Your Favorite Movie Scenes

screech

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The sword fight in The Princess Bride. A few years ago, Vanity Fair had an article about how that scene was done. The actors did all the sword fighting themselves (doubles were only used for the acrobatic bits). The actors loved doing it and it's now regarded as one of the best (if not THE best) movie sword fight.

For days, they shot and re-shot the duel from every possible angle. “Every time Rob said those words, ‘Cut. Print!’, I was devastated,” says Patinkin, “because that meant we weren’t going to do that part of the sword fight again.” The final version of the fight was so well done, Elwes says, that fencing academies now show it to their students, who study it to learn their moves.
 

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