Best duels in film
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Aaron Anderson
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Noah Sanchez
>mark of zorro
>adventures of robin hood
>Rob roy
>four musketeers
>princess bride
Parker Gutierrez
I don't necessarily mean only sword duels but good list
Blake Brooks
Yoda vs dooku.
Tyler Long
for fuck's sake
Parker Anderson
for fucks sake
but yea the duellists is probably better
Asher Lee
that knife fight at the end of Man from Nowhere
Jackson Jones
Die Another Day
Luke Gutierrez
had my first fap to mark of zorro. you know the scene
Leo Ross
multiple from the Bourne series
Aaron Wright
THEY LIVE
Isaac Thomas
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Adam Martinez
Are you maybe thinking of mask of zorro instead?
James Cruz
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Jaxson Collins
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pretty terrible editing but when the shot does hold for longer than one second you can see some good choreography
Austin Campbell
I always wondered wtf carpenter meant by that, just trying to pad the run time?
Brody Gutierrez
>not piking brosnan kino
Kayden Bennett
William Reyes
the knife fight at the end of Hunted
Jacob Wright
THIS
Parker Johnson
my b yea
Joshua Green
I thought so, tbf it has some pretty decent fights too, nothing that matches this tho
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Gabriel Wilson
Nice that they actually focus on the thrust.
Oliver Collins
well they're actually trained fencers I think one was a world champion, it helps when you know what your doing
Brayden Johnson
This is the best sword I've ever seen in a movie. I was blown away last week when I saw it for the first time.
Levi Bennett
Its generally considered one of the best ever, but really any sword fight with Rathbone is gonna be good
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Jonathan Scott
>not reading the thread
Camden Perry
God fucking damn that's sweet
Hunter Walker
>nobody mentioned Battle of the Heroes
Xavier Torres
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Brayden Cooper
You just can't recognise good choreography and sword skills.
Samuel Phillips
I bet you focus on the thrust all the time dont you sweetheart.
Jeremiah Robinson
Just gonna start posting some of my favorites now
Swordsman of Siena
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Hudson Reed
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Hudson Evans
They are just fencing it looks boring af
Chase Hill
Alatriste
For a Few Dollars More
Drunken Master II
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Harakiri (1962)
Jason Kelly
What other kinds of duels did you mean?
Isaac Thomas
William Cook
Came here to post this.
Joshua Cox
>you know the scene
Eli Johnson
>forgetting The Duelists and Barry Lyndon
Holy pleb
There it is
Joshua Campbell
people used to duel with pistols, so maybe that
Jacob Smith
You must be 18+ to post here
Camden Kelly
Ryan Edwards
Shangai Knights
Zachary Edwards
That's how real sword fighting works, also what he said
Aaron Turner
This fight was great because you felt the weight in every strike.
Angel Bailey
What makes this one great is that it doesn't look choreographed, but like these two motherfuckers are really having a go at each other
Ryder Sanders
one punch lad vs BOB ball
Jacob Hill
this
no
Kevin Jackson
I didn't forget either just posted the first 5 that came to mind, gotta leave something for the rest of the thread
Ethan Walker
>this entire time has his face unmoving and smiling and as he gets closer
kek
Hunter Nelson
Well yeah, gotta hit those sweetspots.
John Wright
>sweetheart
not
>shweetheart
Missed opportunity
Daniel Martinez
That is a great fight
Josiah Diaz
>goes on for 30 minutes
>they're both in the exact same condition at the end of the fight as they were in the beginning
>the only thing that matters happens in the last 10 seconds of the fight
nah
Thomas Reed
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Matthew Powell
No one posted this yet?
Daniel Morgan
Top choice. I always enjoy sabre fighting.
Jaxson Edwards
Jesus what movie is that? Good shit.
Was just about to post me some rob roy, my nigga
Colton Roberts
Please get that colorized shit outta here.
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Agreed. 98% of fight scenes look like actors practicing rehearsed moves. This is incredible.
Jaxson Diaz
I've noticed that movies and tv shows are generally pretty good when it comes to saber or smallsword fencing but are pretty rubbish with anything outside of that, especially with longswords
Why is that
Nathan Johnson
Benny looks like such a slav doesn't he?
Jaxon Phillips
its possible to do fights like this but fucking GoT has shit shows for fights?
Dylan Allen
Not sure if the footage is sped up (All of their movements are pretty synced with their arms, so doubt it.)
Or if it was filmed at a higher frame rate to capture the speed of their movements. I have seen footage of an old interview with Bruce Lee where his kick moved too fast to be caught on film. And I remember reading that they used to film certain scenes of his at a higher frame rate for that very reason.
Aiden Moore
yeah, this was a pretty good one actually.
