonym of Yuda , no less ) in a prison to penetrate a Jakarta crime household . It was inMerantauthat Uwais first demonstrated his capableness of embodying that as a first - clock time actor that he would bring intoThe Raidmovies . Meanwhile , one of hisMerantauco - stars went in the opposite direction .
1Merantau Positioned The Raid’s Villain For A Breakout Role
InMerantau , Yayan ’s Ruhian ’s aforementioned Eric is a man in a bad situation , in the employ of the motion picture ’s human trafficking villains and believe he can not escape their smoothing iron hold ( the longer Indonesian slice ofMerantaualso shows Eric pummeling an opponent in an hugger-mugger fight after he and Yuda meet on the autobus to Jakarta . ) After Yuda and Eric ’s elevator fight , Eric give himself to save Yuda from being shot , and while this is a redeeming death for the reluctant adversary , Ruhian ’s performance and fight setting also establish his accomplishment at portraying opposer . Enter Mad Dog inThe Raid .
On top of being a highly formidable Silat attack aircraft , Mad Dog is an utter sociopath inThe Raid , voluntarily setting aside his artillery to defeat police serjeant-at-law Jaka ( Joe Taslim ) in a combat and describing doing so as " the heart rate " . Even as the reference with the smallest stature in the pic , Ruhian ’s Mad Dog dominate his opponents with frightening ease , Rama and Andi together just barely managing to overcome him in the final fight . The Raidsimply would not be the action classic that it is without Ruhian ’s public presentation as Mad Dog , while the same is true of his role inThe Raid 2 .
Ruhian ’s Prakoso inThe Raid 2is closer to Eric inMerantauas a mob enforcer too entrenched to get out , and just as unstoppable as Mad Dog in a scrap . Prakoso ’s death tantrum , after being betray by Uco , is also portrayed as a literal disaster , and the twoRaidmovies meld amply launched Ruhian . Bringing his ferocity and screen presence to part likeHuana in theSkylinesci - fi franchiseand a Shinobi assassin inJohn Wick : Chapter 3 - Parabellum , Ruhian ’s breakout inThe Raidmovies had the welfare of building on his functioning inMerantau , showing his natural endowment as formidable and intimidating villains , anti - heroes , and everything in - between .
While Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais are well known forThe Raidmovies , Merantauis an equally substantive chapter in both of their careers and those of the movie ’s supporting player . At face value , Merantaumight appear like the lead - in to a break - out hit vernacular for many film producer and action stars , but that does not do it Justice Department . It wasMerantauthat gaveThe Raidmovies everything they need to become such enduring natural action classics , and that influence is one thatNetflix’sThe Raidremakeshould continue to stockpile over .
