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Cue the battles, blending Mr. Amao's sword choreography and Emmanuel Brown's martial arts.
To develop fight and sword choreography for the series, the filmmakers employed Hollywood sword-master Bob Anderson.
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Bill Fabris's swashbuckling, sword-flinging choreography is not above silliness -- "Come, friends who plow the sea" (known today as "Hail, hail, the gang's all here") is a pirate kick chorus.
And the staging is similar; in battle scenes, the opponents flail at one another with swords without apparent choreography.
But as the choreography of sword-clashing speeds up, encouraged by a noisy brass band on the parapet, and real sparks are struck, it's pretty impressive.
Yamazaki advised Leonard on the choreography of the sword fights and had a cameo role as one of Conan's instructors.
There's Kurosawa in it, both the rowdy fabulism of The Hidden Fortress and the impressionist choreography of Ran, a sword fight in a scarlet throne room that draws on Powell and Pressburger's Tales of Hoffman, even an overt nod to Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.
The climactic catastrophic sword fight (Kevin G. Coleman did the choreography) is truly exciting, while further allowing Mr. Asprey to define his Hamlet through action.
The subjects ranged from the predictable -- improvisation, play writing and choreography -- to the esoteric -- like sword dancing, gospel singing or stage combat.
A knife fight or a sword fight is in its element in the theatre with its choreography, its proximity, and its classicism of impassioned and flagrant gesture.
A knife fight or a sword fight is in its element in the theatre — with its choreography, its proximity, and its classicism of impassioned and flagrant gesture.
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