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Array Swordplay Movie What is the best swordplay movie? -
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Array How many times has THIS post come up?
Scaramouche (1952) is always a lot of fun, as are director Richard Lester's "The Three Musketeers" and "The Four Musketeers" from 1973 & 1974. A bunch of Errol Flynn pictures are filled with swashbuckling, like "Robin Hood", "Captain Blood", "The Sea Howk", "Adventures of Don Juan", and "Master of Ballentre". I've missed a whole bunch (like the whole lot of Zorro flicks), but those first 3 are my top pics.
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Array Just saw Pirates of the Caribean last night.
Not bad! "First, second, third, dead f***in' last." - Greg Glassman -
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Array I must agree with HilanDoug, those are great ones, especially the Errol Flynn pics...But I say for the most realistic in relationship to time period would be "The Duelist" 1976, staring Harvey Kietel and Keith Carridine. It was based on an actual running duel between two French Army officers during the Napoleonic Era.
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"Sunshine." Good saber sequences. JsPierre
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Array Beyond a doubt the Musketeer
Sorry HilandDoug, you asked for it ... without remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, [d'artagnan] went to bed and slept the sleep of the brave.
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Array romeo and juliet had good fighting scenes with Michael York. I can't find te 70's three and four Musketeers on video. -
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Array A pretty good recent one would be On Guard, it's a French film, came out in 2002. -
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Array Well, for traditional swords and fencing, I best liked the "Man in the Iron Mask" and the "Lord Of The Rings" movies... But it's only my opinion...
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Array The Mask of Zoro with Antonio Bandares. I like the fight with Catherine Zeta Jones. "Steady as a mountain, attack like fire, still as a wood, swift as the wind. In heaven and earth I alone am to be revered." -
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Array The Fencing Master generally run on Trio in Spanish with English subtitles. It is based on the novel of the same name by Arturo Perez-Reverte. -
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Array I read an English translation of the Fencing Master. It was surprisingly good. I believe it took place in the 1800's.
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Array 1860s IIRC.
Delightful book. The film had some very CLEAN fencing and helpfully static camera work for some fencing scene. The lessons were shot far enough back you could easily follow the movements. (You can always tell when sword choreography sucks, because they let the camera get in SO CLOSE THAT YOU CAN NOT SEE WHAT THEIR HANDS/ARMS/SWORDS ARE DOING.) -
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Array The Musketeer, Star Wars, the latest 007 movie...heh heh yeah I'm just being monkey. I don't know what the best movie vs. actuallity is. Lots of them play it up way too much. I enjoyed of course my all time favorite The Princess Bride (which is very played up) or another good one was The Count of Monte Cristo. The fencing scenes in the latter one I thought were how they'd really be...(except for few little "I'm taking your sword now" moves...) :-)
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Array Originally posted by jjg romeo and juliet had good fighting scenes with Michael York. I can't find te 70's three and four Musketeers on video. It's (3 and 4 Musketeers) out on DVD as a special edition 2-pack. Similar Threads -
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