Is there a better swordfight than the climactic one in The Mark of Zorro? Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone were actual master fencers and it shows. It makes all the Errol Flynn swordfights look like two kids playing with sticks.
Is there a better swordfight than the climactic one in The Mark of Zorro...
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Sebastian Wright
Checked, that one is pretty good, haven't seen this before
bumping with my fave from Fearless (2006)
Kevin Russell
>90% of the swings they just check each other's sword in the air
>best sword fight
are you serious?
Jordan Wilson
>clearly is wearing a saber
>unsheathes a rapier
kek.
Dylan Rogers
When did Tyrone become a stereotypical black guy's name?
Jeremiah Martin
Not only is the fighting great, but the build up before is fantastic too.
>are you serious?
name a better one
Cooper Jackson
Mark of Zorro has the better sword duel but The Adventures of Robin Hood is the all-round better swashbuckling movie.
Aiden Edwards
The choreography is impressive, but I'm having a a hard time buying that a dude who basically got stabbed by a needle in the kidneys dies immediately.
Henry James
It's a common thing in these types of movies. If someone gets stabbed anywhere in the torso or the belly, they keel over near instantly.
Kind of like how in 70's Kung Fu movies if the opponent starts bleeding a little bit from the mouth, he's just another blow or so from being done for.
Nathaniel Wood
I think the best swordfights on film were from the Musketeers films by Richard Lester.
Chinkwire need not apply to this thread.
Gavin Gutierrez
I've been meaning to watch those but the whole goofy slapstick tone they seem to have kinda puts me off of it.
Asher Lewis
errol flynn robin hood had that classic swordfight with the shadows and shit
Elijah Green
>wire fu
GTFO
Owen Stewart
Has Sup Forums forgot about Rob Roy already? God damn this was so satisfying. Tim Roth makes for a fantastic villain.
Ryder Flores
*tips spaniard fedora*
mi dama
Gavin Diaz
The Sea Hawk has a pretty good duel that would've been better if the guy opposite of Flynn (Henry Daniell) wasn't utterly hopeless in even pulling off movie fencing. They used darker lighting and a stunt double (who was actually the fight choreographer of the movie) and only used Daniell in the closeups.
They redo the iconic shadow moment when the fight reaches it's climax in the very throneroom of Queen Elizabeth.
Juan Walker
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forgot the vid like a dumb ass.
might as well post hector vs achilles as well.
Nathaniel Jackson
Most of the silliness comes from Constance being an airhead, and D'Artagnan being a young idealist always trying to please everyone. There is a little bit of slapstick but it isn't that prominent.
Tyler Scott
troy scene falls way short. too many edits, hardly any long scenes.
Camden Butler
Came here to post this. This is unironically the best sword fight and probably one of the best fights to be ever put on film. It's so fucking good it hurts.
Andrew Harris
Ethan Evans
Rob Roy is a classic. Beautifully shot in a beautiful setting. Comfy feels sleeping in your own cloak on the highlands, waking up and killing some rustlers, going home to fuck the wife with a view over the loch. Fucking Tim Roth is beyond incredible. Quigon Jin being stoic as all hell. Brian Cox fingering chamber maids and then sticking his slimy finger in Roth's nose. This movie is amazing and only gets better as time goes on and we prove more and more incapable of making halfway decent movies anymore.
Alexander Allen
That's pretty good.
However, if you think the fighting in this is great you have no room to talk shit about the Star Wars prequel duels. Also
>I needed that scratch to awaken me
Kind of a gay line desu
Landon Foster
Bentley Green
You know the sword fight is garbage when you only see both combatants on screen at the same time for only 3 seconds. Whoever shot that should be shot.
Elijah Reed
The whole movie itself builds up the final duel masterfully. The way Basil Rathbone is almost constantly fondling and swiping his sword at thin air in every scene he's in, it's like he's a caged beast just waiting for the slightest reason to put his sword through someone.
I wish we could've been a movie where Rathbone actually won a duel. He was a magnetically charismatic actor.
Mason Thomas
why can't there be movies like these anymore? they wouldn't even cost that much, you don't need any computer graphics other than photoshopping a few highways and stripmalls out of the scenery. all I ask for is a serious movie about some moody dudes fighting with swords and black powder. it doesn't need dragons or ghost pirates or time travelers or any kiddie shit like that. fuck!
Camden Barnes
its not the greatest swordfight, but its a top-tier film. plenty of other fun duels in the movie, all of them decent.
"lah!"
Levi Rogers
good taste
Thomas Cruz
>Is there a better swordfight than the climactic one in The Mark of Zorro?
You haven't seen "The Duellists" or Lester's two Musketeer films from the 70s have you?
Do yourself a favor and rent them.
Bentley Myers
The third duel where we only see the last part of it with Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine being bloodied and exhausted is objectively the best.
Yeah, I've seen The Duellists and I intend on seeing Lester's Musketeers shortly.
Jordan Nelson
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I really like this scene
Lucas Anderson
Great foley art, particularly in the armor movement.
Oliver Russell
that was a very exciting fight OP
I haven't seen this film, but I might give it a watch. This kind of thing is refreshing to watch with all the CGI Marvel nonsense that gets shit out in this day and age. You forget what a simple and well choreographed fight scene looks like
Evan Richardson
Because it's not flashy enough. Kids these days need bullet-time and wire-fu bullshit, thats why we get shit like that recent Three Musketeers with the steampunk machine gun bullet-time scenes and shit. Movie producers are fucking retarded.
Levi Scott
Pretty much this. American kids are fucking stupid.
t. an American.
>movie producers are stupid
Not necessarily. They just want to make the most money possible. It's the audiences that are stupid.
Joshua Diaz
>just flies away at the end
Gavin Price
Gotta disagree with you man. Brad Pitt is a fucking machine in Troy, and his choreography alone elevates the material.
Christopher Ward
Not from a movie per-se, but modern movies need to incorporate historical fighting techniques now that we've rediscovered a good chunk of them.
Joshua Davis
And this one is cool too. Skip to 2:00
Hunter Martin
>white guy named Tyrone
Well that's something you don't see often
Easton Johnson
>sword fight
>it lasts for LITERALLY minutes
This shit is so cringe. Read any historical accounting of actual sword fights and the vast majority are done in half a dozen tempo
Wyatt Clark
Tsui Hark's The Blade, obviously not aiming to depict realistic fencing but quite the opposite, instead constantly using cinematic techniques to creative a sense of pure fury and chaos, as silly as some of it can be, this is the kind of climatic and iconic set piece that Hollywood is unable to produce.
Daniel Sanchez
He's the movie star that inspired so many nigs to name their sons Tyrone.
>LARPer faggot bumping thread with faggotry
Good job.
Joshua James
That is excellent. well done OP for sharing!
Charles Richardson
It's one of the more believable ones. Here's another:
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Most fencing bouts, like most actual sword fights, are over in three seconds or less. Doesn't make for very good film, so they always have to jazz it up and drag it out in some way.
OP is a good show of a couple of guys who know the moves in fencing as a sport, but not believable as a fight. They're using fencing sabers, not swords, for instance.
Grayson Howard
Man Jet Li really makes the most kino Kung Fu movies.
Wyatt Robinson
Grayson Anderson
It's almost like it's a movie for entertaining people and not real life.
Dylan Davis
prisoner of zenda
Henry Cooper
>a movie for entertaining [retards]
Fixed that for you.
It looks as stupid as chick "badasses" beating up dudes.