Duels, swordfights, and the fine art of kendo...

[fajrdrako]

More vid-browsing, and I found a compendium of one of my favourite things: sword fights in movies. To my surprise, I've seen all of the movies but two, and now I want to see Hitman.

Every time I thought, "But they left out...", that was the next movie featured. But they did leave out things I thought should be included:
Aragorn's fight with the Nazgul on Weathertop in The Lord of the Rings; Arya's first meeting with Syrio and the later scene where Syrio fights the Lannister men in The Game of Thrones; the duel between Hamlet and Laertes in the Branagh Hamlet...

Are there other good sword movies I should know about?

On my wishlist of dream movies: a really good filmed version of The Priviolege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner. And if the movie-makers wanted to preface it with a really good version of Swordspoint, I wouldn't mind.

Comments

[madshutterbug]

Here by way of ysabetwordsmith...

Hmm... the clip limited itself to the Top 10 (of which I've seen eight), and you didn't mention more than a few. I would also recommend The Fox wherein Danny Kaye duels with Basil Rathbone. Plus, of course, anything with Toshiro Mifune.

[fajrdrako]

Thank you! I'll look for these.