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Freebooter
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Just saw "Season of the Witch"! Jan 23, 2011 0:42:16 GMT

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Post by Freebooter on Jan 23, 2011 0:42:16 GMT

Hello all,
Long time no see my brethren!! I just wanted to say I just saw "Season of the Witch". It was a good movie, with some good swordplay and all, and a couple of beautiful swords used by Nicholas Cage and the other guy (and some others to actually). But it was a good movie, if you like a medieval setting, with a supernatural element that you have to figure out! It is worth going to see, at least to me, because I like any historical movie with swords and swordfighting, etc.. One thing, even the Arabs had straight swords. I thought they had already started using those tulwars and scimitars, etc..
Later,
Freebooter

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I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
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Student of Sword
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Just saw "Season of the Witch"! Jan 23, 2011 0:56:17 GMT

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Post by Student of Sword on Jan 23, 2011 0:56:17 GMT

Freebooter wrote
Hello all,
Long time no see my brethren!! I just wanted to say I just saw "Season of the Witch". It was a good movie, with some good swordplay and all, and a couple of beautiful swords used by Nicholas Cage and the other guy (and some others to actually). But it was a good movie, if you like a medieval setting, with a supernatural element that you have to figure out! It is worth going to see, at least to me, because I like any historical movie with swords and swordfighting, etc.. One thing, even the Arabs had straight swords. I thought they had already started using those tulwars and scimitars, etc..
Later,
Freebooter

No, the Arabs used straight swords until much later. Curved saber descended from the Turco-Mongol saber which was brought into the Middle East by the Turks. During most of the Crusade period, both the Crusaders and Saracens used similar weapons and equipments.

In fact, the form of a single edge curved saber came to Europe before arriving to the Middle East. The Magyars (Hungarian) brought them to Central Europe in the 10th century. There were saber-like weapons in the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire before it was seen in the Middle East.

The Turco-Mongol saber was the ancestor of many weapons to include the Chinese dao, all later European calvary sabers, and all Middle East sabers.

EDIT: There is an early Chinese dao, pre-contact and unassociated with Turco-Mongol saber, but it is a single edge straigth blade.

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Just saw "Season of the Witch"! Jan 23, 2011 1:39:23 GMT

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Post by Freebooter on Jan 23, 2011 1:39:23 GMT

Thanks SOS,
I remember as a young man seeing some sort of neat artpiece, a portrait or painting depicting a mounted fight between crusaders and Arabs. In the painting the arabs were using the curved shamshirs, tulwars, or scimtars, whatever. Now I know it was not historically correct due to the curved swords. But a fantastic painting to my then young eyes.
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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Just saw "Season of the Witch"! Jan 24, 2011 16:03:12 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2011 16:03:12 GMT Humm, I've been waiting for this movie here where I live since at least a year. My wish is that it's a medieval movie with a little suspense and horror to the mix

Freebooter Member Posts: 763	Just saw "Season of the Witch"! Jan 24, 2011 19:24:06 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Freebooter on Jan 24, 2011 19:24:06 GMT That is exactly what it is, in the heart of the Black Plague Days, some good fighting in the crusades, etc, and yes, a good horror element to it. I liked it. FB
	----------- What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die dogs--I was a man before I was a king! ---From The Road of Kings

Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Just saw "Season of the Witch"! Mar 17, 2011 21:03:15 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2011 21:03:15 GMT Just watched this, and I have to say that I loved it Extremely well portrayed ambience of the dark ages together with a team journey with a mission! Don't know why it's so bashed by the critics...

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Just saw "Season of the Witch"!

Post by Freebooter on Jan 23, 2011 0:42:16 GMT

Post by Student of Sword on Jan 23, 2011 0:56:17 GMT

Post by Freebooter on Jan 23, 2011 1:39:23 GMT

Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2011 16:03:12 GMT

Post by Freebooter on Jan 24, 2011 19:24:06 GMT

Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2011 21:03:15 GMT

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