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assiraphales · 8 months

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remembering the time I called american psycho (a satirical film about toxic masculinity) a dark comedy and the overwhelming response was 'oh so u think men killing sex workers is funny? u think THAT'S funny?' like no I find a patrick batemen listening to 'i'm walking on sunshine', killing jared leto while wearing a clear raincoat and giving a dissertation on huey lewis n the news, using 'I need to return some video tapes' to get out of awkward situations, throwing a hissy fit about business cards, dropping a chainsaw down a flight of stairs, thinking an atm is telling him to feed it cats, and crying hysterically under a desk is funny. but thank u for ur wonderful insight

#media illiteracy I am fighting u with a sword #american psycho #halloween #horror comedy #idolizing Patrick is a red flag. thinking he’s a pathetic twerp and finding the film funny is not

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project1939 · 8 months

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Day 41- Film: Scaramouche

Release date: June 27th, 1952.

Studio: MGM

Genre: Action/Adventure

Director: George Sidney

Producer: Carey Wilson

Actors: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer

Plot Summary: We follow the adventures of Andre Moreau in pre-revolutionary France as he searches out his biological father, runs from the law with revolutionary friend Phileppe, tries to avenge Phileppe’s death at the hands of the Marquis de Maynes, hides out as famous comedian Scaramouch, and woos two different women.

My Rating (out of five stars): ***½

It took me awhile to really get into this movie, but once I did, I enjoyed it. It was the kind of light-hearted colorful historical epic you would expect from 1950s Hollywood. Flashy and splashy but not overly complex in terms of character or nuance. And certainly not overly concerned with historical accuracy! Some spoilers ahead.

The Good:

The fencing! The fencing! If there is one thing that elevates this film and makes it worth checking out, it’s the sword fighting. There’s lots of it, and it is all convincing and well-staged. (Except for the speed at which blood spurts out of people when they get slashed!) The actors all did pretty extensive training to learn how to make it realistic, and it shows. The sword fight at the end of the movie is the longest in Hollywood history, as far as I know.

This kind of goes with the above, but I absolutely loved the fact that the long swordfight at the end of the film had no non-diegetic music. The only sounds we heard were the swishes and clangs the swords made, the gasps of the crowd watching them, and the grunts from the two men as they battled with each other. It heightened the drama so much for me.

Mel Ferrer. He is one of my favorite actors of the time period. He’s so good at playing wounded sensitive brooding people! In this he was generally a bad guy, but I still loved him more than the actual hero!

Eleanor Parker. I always think of her as the Baroness in The Sound of Music, but in this movie she really stole my heart. She was just so captivating to watch at every moment- she was by far the most interesting female character in the film. Her luscious long red hair looked great as well. It was wonderful to see a woman who didn’t have a short tightly styled 1950s poodle cut!

I liked part of the ending. The fact that they didn’t kill the Marquis de Maynes made me really happy. I was dreading Mel Ferrer’s death and knew it must be coming. When he was spared, I was legitimately satisfied and relieved. It also made the end more interesting and unusual.

Janet Leigh was better in this than I expected. Her character was pretty boring, though.

The light-hearted vibe of the whole film. The film was just good fun, and it didn’t take itself too seriously.

The bad:

The incest? I know it ultimately wasn’t really incest because Granger and Leigh turned out not to be brother and sister. But when you spend almost the entire movie believing they are, it’s hard to turn off the disgust switch when they suddenly get married at the end! I just did not like it at all.

Granger got a little grating after a while. Maybe some of the stories I’ve heard about what a difficult person he was bled into my opinion of his character, but I didn’t totally like him. He seemed to be trying too hard to be devil-may-care charming. He was certainly hot, though, if you like the hunk-of-man-meat type.

Historical accuracy! Costumes were especially loosely authentic to say the least. But you don’t really expect a 1950s Hollywood epic to be especially historically accurate.

The plot could be overly tangled at times, and it took awhile for me to fully get into it.

And again, why did Granger have to marry Leigh?

#project1952 #1952 #project1952 day 41 #100 films of 1952 #sword fighting films

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stbot · 1 year

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#kit tanthalos #elora danan #airk tanthalos #willow 2022 #willow #willow spoilers #look. i'm not saying airk is completely incapable of fighting #but i AM saying that they're gonna kick his ass so bad???#he picked a sword up once (1nce) and didn't even use it????#unless that haircut gave him a -4 to himbo swag and a +4 buff to fighting #although maybe that's why dempsey was doing fight training for the entire time everyone else was actually filming #anyway elora's hair is effin REDred #good for her #i think i need a gif tag

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la-cocotte-de-paris · 6 months

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#undertones

MAM'ZELLE BONAPARTE (1942), dir. Maurice Tourneur

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of-fear-and-love · 19 days

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Wong Mei-Mei (a.k.a. Wei Wei Huang), Richard Norton and Cynthia Rothrock fight scene from Magic Crystal (1986)

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retropopcult · 3 months

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Swashbuckler (1976)

#Robert Shaw #Peter Boyle #sword fight #Captain Ned Lynch #Lord Durant #1970s #pirate movie #Jamaica #70s film

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mudwerks · 1 year

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(via JHALAL DRUT: WOLVES OF THE CITY FIRST TO FIGHT (1971) 小林千枝 Chie Kobayashi)

#Wolves of the City: First to Fight #Chie Kobayashi #film #vintage #japan #1971 #小林千枝 #sword

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hecksupremechips · 8 months

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I finally watched bottoms and my absolute favorite part is how the football players were literally never not in uniform like they were just always in those ugly ass shoulder pads

#bottoms 2023 #its so ridiculous like this whole movie is absolute chaos i loved it #also really loved how the fight club just straight up brutally murdered the other football team at the end #like sylvie just had a fucking sword and stabbed that one guy akdjsk #phenomenal film it was so good

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cheeseanonioncrisps · 1 year

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Every teenage girl has:

a) a society telling her constantly that the only thing she should be interested in is love and BOYSSSS!

b) a frustrated lust for violence

And the societal role of YA fantasy/sci-fi fiction is to act like it's just conforming to the former, while in reality appealing pretty transparently to the latter.

