{"id":46527,"date":"2019-02-15T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46527"},"modified":"2019-05-04T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T14:01:13","slug":"qotd-the-swordfight-from-the-princess-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/qotd-the-swordfight-from-the-princess-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The swordfight from <em>The Princess Bride<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I cannot, however, pass by that period without noting one moment of excellence; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WDlZ_SXx5gA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Princess Bride<\/em> (1987)<\/a>. Yes, this is classic stagy Hollywood high-line, consciously referring back to precedents including the Flynn\/Rathbone scene from fifty years earlier \u2013 but in this context there\u2019s no sense of anachronism because the movie is so cheerfully vague about its time period. The swords are basket-hilted rapiers in an ornate Italo-French style that could date from 1550 to their last gasp in the Napoleonic Wars. The actors use them with joy and vigor \u2013 Elwes and Patinkin learned to fence (both left- and right-handed) for the film and other than the somersaults their fight scene was entirely them, not stunt doubles. It\u2019s a bright, lovely contrast with the awfulness of most Hollywood sword choreography of the time and, I think, part of the reason the movie has become a cult classic.<\/p>\n<p>Eric S. Raymond, <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8237\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A martial artist looks at swordfighting in the movies&#8221;, <em>Armed and Dangerous<\/em><\/a>, 2019-01-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot, however, pass by that period without noting one moment of excellence; The Princess Bride (1987). Yes, this is classic stagy Hollywood high-line, consciously referring back to precedents including the Flynn\/Rathbone scene from fifty years earlier \u2013 but in this context there\u2019s no sense of anachronism because the movie is so cheerfully vague about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,41],"tags":[1235,569,122,678],"class_list":["post-46527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","tag-esr","tag-fencing","tag-movies","tag-swords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c6r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46528,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527\/revisions\/46528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}