Teva's Top Five...

[sechan19]

...celluloid sword fights.

(Introducing a new way for me to waste time on the internet.)

In chronological order:
* The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) vs. Baron von Stuppe (Ross Martin), The Great Race, Blake Edwards director, 1965.
* The Man in Black (Cary Elwes) vs. Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner director, 1987.
* Prisoner KSC2-303 (Sakaguchi Taku) vs. The Man (Sakaki Hideo), Versus, Kitamura Ryuhei director, 2000.
* Nameless (Jet Li) vs. Broken Sword (Tony Leung), Hero, Zhang Yimou director, 2002.
* Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) vs. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), The Curse of the Black Pearl, Gore Verbinski director, 2003.

Follow the above links for clips of these, in my opinion, unparalleled examples of swordplay at its silver screen finest.

Comments

[docjeed.livejournal.com]

Does it count if they were fixed? ;-)

[reteva.livejournal.com]

Aren't all onscreen sword fights "fixed"? ;>

[alateaqoe.livejournal.com]

There has to be a place for the temple fight between Silent Monk (Jet Li) and Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) in The Forbidden Kingdom. Don't know which of the five I'd remove - maybe bump it to six. ;)