Best Choreographed Fight-Scene Or Use of A Weapon

Grey_Wolf

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Star Wars Ep I: Obi-Wan and Anakin vs Darth Maul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLXwrj7i7Q&feature=related Highlander 1: The end duel between The Highlander and The Kurgan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J1wUPIM9z4&feature=related The Mask of Zorro: The duel between Zorro & Rafael and Captain Love (min 5.30 and onwards) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ0Il8MDAKI&feature=related Kill Bill I - The Bride vs O-ren Ishii http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AH-8YuVil0&NR=1 Kill Bill II - The Bride vs Elle Driver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDscluTJ540 __________________ The Third and final batch clues of the C-session In the *Tolkien Do You Know* *This* game has been posted. ______________________________ Lumious Beings Are We Not This Crude Matter

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Difficult one there. I watched the top two, I prefered the second one, as there is too much 'use the force' skills being used in the Star Wars scene. __________________ Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë! Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

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Hovv about Monty Pythons search for the holy grail The black night...nuff said __________________ Love Light and Peace

Anorlas

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My favorite fight scene in the Zorro movie is when the priest gets shot. You think he's dead but he gets his licks in. __________________ I'll not bid the stars farewell

Glorfindel

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There are some good fight scenes in Stargate involving staffs, and swords in Stargate Atlantis. __________________ Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë! Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

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Sounds cool! __________________ The Third and final batch clues of the C-session In the *Tolkien Do You Know* *This* game has been posted. ______________________________ Lumious Beings Are We Not This Crude Matter

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First episode of the new series 'Stargate Universe' is on in the UK on Tuesday the 5th. Might be some good fight scenes later on in the series. __________________ You want it for Yourself!

Bear

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All,
My vote for the "Best Choreographed Fight-Scene" is the gun fight in the film"Open Range", starring Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner.
As far as sword play goes I vote for Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone in "The Adventures of Robin Hood". The use of shadow and the accelerated frame set a trend and technique still used by film makers today...
And, even though I participate in this, can someone fill me in where this fits in a Tolkien Utterly Miscellaneous thread and not in the film section...if it should be in the TOLKIEN FORUMS at all?
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Glorfindel

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Well, its sort of relevant in an off-topic forum.

I would very much like to see an Elf warrior fight. I wonder whether they would fight the same as men, or would Tolkien give them a more 'martial arts' kind of spin. Middle-earth is based on Northwestern Europe mythology but it would be a bit bland if all the races fought in the same traditional manner.

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Did any of you see the guy in Hell Boy 2? Now he can handle himself! Sort of an elfy looking character too. __________________ The winds of heaven do not blow gentle.

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Best fight scenes over all in my opinion is anything from Ong Bak I. II and III weren't bad but got a little too poetic like some Ang Lee passionate death junk. The first one was just raw and brutal. Tony Jaa punishes himself and the choreography was pretty complex.

Best fight scene in the LOTR trilogy has to be the Moria scene in Balin's tomb. In one particular scene Aragorn is trying to fight his way to Frodo, who is being cornered by the Cave Troll. Aragorn screams to Frodo and he has to fight through the orcs to get to him. He performs a cool combo that just felt Medieval in nature and was so far from contemporary fight scenes now-a-days. Its a Right hand parry, twice with Narsil followed with left cross to a squealing orc. Gratifying! The other one has to be Aragorn's single powerful sweep of Narsil taking something like four Uruks on Amon Hen as Frodo flees. Good stuff.

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