#ya lit #hot take #feminism #this isn't JUST about hunger games #or holly black's 'various girls with swords' series #or the new film where the female mc straight up eats people #like this is a *thing*#i mean everyone talks about twilight like it was just playing into the fantasy of having two hot guys fight over you #but even in twilight bella's MAIN GOAL throughout the series is actually to become an unkillable vampire with super strength #to the extent that edward even worries at one point that she might just be using him for his immortality #every popular ya fantasy/sci fi series has a core of deep violence #also warrior cats is the junior version of this phenomenon btw

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theactioneer · 1 year

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Ninja III: The Domination (Sam Firstenberg, 1984)

#sho kosugi #cannon films #ninja #sword fight #80s action movies #movie trailer #movie titles #gif

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lanndarth · 4 months

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#villuOC #villufeel #villuop #screencap #4chan #screenshot #greentext #pepe #frog #sword #swordfight #duel #stick #toy #fight #tv #/tv/#television & film #story #board

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abutterflyobsession · 5 months

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I pull out so many random facts about the making of Lord of the Rings that people usually respond with, 'how do you even know that?!'

oh, friend.

my brother, a most pretentious lotr fan, snatched up the extended edition hot off the shelf and for weeks it was the only thing on the tv all day long. I've seen every commentary, every special feature . . . twice. maybe more. I didn't have a choice.

#a butterfly obsesses #I've forgotten so much but still #maybe I just don't hang out with nerdy enough people and the rest of you know all this but:#billy boyd every time Minas Tirith is on the screen: I love Minas Tirith #Dominic Monaghan: shut. up.#sean austin forgot to put his waistcoat on for the scene where they all say farewell to frodo so they had to reshoot the whole thing #everybody had to cry again. but the second recording ended up blurry and they had to reshoot a 3rd time. nobody was happy with sean #when sam shows up to fight shelob his hand and sheathed sword appear first like the start of a duel in a western #that's actually peter jackson's hand #sean austin could 'see' shelob when they were filming those scenes. he could very vividly imagine her.#after he saw some cgi test footage of her he lost the ability to imagine her and had to work to get it back #dominic or billy I forget but one stole a skull from the scenes with the army of the dead #after pirates of the Caribbean came out they had to change the design for the army of the dead because the ghost designs were too similar #they built a huge dead Oliphaunt for the battlefield (peter wanted it to be bigger tho)#the people linking up plastic rings for the chain mail wore away their fingerprints on their pointer fingers and thumbs #they basically thawed a frozen stream so andy serkis could dive in and chase a fish in the ice-cold water #I want to say it was billy boyd who had to get a dental procedure done and opted to do with without being numbed #because he had to shoot a scene right after. however he sweated so much his hobbit feet came off #by the time they were put back on the medication would have worn off anyway #viggo mortensen got part of a front tooth chipped off and wanted to finish the scene before having it fixed but they forced him to go #when auditioning horses for the scene the horse kneels down to let the wounded aragorn get on a horse was disqualified for sit on the dummy #the HUGE ring they used for perspective shots

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thii-nii · 1 year

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It was last winter. Don't know whether I was possessed by the moonlight or the snow. I was on the way to my friend's house with a bottle of booze. And a man and a woman were fighting like crazy with some sharp swords. But they also looked like they were dancing. It was like they were making love under the moonlight as well.

#duelist #형사 #duelist (2005)#ha ji won #kang dong won #films #soomedits #if we're not going to fight like crazy with some sharp swords & it looks like we're dancing under the moonlight while it's snowing #what's the point?

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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人のまねをせずに、その身に応じ、武器は自分の使いやすいものでなければならぬ。

- Miyamoto Musashi ( 宮本武蔵 )

Do not imitate others, but adapt to your own body, and your weapon must be easy for you to use.

#musashi #miyamoto musashi #quote #samura #zatoichi #film #sword #swordsman #warrior #fighting #way of the warrior #japanese #edo #tokugawa shogunate #japan

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moss-in-hiding · 2 months

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(i’m making basically translation of my previous post that’s fully in Russian)

today I watched an old Soviet two episode show called Ordinary Miracle, which I haven’t seen since I was a kid. however, while I was watching it, I realize that two of the characters the Wizard and his wife are basically just Howl and Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle.

because the wizard is on one hand trying to live normally, but also turned a bear into a human just for his own amusement? (but also it’s heavily implied he did it because he wanted the bear to feel love and get to be human) and his wife, who is ginger by the way, just like book Sophie, is basically his conscience telling him that it’s inhumane to force the bear to be human if he doesn’t want to be.

oh, and also the movie starts off with the line my wife who I’ve been in love with since I was a boy- which is literally Howl.

but yeah, it’s on YouTube if you’re into subbed surreal soviet musicals from the 70s!

#howls moving castle #howl pendragon #sophie hatter #ordinary miracle #soviet film #The bear is a sweetheart #and the wizard and his wife basically treat him like a son #I didn’t even mention that to turn back into a bear he has to kiss a princess who is in love with him #and at one point the princess dressed as a man duels him #they have a very queer sword fight #its very much ado about nothing #moss russian posting

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wandafantasy · 7 months

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youtube

#swordfighting #sword #spy girls #dead girl #femalevsfemale #catsfight #catfighting #heart stab #stabbed #stabbing #short film #girls fighting #Youtube

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