Annoying Braveheart question...not about kilt

[jmercier]

Another thing which tends to be overlooked is that the large claymore was not an anti-person sword for man to man combat, it was an anti horse sword used to take out the legs of calvery. The edges of the blade were not infact very sharp, and in use it was more of a blunt trama weapon with a sharp point on the end. A fight might go like this 1) brace the sword with two hands and get into position facing oncomming horsemen 2) sidestep to avoid getting trampled, with the sword to the side to cut out the front legs of the horse, using the horses own momentum, so your'e not actually swinging something that size 3) drive the point through the chest of whoever was riding the horse as they should now be on the ground

[Tommie]

You Guys !!! Don't ya know you have to see the films nowdays on DVD and not at the movies?
That way you get the second Disk to show how Hollywierd pulls the wool over your eyes.(or tries)Troy and Pirates are good examples.
How boring movies would be computor animation.

[emolas]

Another thing which tends to be overlooked is that the large claymore was not an anti-person sword for man to man combat, it was an anti horse sword used to take out the legs of calvery. The edges of the blade were not infact very sharp, and in use it was more of a blunt trama weapon with a sharp point on the end. A fight might go like this 1) brace the sword with two hands and get into position facing oncomming horsemen 2) sidestep to avoid getting trampled, with the sword to the side to cut out the front legs of the horse, using the horses own momentum, so your'e not actually swinging something that size 3) drive the point through the chest of whoever was riding the horse as they should now be on the ground

Although I have no idea what I am talking about, I would tend to believe this. I can't see how any large weapon (even 8 pounds) with any amount of inertia would be able to defend themselves against someone with a lightweight weapon such as a dagger or rapier.

I've managed to walk around with a copy of a Blade (vampire) sword under my trench coat. It IS possible, though not easy. Highlander didn't show him sitting, did it?

In the beginning, he was sitting down at the boxing match and then walked into the garage and met the other guy. I was curious as to how he carried it as well so I did a frame-by-frame of the sequence where he pulls the sword out of his trench coat and it looks to be at least a foot shorter than the actual sword that he fights with. I also did a frame-by-frame of him sitting at the match and the sword is nowhere in evidence.


I read somewhere that it's easy to ask moviegoers to accept the impossible but harder to get them to accept the improbable. This is evidenced by the fact that we accept that they are immortal and swordfighting throughout history but gripe about where they hide their swords not being realistic.