Annoying Braveheart question...not about kilt

[CelticMedic]

It's not just Braveheart, but i figured it'd get some response, but when William Wallace pulls his huge sword out of the sheath on his back...how does he put it back? For that matter how does he really pull it out as it's longer than his arm can extend...and yes it is a full sheath as long as the blade. I notice in the many viewings of the film you never really see him form the back when he's pulling it out...I suspect it's because even Mel Gibson can't overcome physics and remove it, so he merely hold's it back there and is filmed from the front. Anyone have any ideas?

[Streetcar]

You're right. The sword could not be drawn in that fashion.

Carrying over the back was meant only as a means of transporting the blade - much like slinging a rifle over your shoulder.

When it came time to use it, the sword and sheath are taken off, the sword drawn, and the sheath can be tossed to the side to be recovered later - provided the owner is still alive to do so....

[Panache]

And I want to know how The Kurgan in the original Highlander can have a sword with a blade in two sections that fit together with a "snick" to become a seamless weapon (not to mention being as strong as a regular sword blade ).

In other words, Hollywood often goes with what is cool looking rather than what is real*

Cheers

Jamie




*i.e. Like Woolly Mammoths building the Pyramids of Egypt.

[Thomas]

And I want to know how The Kurgan in the original Highlander can have a sword with a blade in two sections that fit together with a "snick" to become a seamless weapon

Yes, yes, yes that´s exactly what i asked myself, too.

[SportBilly]

And I want to know how The Kurgan in the original Highlander can have a sword with a blade in two sections that fit together with a "snick" to become a seamless weapon (not to mention being as strong as a regular sword blade ).

And how he takes it apart again to put back in that attache case

[sharpdressedscot]

And how he takes it apart again to put back in that attache case

Wouldn't he cut off fingers or something? sounds painful!

[haukehaien]

Wouldn't he cut off fingers or something? sounds painful!

Well, it's the Kurgan. He'd probably enjoy it. (Although, depending on who you read, he should have a bronze or iron battle-axe rather than a sword anyway.)

[Pleater]

Ah - that explains something that puzzled me ages ago - my mother's mother loved to go to auctions and she had a house full of books, bookshelves stood in all the nooks and corners of the house.

One of the stories was about the travels and adventures of some disposessed nobleman's son and he has a huge great sword with a name like Heigel or Hegling - and he had a faithful retainer who carried it for him, in a leather case, with straps.

I tried to visualise it, as some sort of suitcase, but it could be pulled out from one end because the faithful retainer ran up to the hero riding bare back on his horse and the hero pulled out the sword and brandished it (yea, right - not slowly slid off the horse sideways under the weight) and then hero gallops off to use sword in single combat, on foot, with the villainous blackguard holding his beloved prisoner.

This case could be opened up lengthways so the sword could be placed in it on show - but must have been open at the top for it to be pulled out. The sword in its case was also carried by a pony and over the shoulders of the faithful retainer when mountain climbing.

[Coemgen]

Hollywood often goes with what is cool looking rather than what is real*

*i.e. Like Woolly Mammoths building the Pyramids of Egypt.

NO NO NO! How many times do I have to tell you guys? The aliens from Atlantis resurrected the mammoths to build the pyramids in order to take over the world with the invisible lizard people of the Los Angeles sewers, and started the Illuminati after the slave revolt and then hypnotised King Solomon to create the freemasons, who buried his treasure underneath the White House!

[davedove]

And I want to know how The Kurgan in the original Highlander can have a sword with a blade in two sections that fit together with a "snick" to become a seamless weapon (not to mention being as strong as a regular sword blade ).

Hey, if Amanda from the series can hide a medieval long sword within her form fitting outfit, the Kurgan can have a sword that comes apart.