What's your favourite movie knife fight?

#2: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
after the first holdover they ride back to their gang
and Butch (or Sundance?) was asked for a "knifefight"
He asked for the rules and after getting the answer "no rules"
he kicked the guy in the balls. Fight won!
:eek: :D
 
the Hunted is one of the more realistic, shows that a knife fight is a dirty scary thing, and that you will - at least - be cut.
then i remeber princess Blade, a quite boring sifi jap. movie, but with enuf sword fight .
The tiger and the dragon , and an hong Kong movie named "knife" or "blade" , a story of XIV century ..
 
I also agree The Hunted was excellent. "The Big Hit" had a couple good scenes, and a relatively low budget movie "Stilletto Dance" is worth checking out for some surprisingly good fight scenes.
 
"The Long Riders" where Cole Younger(David Carradine) took on Bell Star's boyfriend.Both had bowies and Cole buried his in the dudes leg.Can still feel that one.
Randy
 
MikeH said:
"Nevada Smith", between Steve McQueen and Martin Landau.

No "fencing", with impossible parries. Didn't last long once they closed.
The winner got sliced up pretty bad. It ended while both were on the ground in the dirt. A lot closer to real life than most movie fights.
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When I saw the topic this fight immediately came to mind. Too much Hollywood in many fight scenes, this fight was not so unrealistic.
 
The knife fight in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video. I've seen many knife fights, and this one was SOOOOOooooo on the mark! The realism was unmatched. I wish they would have kept in the scene where Mike had his nose cut off. Then people would understand why his nose looks the way it does now. :D
 
I have to agree. The Alan Ladd fight in the "Iron Mistress" was a good one!
How about the knife fight you almost don't see iin the movie "From Here to Eternity", between Monty Clift and Ernest Borgnine? Most of the fight is out
of sight behind some boxes in a dark back alley, but you feel as if you saw the whole thing...you were right in it! Really giving my age away!!
 
J.Davey said:
The knife fight in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video. I've seen many knife fights, and this one was SOOOOOooooo on the mark! The realism was unmatched. I wish they would have kept in the scene where Mike had his nose cut off. Then people would understand why his nose looks the way it does now. :D
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ROTFLMAO!!! :D
 
I'm rather surprised that more folks didn't mention Exposure.

The fight scenes were choerographed by JKD man Chris Kent, and they included elements from both FMA and two distinct schools of Western military knife fighting--Fairbairn's method and the Biddle/Sykes method. The passata soto and inquartata came from Biddle & Sykes, whilst the character "Hermes" quoted from Fairbairn's Get Tough manual, in relation to the details of a thrust to the heart.

Plus, some nice knives were showcased:

1. The Applegate-Fairbairn dagger (confused with the F-S, when the blade dealer claimed that it was "used by British Commandos").

2. The Randall (a #14 with a full fingergrip, IIRC).

S e P
 
Thomas Linton said:
Well, if "knife" includes longer blades, the duel in Rob Roy was brutally realistic.
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The choreography for Rob Roy was done by William Hobbs, who is one of the most famous of Western fight directors. Hobbs was an Olympic-level fencer in the 1950s, who then went on to be a top choreographer.

The fights in Rob Roy are basically Hobbs at his best; as J. Christoph Amberger once said when interviewed by Mark V. Wiley, Hobbs is a master at balancing historical/technical realism with dramatic impact. The combative sequences in Rob Roy are very typical of Hobb's gritty, no-BS approach. There was, in all seriousness, a little too much blade contact between Neeson's broadsword and Roth's transitional rapier (a fighter with a lighter thrusting blade would have sought to avoid blade contact by disengaging, and placing the point back in-line). They also exaggerated the weight of the broadsword, IMO. Still, the overall effect was great.

If you like the fights in Rob Roy, then check out Gladiator director Ridley Scott's first film, The Duellists, which was also choreographed by Hobbs. That movie stars Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine, as two Napoleonic-era hussars who fight a series of duels over a 15-year period. There are plenty of great duelling scenes with both smallswords and heavy military sabers.

Peace,

S e P
 
Wow.., you guys are good. Those are some other good ones.., hard to remember them all....
 
have you seen it anywhere recently? all I see on amazon are used copies, I'd like new, if possible. VHS just doesn't hold up as well as dvd, I'm a bit spoiled by newfangled technology for these movin' pitchers :D.
 
hardheart said:
have you seen it anywhere recently?
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Admittedly, no.

I bought my copy around '98, so it has actually been a while (where does the time go...?)

all I see on amazon are used copies, I'd like new, if possible. VHS just doesn't hold up as well as dvd, I'm a bit spoiled by newfangled technology for these movin' pitchers :D.
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A used video may then be your only alternative. It's still very much better than nothing.

S e P
 
Probably because I just love the movie so much... Jeremiah Johnson. There are several knife fights, but I really like the one where he throws his knife after Del Que almost gets it with the spear.
 
For sword fight scenes there is the 1991 movie By The Sword; about an older ex-con who takes a job at a leading NYC fencing school. It stars Murray Abrahams and Eric Roberts.

n2s
 
Don't forget Kyle vs Sting in Dune! If I could make a custom knife it would be just like Paul's its slender in the middle then goes to a scalpel looking end and tip.... so cool....
 
Spada e Pugnale said:
I'm rather surprised that more folks didn't mention Exposure.

The fight scenes were choerographed by JKD man Chris Kent, and they included elements from both FMA and two distinct schools of Western military knife fighting--Fairbairn's method and the Biddle/Sykes method. The passata soto and inquartata came from Biddle & Sykes...
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DOH! :footinmou

In the above paragraph, I meant to say the Biddle/STYERS method.

Sorry...

S e P
 
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