{"id":38223,"date":"2023-01-17T08:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38223"},"modified":"2023-01-17T08:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:41:56","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-ctd-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/01\/17\/belated-movie-reviews-ctd-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader writes concerning the fencing in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/01\/15\/belated-movie-reviews-796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musketeers<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good take Hue. Thanks for sharing that.<\/p>\n<p>Whats your opinion on the physicality of the sword play vs. the Errol Flynn\/Stewart Granger\/Zorro films? I would think it was a realistic portrayal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever seen any Errol Flynn movies since I began fencing. Zorro with Banderas was quite athletic and, if not entirely realistic, a great deal of fun; I do recall seeing an installment with, I believe, Basil Rathbone as the bad guy, so it was probably the 1940 <strong><em>THE MARK OF ZORRO<\/em><\/strong>, and while not nearly as athletic as Banderas, I seem to remember thinking it was really good stage fencing.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to Granger I&#8217;ve only seen <strong><em>SCARAMOUCHE<\/em><\/strong>, and, yeah, while the movements are a little exaggerated, it does look something like what fencers do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader writes concerning the fencing in Musketeers: Good take Hue. Thanks for sharing that. Whats your opinion on the physicality of the sword play vs. the Errol Flynn\/Stewart Granger\/Zorro films? I would think it was a realistic portrayal. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever seen any Errol Flynn movies since \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/01\/17\/belated-movie-reviews-ctd-16\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38224,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38223\/revisions\/38224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}