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Post by trescuinge on Mar 24, 2016 21:19:26 GMT -5
Pick your favorite movie sword fights.
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Libaax
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Burhan the Puntlander
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Post by Libaax on Mar 25, 2016 13:05:35 GMT -5
The Duellist is actually an alltime fav of mine too. When i saw i was awed by the direct, the real feel of the duel,swordfighting.
I will get back to you i have to think about specially since i have seen many movie sword fights with both the realistic ones and awesome,cool a bit over the top ones.
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Post by televiper on Mar 25, 2016 14:28:08 GMT -5
Highlander: the final sword fight vs. Kurgan
Rob Roy: fight vs. Cunningham
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Post by Jason Aiken on Mar 26, 2016 11:15:57 GMT -5
King Arthur (2004) Tristan (Mads Mikkelsen) vs Cedric (Stellan Skarsgard)
Not the best mechanically, but it was a great scene during the course of the film.
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Post by jmbroberts on Mar 27, 2016 19:15:12 GMT -5
The fight between Macduff and Macbeth at the end of Polanski's "Macbeth" (1971). It was the first fight I ever saw that featured fast, agile moves by fully armored men. And the armor was actually effective, unlike most films where it seems to give no protection at all. Fight choreography was by William Hobbs, who went on to choreograph many another swordfight, both armored and unarmored.
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Post by trescuinge on Mar 27, 2016 20:48:11 GMT -5
William Hobbs is great. See him here as an actor (spoiler alert, if you've never seen Captain Kronos you may want to watch the whole movie before seeing this clip):
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Post by valeriaspirit on Apr 21, 2016 17:54:59 GMT -5
Highlander: the final sword fight vs. Kurgan Rob Roy: fight vs. Cunningham Hi, Televiper - I love Highlander, and although I recall at the time Rob Roy came out that that sword fight was touted as one of the best ever, I think the fight in Highlander tops it. But I think my all-time fave is still the great duel between Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone in the 1937 or 38 Robin Hood. No one was more dashing than Flynn or more dastardly a villain than Rathbone! Valeria Spirit |
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Post by trescuinge on Apr 21, 2016 19:52:52 GMT -5
Basil Rathbone used to say that in a real duel he could have killed Errol Flynn at any time:
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Post by lordyam on Apr 28, 2016 20:42:27 GMT -5
Cheating but Luke vs Vader in return of the jedi
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Post by cj on Apr 28, 2016 21:06:11 GMT -5
Cheating but Luke vs Vader in return of the jedi JEDI gets a lot of stick from fans but every moment of Luke and Vader in the Death Star is classic. |
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Post by trescuinge on Apr 29, 2016 11:53:15 GMT -5
Cheating but Luke vs Vader in return of the jedi
That was the late, great Bob Anderson:
Jan. 1, 2012
The world lost a key contributor to the Star Wars saga last week in sword master Bob Anderson, who coordinated the lightsaber duels of Episode IV: A New Hope, and even donned Darth Vader’s armor for the high-intensity dueling with Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
The man who established how “an elegant weapon for a more civilized age” should be wielded in the Star Wars universe passed away on January 1 in West Sussex, England. He was 89.
“Bob Anderson was essential in defining what a lightsaber duel would look like,” says George Lucas. “He was the Jedi Master of the original trilogy, training the actors to duel with a new kind of weapon. In Empire and Jedi, Bob donned Darth Vader’s cape and helmet to battle Luke Skywalker in all of the amazing lightsaber battles. It was pure movie magic that Bob became Vader.”
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