This Makes Me Wonder ... How Close did Real Life ever get to "Swashbuckling"?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
February 13, 2021 6:15am CST
This morning, I watched The Princess Bride on hulu.
Besides all the messed-up ideas I got from that movie (ideas that most people dismiss as "fiction," but that stuck with me in the same area of my brain as 'miracles' (one of which I am 
)), I was especially inspired by the 'Inigo vs. Man-in-Black (Westley)"-scene (partly because it's one that Jill Bearup calls "Perfection"). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0rkUbrPo3k
It made me wonder, 'Did sword-fighting like that ever happen in real life? or is stage swashbuckling just "a form of dance"?'
)), I was especially inspired by the 'Inigo vs. Man-in-Black (Westley)"-scene (partly because it's one that Jill Bearup calls "Perfection"). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0rkUbrPo3k
It made me wonder, 'Did sword-fighting like that ever happen in real life? or is stage swashbuckling just "a form of dance"?'1 person likes this
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@kaylachan (71804)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Feb 21
A lot of things have grains of truth to them. Given the styles are copied over various forms of media, it's possible that there's some real-life truth behind it. But, yes often times I question reality and fiction.
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