Luke Hughes
The Wheels on Meals fight doesn't get enough credit. It's a blend of both phenomenal choreography and raw talent. Chan and Urquidez are FAST. None of that footage is sped up.
William Ross
More fencing professionals in the business.
Jeremiah Brooks
Maybe because people still do saber and smallsword fencing.
Daniel Hall
maybe cause they are heavy as fuck
Jonathan Morales
How could I forget this one? For me it was the build up to it that made it so great
Wyatt Howard
they'd spend even more on actors if they had them train to pull this off
Nicholas Ward
>sword
>heavy as fuck
Kevin Brown
This is actually the best-choreographed sword fight I can think of. It's legitimately perfect and I opened this thread with the sole intention of linking it.
Ian Barnes
at the very least Arthur Dayne should have moved like that
Liam Walker
Their fight in Dragons Forever wasn't bad either. From what I remember Benny the Jet was a constant training partner of Chan over the years since he was one of the few people that could actually keep up with his speed, and vice versa.
Lincoln Roberts
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Jeremiah Campbell
>It's a nice effort, capitan
>The next will be better, my fancy clown
I can't wait to use My fancy clown in normal conversation
Isaac Lopez
I didn't actually check the vid before posting it, my bad
Ayden Ramirez
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Ryder Reyes
It's from this cool little proof of concept video a stage fencing troupe did
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I think the point was to show that you -can- make longsword fencing look accurate and still entertaining to watch
I don't know for sure but I would assume that modern fight choreographers, if they're trained in anything (sometimes you could be forgiven for thinking they're not), would probably be trained in sport fencing, and sport fencing is basically just smallsword fencing on coke, but when it comes to things like longsword or arming sword and shield they have no frame of reference so they just make shit up.
This can work for them or against them. The guy who choreographed the fights in Rob Roy had no idea about Scottish broadsword fencing but as it turned out his guesswork was mostly right since the system isn't too dissimilar from military saber fencing. Obviously longsword is a little bit more of a chronological stretch.
I don't know what to tell you man. What sometimes happens is they hire a seperate fight and stunt choreographer and then keeping both becomes too expensive so they get rid of the fight specific guy and just use the stunt choreographer for everything.
That's what happened in the run-up to the Hobbit films. I think the Lord of the Rings fight choreographer was still on board for An Unexpected Journey but they got rid of him for the next two and just used the stunt choreographer, who had no experience choreographing fight scenes and the stuff he had done stuns on was shit like direct to dvd Steven Segal movies and one of the Resident Evils.
Isaac Fisher
HECTOOORRRRR
Austin Cooper
"By the Sword" is not a great movie, but the fight is one of the few that actually looks like two men trying to kill one another instead of playing tag.
Adrian Scott
DEX > STR
John Walker
I was the one who posted the Wheels on Meals fight and even I think it's a little bit overrated. It's absolutely fantastic and the fucking candelabra bit gets me LITERALLY every time; but it's more or less the first fight scene anyone shows you when you start looking into non-North American Jackie Chan movies or kung fu comedies in general.
I think it's a great fight scene, but it absolutely gets enough credit.
Kevin Howard
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Lincoln Edwards
Having never fenced in my life, would you be able to defend against a broadsword with an epee? Not to mention the size/strength differential.
Jacob Morales
In my experience people seem to praise Legend of Drunken Master over the fight in Wheels on Meals (and honestly, it's mostly that one fight that carries the movie).
But to each their own.
David Wilson
Fucking no, that scene is retarded. Unless Roidasaurus was checking her swings
Jayden Baker
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Four musketeers, another example of a fencing duel where they actually look like they want to kill each other, its kinda weird seeing as the movie is basically a comedy, this fight is just brutal tho
Luke Price
My niggas. If you're EVER looking to see some duelling action then there's no reason to watch anything except The Duellists. You get everything in it, and it's beautiful to boot.
I much prefer The Duellists to Barry Lyndon
Andrew Sanchez
What is Jennifer Jason Leigh's favorite hair color?
Adrian Thomas
Drunken master is a better film, but it's hard to top that fight scene
Christian Gutierrez
A longsword weighs about two to three pounds, a smallsword weighs barely half a pound. Arya wouldn't stand a chance.
Not to mention that she's using it all wrong. Smallswords are dedicated thrusting weapons. You can kind of whip someone with it but you can't really cut them, especially not someone in armor.
Henry Moore
Zachary Nguyen
breddy gud
Jaxon Richardson
Totally agree. Wheels on Meals is a really bad film with some great individual scenes.
Eli Morgan
Is that a kreigsmesser?
I'm impressed Mr Seagal.
Cameron Thompson
Why not all of them? theirs one that hasn't been posted yet its B&W and I can't think of the name, might be a french film, but the duel is incredible generally rated by fencing teachers/autists as the most realistic fight ever put on screen, just can't think of the name