I was so obsessed and in love with Anthony Andrews for the longest time thanks to this film, then Ivanhoe as well. Am so very grateful I can relive wonderful memories of my younger days with these videos 🥰😍
I love this swordfight :D and one of the many great things about it is the lack of music... it's just the sounds of swords clashing and handsome men fighting... they don't make them like this anymore...
LOVE this bit - *thank you* for uploading - esp satisfying after seeing the "foppish and seemingly empty-headed" public persona he has had to play. just found this out - they did this scene in one afternoon = and both were very "unrehearsed". had massive crush on Anthony Andrews since Ivanhoe 😍🤩😍 - didn't really until just now, Sir Ian McKellan (aka Gandalf!) " "Anthony Andrews and Ian McKellan learned to work well together, especially in their fencing scenes. Although the final edits made the sequences look masterful and smooth, the actual filming was sometimes dangerous. Andrews had done fencing previously, but he was still worried that he might injure McKellen with his sword because of the high speed movements they were required to make: “We had our backs to the wall in the fencing scene because we had little time to film it - only one afternoon [!!]. It really needed a week. It was hair-raising because when you fence at high speed, you have to be well-rehearsed and really understand the moves you are going to make ahead of time. Since we were so unrehearsed, every once in a while we’d forget a move, putting each other’s life in danger. You had to remember to duck quickly. Ian McKellen and I developed a rule that if we forgot what we were doing, we would both scream to give the other person a chance to get out of the way. "
@@alyzu4755 & @Becky English - me too! massive crush on Anthony Andrews since Ivanhoe 😍🤩😍 - (oh same year as this - watched one years before the other)
@@georgegonzalez-rivas3787 So what you’re saying is “thank god they don’t do fight scenes like this anymore because this one scene from a movie made in 1982 was so slow and fake”?
@@kinggeorgeiii7515 NO. I think the point is 'thank god they don't make movies that have such glaring deficiencies and unrealistic portrayals of combat'. You know, shooting guns out of people's hands, etc, was quite common in early Hollywood and not director would think of including such a scene today. As to the fencing, as a life-long fencer I can attest that it was very slow and very fake. But thanks for reminding me what a prig King George III was and why we kicked his powdered wig out of the colonies. A welcome reminder.
@@georgegonzalez-rivas3787 The camera work was excellent, though I personally wish the swords had been more period...smallswords/foils or even spadroons or Georgian style sabres. This was set a measly decade before the Peninsular War, after all.
Sort of brings to mind what Basil Rathbone said in comparing the fencing skills of Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn. "Tyrone Power, could fence Errol Flynn, into a Cocked Hat!
Definitely my favorite version, but the classic with Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, and the stunning Merle Oberon was the first one I saw, and so it holds a special place in my heart as well.
"Ha ha, ya ain't got a chance! I'm the hero of this picture and you always know what happens to the villain" "So what's to know"(sword fight while Melissa screams at every sword sound effect).
Hola a mi me gustan mucho este tipo de películas,ojalá y las pudieran traducir al al idioma Español,para poder disfrutarlas mejor. Felicidades por su buen gusto en bellas películas de aventuras. Saludos.
This was such an excellent duel but I'm slightly confused as to why Chauvelin had trouble in a sword fight; couldn't he just use his magnetic powers to bend the metal toward Percy?
Nah that was his mutant descendant Eric. Chauvelin was actually once a great white wizard back in the day and was more used to using a long sword and a staff than a rapier, but then he had to leave the middle earth after the defeat of Sauron to live in the land of mortal men so he kind of lost his powers, although he did become young again.
So strange over time we developed and forgot so many strange rituals in how we kill each other. Can you imagine a modern general or two settling things with a sword duel?
Actually from about the 1400s onwards it was the Italians and Spanish who had the best swordsmen the French and English were trying to keep up but couldn't
"Small swords." Period correct. Went on too long, but that's entertainment. Problem is, the wrong guy won. Total aristo a-hole. But the camera and editing were decent. Since Borne Identity (curses), directors have ruined all action scenes with their close-ups (!!), shaky camera (!!), and ADHD split-second editing, all to titilate anxiety-ridden teens who can't sit still for ten seconds.
