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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2008 2:36:35 GMT
I am wondering what got each member into wanting actual fighting swords. The kinds that you guys use in your back yards on poor plastic pop bottles, pumpkins, watermelon and tatami.
As for myself, it was Highlander movies and series. Except for the lame butt Highlander II the Quickening. Even the makers of the movies and shows says that that was a major disappointment. Forgive me. I strayed from the path of this post and thread. ^^'' I am curious about the rest of you. What did it for you?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2008 2:46:25 GMT
Lord of the Rings for me. Always had a fascination for swords, since reading The Hobbit, LotR, and Silmarillion (as well as many other fantasy books). The movies were a slow catalyst, if you will, to finding this place and becoming interested in real swords, because they created tangible replicas of swords I'd loved from the book, which made me want to buy them, which made me realize they were all useless wallhangers, which made me want to get a real one.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2008 3:04:02 GMT
Um... no clue. Escapism? medieval seemed as good as anywhere/when else.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2008 3:15:28 GMT
I suppose that movies about Vikings and Knights got the ball rolling when I was a kid.
The thing that directed my interest toward the Katana was the sword one of my uncles brought back from the Pacific just after WWII. I eventually inherited the sword. There are a few minor chips in the edge and there is a slight bend about a third of the way back from the kissaki.
Vernon
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Post by YlliwCir on Aug 1, 2008 8:54:43 GMT
Conan and the highlander series had a lot to do with it. Then that HBO series Rome came along......
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2008 15:46:51 GMT
Hmm well thinking way back when I was a kid I was probably movies like Highlander, and even Star Wars, and TV shows like Thundar and Heman. I used to always have toy swords and swinging them around. My passion moved towards the Easter styles swords, katana and the samurai. I think I wrote a paper about samurai in school once. /shrug
I had always liked swords and wanted to collect them but never had the money. In resent years I got back into the enthusiasim after starting to study Shinkendo. Now I want a real sword(or 2 or 3) for practicing, cutting and collecting.
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Post by wiwingti on Aug 1, 2008 15:46:55 GMT
first i was a fanatic of bruce lee, and later, when i was still young,about 10 to 13 years old there was a movie, in french it was call :le jaune le noir et le rouge. a western chinese style movie. i loved that movie and after that have been a fan of samurai, chinese,japanese movies. i almost forgot, Kill Bill. there is one that got out a couple of years ago that i loved how mixed up it has been done, i think if i remember, 13 years. the story of a guy that has been kidnap and keep in a room during 13 years and don't even know why he is there. one day, he wake up and he is out still not knowing why. and try to find the who and why. marc
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2008 18:35:54 GMT
The Yellow the Black and the Red?
Edit: I almost put 'The Young, The Black, and the Red'. That'd've been embarrassing.
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Post by wiwingti on Aug 1, 2008 19:08:37 GMT
what would have been embarrassing? i think i didn't understand the sence of it epicswordman
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2008 1:08:30 GMT
The Yellow the Black and the Red? Edit: I almost put 'The Young, The Black, and the Red'. That'd've been embarrassing. I knew The____ The Black And The Red. I know that much French. I just cannot type it. <.< I also loved the Conan movies. I wished that they had done the thrid as planned, but that did not happen. Though he did do Red Sonja (which his character was going to be Conan, but they changed it.)
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Post by wiwingti on Aug 2, 2008 1:49:14 GMT
the movie i am talking about arrived around 1975 something like that. in franche it was that title but,often,,very often the title difers from the english version.
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Post by kidcasanova on Aug 2, 2008 8:30:12 GMT
I cannot remember the exact source of my interest in swords. I remember always having an affinity for the time period. I fancied that the weapons of yester-year were more honorable, because it turned killing into a very up-close and personal act. Much how I prefer hunting to buying farmed meat. It keeps you from forgetting what it means to live and what it takes to survive.
As I got older, I watched a lot of films and read many books that took place in similar time periods. Lord of the Rings became a big influence in high school, both the books and films, as did Highlander, Excalibur, Conan, and even Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I wanted functional weapons because it was just that: a weapon. As pretty as they are and as much as I like to display them, I dont have use for a decoration-only weapon.
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Post by oos3thoo on Aug 2, 2008 12:58:42 GMT
I don't have an exact memory, but as much as I remember, I always loved swords.
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