The first-ever use of the head-butt in a cinematic fight was in the 1975 Charles Bronson movie “Hard Times,” about bare-knuckle fighting in the Prohibition era. It was spectacularly unnerving in its barbarism. Almost 50 years later, a head-butt is still cringe-worthy, but also a little ho-hum.
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By Mark Jackson
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