Why can't films use realistic techniques when depicting sword fights? It's actually much cooler than hollywoodfu
Why can't films use realistic techniques when depicting sword fights? It's actually much cooler than hollywoodfu
Anthony Perry
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Thomas Bailey
Lord of the Rings unironically, it pushed the idea that every sword fight needs to be overly epic and fantastical
Samuel Harris
They're not going to celebrate or acknowledge a western tradition no matter how kino
Kayden Rivera
It doesn't look good on film. The three or four videos from these guys showing the techniques in action are cool, but when you attempt to make an action scene out of them it turns to shit.
>inb4 how do you know?
Because several people have tried. Including these dudes. It just looks cringe.
Brayden Nguyen
>Why can't films use realistic techniques when depicting sword fights
because a real sword fight lasts all but 10-15 seconds!
1 mistake and you are sliced or stabbed to too much blood loss and death.
Swords are deadly weapons
Ayden Barnes
Oh yeah, if the hemafags with no experience with cinematography or camerawork or filmmaking in general can't make it work, nobody can
Lucas Stewart
How do you know if nobody tried it in earnest
Juan Nelson
there need to be more swordfights where the actors suffer bloody minor injuries during the course of the swordfight but carry on.
like a bloody gash on the head or the fingers, hands getting knicked or a finger getting cut off
too many sword fights consist of the opponents just blocking and parrying and missing and only landing hits during the middle of the fight if they're kicks or punches
also the fight should end in wrestling more often.
Jaxon Morris
Stfu nerd
Daniel White
No, I don't think they can make it work. Tod made a video with a HEMAfag and a Stagefag and had the Stagefag show how they'd need to change a bunch of shit to make "realistic" shot work for the language of filmmaking. The biggest problem lies not with a lack of depicting realistic techniques, but rather the person filming the scene doesn't know how to film an action scene in the first place. For instance, you could have all the martial arts realism in the world, but that doesn't determine how good an action scene is going to come out looking. Everyone loves the brutality of the Raid films and the first few Bourne movies, but they aren't based on actual martial arts in any way. Same goes for shit like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. The fault lies with the filmmaker being unable to properly convey the underlying emotions and backgrounds of the characters in the scene, not with the realism of the actions of the actors. The sword fights in PoTC are incredibly unrealistic, but everyone loves them.
Kayden Nguyen
real sword fights are a few seconds long and usually end with one dude being stabbed, often slowly, through the eye or face. hard to have the traditional hero turn the camera in celebration after he just finished wiggling a blade through his opponent's eye socket like he's churning butter after wrestling the other guy to the floor.
Parker Morris
both of these are fake. they don't have any intention of stabbing the other guy or chopping his ass. a real swordfighter from hundreds of years ago would just kill them
Wyatt Walker
probably your best bet would be to find a mexican knife fighter if you want realism. even then thats more renaissance era dirk stabbin
Jonathan Ward
i swear to god sword nerds are the biggest retards on the planet
>NOOOOO YOU CANT HAVE YOUR CHARACTER DO MANEUVERS THAT LOOK GOOD ON SCREEN THATS NOT REALISTIC!!!!
do these morons not realize that a "realistic" sword fight would be fucking boring and plain to look at?
Luis Sanchez
Hollywood can't even film proper fistfights anymore, let alone swordfights where the actors would have to practice it
Robert Cruz
>realistic techniques
martial arts are bunk and HEMA is no exception
even worse since the only people who practice it are white nerds who complain about the action scenes in children's movies
Lucas Williams
This. It's also easier from a choreography viewpoint
Juan Cook
Putting the sword in your armpit looks dangerous.
Justin Cook
>martial arts are bunk
>Gets heemd by a boxer
Xavier Cook
Most longswords were dull along the edge. Not blunted, dull. There's a big difference.
Lincoln Long
link?
Isaac Jackson
Charles Foster
Show me a single real HEMA duel where these techniques are actually utilized in real-time combat. These types of techniques are no better than what you see from a self-proclaimed self-defense black belt mill instructor on youtube.
Cooper Campbell
Ah yes the ancient martial school of beat the crap out of the other guy
Andrew Moore
>It doesn't look good on film.
According to a tasteless fag like you, sure.
Blake Kelly
This is all bullshit and doesn't work in real fighting. Notice how his opponent just stops moving and resisting after swinging.
Sebastian Morales
Ah yes because stance, breathing, throwing a punch, etc, means nothing and comes naturally