what is your favorite movie knife fight/duel?

My favorite screen duel involving a knife is in the movie I think called "Bad Boys" wherein Sean Penn's imprisioned character takes out a shank wielding rival by beating him to a pulp with a can of soda wrapped in duct tape and put in a sock to create a pretty wicked clubbing weapon. That movie was cool just for the course in improvised weaponry. The shank lost.

Swords: The Princess Bride. A lot of hard work went into the duelling scene between Mandy Patinkin and Cary Elwes. The transition from left handed swashbuckling to right-handed fencing was brilliant choreography.

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Two to be added to the list, both star Scott Glenn, are "Sword of the Ninja" (great sword work. Don't know if it is on video) and "Night of the Running Man"( he's a bad guy who makes short work of a street punk.
It's less than 5 minutes of the movie, but it gets the juices flowing. It is on video.)

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There is an old scifi movie with Yul Breener called "The ulimate warrior". A lowgrade movie to be sure but Yul Brenner plays some future dude for hire who wears a knife in the small of his back.There is some bladework in the beginning that is excellent-precise,economical moves uses angles.

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Hey gester,

I believe Scott Glenn carries an Ernest Emerson folder with mother of pearl grips in "NIGHT OF THE RUNNING MAN". There is a very nice closeup of it in the movie.

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It isn't a movie, but there is a sword move in the Bible where one of Jesus' deciples cut off a servant of the high priest's ear.

Can you imagine how fast both parties had to be? One to just whip out that sword and go for broke and the other guy to dodge so that just his ear got cut off.

And just to show there was no hard feelings on the part of Jesus.....he tells his deciple to put his sword away, and RE-ATTACHES the bad guy's ear! How cool is that?
 
So many great scenes have already been mentioned. I am going to take a different approach.


Van Damme -I believe it was Time Cop. He has to be the best knife fighter ever! Why? He didn't even need to move his knife, he just held it up in front of him and was able to block every thrust or slash. I laugh everytime i think about that.

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Looks like there are a lot of movies that I have yet to see! Glad y'all had fun with this thread!

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How about the last swordfighting scene in Rob Roy, where Liam Neeson grabs Tim Roths blade with his bare hand to avoid getting stabed. Thats a good technique to remember.
 
Last scene of The Last of the Mohicans:

Chachingagook with his battle axe after the brutal killing of his son. The most moving scene in movie history IMHO. What martial art WAS THAT? Who taught the coreography? Anybody know? The closest thing to that battle axe that I've ever seen was from New Guinnie. Still used today, I'm told. Not for hunting kiwi either.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where he kicks the bad guy in the nads.

Or Indiana Jones, where the Bedoin is flashing the sword and Indian just shoots him. Most of my friends called me after seeing that movie and said that scene reminded them of me. BTW the story is they were supposed to have a big fight scene there but He had a 103 temp amd changed the script ad lib. So good they kept it.

Gotta' remember to take my medication.

Cheers,

ts

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I'm probably going to catch hell for this but I think the UNDER SEIGE fight had a little too much blade clanging and not enough flesh cutting. That is just my opinion and we all know what opinions are like.

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Got to agree with the remake of Last of the Mohicans, knife and tomohawk scenes were fantastic; what a combination. Also legends of the fall although maybe a bit to symbolic in places, c.f. good old head cracking :¬)
Iain
 
Got to agree with the remake of Last of the Mohicans, knife and tomohawk scenes were fantastic; what a combination. Also legends of the fall although maybe a bit to symbolic in places, c.f. good old head cracking :¬)
Iain
 
Re: UNDER SEIGE. The fencing-like clanging of the blades was not as unrealistic as Segal securing the blade in his teeth....yea, sure.
 
How about James Coburn, in the "Magnificent 7", he was so cool, who else would bring a knife to a gun fight, and win?
 
Point taken James. That should have split him from ear to ear.

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I'll nominate "Westside Story." Short on realism but long on style!

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Hey Brother (phillip)!

There is a scene from "The Devil's Brigade"
(WWII movie) where Richard Jaeckel takes out a nazi from behind with a dagger to the kidney area. It isn't really a fight but Mr. Jaeckel made it look like he knew what he was doing.

My favorite, though, has to be when the quiet
proffesional samurai in "The Seven Samurai"
gets challenged by this not-so-well trained
farmer. The farmer is very excited and screaming while the samurai is in his stance motionless. The farmer charges and is killed with 1 swift stroke from the samurai's sword.
BEAUTIFUL! I know what your thinking, but it's only a movie.

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