Some friends made this short film, thought it was cool enough to share. Horseback archery is also a really cool hobby some of those friends have, even though this is not necessarily a realistic depiction of the everyday training
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I really enjoyed it, I thought it was really well done. Whoever choreographed the main sword fight has my respect because it was a more accurate portrayal of historical realities of sword fights. Where there wasn't a clash of steel, but a brawl, and the sword was just used as a stabbing object after you beat your opponent to a pulp.
I did laugh at the guy reacting to the snow thrown in his face like it was acid.
But it was really pretty to look at, and had a real Conan the Barbarian type of feel to it. Plus the one girl at the start was just outright butchered.
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I really enjoyed it, I thought it was really well done. Whoever choreographed the main sword fight has my respect because it was a more accurate portrayal of historical realities of sword fights. Where there wasn't a clash of steel, but a brawl, and the sword was just used as a stabbing object after you beat your opponent to a pulp.
I did laugh at the guy reacting to the snow thrown in his face like it was acid.
But it was really pretty to look at, and had a real Conan the Barbarian type of feel to it. Plus the one girl at the start was just outright butchered.
The bearded guy with a spear who the protagonist duels with is a HEMA instructor, he knows his stuff and he's not the only one on set with HEMA background. In general these are the kinds of people who really make an effort to get the history right (or plausible/credible).
If it's weapons you think of as "medieval" (swords, shields, polearms, etc.) and it's European, and you actually try to learn to do it physically with equipment that at least resembles the real thing, it's HEMA. Also includes unarmed combat styles.
It's a catch-all term for a lot of things. Emerged in the nineties really.
Unusual compared to all other forms of martial arts in that there's no living tradition to draw from, everything people are doing now is a recreation from historical sources (manuals, paintings, equipment...) and common sense.
Mostly it's recreating fighting styles from between 14th and 18th century, obviously typically swordsmanship because swords are cool.
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Some friends made this short film, thought it was cool enough to share. Horseback archery is also a really cool hobby some of those friends have, even though this is not necessarily a realistic depiction of the everyday training
NSFW because violence and buckets of fake blood.
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It’s like Assassin’s Creed Suomi:
Cut back from the horse going over the hill and she pulls a smoke bomb out of her clock and poof disappears. Soldiers search but wander off and then digs out from under snow. Injured she trudges along weakly as the sun starts to set. Perhaps even a shot of a wolf stalking her. She finally collapses As she feels her life sleep as she fades in and out of consciousness a figure appears in her fading blurred vision. Next scene she awakes from under reindeer hides in a small cabin to meet her new master.
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I have never watched Miami Vice, but after seeing some of the cameos from this thread I just might for the lolz (seriously though, they could have had Leonard Cohen as a full season villain and cut it to 90 seconds?!?!?!?)
Correction #1: Ed O'Neill played an undercover FBI agent posing as a snuff film dealer.
Correction #2: Leonard Cohen was never going to be a "full season villain", he was considered for the part of the main villain in a given episode. This was the '80s, it was episodic television: they rarely brought back recurring villains, and never had season-long story arcs.
Correction #1: Ed O'Neill played an undercover FBI agent posing as a snuff film dealer.
Correction #2: Leonard Cohen was never going to be a "full season villain", he was considered for the part of the main villain in a given episode. This was the '80s, it was episodic television: they rarely brought back recurring villains, and never had season-long story arcs.
Wiseguy was the exception to this - in that they did season long story arcs - the most notable was with Kevin Spacey.
Ahead of it's time.
Doesn't age particularly well but I re-watched that season a few years ago and it was pretty solid still.
