2014-02-25

lonemagpie: if only (by me)
2014-02-25 12:09 pm

Whip it

In the course of valuable research for this nonfiction book, I have been practising with the bullwhip - (what do you mean you’re not surprised I have a bullwhip?) - to determine what Indiana Jones could and couldn’t realistically do with it.

You’d be surprised which bits are Myth confirmed, and which are Myth busted (without the magic of editing, anyway).

Obviously this required a volunteer to hold a weapon to be disarmed, to be pulled by it, but luckily my wife is happy to suffer for my art…
lonemagpie: Bogie! (bogie)
2014-02-25 01:32 pm

Rathbone vs Flynn in Captain Blood

Dammit, with all this Musketeer stuff around right now, it just makes me wonder why we never had Basil Rathbone as Rochefort... Or, fuck it, let's have him as one of the good guys - Aramis, most likely.

It's always a mixed experience watching a Rathbone duel; they're always worth watching, they're always great, but because he always plays bad guys he always has to lose - to an inferior swordsman. And they're always inferior swordsmen cos, basically, Basil was the greatest fencing actor who ever graced the silver screen, end of.