what is your favorite movie knife fight/duel?

Anyone remember the final knife fighting scene from the sci-fi classic "Dune" - it sure impressed me back then, reverse grips and all!

Daniel.
 
"Under Seige," gotta be. Although, I do remember that the "Dune" duel was pretty good.

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Derek,

I wonder if Spielberg was trying to say something when the Jewish guy got stabbed to death by the SS soldier, while his American comrade watched and did nothing?
 
Swords: The Hunted, I think it's called...one one where Chris Lambert does NOT play a swordsman, he's an American caught in Japan between a crazy Ninja and an equally bugf**k dude who thinks he's a Samurai...

Knives: believe it or not, "Young Guns 2" had a damn good fight between the Amerind with a MUSKRAT and some guy with a Bowie. Muskrat won! Only movie use of a Muskrat fighter I've ever seen.

Jim
 
That scene in "Saving Private Ryan" was very intense. You have a good point there, tallwingedgoat.

Nemo,
I also liked the scene in "The Edge" very enlightening as to the lack of proper use by "City slickers" (sheeple)

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I think you guys will love the Japanese ZatoIchi films. Blind Ichi is really fast with his sword cane. Whenever he cuts something or someone it always takes a few seconds for it to fall apart. One of the scenes I remember is a couple of bad guys playing go on a traditional thick wooden board. Ichi flashes his sword and awes them. Then he leaves. As the bad guys resume their game, one plays a stone on the board, and it falls in half.

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Howard Wallace
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Knives; I like the `Jerimiah Johnson' with Robert Redford, sitting around a campfire an Indian drops from a tree, Redford leaps up and throws his Bowie knife and nails the Indian and sits back down like nothing happened.

Swords; Princess Bride has some nice sword play and Blind Fury is always a favorite.

G2

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I liked the knife fight in UNDER SEIGE, but I did not think it was as realistic as the one in UNDER SEIGE 2.

There is an extremely lame movie called "Dead Men Cant Dance" that has 2 good knife fighting scenes in it, but hardly worth enduring the movie for.

There have been more swordfights in movies than I can remember. When I was a kid, I loved reruns of Errol Flynn movies, CAPTIAN BLOOD, etc. Flynn's coach was the same man who coached Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Bandaras in ZORRO; He's now in his 70's and still adept with a blade. Whats his Name???????
 
Jim,
Good call on "The Hunted". That movie has THE BEST, most realistic sword fighting that I have ever seen. Not only was the fighting good, but there are a lot of subtlties that you will pick up if you know the history of the samurai and ninja. I highly recommend this movie to any sword fans.

Also, "Blind Fury". The ending sword fight between Rutger Haur and Sho Kosugi was awesome.

But I think my all time favorite sword movie is "Revenge of the ninja" staring Sho Kosugi. The ending fight on the rooftop speaks for itself!!

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James Sass; you are probably thinking of Robert Anderson. He was the one who choreographed the fight scenes in the original Star Wars trilogy, and was involved in Highlander for the first couple of years.

Walt
 
Howard, I remember the Zatoichi films. Lots of great scenes if you can suspend your belief long enough to enjoy them.

In one, a corrupt magistrate is ordered by Zatoichi to measure a bin of rice using a wooden meauring bowl, and the guy tries to cheat (he's blind, right?) by not filling the bowl each time. Zatoichi's ears twitch at the sound of the rice filling the bowl and when the guy stops, Zatoichi slices the bowl neatly at the midline where the rice was filled to... and orders him to do it right the next time.

To keep on-topic, the favorite duel would be the first match against a drunk Toshiro Mifune who, thinking to make easy bounty money on Zatoichi, tries to take him out with a thrust into the stomach at close quarters ... only to find Zatoichi stepping back unharmed ... he had used Mifune's own sheath to catch the blade.

Aside from the usual Japanese sword pyrotechnics, probably the main reason to watch was that Zatoichi's bumbling self-effacing character departed from the usual stoic, smooth and arrogant samurai .... sort of like Detective Columbo to Amos Burke (you guys do remember "Burke's Law", right?).
 
Wasn't much of a fight, but it sure was a tooth grinder when Deniro took that switchblade and cut that guy's hand almost in half, lengthwise. Taxi Driver, wow, what a good flick for teaching a person how to pack steel.

P.S. is anyone else having trouble bringing up the forum's pages? Mine are going real slow and I'm getting the ole "page cannot be displayed" notice alot.

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under siege 2 was very good but my all time two favorites are 7 samurai from korasawa.and a movie i saw about 10 years ago which had the best sword and martial scenes i ever saw on the screen,it was a japaneese movie called "a shogun shadow"and was directed in the manner of jhon woo films.
if you guys can get hold of that movie you will be real happy campers,trust me on that one.
scorpio.
 
Don't tell me I'm the only one here who has seen "THE IRON MISSTRESS". And you call yourselves knife enthusiasts. Shame on you.
 
OK Phillip..."Iron Mistress" ... Bowie's first use of his new knife when he throws (a big honkin' blade) at a BG in his room. And also the big dueling scene where the gloves come off in a pistol duel and Bowie uses his knife.

The muthah of all knife shows ... but no one's seen it cuz it's old and there's no video I know of.
 
My vote for European style dueling is "The Princess Bride." Plus it is one funny movie.
 
Another good one is the old Chinese movie “Come Drink with Me.” The heroine fights with a unique two dagger style, one in forward grip, one in reverse grip. I think this is one of the best Chinese MA flicks.

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Howard Wallace
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Would`nt it be cool if someone took all the great movie knife fights and put them on a set of videos? What would the title be? Here`s my suggestion. "Reels of Steel"

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