not directly about Writing Fight Scenes: knife fights?

[swan_tower]

xahra99 asked this in comments to the last "writing fight scenes" post, and I couldn't remember very well, so I put it to you all here:

What films and/or online videos would you say show relatively accurate knife fights?

I know I've seen some that looked good, but none of them are coming to mind right now. I figured it was more efficient to ask the Great Internet Overmind, rather than staring at the wall trying to prod my own memory into working. (It always makes me think of that line from Hamlet: "Cudgel thy brain no more, for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.")

Comments

[sillylilly-bird.livejournal.com]

the one in the sauna in Eastern Promises - the added fun of wet tile as footing

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Eastern_Promises/70059994?trkid=2361637

[mastadge.livejournal.com]

Not a movie, but author Matt Stover, whose combat scenes are nonpareil as far as I'm concerned, has briefly mentioned knives on his blog here (http://mwstover.com/never-throw-your-last-knife-ii-caine-on-blade-combat/).

[mastadge.livejournal.com]

And here (http://www.fmatalk.com/showthread.php?5747-best-knife-fights-in-the-movies)'s a thread on another forum discussing the best knife fights in movies.

[scottakennedy.livejournal.com]

The one that comes to my mind is one I saw long ago, A Grande Arte, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101834/

It's full of knife fights if I recall correctly.

[erdedrache.livejournal.com]

It's been a bit since I saw it, but there's a movie called The Hunted with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio del Toro that features what I remember as enjoyable and accurate knife fighting techniques.

[xahra99.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot to everybody! Will add to Netflix list asap!

[erdedrache.livejournal.com]

The Hunted should be streamable, but make sure you get the one with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio del Toro, not the ninja movie of the same name with Christopher Lambert. ;-)

[mastadge.livejournal.com]

I can't recall how much actual fight there is, if any, but there's a scene in Secondhand Lions in which a guy pulls a knife on Robert Duvall in a bar, and Duvall teaches him him how to hold a knife if he's serious about pulling a knife on someone in a bar.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

This has been a fascinating series so far. I look forward to reading the rest.

Nice blog

[(Anonymous)]

It was extremely interesting for me to read the post. Thanks for it. I like such topics and everything connected to them. I would like to read more soon.

Natasha Smith
monaco +escort (http://monacoescort.com/)