02-02-2005, 05:46 PM
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| Captain Alastriste - Another Reverte fencing movie
Viggo Mortensen will bring Captain Alatriste to life in the film directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes. He will play a curious main character from a series of five exciting books created by the writer Arturo Pérez Reverte ...
... Viggo Mortensen has already started taking lessons from Jesús Esperanza at the National Fencing Center where there is an area reserved for stage fencing. It is not in vain that the facilities located in General Aranda street have been built over an ancient movie theater and numerous actors before Mortensen have gone there when they’ve had to learn how to fence. ... http://www.madrid2012.es/NoticiasAct...e_noticia=1528
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02-02-2005, 06:06 PM
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| What the hell is this: http://www.madrid2012.es/images/Noti...to_viggo_2.jpg
Am I the only one that thinks Anderson teaches fencing the way it was done back in 1945? I still can't get over how terrible the fencing was in the Princess Bride and Pirates of the Caribbean.
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02-02-2005, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by ****** the Hutt Am I the only one that thinks Anderson teaches fencing the way it was done back in 1945? | Aye, but then it says in the article that " Jesús Esperanza, a specialist in ancient fencing techniques." 
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02-02-2005, 07:22 PM
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| Don't those stories take place in the 1500s or something? That's almost as long ago as 1945.
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02-02-2005, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ****** the Hutt I still can't get over how terrible the fencing was in the Princess Bride and Pirates of the Caribbean. |
What, you got a problem with "two-up, two-down, slash & duck, repeat?" But it gives such a nice background for banter and one-liners.
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02-02-2005, 07:25 PM
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| He said foiling......fag.
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02-02-2005, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen Aye, but then it says in the article that " Jesús Esperanza, a specialist in ancient fencing techniques." | Yes, of course- Jesús saves.  Quote: |
Originally Posted by scrapinpeg What, you got a problem with "two-up, two-down, slash & duck, repeat?" But it gives such a nice background for banter and one-liners. | If someone took a sport that took you years to learn, put it through a blender removing the sweet, sweet pulp and replaced it with the mashed up bits that stick to the blender blades and called it "fencing," then yes, I would have a problem with it.
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02-02-2005, 10:12 PM
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| O wow!!! I can't wait!!! I really want to see some new sword fighting movies, I just hope this isn't going to be corny.
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02-03-2005, 06:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Phoenix O wow!!! I can't wait!!! I really want to see some new sword fighting movies, I just hope this isn't going to be corny. | Excuse moi, but has there ever been a film with sword fighting scenes that wasn't corny?! 
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| 3 & 4 Musketeers with Michael York and Oliver Reed. Funny, very funny-but corny? It always seemed to me that each of the main characters had a different fencing style as part of their overall character development. If you watch closely, Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) kills more people than the other three combined. 
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| Thank you for posting the article, JEC. As I am pushover for both foreign films and films with (at least) decent swordplay, it sounds like a winner to me. Furthermore, "Captain Alastriste" would give my middling Spanish a workout (Pero, seria vale la pena).
I knew nothing about the book before JEC'c post. Below is a synopsis from a publisher's web site:
Step aside D'Artagnan... Perez-Reverte wrote the Captain Alatriste series as a homage to the adventure books that had been his own initiation into the world of reading as a boy - books such as Dumas's The Three Musketeers or The Mask of Zorro. Captain Alatriste is a swordsman for hire in Spain in the 1620s - a time when Court intrigue was high and the decadent young king had dragged the country into a series of disastrous wars. As a hired 'blade', Alatriste becomes involved in many political plots and must live by his wits. He comes face to face with hired assassins, court players, political moles, smugglers, pirates and of course, the infamous Spanish Inquisition... All the stories are told by Inigo Balboa, Alatriste's young page. The cast of characters also includes Quevedo, an irrepressible subversive poet who likes to start fights in the local tavern, the kind-hearted innkeeper and ex-prostitute who shares Alatriste's bed, the elegant Count of Guadalmedina, the beautiful but deadly Angelica de Alquezar, and a whole host of underworld figures.
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Originally Posted by Schiavona 3 & 4 Musketeers with Michael York and Oliver Reed. Funny, very funny-but corny? It always seemed to me that each of the main characters had a different fencing style as part of their overall character development. If you watch closely, Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) kills more people than the other three combined. | And Athos hardly ever actually uses a sword  | |
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02-03-2005, 07:22 PM
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| Wow! This looks really good! I can't wait.  
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| Wow, for a second I thought FtH came back, but then I saw the '2005.' What a disappointment.
As for the movie... well, it looks OK, but I don't think I'm seeing it anytime soon. Maybe once I can get it from the NYPL, I'll check it out.
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02-13-2006, 06:01 PM
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| Somebody should send that reviewer an epee. | |
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02-13-2006, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Araznal Wow, for a second I thought FtH came back, but then I saw the '2005.' What a disappointment. | Same here. | |
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| I have to say that I am looking forward to this movie - with reservations. I read the book and thought that it was ok. Like the Fencing Master there are flashes of brilliance however, on the whole, the writing was quite pedestrian. There are a number of out and out cliches and the plot was largely predicatable. As a bit if a fan of swashbuckles this makes me rein in mu enthusiasm for the movie.
Having highlighted all the criticism I have to say that it's the brilliant points that ensure that I will look forward to it to some degree. Viggo is a good actor and that gives me some hope for a decent movie. | |
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02-14-2006, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs Same here. | Okay, so this is the third reference I've seen regarding my hiatus. What can I say, I'm a busy f@ggot. Besides, I lost my interest. For every thread I trashed, I'd find 1 person that had a clue, but 19 others that didn't. How could I be expected to subsist off an audience of 5%? So, I left. I left and played hours and hours of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It's better than dealing with some of the insipid baboons that throw their verbal feces at me on this board, and I can't very well legally kill any of you. Well, I mean, there was that one time Gav and I had a drunken soirée and he swore I was so large it was killing him, but that's only 'cause we were out of vaseline and he wouldn't have died anyway. I swear, that man never stops complaining.
So, yeah... I'm still around. I just haven't had time or the inclination to post. I dunno, maybe I'll come back for a little while...
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